Type 1 Diabetes - Is Fasting for Diabetics?

Fasting is not for the treatment of anorexia nervosa. If you have severe kidney disease where your creatinine levels are over 2.0 you wouldn't want to do a water only fast. The detoxification that happens in fasting is largely done by the kidneys. We measure everybody's function before we start fasting and monitor it during fasting to make sure that it's working properly. There are genetic defects in rare people. That's one in 10,000 people but other things like porphyria or other things would be relative contraindicated. You can go 40 days without supplementing those nutrient reserves which is why you'd lose more weight during fasting.