Therapeutic fasting
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Therapeutic fasting is fasting with health related intentions. The intent may be to have an curative effect on an ongoing disease, to prevent possible diseases or to strengthen the health (salutogenetic).
Forms of therapeutic fasting:
- The "Buchinger Fasting" regimen, developed by Otto Buchinger, has a long tradition in Europe, with specific "Buchinger fasting guidelines" or "consensus guidelines" established in 2002, and updated in 2013.[1] Medical studies that involve fasting often follow the Buchinger guidelines.[2][3][4]
References
- ↑ Wilhelmi de Toledo, Françoise; Buchinger, Andreas; Burggrabe, Hilmar; Hölz, Gunter; Kuhn, Christian; Lischka, Eva; Lischka, Norbert; Lützner, Hellmut; May, Wolfgang; Ritzmann-Widderich, Martha; Stange, Rainer; Wessel, Anna; Boschmann, Michael; Peper, Elisabeth; Michalsen, Andreas (2013). "Fasting Therapy - an Expert Panel Update of the 2002 Consensus Guidelines". Forschende Komplementärmedizin. 20 (6): 434–443. doi:10.1159/000357602. ISSN 1661-4127. PMID 24434758.
- ↑ Berger, Bettina; Jenetzky, Ekkehart; Köblös, Diana; Stange, Rainer; Baumann, Andrea; Simstich, Johannes; Michalsen, Andreas; Schmelzer, Kurt-Martin; Martin, David D. (June 2021). "Seven-day fasting as a multimodal complex intervention for adults with type 1 diabetes: Feasibility, benefit and safety in a controlled pilot study". Nutrition. 86: 111169. doi:10.1016/j.nut.2021.111169. PMID 33636417. S2CID 231689995.
- ↑ A second example: Lilja, Stephanie; Stoll, Carina; Krammer, Ulrike; Hippe, Berit; Duszka, Kalina; Debebe, Tewodros; Höfinger, Ingrid; König, Jürgen; Pointner, Angelika; Haslberger, Alexander (2021). "Five Days Periodic Fasting Elevates Levels of Longevity Related Christensenella and Sirtuin Expression in Humans". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22 (5): 2331. doi:10.3390/ijms22052331. ISSN 1422-0067. PMC 7956384. PMID 33652686.
- ↑ "Otto Buchinger". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2022-01-19.