While it has long been part of traditional therapy, the young has been forgotten by modern medicine. But it is still offered in certain specialized establishments in Germany and Eastern Europe, where it is sometimes even covered by Health Insurance. For Dr Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, author of “The Art of Fasting” (Jouvence, 2013) and director of the Buchinger clinic in Überlingen, Germany, which offers medically supervised therapeutic fasting, “the deprivation of food periodic has therapeutic effects that we have seen for decades in our patients. And recent American studies have made it possible to understand the mechanisms. »We know that clinically, fasting leads to weightloss, a drop in arterial hypertension and an improvement in type 2 diabetes. “It reduces all the cardiovascular risk factors”, translates Dr. Wilhelmi de Toledo. It is also proven that fasting has an effect on chronic inflammatory diseases: arthritis, polyarthritis, asthma, gastritis, colitis or allergies. Finally, it has a beneficial action in the event of stress and burn-out.
