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Author: Oscar Puig Donnelly DNFS MCN

Fasting and Cancer: Unlocking Your Innate Healing Power

January 1, 2019

Thanks to a number of promising mouse research studies*, the link between fasting and cancer has been called to attention, with fasting being explored more and more as a potential healing technique. Although research for humans is currently minimal, fasting has been used as a way to improve health for...

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