by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Happiness, Joy, Sexuality, 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 flourishing...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 20, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Sacred
What it’s like to have a therapist who has vision into unseen realms. Modern psychotherapy presents itself as a scientific and clinical discipline—grounded in diagnosis, evidence-based modalities, and professional ethics. Yet beneath the language of manuals,...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
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. | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dementia, Fasting, Nutrition
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. | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Nutrition
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. | Feb 1, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Depression, Psychotherapy
The Ultimate Consciousness Drug That is Experiencing a Resurgence Research into using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat depression is being renewed. LSD was extensively investigated in humans in the 1950s and ‘60s and was shown to attenuate depressive...
