The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting by Dr Jason Fung

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FASTING : HEAL YOUR BODY THROUGH INTERMITTENT, ALTERNATE DAY AND EXTENDED FASTING BY DR JASON FUNG

Jason Fung, MD did his adult Nephrology Fellowship at UCLA and noticed improvements in his diabetic patients by use of a modified ketogenic diet combined with periodic fasting.  He had success curing people of Type 2 diabetes and making significant treatment progress with Type 1 diabetes patients using diet and fasting methods alone.  His three fold approach includes Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting combined with either a vegan or animal-based ketogenic diet.

The basic theories Dr. Fung explains in his book that justify the diet and fasting is his expertise in confronting the widely held evidence/now turned belief that calories in, calories out (CICO), or the law of thermogenesis is essentially false as a scientific law.  It’s also the foundation of which all of nutrition, dietetics, exercise science, and all of science is based on.  So it’s no little feat to go against the entire medical establishment by revealing his findings that essentially explain why all of science has to discard CICO as a scientific law.

Dr. Fung explains that hormones and the pancreas in terms of insulin production regulate metabolism and weight loss/weight gain and are the primary influencers instead of CICO.  Correcting the insulin production by way of healing the pancreas by starving it from food for a time so that it will stop secreting insulin for days at a time or longer essentially gives it time to rest, reboot like restarting your computer and heal and then secrete insulin normally.  The fasting allows for a disadvantaged pancreas to heal, do a deep clean on itself and reset to get back on track.  It’s unclear if this pancreas healing thing is only required with one fast like a cure, or is a maintenance method like an ongoing periodic treatment.  It may be both depending on the person and depending on the individual’s pancreas, family history of insulin problems, etc.

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. 

But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven’t thought about—yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended by Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore.  If done right, it can be the most effective diet you can ever try The complete guide to fasting tackles an unspoken dieting concept; fasting.

The Complete Guide to Fasting explains: 

•     why fasting is actually good for health

•     who can benefit from fasting (and who won’t)

•     the history of fasting

•     the various ways to fast: intermittent, alternate-day, and           extended fasting

•     what to expect when starting to fast

•     how to track progress while fasting

•     the weight loss effects of fasting

•     how to ward off potential negative effects from fasting

The book also provides tools to help readers get started and get through their fasts, including a 7-Day Kick-Start Fasting Plan and healing liquid recipes.

This book is written for diabetics, pre-diabetics, people who have stubborn belly fat, trouble losing weight, are curious about fasting and want a doctor’s opinion on what’s the best way to approach it, and for those interested in using diet change to potentially cure their diabetes or weight issues

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