Welcome to the Cabral concept, where board certified naturopath and integrative

health practitioner Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the

age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for recovery.

He was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine

ancient iravada healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine

to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again and now here's your host Dr.

Stephen Cabra.

Hi everyone and welcome back to the show.

We are here today with our wellness and weight loss Wednesday topic of the week and the

topic is going to be going over the definitive guide to how often you should

fast in how long I'm going to be giving you the daily, the weekly, the monthly, the

quarterly and the yearly based plan. So I'm going to share with you who fasting is right

for and for how long and how many times to do it throughout the year.

I've gotten these questions many times and I've actually answered them sporadically through

different podcasts, but today I'm going to be able to refer back to this podcast as the one that is teaching people what natural hygienists and traditional natural naturopaths have been teaching people throughout the ages. We've talked about it in Ayurvedic medicine.

Honestly, every form of medicine except conventional medicine has always had fasting

as part of their health-based regiments. Now it goes for healthy people,

it goes for people that are sick, it goes for people that are unwell, it goes for people

that are looking to optimize their body, and it's because they knew, they always knew that in order, and this is one of the big things that I've talked about before, like if I learned nothing else about my internships overseas, so for those of you who don't know,

my internships, I actually decided to do,

yes I did some of the United States,

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