The oldest cure in the world

adventures in the art and science of fasting
Steve Hendricks
Book - 2022

"When should we eat, and when shouldn't we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks shows in The Oldest Cure in the World, stop eating long enough, and you'll set in motion cellular repairs that can slow aging and prevent and reverse diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Fasting has improved the lives of people with epilepsy, asthma, and arthritis, and has even protected patients from the worst of chemotherapy's side effects. But for such an elegant and effective treatment, fasting has had a surprisingly long and fraught history. From the earliest days of humanity and the Greek fathers of medicine through Christianity's 'fasting saints' and a nineteenth-century doctor whose stupendous forty-day fast on a New York City stage inaugurated the modern era of therapeutic fasting, Hendricks takes readers on a rich and comprehensive tour. Threaded throughout are Hendricks's own adventures in fasting, including a stay at a luxurious fasting clinic in Germany and in a more spartan one closer to home in Northern California. This is a playful, insightful, and persuasive exploration of our bodies and when we should--and should not--feed them."--

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Main Author: Hendricks, Steve (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a Prologue. Criminal quackery: fasting for a cure -- Tanner's folly: the birth of modern fasting -- "I forget I have four limbs": prehistory and the ancient East -- Christ's athletes: the ancient West -- A lesser me: I fast to slim -- "The most complicated cage': the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- "This cheap, simple, and vulgar remedy": American doctors find the lost cure -- Arresting my decline: I fast to heal -- "Refuse to be an invalid!": fasting blooms in America -- "Truth though the heaven fall!": American foremost fasting doctor -- A gentle deprivation, 1: I fast at a German clinic -- "What's considered too difficult?": the starts and stops of fasting research -- "A crazy idea with no relevance": fasting against cancer -- A gentle deprivation, 2: My German fast, continued -- What th Soviets knew: the psychotherapeutic fast -- A wine country abstention, 1: I fast at a California clinic -- You are when you eat: the how of time-restricted eating -- A wine country abstention, 2: My California fast, continued -- Moral malpractice: toward a future less benighted. 
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