What Is 'The Fasting Cure'? Upton Sinclair's 1911 Guide to Fasting
In 1911 Upton Sinclair published The Fasting Cure — a remarkable firsthand account of fasting as medicine that predicts much of what modern science now confirms.
Over a century before intermittent fasting became a mainstream health topic, a journalist and social reformer named Upton Sinclair documented his own extensive fasting experiments and collected 277 case reports from readers who had tried them. The result was The Fasting Cure, published in 1911 — a book that was mocked by the medical establishment at the time and is now, in surprising ways, a historical mirror of what modern research is confirming. This is the story of that book,…
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