Category: Fitness and health

• Healing from Long Covid with water fasting

  

  This article presents two case reports documenting how an extended water fast can heal Long Covid (post-acute Covid-19 syndrome). Since late 2020, I have been approached by…

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Case reports, Fitness and health

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• Fasting against coronavirus (Covid-19): how to boost immunity and maximize health

  

  For water fasting to heal Long Covid, please click on the link below for my more recent article:Healing from Long Covid with water fasting Written at the start of the pandemic, the extended article below argues that the best thing you can do to strengthen your immune system against Covid-19 is to undertake a 7-10 […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Fitness and health

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• Diets, fasts and healing injuries for runners

  

  When most people think of diets or fasting, they usually have weight loss in mind.  Even at the best of times this is a dubious practice. Changing the way you eat by reducing calories usually results in the body conserving energy and using calories more efficiently thereafter. Although a more efficient body is generally a […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Fitness and health

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• Pills, powders and potions: the reality of taking supplements while fasting

  

  One question which persistently recurs on waterfasting.org is whether or not you should take supplements while water fasting. The majority of people want to know about vitamin supplements and, occasionally, even protein supplements. In this article I’ll deal with both, as well as other kinds of pills, powders and potions… There are some people who […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Fitness and health

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• Fasting as a healing modality to treat cancer

  

  This video features an interview with Dr. Valter Longo, who is one of the world’s leading researchers in the use of fasting as a healing modality to treat cancer. Although the preventative effects of fasting have been well known in relation to a number of diseases, this particular discussion centres around the use of 24, […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Fitness and health

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• Fasting as a means to improve athletic performance in endurance sports

  

  I’m sitting down to write this having had breakfast for the first time in a week… Lately, I’ve been practising “intermittent fasting”, which revolves around lengthening the time between your last meal in the evening and your first meal the following day.  It’s one of several ways I involve fasting to improve my health – […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  Fitness and health

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