What is Alkaline Fasting?
Compared to therapeutic fasting, alkaline fasting is a milder form of fasting. Calorie counting and limiting food intake are entirely avoided, so this fasting treatment suits everyone, including people with chronic illnesses or cardiovascular problems.
Instead of abstaining, the focus is on the conscious selection of foods. This means that the diet consists mainly of fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, sprouts and oils. Acid-forming foods, such as caffeine, sugar and alcohol, and also cereals, are avoided. Since during an alkaline fasting cure, one eats very mindfully, is very careful with their intake of food and usually cooks fresh. Seasonally, a fasting treatment such as this is also an ideal introduction to a more sustainable diet.
What is the Goal of Alkaline Fasting?
Alkaline fasting is intended to stimulate the body to detoxify and purify. This means that harmful substances such as harmful acids or metabolic waste products, which have accumulated through an unhealthy or excessively acid-forming diet, are eliminated. Alkaline baths, foot baths, liver compresses and exercise sessions are often recommended to accompany and support an alkaline fasting programme. This leads to a generally better sense of well-being and increased ability to concentrate, contributing to a healthier and younger appearance.
In addition, the interaction with food becomes more mindful and thus also more sustainable. This is because the products should be of a high, preferably organic, quality in addition to the alkaline properties.
Special Offers for Fasting Treatments in Sustainable Health Hotels with the Green Pearls® Label
Even though an alkaline fasting treatment can be carried out at home, the period of conscious nutrition and lifestyle can be significantly intensified and made more sustainable if it is spent in a specialised hotel under professional supervision. Experts put together personalised diet plans and supplement them with exercise programmes and information sessions. Falling back into old behaviour patterns is very difficult, and exchanging with like-minded people provides additional motivation.
Sustainable providers of fasting treatments, in particular, pay special attention to seasonal products, regional suppliers and organic quality. Green Pearls® partners have great expertise in designing and accompanying health retreats, including alkaline fasting.
Alkaline Fasting and Fasting for the Soul at Naturresort Gerbehof
An alkaline fasting cure at the Gerbehof is an excellent opportunity to re-evaluate one’s own lifestyle and eating habits and to say goodbye to everyday stress, anger and worries. The dreamlike nature and the adjacent forest invite you to take long, private walks where you can let go of your own (potentially toxic) thoughts.
In addition to foot baths and liver wraps, the programme of the fasting week also includes a bio-meditation session developed by Viktor Philippi and a forest meditation at the Gerbehof’s stone circle. From spring onwards, mediation walks will also be offered.
During the corona-related break, the Gerbehof team demonstrated how to support their guests thoroughly. A new app makes this possible.
The myDetox Fasting App
With the web-based myDetox app, the Gerbehof team offers guests a digital contact person even before the fasting treatment begins, thus ensuring a more relaxed start to the programme. With the targeted tips, guests can prepare for the treatment at home and alleviate typical fasting ailments such as headaches.
Even after the week, the team accompanies its guests gently into everyday life with recipes, shopping lists and exercise tips. It lays the foundation for a sustainable change in lifestyle habits.
A Week of Well-Being with Alkaline Fasting at the SCHWARZWALD PANORAMA
Relaxed alkaline fasting is also possible at the SCHWARZWALD PANORAMA in Bad Herrenalb. In addition to daily alkaline food, which consists of at least 90% certified organic food and products, guests can expect comprehensive care. The programme includes daily fasting informative sessions, meditative readings, two introduction sessions in the Selfness Centre in courses such as yoga or sound meditation, guided fasting hikes and black forest bathing. The alkaline fasting treatment provides a holistic reset, after which you can start the new year full of energy and motivation.
The SCHWARZWALD PANORAMA also offers a classic fasting programme with expert supervision. The sustainable hotel relies on the principle of Dr Buchinger. This means that guests drink only juices and vegetable soups for a week. They are supervised by a trained fasting guide and can attend lectures or enjoy the 1,000-square-metre spa area.
Fasting with a Focus on the Liver at Klosterhof – Alpine Hideaway & Spa
Not a classic alkaline fast, but a benefit for the body is the liver fast, according to Dr Worm, offered at the sustainable wellness and health hotel Klosterhof – Alpine Hideaway & Spa. The team of the hotel’s own Artemacur Health Centre guides guests with medical advice through the fasting programme. Hotel owner Dr Andreas Färber is a doctor and gives lectures on healthy nutrition as part of the fasting programme.
Participants in the liver fasting programme are cared for by a doctor from start to finish: from the first comprehensive medical 
assessment to determine the current state of health to success monitoring and individual training in a healthy lifestyle.
According to Dr Worm, liver fasting aims to reduce non-alcoholic fatty liver, one of the most common hidden diseases in Germany. Complaints often show up late. During a liver fasting cure, a first foundation stone is laid to reduce a fatty liver. Other diseases of civilisation, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, can also be eased.
The Klosterhof recommends a 14-day stay to exploit the potential of liver fasting fully.
Fasting with a sea view in the OCÉANO Health Spa Hotel on Tenerife
With the F. X. Mayr Center, the sustainable health hotel OCÉANO Health Spa Hotel has specialized in a holistic fasting method that accompanies participants from initial diagnostic assessment to therapy and training. The individual wishes and requirements of the patients are addressed. Essential components are nutrition, which consists of easily digestible food and is adapted on a case-by-case basis following the initial assessment, as well as a personalised, gentle movement program, which can be supplemented at the guests’ own will by the offers of the hotel.
However, the medical supervision of a physician and regular discussions around the fasting treatment is the focus. This offers the possibility to adapt the treatments to new circumstances and sensitivities and to benefit holistically from the programme in the F. X. Mayr Center of the OCÉANO Health Spa Hotel.
An alkaline fasting cure in one of the sustainable health hotels from the Green Pearls® partner network offers the opportunity to perform an actual physical reset under professional, expert guidance. This creates the foundation for changing one’s eating habits for the long term and making them more sustainable for the body and the planet.
Edited by: Matthew Thomas
