purple_baron t1_iua8hjp wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:42 PM

Reply to comment by jlesnick in Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis by geoxol

It's essential that we separate the pseudoscience from actual science, but "national insurance covers it" is not sufficient evidence. After all, the UK covered homeopathic treatments up until recently (and may still, I remember an item in the news that that status may have changed, but couldn't find it quickly).

jlesnick t1_iui50gb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:46 PM

I agree with you that pseudoscience needs to be separated from actual science, but there's a lot of science behind fasting. There was a good documentary I saw about it on Amazon. If I remember they were mentioning that the USSR had done tons of studies on it but most of those studies never got translated to English which seems like a tragedy. The USSR was serious about science and imagine how much knowledge we are missing out on.

Anyways, if you do a google search you will see lots of studies on longterm fasting and it's heath benefits.