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The largest scientific study on fasting in the world!
- cescaravage
- Oct 4, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
The world’s largest study on fasting was conducted by Dr. Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, a Swiss physician and fasting expert, along with her team. The study was carried out at the Buchinger clinic in Überlingen, Germany, which has a long-standing tradition in therapeutic fasting.
Source: Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, Franziska Grundler, Audrey Bergouignan, Stefan Drinda, Andreas Michalsen : «Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects» PLOS ONE, le 2 janvier 2019
The World’s Largest Scientific Study on Fasting!
Published online in the journal PLOS ONE on January 2, 2023, the results of this study highlight several key findings:
Fasting mobilizes stored energy from the body’s adipose tissues. The metabolism shifts from glucose consumption to fat and ketone usage, triggering a wide range of beneficial effects. This metabolic shift was confirmed in the study by the consistent presence of ketone bodies in urine.
Fasting leads to significant weight loss, reduces waist circumference, and lowers cholesterol and blood lipid levels.
Fasting also normalized blood pressure in participants and improved diabetic parameters such as blood glucose and HbA1c, thereby enhancing several factors related to cardiovascular health.
Additionally, fasting improved 84% of serious medical conditions, including arthritis, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, high cholesterol, hypertension, and chronic fatigue.
93% of participants did not feel hungry during the fast, contributing to their emotional and physical well-being.
Medically supervised fasting showed few adverse side effects, which were mild, manageable, and did not require interruption of the fast. In isolated cases, participants experienced restless sleep, headaches, fatigue, or lower back pain, mainly within the first three days.
In summary, the study demonstrated that this fasting program is a safe and well-tolerated approach for the prevention of age-related diseases and the treatment of chronic metabolic disorders, including overweight.
