We coauthored a retrospective analysis of the dramatic effects of his fasting program on his clients with hypertension.5 Every one of the 176 successive patients who were analyzed for the paper experienced a drop in blood pressure, most of which began within a few days of beginning the fast. The effect occurred relatively rapidly, was more substantial than that produced by any antihypertensive drug ever tested, and was free of side effects. It proved to be an unusually effective intervention. But journals like JAMA and NEJM, whose income depends on heavy advertising from antihypertensive
...more
