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Water Fasting for Hypertension: Why It May Be More Effective Than Medication

Seguridad del Ayuno con Agua: Lo Que Debes Saber Antes de Ayunar

Discover why supervised water fasting requires weekly bloodwork and how these clinical markers accelerate healing, reduce inflammation, and reverse chronic conditions.

Cruciferous vegetables are much more than an ordinary food on your plate — they’re true superfoods with properties that support your health on multiple levels. As part of the cruciferous family, they provide bioactive compounds such as glucosinolates, which, when converted into sulforaphane, help protect your cells against cancer and support the body’s natural detoxification processes.

In our search for a healthy life, we often think that supplements or powdered “superfoods” are the quick fix to improve our nutrition. But the truth is that whole foods always win when it comes to real, lasting health.

Type 2 diabetes has become one of the greatest public health challenges in the world. Although traditional medical approaches often rely on medication, calorie restriction, and carbohydrate control, these methods rarely achieve true reversal of the disease.

If you live in Miami, Atlanta, Sedona, Sarasota, Santa Fe, or San Diego and are looking for a truly transformative wellness retreat, Back to the Garden in Puerto Rico offers an unparalleled healing environment.

In this article, you’ll learn about the best diet for fatty liver and how prolonged fasting can help you make remarkable progress in your health.

From medically supervised water fasting to intimate holistic care, discover the full range of services our Fasting Center provides and why traveling here might be your best decision to reverse chronic illness naturally.

At Back to The Garden, our Fasting Center in Puerto Rico provides a science-based, personalized approach to fasting that supports your mind, body, and spirit.

Water fasting is a powerful healing practice that allows the body to reset, repair, and rejuvenate on a cellular level. At Back to the Garden in Puerto Rico, we offer medically supervised water fasting programs designed to support deep healing, especially for those dealing with chronic conditions, inflammation, and burnout.

Greetings, achieving optimal health requires continuous practice, as wellness is an active state just like disease. The practice of either one has side effects: one promotes well-being, while the other can lead to disabilities. It is important to educate ourselves with accurate, unbiased information, understand and apply the principles of a healthy life, and have the motivation to embark on this new path. Our clinic provides the opportunity to acquire all of these essentials

During water fasting, only pure water is consumed in a complete rest environment. How can we survive? Where does the body get its nutrition? Its energy? These questions are answered in this educational video by Dr. Joanna Frey, a specialist in the reversal of chronic diseases and director of Back to the Garden Clinic, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is one of four centers in the United States specializing in medically supervised water fasting and chronic disease reversal

Hello, Intermittent fasting is often confused with prolonged water-only fasting. In this educational video, we explain some of the differences in protocols and the results that can be achieved. Referencias: 1. Goldhamer, Alan C, et al. “Water-Only Fasting and an Exclusively Plant Foods Diet in the Management of Stage IIIa, Low-Grade Follicular Lymphoma.” BMJ Case Reports, 2015, doi:10.1136/bcr-2015-211582. 2.Goldhamer, Alan. “Medically Supervised Water-Only Fasting in the Tre

Hello! This video is a continuation of our previous video, “What I Ate Today Pregnant~Vegan and Healthy.” If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve included the link below so you don’t miss it. Get inspired by how we eat! We receive many questions about what constitutes a healthy diet during pregnancy and whether a whole-food, plant-based diet provides sufficient nutrients for the optimal development of my baby while keeping mom’s health at its best throughout this process. In case yo

Around 77% of our population (United States and Puerto Rico) report taking dietary supplements or using “superfoods” in powder or liquid form because they are marketed as beneficial for health. We are spending an excessive $25 billion annually on these products. The question is: what objective and evidence-based data supports these supplements? Evidence has shown that most of these supplements have little reliable information regarding safety, offer few benefits, and some car