Curious Insights from History
A fast podcast that is all about gaining understanding, finding inspiration, and maybe laughing a little at some curious insights. The ideas come from more popular non-fiction books. John Walker is the host.
Curious Insights from History
#11 The Fasting Cure
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John Walker
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Season 1
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Episode 11
Today we talk about a book by Upton Sinclair called The Fasting Cure. It is an old book, but is amazingly modern considering the recent understandings of what fasting can do for health.
This is a good general article about water fasting:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/water-fasting
This is the actual text of The Fasting Cure by Sinclair Lewis:
http://apache2.pum.edu.pl/~fasting/upton.pdf
This is an interesting podcast on intermittent fasting: https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-79/
STEM talk is one of my favorite podcasts.