Pharmacist Ben Fuchs fills in for Dr. Joel Wallach. Beginning the show oullining the fact that before the 1800s medicines were considered to be things like herbs and plants. With the advent of the big pharmaceutical companies now people think of drugs when they think of medicines. Contending for the most part we don't need these drugs. As most drugs only treat symptoms not the root cause of the the health challenge.

Pearls of Wisdom

Doug Winfrey and Ben Fuchs discuss a news article regarding a study of alternative diets. Namely diets where people fast for several hours daily or fasting two days a week. Finding fasting can trigger metabolic switching and evolutionary adaptation. Fasting has been linked with lower blood pressure, cholesterol and resting heart rates. Ben has been advocating fasting for decades.

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