02829cam a2200337 4500 606235958 TxAuBib 20221001120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781647000028 1647000025 B09S6HGM3T Amazon f0b36b39-c3fa-4c01-8a5e-d9c1c093f80b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8784079 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hendricks, Steve. The Oldest Cure in the World [Libby eBook] : Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting. ABRAMS, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1052kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>A journalist delves into the history, science, and practice of fasting, an ancient cure enjoying a dynamic resurgence.</b></p> <p>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 <i>The Oldest Cure in the World</i>, 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.Â&#160;</p> <p>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.Â&#160;</p> <p>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.</p>. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. History. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0b36b39-c3fa-4c01-8a5e-d9c1c093f80b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0b36b39-c3fa-4c01-8a5e-d9c1c093f80b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f0b36b39-c3fa-4c01-8a5e-d9c1c093f80b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)