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No this is criminal : the Russians had pretty good results with this kind of mental disorder by making the patients fast, yes you read me well, just fasting.

But it's too simple and there's no money to be made of it. So they're going to cut legs from people that could be saved by fasting.

I'd offer a source but it's a book in French from a journalist that studied fasting and went to Russia since during the Soviet times they made a lot of researches on fasting.




If it was a profit issue, there would be money to be made from treating a patient for the consultation and duration of the fast. Not everything is a Big Industry conspiracy.


> but it's a book in French

Some of us read French.


"Le jeûne, une nouvelle thérapie ?" ISBN-13: 978-2707175571

If you read Russian (since your nick is Pavel I thought you might) I'm sure you could find better sources than that.


England has a national health service.

So that NHS has two options:

1) put someone through a fast. (Cheap - about £1000 per week). Then provide some talking therapy for some time.

2) amputating a leg. (Just the amputation is going to be between £8,000 and £16,000), followed by considerable physiotherapy and prosthetic legs.

Here the NHS wants the cheapest effective option, not the more expensive option.

If starvation works you should probably send the evidence to NICE.


Come on, your NHS is probably as badly run than my Sécurité Sociale, and allergic to consider better alternatives if it's not big pharma approved.

For the record I tried fasting for 2 weeks and it didn't do anything for me (I don't have dimorphism though). However we need scientific studies to either prove or disprove the benefits of fasting so we don't have to debate on just opinions but facts.




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