TrueNorth Health Center Study Shows Water-only Fasting Is Safe!

Results from a recently peer-reviewed study in the BMC Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Journal suggest what NHA members have
long known, that fasting—during which only water is consumed—can be done safely in a medical setting. Hopefully, this data will ease unsubstantiated fears about the safety of medically supervised, water-only fasting, and facilitate future studies on the safety and benefits
of water-only fasting

The study entitled “Is Fasting Safe? A chart review of adverse events during medically supervised, water-only fasting,” was conducted by researchers John Finnell, Bradley Saul, Alan Goldhamer, and Toshia Myers. Specifically, the study found that the water-fasting protocol used at our clinic, TrueNorth Health Center (TNHC) in Santa Rosa, California, can be safely implemented in a medical setting with minimal risk of serious adverse events.The belief that therapeutic, water-only fasting is unsafe stems from a period when extreme forms of water-only fasting were used to treat obesity. During this time there were several deaths reported, which were likely the result of unintentionally harmful fasting practices. Despite the decline in research on water-only fasting (due to serious adverse events in the obesity cases), water-only fasting was not entirely put aside. Water fasting has been utilized by several clinicians since the 1970s, but the safety of the practice was never methodically researched. We reported on the severity, frequency, and nature of patient
adverse events that occurred during and after their medically supervised fast.

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