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"Dr. Goldberg is known for his high success rate with chronically ill patients who have failed to obtain help elsewhere".
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PAUL A. GOLDBERG, M.P.H., D.C., D.A.C.B.N.
Natural Hygiene Practitioner, Professor, Educator, and Researcher
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BOOKS
Order Dr. Goldberg's books here.
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PATIENT INFO
Detoxification/fasting, lab analysis and maps here.
Prospective and new patient info here. |
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"Many patients experience dramatic improvements in the way they feel after just a few days"
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"A period of total abstinence from food, taking water only (fasting), or being on a liquid diet of some type, allows the body the opportunity to catch up on its housecleaning chores"
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"Most of the difficulties in fasting are emotional/mental which is understandable since most of us are used to eating several times per day."
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Patient Information - Detoxification and Fasting
The following is information given to patients that undergo fasting/detoxification under Dr. Goldberg's supervision.
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Why Detoxification?
During Detoxification
After Detoxification
Questions and Answers
Why Detoxification?
DETOXIFICATION IS THE INITIAL STEP
An important initial step for most patients is to undergo a period of cellular detoxification.
Without this vital step many patients will find that other efforts they make may be unsuccessful.
EASIER TO GIVE UP ADDICTIONS
In addition to accelerating the rejuvenation process, we have also found that after detoxification patients find it much easier to give up old toxic habits such as tobacco, alcohol, junk food, coffee, etc. Giving up such unhealthy habits can be very difficult unless the body is first purified.
Once the body is cleansed the majority of people find these poisons, which they once craved, to be obnoxious. They find (often to their surprise) themselves desiring the healthy bounties of nature such as raw, juicy, fresh fruits, crisp flavorful vegetables, raw nuts, pure water, etc.
REJUVENATION AND REPAIR DURING DETOXIFICATION
Detoxification permits years of accumulated metabolic wastes in the cells to begin to be eliminated, and allows the gastrointestinal, immune, and other body systems a chance to rest and repair.
Good nutrition and good health cannot be achieved simply by putting foods, even "natural foods" into our mouths. Our bodies must be able to digest, absorb, and assimilate the nutrients to the cellular level and to efficiently dispose of the waste products produced in the metabolic processes.
When wastes have accumulated faster than the body can rid itself of them, the cells can no longer utilize nutrients efficiently and become compromised in their ability to stay healthy.
This is evidenced by such symptoms as fatigue, indigestion, sluggish bowels, diarrhea, headaches, menstrual problems, depression, skin disorders, musculoskeletal aches and pains, and eventually by degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, allergies, etc.
DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS
A period of total abstinence from food, taking water only (fasting), or being on a liquid diet of some type, when properly supervised and executed (extremely important) allows the body the opportunity to catch up on its housecleaning chores and discard cellular wastes.
After this is accomplished, the cells work much more efficiently and are better able to utilize the nutrients ingested. Many patients experience dramatic improvements in the way they feel after just a few days, and "hunger pains" generally disappear between days two to four.
PLEASE NOTE:
that not all patients at our clinic need to employ fasting... - in a number of patients it is contraindicated. Our goal is always to rebalance the body's chemistry and in many cases this is best achieved without fasting.
that when fasting and other detoxification is needed it must be done with careful professional supervision. Haphazard fasting and detoxification can result in serious problems.
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During Detoxification
SAVE ENERGY
The major objective of fasting/detoxification is to rest the body. It is therefore important to rest as much as possible during the detoxification period. The more energy expended through work, exercise, or other forms of physical exertion, the less benefits one receives. Rest is essential!
It is recommended that you not discuss your fasting/detoxification with others until you have completed it, so as not to waste your energies in explaining it to persons whom may lack knowledge on the topic and make discouraging remarks.
DISCOMFORTS
During fasting there are occasionally some discomforts as the body unloads wastes from junk foods, drugs, overeating, bad emotions, polluted air and water, pesticides in the foods, and metabolic wastes the body has not been able to discard due to lack of energy.
Withdrawal symptoms from coffee and other drugs may occur as well as from sugar and foods that we are allergic to.
Common symptoms include restlessness, headache, nausea, and a temporary worsening of whatever prior symptoms the patient had, as the body directs its energies towards correcting those problems.
Please read Symptoms To Expect When You Improve Your Nutrition by Dr. Goldberg to understand this in greater detail.
IMPORTANT
During detoxification you must be checked by Dr. Goldberg every other day. No exceptions to this rule!
