Can Water Fasting Help Leaky Gut Syndrome?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Water fasting gives the gut lining a rare chance to rest and repair. When you stop eating, the intestinal wall is no longer exposed to irritating foods, medications, alcohol, or the daily work of digestion. For […]
Can Water Fasting Reverse Fatty Liver Disease?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Water fasting is one of the more effective interventions available for fatty liver disease. In the people I supervise, improvements in liver function are among the most consistent outcomes I see: often reflected in lab values […]
Can Water Fasting Improve Mental Health?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Water fasting produces measurable improvements in mood, mental clarity, and emotional resilience in many of the people I supervise. These changes are not subtle. By the second week of a fast, people who came in feeling […]
Can Water Fasting Help With Weight Loss?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Weight loss is one of the most searched topics on the internet and one of the most misunderstood. Most approaches treat excess weight as a simple math problem — eat less, move more — and most […]
Can Water Fasting Help Arthritis and Joint Pain?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Arthritis is one of the most common reasons people come to Fasting Escape. Joint pain, stiffness, and inflammation that has been building for years — often managed with anti-inflammatory medications that help short term but do […]
Water Fasting and Cancer: What Does the Research Show?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Cancer is a topic that requires honesty. I am not going to tell you that water fasting cures cancer. What I can tell you is that the research on fasting and cancer is genuinely compelling, that […]
Can Water Fasting Help Psoriasis?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Psoriasis is one of the most visible and frustrating chronic conditions to live with. The plaques, the itching, the self-consciousness, and the unpredictability of flares make it a condition that affects far more than just the […]
Water Fasting vs Intermittent Fasting: What Is the Difference?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Intermittent fasting has become one of the most popular health trends of the past decade. Water fasting has been practiced in clinical settings for over a century. Both involve periods without food, but they are fundamentally […]
How Long Do You Need to Fast for Autophagy?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Autophagy is one of the most talked about benefits of fasting right now, and for good reason. It is a genuine biological process with profound implications for health, longevity, and disease prevention. But most of the […]
Can Water Fasting Help Autoimmune Disease?
Written by Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C., founder of Fasting Escape and former staff doctor at True North Health Center. Autoimmune disease is one of the most frustrating categories of illness to live with. Your immune system, which exists to protect you, turns against your own tissue. The result is chronic inflammation, unpredictable flares, and a […]