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Emphasizing healing and recovery, the book brings the “olden art” of fasting into modern healthcare while addressing why physicians often overlook this therapeutic option. Drawing on clinical experience and research, it outlines physiological mechanisms, practical application, and how combining fasting with a healthful diet may help reverse metabolic dysfunction, obesity, and hypertension, supporting long-term well-being.","If you are bewildered by the varieties of fasting, read Dr. Myers’s and Dr. Goldhamer ’s Can Fasting Save Your Life? Theirs are the voices of pioneering experts with unsurpassed encyclopedic knowledge in this emerging life-saving discipline.  \nCaldwell B . Esselstyn Jr. , MD Author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease  \nFasting is an important tool to facilitate healing and recovery and has many important therapeutic applications, yet it is often completely ignored by physicians, limiting their ability as healers. This book can bring the olden art of fasting (and the practice of eating a healthful diet) into modern healthcare where it belongs.  \nJoel Fuhrman, MD  \nAuthor of seven New York Times bestsellers, including Eat for Life  \nThis is the definitive guide about fasting, the science behind it, and how todo it right. This powerful approach to health has given new tools to physicians and has been life-changing for countless individuals. Drawing on decades of experience and careful study, Drs. Myers and Goldhamer have provided everything you need to know to put that power to work.  \nNeal D . Barnard, MD, FACC  \nAdjunct professor, George Washington University School of Medicine President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine  \nCan Fasting Save Your Life? is the best fasting book available, offering clinical insights and a clarion call to the research community to study this neglected lifestyle intervention.  \nMichael Greger, MD  \nAuthor of How Not to Die and founder of [nutritionfacts.org](nutritionfacts.org)  \nThe best and last hope I have been able to offer my patients over the past 40 years is a water fast under the direction of Dr. Alan Goldhamer. Water is the ultimate no-fat, low-cholesterol treatment that every person should try before declaring defeat.  \nJohn McDougall, MD Founder of the McDougall Program  \nI have personally experienced the remarkable effects of water-only fasting at TrueNorth Health Center. I have seen the benefits for friends and family members that I have referred for fasting. The clinical outcomes seem to defy explanations, yet this new book provides valuable insights into the proposed mechanisms and physiological changes that are facilitated by fasting.  \nThis book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in optimizing their health or in understanding the phenomenon of fasting. Adhering to the recommendations included in this book might just elevate and prolong the quality of your life.  \nJoseph Brimhall, DC President of University of Western States  \nThis book is unique in that it combines Dr. Alan Goldhamer ’s more than 40 years of clinical experience supervising fasting in more than 25,000 patients with Columbia University research scientist Dr. Toshia Meyers’s ability to understand and communicate the science of fasting. 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