ABOUT ORIGIN FAST
25 years of fasting.
A personal journey.
More than 25 years ago, fasting changed my life.
A fasting retreat transformed my health, my body, and my relationship with food.
I believed I had stumbled across something so important I couldn’t ignore it.
THE BEGINNING
A new direction.
A deeper purpose.
At the time, I had a flourishing career as a journalist and television broadcaster, alongside a newly earned qualification in nutrition.
I made what felt like the only possible decision: I packed my life into my car and drove to the mountains of southern Spain to establish one of Europe’s first residential fasting retreats.
EXPERIENCE THAT SHAPED ME
Seeing the
transformation.
Over the years that followed, I saw fasting retreat participants arrive exhausted, unhappy with their bodies, and disconnected from their health, then transform.
I went on to create a television series that documented the incredible effects of fasting, and in 2013, I published my first book on fasting, Eat, Fast, Slim.
THE EVOLVING SCIENCE
Experience meets
research.
Three years later, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognised discoveries about autophagy, the cellular recycling process that has become an important subject in fasting research.
Since then, researchers, including Professor Valter Longo, have helped pioneer fasting-mimicking approaches.
We now know much more about fasting’s effects on biological ageing, inflammation, and metabolic health — results I have witnessed first-hand throughout my years of running fasting retreats.
25 YEARS IN FASTING
We have reached
a turning point.
As fasting has become fashionable, it has also become commercialised and oversimplified.
We need to move beyond one-size-fits-all advice; our bodies, health, and needs are uniquely individual.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
That’s why I’ve created
Origin Fast.
I want to bring together everything I’ve learned over the past 25 years — the science, the experience of guiding fasting retreats, and the extraordinary power of community — to create a more intelligent, personalised and supportive approach.
Join me as we explore the possibilities of fasting together.
AmandaFounder, Origin Fast