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The fasting fix : eat smarter, fast better, live longer / Andreas Michalsen, MD, PhD, with Suzann Kirschner-Brouns ; [translated from German by Laura Wagner].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020Edition: First English language editionDescription: 422 pages : illustration ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781984880154
  • 1984880152
Uniform titles:
  • Mit Ernährung heilen. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Our evolution, our gut, our metabolism: humanity's evolutionary relationship with food-- and how it went wrong -- Eat better, live healthier: new awareness of nutrition -- Fast easier, live longer: the healing and preventive effect of therapeutic fasting and intermittent fasting -- Healing through nutrition and fasting: my therapeutic program for a healthy life -- Epilogue.
Summary: "The Fasting Fix lays out the science behind how fasting, when combined with a healthy diet, can heal chronic illnesses and help people to live longer. The author, a physician and expert on fasting, explains which foods people should eat and which should be avoided. He introduces several different fasting methods, and offers simple recipes for foods that support a fasting regimen"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 615.854 M621 Checked out 06/06/2024 33111010446496
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dr. Andreas Michalsen - one of the world's leading experts on fasting - lays out the clear, indisputable science that fasting, when combined with a healthy diet, is the key to healing chronic illnesses and living longer. Michalsen draws from his decades of medical practice and original, cutting-edge scientific research, along with his deep knowledge about the human body and evolutionary history to distill the simple truth about what we should eat and how we should eat in order to live healthier, longer lives.

"A Penguin Life book" -- Title Page verso.

Introduction -- Our evolution, our gut, our metabolism: humanity's evolutionary relationship with food-- and how it went wrong -- Eat better, live healthier: new awareness of nutrition -- Fast easier, live longer: the healing and preventive effect of therapeutic fasting and intermittent fasting -- Healing through nutrition and fasting: my therapeutic program for a healthy life -- Epilogue.

"The Fasting Fix lays out the science behind how fasting, when combined with a healthy diet, can heal chronic illnesses and help people to live longer. The author, a physician and expert on fasting, explains which foods people should eat and which should be avoided. He introduces several different fasting methods, and offers simple recipes for foods that support a fasting regimen"-- Provided by publisher.

Originally published in German as Mit Ernährung Heilen by Insel Verlag Berlin in 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-403) and index.

In English, translated from German.

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