Has Medicine Been Too Slow to Explore the Benefits of Fasting?

Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist, and one of the world's leading pioneers in low carb diets and intermittent fasting, reveals why modern medicine has been so slow to explore the  benefits of fasting and discusses its benefits not just for type II diabetes but for a range of other metabolic and neurological conditions.

For decades, patients with type II diabetes were told to eat a high carbohydrate diet, despite the fact that their problem was that their carbohydrate levels were already out of control.

A major study published back in 2008 in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, had shown that  intensive best practice management of type II diabetes actually increased the death rate from the disease.

But despite this, treatment remained largely unchanged. Yet emerging data now suggests that the majority of type II diabetes patients can not only reverse their disease with diet, they can also prevent it developing and so stop many of the life-changing side effects of the disease, so why did it take so long for medicine to discover this?

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