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The authors, Thierry de Lestrade and Sylvie Gilman, announced it during the national preview screening of their film at the Europe cinema in Plaisance-du-Gers. Their documentary “Fasting, investigation into a phenomenon” will be released as a book under the title “Fasting, a new therapeutic path” this January 23.
Twelve years after the broadcast in the same room of their documentary entitled “Fasting, a new therapy?”, Thierry de Lestrade and Sylvie Gilman, independent journalists and directors, returned on October 23 to present Europe at the cinema in Plaisance-du-Gers their latest film “Fasting, investigation into a phenomenon”, as part of the Week of Possibilities.
Faced with the enthusiasm of the spectators present in the room, they then announced that a book was being written on the same theme. It's done, since on January 23 “Fasting, a new therapeutic path” will be published by La Découverte. This is the revised and largely expanded version of their first work “Fasting, a new therapy?”, published in 2012.
Scientific discoveries and surprising promises
Because since then, numerous works and discoveries have complemented the study of this practice, allowing medical research to make a leap on a subject which is attracting more and more followers. No less than 27% of French people claim to have experienced it, while in the eyes of health authorities, fasting is considered a “dangerous” practice on which “science has ultimately proven nothing”. But for Valter Longo, a pioneer in the field, the last few years have proven more important than the past 2000 years.
-In their book, Thierry de Lestrade and Sylvie Gilman report on recent scientific discoveries carried out in the United States, Germany and Italy, analyze major mechanisms generated in the body – such as autophagy – and return to the surprising promises in the treatment of cancer or chronic diseases. Many researchers also hope to be able to introduce, in its therapeutic or preventive form, fasting into public health policies.
Arte will also broadcast the documentary “Fasting, investigation into a phenomenon”, which the Plaisantins were able to discover in preview, on Saturday January 25, at 10:25 p.m.
