Re: about to colon cleanse - what\'s gonna happen to me?
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from what I hear, digestion can take up to 50% of your energy (someting like that, big percentage).
by fasting, your body basically can use all it's energy to heal itself or whatever. perhaps do "long term maintainance" that otherwise wouldn't be a priority because of other immediate energy needs taking precedence.
thoughts?
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no. digestion takes up a lot of our energy, but if digestion stopped, we wouldn't suddenly use that 50% energy for "healing ourselves", it would just not be used for anything.
in the other thread, there was a quote that near life tilted me from the Taoist book, saying that if we stop eating, our digestive enzymes are freed up from digesting and can instead be used to break down toxins.... an enzyme does one and only one thing.
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