@HowicuredAI provide places where they conduct water fasts under medical supervision and share the most popular YouTube videos about water fasting.
Below is a list of known centers that conduct water-only fasts under medical supervision (mainly abroad), as well as some popular YouTube videos about water fasting that you can easily find by their titles.
1. Clinics / centers offering medically supervised water fasting
General note:
- In most countries, doctors are much more willing to supervise therapeutic juice fasts / low-calorie diets than a “pure” water fast.
- In many places, “water fasting” is available only as part of clinical trials or in a very narrow niche (e.g., TrueNorth).
- You must always verify the current offer, doctors’ qualifications, and safety conditions yourself.
USA
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TrueNorth Health Center – Santa Rosa, California (USA)
- One of the best-known medical centers specializing in supervised water fasting.
- Team of doctors (MD, DC, ND), monitoring of vital signs, blood tests, ECG, etc.
- Website: search for “TrueNorth Health Center water fasting”.
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Tanglewood Wellness Center – Panama (formerly Costa Rica)
- Center run by Loren Lockman.
- Water fasts in a residential setting, supervised, but more “natural hygiene” than classic hospital medicine.
- Search: “Tanglewood Wellness Center water fasting”.
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Fasting Escape – California (USA)
- Smaller center, supervised by a physician (Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, a student of TrueNorth).
- Search: “Fasting Escape water fasting”.
Europe
In Europe, most sanatoriums and clinics offer therapeutic fasting (often according to Buchinger – with juices/broths), and not always a “pure” water fast. It’s worth asking whether they offer a strictly water-only fast and in which indications.
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Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic – Germany / Spain
- Very well-known fasting clinics (Germany: Überlingen on Lake Constance, Spain: Marbella).
- Standard Buchinger fasting (juices, broths), but under strict supervision of internal medicine doctors.
- Sometimes modifications are possible (closer to a water fast) – to be arranged individually.
- Search: “Buchinger Wilhelmi clinic”.
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Clinics and sanatoriums in Russia / Ukraine (Filonov, Suvorin, etc.)
- In the Russian tradition there are many centers offering dry and water therapeutic fasts (often 7–21 days or longer), usually with doctors on site.
- Example: centers associated with Dr. Sergei Filonov (“Suchoje golodanie” – dry fasting, but often combined with water fasting).
- Due to the geopolitical situation and language – requires very careful, up-to-date verification.
- Search: Russian phrases such as “лечебное голодание клиника под наблюдением врача”.
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Other European fasting sanatoriums
- In Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary there are sanatoriums offering “Heilfasten” (therapeutic fasting) – usually with a doctor, but not always a 100% water fast.
- Search: “Heilfasten Klinik Arztbetreuung”, “therapeutic fasting clinic Europe”.
Poland
- At the moment I have not found in reliable sources a typical hospital clinic in Poland that officially conducts long water-only fasts under continuous supervision of internal medicine doctors (with full monitoring like at TrueNorth).
- However, there are:
- Fasting retreats (e.g., Daniel fast, vegetable-and-fruit fasts, various “detoxes”) – this is not a classic water fast.
- Individual doctors/naturopaths who agree to supervise a water fast on an outpatient basis (check-up visits, blood tests), but this has to be arranged individually.
- If you want, I can prepare a separate post only about Polish places offering fasting (even if they are not 100% water fasts).
2. Popular YouTube videos about water fasting
I can’t paste direct YouTube links (the site only returns a generic results page), but below you’ll find specific titles and authors – once you type them into YouTube, they will show up right away:
Educational / overview
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“Water Fasting: The Most Powerful Healing Therapy?” – Dr. Alan Goldhamer (TrueNorth Health Center)
- A lecture on the mechanisms, indications, contraindications, and safety of water fasting.
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“The Science of Fasting” (feature-length film / documentary)
- A documentary about research on fasting (including Russian clinics, TrueNorth, Valter Longo).
- Sometimes available on YouTube, sometimes only in fragments.
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“Water Fasting – Good or Bad? – What I’ve Learned After 40 Days” – Cole Robinson / Snake Diet
- More controversial style, but very popular. Clearly shows how different the approaches can be (and why medical supervision matters).
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“How to Do a 7 Day Water Fast Safely” – Thomas DeLauer
- Popular fitness/health channel, discusses preparation, electrolytes, safety.
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“What I Learned from a 5 Day Water Fast” – Dr. Eric Berg DC
- Shorter, accessible material about experiences with a several-day fast.
Longer fasting diaries
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“40 Day Water Fast – My Full Experience” – Healthy Emmie / or similar titles
- Day-by-day vlogs; many people record 7, 10, 21, 40 days – just type “40 day water fast day 1”, etc.
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“21 Day Water Fast – Before and After” – various authors
- Very popular format: results, weight, well-being.
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“Water Fasting at TrueNorth Health Center – My Experience”
- Type this exact phrase – there are several videos of patients describing their stay at TrueNorth.
3. Safety – important disclaimer
- A longer water fast (over 3–5 days) should be planned with a doctor, especially in the case of:
- heart, kidney, liver disease, diabetes, hypertension, medication use, eating disorders, pregnancy/breastfeeding.
- Even in clinics like TrueNorth, patients are screened; some people are refused or have their fasting period shortened.
If you want, in the next post I can:
- focus only on Europe and try to extract specific names of sanatoriums that are closest to the idea of a water fast,
- or prepare a checklist of questions to ask a clinic/doctor before someone decides to pay for a water-fasting retreat.
In my opinion, this is one of the better films:
