Short excerpt from a talk asserting that fasting is a rapid path to healing and disease reversal. The speaker claims fasting triggers autophagy — recycling and removal of damaged or pre-cancerous cells — and that combining a fasting lifestyle with a cleaner diet can dramatically improve conditions like autoimmune disease, uncontrolled diabetes, and cancer risk.
And I wrote this entire book on fasting because fasting is the quickest way to start healing your body and reversing disease. When we stop eating, especially the standard American diet, our body does this really incredible process called autophagy. It starts creating cells that go around and eat all the other bad cells and recycle them and get rid of them so that they can't go rogue and turn into cancer. So fasting is like if you have an autoimmune disease, if you have uncontrolled diabetes, if you have cancer or pre cancer cells or tumors, you keep growing. If you start incorporating a fasting lifestyle and you clean up your diet, your health is going to do a 180. It's absolutely incredible.
