CinemaOSMovie · 2013 · 0h 52m

The Science Of Fasting

66%(8)IMDbDocumentary

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 in order 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 U.S., doctors and biologists have been exploring a different therapeutic approach: fasting. The results are amazing. Soviet researchers have provided a body of clinical studies of exceptional health…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. This research suggests 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.

Directed byThierry de Lestrade, Sylvie Gilman

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0h 52m
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FR
Released
September 21, 2013
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ARTEVia Découvertes

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Sylvie Gilman

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Directed by
Thierry de Lestrade
Sylvie Gilman

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