Science of fasting
Synopsis
“While life expectancy is increasing in Western countries, cases of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cancer are increasing, and the use of medication has exploded.Does this mean that in order to live to a ripe age we are condemned to swallow more and more drugs? What if there was another way? For half a century, in Russia, Germany and the U.S., doctors and biologists have been exploring a different therapeutic approach: fasting.The results are amazing.Soviet researchers have provided a body of clinical studies of exceptional wealth …only published in Russian, and thus unknown in the West.Young biologists from the University of Los Angeles have overturned conventional wisdom and used molecular biology to demonstrate the powerful effects of fasting. These researches suggest a wide-ranging potential, which could include treatments for the disease of the century, cancer. If these scientists are right, maybe our approach to disease and treatment will need a rethink.”
Prix obtenus
– Prix du jury au “Festival international du Film de Santé de Liège” (Belgique) dans la Catégorie Recherche & Santé.– Présentation en avant-première au “Festival Pariscience” (Festival international du film scientifique) au Museum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris
– Présentation au “Festival du film de chercheur de Nancy” & au “Festival du Film Scientifique de Bruxelles”
– Nominated to “ASEAN Science Film Festival 2012”