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. | Mar 1, 2026 | Fasting, Love
We become whatever we feed. So feed yourself wisely. Every human being is hungry. Some hunger for food. Some hunger for love. Some hunger for admiration. Some hunger for belonging. Some hunger for touch. Some hunger for meaning. Some hunger for God. From the moment we...
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. | Jun 13, 2021 | Fasting |
Ketogenic diets have been around for about 100 years and have proved to be valuable in the treatment of neurological conditions, most notably epilepsy. They’ve also shown promise in the management of other neurological disorders such as anxiety disorders, Parkinson’s...