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CHECKUP
Most Natural Hygiene Practitioners like Dr. Goldberg check patients on a daily basis while undergoing detoxification. We have found, however, that by careful monitoring and periodic laboratory analysis, every other day is sufficient if the patient is on a liquid diet if the patient follows directions carefully.
Fasting patients must be checked daily.
When you come in for your check up you will have vital signs taken, urine analyzed, and a brief examination given. You will confer with Dr. Goldberg regarding your progress and determine whether to proceed for two more days or break the fast or liquid diet.
Patients have fasted under Dr. Goldberg for as little as two days and as long as 50 days. Liquid diets have been carried out by Dr. Goldberg with patients for as long as 55 days.
No client is ever forced to continue with a fast or liquid diet if they do not wish to do so, but it is in your best health interests to carry out the detoxification for the optimal time period (which will differ for each person), even if you experience a few discomforts along the way.
Most of the difficulties in fasting are emotional/mental which is understandable since most of us are used to eating several times per day.
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After Detoxification
THE TRANSITION PERIOD
When you and Dr. Goldberg have decided it is time to terminate the fast or liquid diet, you will be instructed on a careful transition program tailored for your needs in breaking it.
This is a critical time and you should follow the directions carefully.
IMPORTANT
This is a critical time and you should follow the directions carefully!
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The benefits of many fasts have been ruined by the patient breaking it in an incorrect fashion. It takes as much discipline in breaking a fast properly as it took to do it.
It generally takes two days of transition time after the fast for every day the patient has been fasting.
AFTER THE FAST
Following the fast and the transition period, you will be given a dietary to follow along with specific recommendations regarding sleep, rest, exercise, sunlight, water, nutrient supplements, emotional aspects/mental poise, and other particulars in light of your examinations and laboratory findings.
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Questions and Answers
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Is it safe to fast?
- Every animal in the wild stops eating when ill, as do young children instinctively when they are not feeling well. Fasting is a process as old as life on this planet. Every night when one goes to sleep one fasts until the next day. Only man eats more based on psychological appetite rather than true physiological need. Overeating is one of the single greatest reasons for diseases of all kinds. As Benjamin Franklin said:
"We live on one third of what we eat.
The physician lives on the other two thirds."
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Fasting has been utilized throughout the eons by peoples around the world as a restorative measure back to good health. It was used by Hippocrates and the ancient Hebrews including Moses and Jesus who each fasted for forty days and forty nights.
Fasting is extraordinarily safe and effective if done properly under competent supervision. Done haphazardly without supervision, it can be dangerous. Each person is different as to how long they should fast and must be supervised each step of the way. We do not recommend fasting without experienced supervision.
- What qualifies Dr. Goldberg or anyone else to supervise a fast?
- Experience. Dr. Goldberg worked at a Natural Hygiene Institute as a resident student from 1976 to 1977 learning how to properly conduct fasts. He was involved on a day by day basis over the period of a year in the fasting supervision of over one thousand five hundred (1500) resident guests.
At the Natural Hygiene Institute in Florida he was trained by Dr. R.J. Cheatham, a renowned Natural Hygienist, and later Dr. Goldberg was appointed Health Director of the Institute. Since that time Dr. Goldberg has supervised over five thousand (5000) additional persons in his clinic with a wide variety of health problems.
He has studied the fasting and Natural Hygiene literature extensively, particularly the works of Dr. Herbert Shelton He has taught health care students the physiological aspects of fasting on the college and university level for the past twenty years as a professor of clinical nutrition, gastroenterology, and rheumatology.
Dr. Goldberg also fasted extensively (under supervision) while addressing his own health problems as a young man. He is a member of the International Association of Hygienic Physicians, IAHP, (of whom there are less then twenty in the United States) who specialize in fasting and hygienic care of patients.
He has also completed a Natural Hygiene fasting internship under Dr. William Esser, of Essers Hygienic Rest Ranch In Lake Worth Florida. Dr. Esser, an outstanding example of good health through healthful living at 90 years of age, and co-founder of the American Natural Hygiene Association, has supervised over 40,000 fasts during the past 50 years.
Clinical fasting is not part of the curriculum at any medical college, graduate school, or professional school in the United States. It is only through experience and internship that these skills are acquired.
Four thousand fasting patients later our clinic has not had one adverse outcome. On the contrary, we have had numerous rejuvenated clients who have improved their health, revitalized their tissues, and greatly decreased their risks for developing serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease in the future.
