by San Jose Counseling Therapist | 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 San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Natural Remedies, Sacred, Spirituality
he 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 San Jose Counseling Therapist | Feb 25, 2026 | Alternative Treatment, Complementary and 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 San Jose Counseling Therapist | Feb 24, 2026 | Alternative Treatment, Alzheimer’s Disease, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Natural Remedies, 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,...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Aug 11, 2020 | Alternative Treatment, Anxiety Treatment, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Depression, Fasting, Weight Loss |
Obesity can occur due to a combination of environmental effects and genetics, which also can increase risk factors for psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety. Obesity creates a risk for other health problems such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | May 13, 2018 | Counseling, Eating Disorders, Fasting, Nutrition, Online Counseling, Online Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy |
One the most significant differences between fasting and anorexic behavior is the belief that the anorexic does not fast voluntarily. In contrast to the restricting eating seen in anorexia nervosa, the non-anorectic person is making the choice to fast for medical,...
