Fasting makes a comeback in modern medicine
New York: Fasting, practiced for thousands of years as a cure for a variety
of diseases, is making a comeback slowly among the practitioners of modern
medicine.
Buchinger, on Germany's Lake Constance and a handful of other clinics around
the world are beginning to offer fasting as one of the physical therapies
and medical tourists are flocking to take advantage, according to Newsweek. The
magazine said by fasting the doctors at Buchinger mean a "minimalist diet of
300 calories per day, veggie broths and juices for two weeks to several
months, accompanied by blood tests, purges and other treatments."
Director Frantoise Wilhelmi di Toledo was quoted as saying many
hard-to-treat conditions, from arthritis to allergies and various skin disorders, benefit
from the metabolic switch that takes place when the body starts living off
its own reserves.
"Of the 2,000 guests who come to fast each year (half from southern Europe,
America and the Middle East), about one third arrive with serious ailments
the rest come to lose weight or cut stress," he said.
Fasting, the magazine says, has lately gotten a boost from medical research.
Clinical studies in Scandinavia have shown that fasting is an effective
treatment for rheumatism especially if followed by a vegetarian diet. In one
study, pain and swelling came down by a third in a week and stayed that way for a
year.
Other studies have shown success in lowering blood pressure and treating
chronic pain like migraine or arthritis. Neurobiologists at Gwttingen University
have shown that when patients fast, stress hormones levels go down and
serotonin levels rise (which may explain the "fasting high" many patients report).
"The more we look into it, fasting seems to work like a reset button for the
body's own self-regulating mechanisms," Andreas Michalsen, deputy director
of the Institute for Integrative Medicine at Essen University said.
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