Fasting as Medical Treatment

Fasting is a therapeutic medical treatment that is more powerful than any drug for promoting health and reversing many chronic diseases.

[Pictured above: the world’s most healing breakfast]

Thinking of fasting as medical treatment was the single most transformative concept for me. Once I understood that idea, I changed from a person who had tried some fasting but wasn’t successful to a person whose entire health was transformed.

Here’s why this is such an important concept: the most important person you must convince of the legitimacy of fasting is YOU. If part of you wants to try fasting but another part of you wonders if it’s an excessive practice bordering on an eating disorder, you’re going to quit as soon as you hit a bump in the road.

But once you understand that fasting is your opt-out card that can be used to escape the diseases of civilization, aka diseases of industrialization, aka first world diseases, then you can respect your own decision to fast instead of feeling conflicted.

Futhermore, once you understand that the lethargy, lack of motivation, forgetfulness, and food cravings that plague most adults can also be revolutionized through fasting, it no longer seems like a magazine diet hack for fitting into a smaller pair of jeans. It’s a way to live a vibrant life.

I first came across the idea of fasting as medical treatment from listening to Megan Ramos, one of Dr. Jason Fung’s coworkers, tell her transformative fasting story here.

I love this story because it gives a front-row seat to how the recent intermittent fasting movement was birthed. Although the practice of fasting is as old as dirt, Dr. Fung has been instrumental in making it mainstream now.

I just love these kinds of “how it all began” tales!

The Birth of the Modern Fasting Movement