Fasting to the Rescue

A couple of weeks ago, I started to feel like I was getting sick.  Maybe it was something I ate, or perhaps it was a virus.  At any rate, I obviously wanted to avoid any downtime.

I did some reading and found out how animals acted when they were ill.  Generally, they eat very little or nothing at all and just rest.  I tried my best to duplicate this strategy.

I fasted for about 30 hours, and during this time I just laid around and slept a lot.  And lo and behold, a day later I was mostly back to normal.

This is the second time in a year that I've used fasting to fight off a cold/virus.  I've tried everything in years past - Vitamin C, zinc, echinacea, etc. - and it never seemed to make much difference.  Fasting is the only strategy that I can see that's really helped to stave off illness.

My incident is just anecdotal, but I would like to see some research studies done as far as fasting as a defense against the common cold.  I'd be willing to bet it works to some degree.