MDs say fasting does not remove toxins but doesn't the liver excrete toxins into the feces?

Answer 1

AnswerFasting might prevent the ingestion of toxins, but it does not promote the removal of toxins from the body; your MD is correct.

The liver's role in detoxification of drugs, etc., is a complex one. It is achieved through a complex system of enzymes that metabolize chemicals so that they can be excreted in the feces or urine. These functions do not depend on one's fasting status (within reason -- prolonged starvation impairs liver function).

MDs who say that are making a correct yet dumb statement. Fasting does nothing. It's not fasting that removes toxins from your body, it's the body that does all the removing through the liver, the kidneys, the skin, and any other way you can think of. When a person is fasting, because there are no toxins entering the body, it allows the body to work on removing toxins that have been stored in it for long periods of time, instead of trying to keep up with all the toxins people keep stuffing in themselves. It's funny that MDs make such statements, and even funnier that people keep falling for them!

If you eat correctly your body doesn't need to "keep up with all the toxins people keep stuffing in themselves" and then such cleansing fasts are not necessary. The body is only over-worked and over-taxed in this regard if your diet is truly horrible, but if this is the case, you are unlikely to be the sort of person who would consider a cleansing fast anyway, right? MDs say these kinds of things because it makes more sense to correct your diet and eat properly than it does to keep eating crap and then to go on regular fasts to cleanse yourself. This is hardly foolhardy advice, is it?