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 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. | Mar 9, 2026 | Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality, Women
The female hunger striker’s path to freedom. What I am about to show you is not fragility. It is not passivity, weakness, or submission. I am about to introduce you to three women whose courage became so undeniable that entire governments feared the moral force of...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 9, 2026 | Fasting, Men, Sacred, Spirituality
Worth is not just about the ability to endure; it is about the capacity to be cherished. What I’m about to tell you may seem bold. I’m about to tell you about three men with wills of pure steel and hearts of gold. Then I’m going to ask you to believe that somewhere...
