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How did your interest in fasting begin? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

– Fasting came quite late in my life. I come from a home with a great interest in food, including the components of food. We always ate a healthy, home-cooked diet – including mugwort porridge and an active outdoor life – but no fasting. I came into contact with it in my 20s and tried juice and broth fasting but it didn’t suit me at all. Because it is dieting, which adds mainly carbohydrates, which was not good as I was then fat deficient and blood sugar levels were my weak point. The latter disappeared completely when I stopped sugar, white wheat flour and other fast carbohydrates at the age of 32, so I have been eating a low-carb diet and low GI for almost 30 years!  <\/p>\n

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– But when I started juice fasting in 2016, I had also compensated for the lack of fat with more LCHF food, and I felt great not eating for several days. At that time, I had major problems with my stomach, swelling, sensitivity, increasing allergies, histamine intolerance and more. I didn’t know what was causing it or how to fix it, but I felt great not eating.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– So I started fasting regularly and working out at the gym 3-5 times a week, I juice fasted regularly, and developed a gourmet fast because the taste buds are enhanced when fasting – so why not enjoy it? But I was still afraid of water fasting, because it felt like starvation for real. It reminded me of childhood punishments, going to your room without dinner if you were up to mischief… and I was quite resourceful and enterprising even then,” says Sanna, laughing. <\/p>\n

When did you first decide to fast and why?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

– In addition to the above, I did my first week of fasting in 2011, because I had to. I got serious food poisoning during a writing trip to Mexico in 2011 and then my gut barely worked at all. A couple more unfortunate things, including a tick bite with Lyme disease and skin infestation, resulted in a health collapse a couple months later with a large number of different parasite infestations in my body.  <\/p>\n

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– It was traumatic, because I had to fight for life and shake hands with death. The intestines are central to good health and therefore I immediately started fasting for a week and a series of colonics with a therapist. Then it became detox and strict diet for two years.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– My skin hurt for nine months, and I thought I had this experience to know what it’s like to be chronically ill… When you don’t know if you’ll ever heal or not. When you don’t know anything about what life will be like afterwards. It was a huge challenge, and it humbled me. <\/p>\n

– Slowly it brought healing, but there remained an increased sensitivity to food and severe intestinal distress. Based on my deep knowledge of self-healing lifestyle, I searched for years for a natural method to get rid of the problems, which included SIBO and histiminin intolerance. The big solution was the salt water flush that I started in 2019 and taking bitter herbs – and it turned out that my gut was full of intestinal worms! They had caused most of my problems and it could not be diagnosed by the medical profession despite several attempts. Even though I gave a stool sample with worms in it, it came back negative <\/p>\n

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– The positive effect was immediate, and it was an incomparable relief! But it was only with the help of saltwater flush and the VASS water-resistant Sanna Special that I developed that the big breakthrough came and the symptoms disappeared. Then I became like 15-20 years younger in my body in a relatively short time! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– I am now able to share this amazing experience in Sannas Fastebok and by training Fasting Therapists. It is a great joy for me to be able to use my own hugely challenging healing journey to help others. Six out of ten people or more have major challenges with the GI tract today – so this is needed. Simple methods that you can learn, do at home and get your health in order and maintain good health at low cost.  <\/p>\n

Why is it good to fast?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

Properly performed water fasting has the potential to benefit you:<\/p>\n