Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an Advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. To be honest, I failed to read this book, I failed to get into it at all, but that could be just me.

A unique approach to health and healing. I've been trying to find ways to get healthy, change my thinking but all the information was overwhelming. I have to focus on myself and on one thing at a time and not try to change everything overnight. The steps are insightful and sometimes you have to take baby steps to achieve your goals.

Did not complete. Additionally, the author stole the cover images. The Depositphoto watermarks are still visible. Will not read. Do not recommend.

The Unique Art of Intermittent Resting by Leonid Altshuler M.D.
I don't agree with much of this book. Although, I understand the author is wanting to help I just couldn't make a connection with it.

Read throughout like click-bait
There wasn't much information in the book itself which read like a primer and featured mainly generalizations of the topic. It would've been hard, even, to go deep into the topic when the book was so flimsy and short.

Such a factual read about the benefits and importance of intermittent fasting. I personally fast and have really seen a great outcome of doing this on the body and the mind. This is a great read for any or all questions in regards to fasting

Hoo boy. Well... This book was quite the jumble. Among the mentions of how the author went to Nepal, random facts from several studies, imaginary dialogues between patient and doctor and some random recipes at the end, I just don't know what to make of it. This could be a good article, given it was processed by a good editor, but that's that. In no way is this a book.

More than that, it's not quite clear what is trying to be said. Is this a book for a patient, or a doctor? I couldn't quite determine. Despite claiming that rushing in life is bad, it essentially rushes over everything. I particularly hated the oversimplification of depression - the author claims that depression results from overwork and overstressing oneself. That may be true in some cases, but I feel that depression is much more complex than that and it's not just exhausted and overworked people that end up with this mental ailment. It's unfair to oversimplify it to "overstressing yourself + insulin resistance".

But there's still more. It's fine and even wonderful that the author is proposing meditation - he is right in that - but he is in no way right to propose readers to go cold turkey zero carbs. Doctors, PLEASE don't suggest your gullible patients to do dangerous things!!! I can't stress this enough. Please don't go zero carbs - I beg you. I have done this myself for several months, and while there were benefits, it did more harm than good. Later I found out that I was lucky - so much more harm could have come from this. Going zero carbs with a snap of a finger can put your body in danger and I am not kidding. DO NOT DO THIS. At least talk to your doctor first.

In the author's defense, he only suggests doing so for 1-3 weeks, but I would still stay on the safe side. No carbs doesn't mean just quitting candy and bread. No carbs means you can't even eat fruit, some nuts and some veggies, no milk because of lactose. It's pretty damn serious. Even the author says that keto still has too much carbs (!) I wish people stopped suggesting these things to readers because it's just not good. I wish I hadn't bought into that diet myself year ago. Maybe I wouldn't have allergies now.

But enough of the tangent. I'll finish with the last offending piece. In the very last paragraph, the author mentions that being healthy is a mandatory condition to being happy, so let's all be healthier. I know he possibly didn't mean it this way, but this strongly implies that people with chronic or other serious illnesses can't be happy. Not very constructive, is that?

Anyway, the author meant well - so take this guy's advice and meditate once a day, but maybe don't read the book.

I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.

Fascinating and kept me intrigued the whole time. I will be using these practices and ideas a lot. The cover is what drew me in but the title was spot on. Its a different kind of read but one you can learn a lot from.