When it comes to fasting, influencers and other media doctors of the 21st century have not invented anything.
Hippocrates was already praising its multiple curative virtues, four centuries before Jesus also got involved.
“
This kind of demon only comes out through prayer and fasting ,
”
he exclaimed to Saint Matthew after curing an epileptic child.
Epilepsy is in fact the only indication in which fasting, this old moon of medicine, has ever demonstrated its effectiveness!
In modern scientific literature, the treatment appears for the first time from the pens of two French doctors, Drs Guillaume Guelpa and Auguste Marie.
They praise intermittent fasting, which they already consider effective against obesity, in the treatment of epilepsy: for 4 days, a daily laxative, unlimited water and no food, then a vegetarian diet for 4 other days, and so on.
Considering that epilepsy arises from an eating disorder…
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