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A gem I never expected to see in a Western country.
I have to agree with the researchers and doctors whose work is presented in this film. Modern medicine isn't interested in curing disease, it's interested in alleviating symptoms while lining the Pharma Bros pockets. Fasting is old, as old as humankind. It's actually advocated in some religions.
If you've ever wanted a major reformation of your life because you didn't like carrying those extra 40 lbs around, or you've been told you had cancer/diabetes/kidney disease/lupus/etc, or you just felt bad 24/7 with nothing a doctor could find wrong, try changing your diet, radically. Mine was the Big C. Radical dietary change saved me - I'm a 30-year survivor. We don't have access in the West to the spas of Europe or Russia, so long-term, unsupervised fasting may not be the best idea, but what do you have to lose by learning a different way of eating and exercise? When it comes to food, less (and better quality) is more.
It isn't easy, none of it. But I like being alive, and it breaks my heart to see people walking around messed up with ill health because they can't shake the dietary and pill-popping recommendations promoted via industrial age post-war consumerism and glut. We're willingly killing ourselves. We need to stop.
December 2017 · Movies and TV · verified purchase