Science of fasting

While life expectancy is increasing in Western countries, cases of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cancer are increasing, and the use of medication has exploded. Does this mean that to live to a ripe age we are condemned to swallow more and more drugs? What if there was another way?

For half a century, in Russia, Germany and the United-States, doctors and biologists have been exploring a different therapeutic approach: fasting. Soviet researchers have provided a body of clinical studies of exceptional wealth, only published in Russian, and thus unknown in the West. Young biologists from the University of Los Angeles have overturned conventional wisdom and used molecular biology to demonstrate the powerful effects of fasting. These researches suggest a wide-ranging potential, which could include treatments for the disease of the century, cancer.

If these scientists are right, maybe our approach to disease and treatment will need a rethink.

Pariscience 2011
: Sunday 09th October 2011 from 10h30 to 12h00