by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
If you’re going to walk up to the edge of life and look over into the precipice, you’d better know how to find your way back. Many of you know about my lifelong passion for fasting and have read my books and research. I’ve long credited fasting for all the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting
For decades, the dominant narrative around Alzheimer’s disease has been one of inevitability — a slow, relentless unraveling with no meaningful way to intervene. Pharmaceutical research has poured billions into amyloid-clearing drugs with discouraging results, and the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting
Water-only fasting is one of the oldest practices in human history — undertaken across every major civilization for spiritual, medicinal, and ritual purposes long before science had any framework for understanding what it was doing to the body. Today, that framework...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2024 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine |
Coffee has substantial health benefits which may help some people with anxiety. For one, studies show that people who drink coffee regularly may have an 11% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than non-drinkers, thanks to ingredients in coffee that can affect...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 14, 2023 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine |
Not everyone who is treated for an anxiety disorder will take prescription medication. But those who do will often face an additional challenge when the drugs cause nutrient deficiencies. You may not have obvious symptoms that a medication is robbing you of certain...
