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This sort of thing has been tested in animal models and it doesn't work. It is also completely implausible, but that's beside the point, you are unlikely to be
by Gatsky 8y ago
This sort of thing has been tested in animal models and it doesn't work. It is also completely implausible, but that's beside the point, you are unlikely to be convinced I suppose.
There are clinical trials of fasting in cancer patients. These have been designed by careful and ethical scientists and doctors. They are looking currently at whether fasting can improve the efficacy or tolerance of chemotherapy.
It is frankly stupid to take an already malnourished individual and make them fast for 40 days.
- aviv 8y agoThe reason I will not be convinced is that in the last 20 years I have seen first hand hundreds of people cure such diseases from Crohn's to many types of cancer by fasting. The only times people have not been as successful as others is when fasting was preceded by chemotherapy/radiation which frankly destroy the body and for the most part is a death sentence one way or another. And you are flat out wrong about your last point. Fasting is the biggest gift you can give your body, including and especially when it appears weaker due to a disease.
- jstandard 8y agoAre there any studies or support you can give behind your claims? Just as you're skeptical of research in the area, I'm skeptical of people claiming to have seen "hundreds of people" cured of diseases by something as simple as fasting.