The Fasting Transformation: A Functional Guide to Burn Fat, Heal Your Body and Transform Your Life with Intermittent and Extended Fasting

by David Jockers, Michael Dugan

Our society is metabolically damaged and this is causing us to be sick, fatigued and overweight. Our bodies should be powerful fat burners that create plenty of energy to keep us going all day long. Unfortunately, most people are settling for so much less than their best. The answer to this comes down to an ancient healing strategy that optimizes nutrient timing to balance hormones and burn fat for fuel. This strategy cost nothing, is available to all and is quite simple to begin using. Fasting is the most ancient, inexpensive and most powerful healing strategy known to mankind. All of our ancient ancestors practiced fasting in one way or the other and many great sages and cultures revered fasting for it’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits. In this book, Dr David Jockers and Michael Dugan take you on a journey to help you understand the history and practical use for fasting to improve your life and health. You will discover the science behind how fasting improves insulin sensitivity, hormone optimization, fat burning, stem cells and cellular healing. You will learn about how fasting holds promise for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune conditions, cancer, digestive disorders and neurodegenerative pathologies. This book will go over all the various research and practical applications for daily intermittent fasting, partial fasting and extended fasting strategies. You will also learn how to troubleshoot challenges you may encounter on a fasting regimen. This book is designed to help inspire and empower you to embrace a fasting lifestyle while enjoying tasty and healthy foods at the proper time to improve your metabolic flexibility and energy efficiency so you can burn fat for fuel and have all day energy.

Genres: Health

163 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2020

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introductory book to intermittent fasting. Dr. Jockers explains the benefits well and in depth in easy to use language that is great for the lay person. He also gives a great plan on how to get started with fasting. He does deal with extended fasting and gives some good principles for that.
I found the section on fasting for chronic disease, where he addresses cancer, digestive health, autoimmune diseases,and neurodegeneration, to be very helpful and not something easy to find in other fasting books.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr. Jockers clearly explains many factors affecting metabolism and then introduces fasting as one tool to achieve your fitness/health goals. I read this book during a five-day fast and confirmed many of his book's claims while reading. Dr. Jockers covers the technical details like HGH and Mitophagy while explaining the steps to take for a successful fast. This book helped me with my first long fast and on day five I never felt more alive and aware (and really clean with no poop inside).

[Suzi kirby · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE reference book for fasting.

I am reading on kindle, but am ordering physical copy for my reference library. This is THE book on fasting. I have never found this much well documented information in one place. I recommend this book to anyone wanting info on fasting, from how to, practical tips, to deep science.

[Nancy Widin Soper · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good beginners primer on fasting. If you already have a bit of fasting experience, you may want something a bit less basic. I found many of the sections to be repetitious which became a bit annoying.

[Edda E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written book with a lot of information of the different fasts you can do. He explains different health issues. A good book if you want to start fasting or for health issues or just to give your system a break...

[Mandi Waller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick easy read if you don’t know much about fasting. Can be repetitive but good info. I personally like The Obesity Code by Jason Fung better. I do like his fasting helps suggestions though.

[Douglas Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good quick read on fasting

Review of literature on fasting; lots of repetition of benefits indifferent chapters; mentions problems encountered in fasting and how to deal with them. Would recommend but I still feel Dr Jason Fung as 1st read on subject