- Once I have completed my fast can I go back to my old eating and other habits?
- If you do you will develop the same health problems again. The fasting procedure is not a cure, it is a beginning. You must follow up by following the right hygienic health habits.
- Do you ever have the patient complete more than one fast?
- Yes. For some a single fast is not enough, particularly if they have been following destructive health habits for many years and/or if they have a serious illness. For some patients several short fasts may be preferable over a single longer one.
- Can I continue to exercise while fasting?
- The objective of the fast is to rest the body. To expend energy exercising during the fasting period would be counterproductive to our goal of rejuvenating the body and restoring it's vital energies. Exercise is gradually resumed after the fast is completed.
- Do all your patients fast?
- No. Some initially follow a liquid diet of some type. Some do not undergo a detoxification program until later and others do not undergo any stringent detoxification program at all. Each case is different.
- Do you put some of your patients on a juice fast?
- There is no such thing as a juice fast. If one only drinks juices, then one is on a juice diet. A fast is when one takes water only.
When a patient is unable to stay home and rest during the fasting period, a liquid diet of some type such as a juice diet may be recommended to allow the patient to continue light work during the detoxification period. The benefits take longer to obtain doing this, but valuable results may still be obtained.
- Some of your patients go on a formula mix which contains rice protein. Does this formula mix clean them out?
- The formula does nothing other than provide some hypo-allergenic carbohydrate and protein to the patient, so that some degree of detoxification can be obtained while still engaging in mild activities. It is not a fast nor is it as effective as a fast and must be carefully supervised. The formula itself has absolutely no cleansing properties to it, nor do any other products, powders, herbs, etc., that are sold with supposed "cleansing" properties. That is a gross misrepresentation.
- If I am put on a rice formula powder how should I take it and for how many days should I be on it?
- That must be decided on an individual basis, just the same as if you were on a fast.
- How much water should I drink while I am undergoing detoxification?
- As much as your thirst desires, but I generally like patients to take at least three glasses of water per day.
- What kind of water should I drink?
- Distilled.
- I noticed by the second day of the fast that my tongue began to get heavily coated and that my breath began to get bad. Why?
- As wastes are eliminated from the cells of the body they will be eliminated through the normal avenues including the gastrointestinal tract, the lungs, and the skin. When the elimination process is sped up and made more efficient during fasting the excess toxins often result in a bad odor to the breath and skin. The entire gastrointestinal tract will frequently develop a coating from the excess wastes being eliminated including a coating on the tongue. One should be pleased that the body is eliminating the wastes now and avoiding many serious health problems in the future.
- How long does it take to fully detoxify the body?
- That would vary greatly on the persons toxic load when they began the fast and how efficient their body is in eliminating the wastes. It is not to be expected that a single fast would entirely purify the system. It can provide an excellent start, however, which is then carried forwards by hygienic correction of eating, sleeping, and other habits.
- What drugs may I take while fasting?
- Discuss this thoroughly with Dr. Goldberg. Generally we do not want the patient on any drugs during a fast. In such cases other steps may be taken to allow the patient to recover enough health prior to the fast to get off the drug(s), or fasting might not be employed at all in the person's particular case.
- Have you ever had a true emergency with somebody you were supervising for a fast over the past twenty five years?
- None with my own patients following the directions given to them.
I have been called upon by other practitioners, their clients, and by an occasional student at the college which I teach at, who were fasting without experienced supervision, regarding problems they encountered - some of which were serious. No one should fast without experienced supervision.
- If I encounter a difficulty that concerns me while fasting under your supervision may I call you to discuss it?
- Yes, of course.
- How can I learn more about fasting?
- The best way is to undergo a supervised fast yourself. It is a grand experience physically, mentally, and spiritually. Afterwards one finds themselves able to think more clearly, better able to appreciate the natural tastes of fresh raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other natural foods that nature provides, and generally more capable of enjoying life overall. It can be a life changing experience.
You may also wish to read books on fasting. I recommend reading Fasting Can Save Your Life by Dr. Herbert Shelton to start with.
Another good book is Therapeutic Fasting by Arnold DeVries, which you can find at this free online library http://soilandhealth.org (Go to the Health Library.).
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Dr. Paul Goldberg
himself recovered from severe rheumatoid arthritis and colitis
- partly via detoxification.
Read more
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Read patient letters here.
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