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06.022019

26 Fasting Days Completed!

I’m now turning the corner of this second round at the Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting clinic here on Germany.  Now that I’ve been through 26 days of fasting this time around, “re-elementation” or “refeeding” is now the most important part.  The body has torn down the old, bad stuff through fasting.  I’m down over 20 pounds … Read more

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06.012019

Exercise — integral to the Otto Buchinger fasting method

Yes!  You can do a fasting program and still exercise! There are different schools of thought with respect to fasting.  On one extreme is pure water fasting, such as practiced at Goryachinsk on Lake Baikal in Siberia.  In this program, exercise is not compulsory. Otto Buchinger, on the other hand, created his fasting program 100 years … Read more

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05.242019

Resting metabolism not slowing…

I have known for quite some time that my system just wasn’t totally efficient, as I could eat an above average amount of food and not gain weight.  While many might envy having this problem, my unusually high metabolic rate was actually a bad sign. Many (pretty old!) studies have shown that Type 2 diabetics … Read more

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05.132019

Back at Buchinger!

Life got in the way, and this is my first blog post of 2019. I’m writing this post on a return visit to the Buchinger-Wilhelmi fasting clinic in Germany. The clinic provides an excellent venue for a mental “reset” to capture thoughts and reflect back on life outside of the day-to-day! Returned to share with … Read more

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