A Fasting Spa Experience in Marbella
Eat less and relax more, at this specialist fasting retreat.
In the past few decades, science has confirmed what a long history of clinical practice and religious doctrine suggested all along: fasting has many benefits for body, mind, and spirit. If forgoing all culinary pleasures for weeks on end sounds like torture to you, wait till you see Marbella's world-famous Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting clinic. With ocean views, spa treatments, yoga sessions, and sun-loungers at the pool, it sure looks a lot like a luxurious Mediterranean holiday.
One of the best reasons to stay at a specialized fasting clinic is that it's an environment with little around to remind you of food – making fasting a lot easier than at home. As your metabolism adapts, your body taps into stored energy, and hunger disappears. Once that switch has been made, your days will be supercharged.
Matching this alertness with the amount of time you'll have on your hands when you're no longer worrying about breakfast, lunch, and dinner makes a fasting break the ideal time to read, take long beach strolls, enjoy spa treatments or pick up meditation.
→ The Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting method has been practiced for over a century and was developed by the German doctor, Otto Buchinger. The clinic has stayed in the family too – it's currently run by his great-grandson.
→ There are two Buchinger Wilhelmi clinics: this one in Marbella, and another on the shore of Lake Constance, close to Zürich.
→ The original Therapeutic Fasting plan by Otto Buchinger is a 21-night fast. If that sounds a bit too much, there are also 14 and 10-night programs.
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Jurriaan Teulings
Jurriaan dreamt of becoming either an astronomer or a circus clown. He became a lawyer instead, but finally found the ultimate fit for his free-range mind as a travel writer and photographer. A Stroopwafel evangelist, he's also won a few awards: two in plexiglass, one in bronze, and one made of beads. The biggest prize: 20 years of travel to all continents and 99 countries so far.
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