The Story of How Dan Pompa's Son Fasted for 12 Days!

Hey, this is Ben Greenfield. I thought you'd like this little clip of my latest podcast.

All five of my children have fasted, most of them several times. My daughter Olivia has fasted. I can't count how many times, and, you know, beyond a week she's fasted. My youngest, my 14 year old, when he was 13, he actually, I was preparing for a PowerPoint presentation and there was a picture of a gal who had autoimmune massive psoriasis. Horrific looking picture. But then there was the after picture and she was completely normal again. I was putting it in my PowerPoint. He saw the first picture, of course, was interested, and he said, oh, my God, what is. I explained what it was. He said, well, did you help her? I said, yeah, there's the after picture. Well, what did you do? I explained fasting and the cellular detox, Right? He had done the cellular detox and understood that. But fasting, he was interested and he just so happened he had this little patch of psoriasis that showed up on his head. It struck his interest, came back five minutes later and said, okay, I'm going to fast. I said, okay, all right, how long should I go? I said, go at least four or five days. He started on the fast. I didn't think he was going to do it. Well, four days later, five days later, seven days later, he ended up going. Now this was my. My chubby son, so he had a little weight that he could play around with. He fasted for 12 days, man, all his own. Matter of fact, I was trying to tell him to break the fast because Marilee and I were going away. So I'm like, simon, come on, man, break the fast before we leave. He wouldn't do it. He felt amazing.

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