Intermittent Fasting Part II- The Health Benefits Even though life expectancy in the western world increased form 45 to 77 years of age over the 20th century, the increase in healthy life expectancy was much less marked. Naturopathic and osteopathic principles then, are about increasing quality of life rather than just preventing death. As mentioned […]

Multi-day water fasting has been a recipe for better health since Greco-Roman times. Anecdotal evidence from church records during the Irish potato famine in the 1920s showed that children brought up during this period lived significantly longer than previous generations. Similarly, medical physician Emile Juste documented an almost a 100% eradication of “diseases of affluence” […]