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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting

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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting - Hendricks, Steve
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"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 ...

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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting 2023, Abrams Press

ISBN-13: 9781419748486

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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting 2022, Harry N. Abrams

ISBN-13: 9781419748479

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