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Food Chain Radio Show #1201
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
The Fountain of Youth – Fasting
Guests: Dr. Dan Pompa, Author, Beyond Fasting and Dr. Duncan McCollum, McCollum Family Chiropractic
Most all of our major religions feature the transformative practice of fasting. Here is one example from the book of Matthew:
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Fasting – The Fountain of Youth?
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Let’s consider, for a moment, the transformation presented by this Biblical fast. Jesus goes into the desert a carpenter, fasts for 40 days, and returns from the desert as the Christ.
This story does a good job of illustrating the transformative powers of fasting.
There is a very real reason why fasting is transformative, and it is explained in the process called “autophagy,” which is Greek for “self eating.” In essence, autophagy is how the body renews itself by eating itself. Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for describing how autophagy works to renew the body.
In Food Chain 1192 we learned from Biology Professor Richard Vierstra that Ohsumi’s discovery has turned the world of bio-technology on to the possibility of managing autophagy with drugs, and how tens of millions of dollars are now being invested in speeding up, or slowing down, the process of autophagy in the human body.
But there are some who say we do not need drugs to manage the renewal of our body through autophagy. They say we can manage autophagy ourselves, and we can do so by the means we have always used throughout our history– fasting.
And so we ask those in the know …
Leave a comment below: Can fasting enable one to manage the renewal of one’s own body without drugs?
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