Yes, it can help, but like any healing to the body, it can take time. Or it can come fairly quickly. Everyone's different.

Sunlight (or a tanning bed), fresh air, and exercise also help a lot too.

I do think fasting definitely helps with Depression long term and even short term.

However, I think if you are detoxing some really potent stuff from your body you can go through swings in emotion and or react to detox effects that show up externally or what you are processing internally. You are better once you are on the other side of the cleansing.

It would help if you found out what perhaps might be causing your depression. While it can be internal from bad diet , bad attitudes, it can also be caused by job stress, toxic friends and or relationships. If you find the news depressing, turn off the tv, and or leave the room. Find ways to refocus on things that are positive. If you have toxic friends, think about having less contact or let them go.

Think about positive affirmations- there is a forum for that on curezone. Also read many a post on the benefits of EFT ( haven't tried it) but heard many good things about.

Watrfasting and changing your diet to wholesome raw healthy choices will make big improvements. M any people do not even realize how many chemicals they are drinking with diet drinks , or the loads of Sugar that come in various forms from gum , salad dressings, diet /regular sodas etc... These chemicals have subtle to profound effects on the body. Water Fasting will give you a new start at renewing your health and starting a new lifestyle that counts.

Hope this helps. Take Care.

Hello Luluel,
you may find these snippets of information very useful re' fasting being helpful with alleviating and curing depression..............


"Dr. Yuri Nikolayev, director of the fasting unit of the Moscow Psychiatric Institute, reported on the use of scientific, therapeutic fasting to successfully treat over 10,000 patients, all suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and various neuroses, concluding: "The hunger treatment [as Soviet psychiatrists term fasting] gives the entire nervous system and the brain a rest. The body is also cleansed of poisons, and the tissues and the various glands are renovated." Joel Fuhrman, M.D. says in his book "There are hundreds of journal articles in the medical literature documenting the value of fasting in improving the function of the entire body including brain. FASTING HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY OBSERVED TO ALLEVIATE NEUROSIS, ANXIETY and DEPRESSION."

Gabriel Cousins, MD, says "I often observe in fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, Depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, mind-brain function automatically and significantly improves and spiritual capacities expand."

I hope Larryb doesn't mind me reposting his link from the Fasting Debate forum under the heading "Fasting for Depression...It worked", but thought you would benefit from it........

//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1137654#i


Warm Regards

Chrisb1.