The Long Quiet: A Complete Guide to Prolonged Water Fasting, Biological Renewal, Gut and Parasite Cleansing

For most of human history, when the body was ailing, it was given rest — and the oldest rest of all was the fast. The Long Quiet is a complete, practical guide to prolonged water fasting: how to prepare, how to move through the long days, how the body cleanses and clears what it has carried, and how to return to food with care. Drawn from traditions reaching back thousands of years — and from the author's own documented twenty-eight-day fast — this is not a diet book and not a quick fix. It is a field guide and an honest account, written in a calm, unhurried voice, for the reader drawn to old wisdom and the body who wants the how, the why, and the truth from someone who has walked the whole quiet length of it.

Mark W. Boutwell II is a military veteran, a father, and the founder of Eight Hours - a company built around helping people meet their own bodies and emotions with more honesty. The Long Quiet grew from his own documented twenty-eight-day water fast. He writes and publishes from Denver, Colorado.