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The Fasting Cure

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 16 minutes
ISBN
9781802568073
Published
16 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • fasting
  • detoxification
  • natural healing
  • health reform
  • wellness
  • self-care
  • digestion
  • immunity
  • alternative medicine
  • rejuvenation

Description

The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair is a pioneering health treatise advocating fasting as a natural method for detoxification, healing, and rejuvenation. Drawing from personal experience and anecdotal evidence, Sinclair details how periodic fasting helped him overcome chronic health issues, boost energy, and improve mental clarity. He explains the science behind fasting, its effects on digestion, immunity, and disease, and offers practical guidelines on preparation, duration, and breaking the fast safely. A passionate critique of modern diets and medicine, the book promotes self-healing and bodily wisdom. Though not medically endorsed today, it influenced early 20th-century wellness movements and remains a landmark in alternative health literature.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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