Usually I write about what’s new: the wow stuff going on in the spa and wellness world. So why am I writing about Buchinger Wilhelmi, a medical fasting clinic in southern Germany that not only isn’t new, it’s more than 100 years old?
Because what is brand-spanking about Buchinger Wilhelmi is its research: discoveries emerging from a place that, over the past century, has had more than 6,000 guests every year, taking part in more than 250,000 fasting programmes, and is the only clinic in the world that can show results in humans (as opposed to small mammals) from long-term fasting (more than five days).
Studies into the effects of fasting are numerous. In 2010 Dr Andreas Michalsen, from the Charite-University Medical Centre in Berlin,
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