(1788-1874)

Isaac Jennings is often hailed as the pioneer of medically supervised water fasting. Through his work, he established that a combination of fasting, a vegetarian diet, pure water, sunshine, clean air, exercise, and rest is more effective for promoting health than traditional allopathic treatments. Jennings believed that most diseases were responses to unfavorable environmental factors and were primarily caused by a ‘deficiency of force.’ He advocated for rest and non-interference with the body’s natural healing processes as the most effective means to restore health. He used fasting as a form of complete physiological rest to facilitate recovery and maintain good health. In his practice, the only “medicines” he prescribed were bread pills and colored water, alongside detailed lifestyle adjustment instructions. After years of successful application, he publicly renounced faith in conventional drugs and ceased prescribing them altogether.

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“None who believe in the existence of a Supreme Creator and are in the habit of observing the exact order and harmony that prevail in all the material substances and bodies around them, will question that their own bodies, which are so “fearfully and wonderfully made,” are constituted in accordance with fixed principles and that ordinarily, at least, all the vital machinery of their physical systems is controlled by expressed law.”

Excerpt From Fasting Supervision and Lifestyle Care (Burton, Burton and Krackler)

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