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There is another way that recently gets a lot of attention, and it is drug-free. It's called "fasting". The practice is very old (holy books speak of it). Only recently one of fasting's method has been understood as "autophagy", which means "self-eating". When your body is starved for nutrients it turns to it's own tissues, and eats the weak/unhealthy cells first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Japan’s Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of the underlying mechanisms of autophagy.

I found a lot of interest on YT for this topic, and related "fasting" topics. With alternative "healers" gaining huge following with treatments that include fasting. Note worthy are Dr Morse (mostly juice fasts) and the Master Fast System (mostly intermittent fasts). Also I see a lot of people doing long water-fasts in combination with strength training for rapid weight loss.

Its a very interesting subject to me, and I have done some experiments with it myself, not without results.

parent cies 8 years ago

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