What if fasting made you feel better? In just over a century, our lifestyles have changed completely. Our diet has become globalized, ultra-processed, our lives have become sedentary, creating fertile ground for chronic metabolic and inflammatory diseases. The diseases of “too much”, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure have exploded, could “little” be the cure?
Medically supervised fasting has proven over the past 20 years to produce remarkable therapeutic effects. What are its effects? What fast are we talking about? Who is it for? What about intermittent fasting? What if evolution had designed us to fast?
With Sylvie Gilman et Thierry de Lestradejournalist, director, documentary filmmakers, their latest documentary: “Fasting, investigation into a phenomenon”, produced by ARTE, released on January 25, 2025. This film continues the investigation carried out in 2012 for: “Fasting, a new therapy”. The authors are also publishing an expanded edition of the book “Fasting, a new therapeutic path”, published by La Découverte (2025).
To discover their other films, “An obese world”, “Tomorrow, all cretins” on endocrine disruptors, “Microbiota, the fabulous powers of the stomach”.
To discover them.
The film is selected at Fipadoc, international documentary film festival in the category: Taste of the Doc. Fipadoc is held in Biarritz from January 24 to February 1, 2025.
“We were struck by this capacity to survive and this capacity to self-heal with which evolution has genetically endowed man.”
Links to go further
Fasting, a new therapy is the first documentary by Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade. It is available in replay, and on the Arte channel
In documentaries, it is about the Büchinger Clinic in Germany and in Russia, sanatorium de Goryachinsk
Intermittent fasting: cellular cleansing for better health.
The French-speaking Fasting and Hiking Federation
Medical Academy of Fasting
-French-speaking Federation of Fasting and Hiking
Peter Schwartz, president of the International Diabetes Federation
The Art of Fasting by Françoise Wilhemi Toledo, Jouvence editions
ABC of fasting by Céleste Candido, published by Grancher.
About Ayurveda:
Kiran Vyas is one of the pioneers of Ayurveda in Europe. He created the Tapovan Center in Paris, and is the author of several books on Ayurveda. To find it in the Taste of the World.
Music programming : Love Garden, de Boje Adekunle Gold.
The recipe
Carrot and lentil curry
Ingredients : 100 g of green lentils / 105 g of organic carrots / 25 g of onion / 1 pinch of cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, curry, 1 bay leaf, 1 clove, 1/4 clove of garlic, 1 pinch of turmeric / 3 sprigs of coriander / 3 tbsp of crushed tomatoes.
Wash the lentils, cook for 20 minutes with the bay leaf and cloves.
Wash and slice the carrots and onion. Sweat the onions over low heat, add the garlic, carrots, then the tomatoes, and the spices. Cook over low heat for 30 minutes, add 10 cl of water during cooking.
Salt, pepper, add the coriander.
And you can serve!
