FOY Fasting

CHRONIC CONDITIONS ARE REVERSIBLE

The key is understanding how to take advantage of

evolutionary biology 

We provide personalized concierge programs to clients who want to restore their health.

We repair the metabolic and mitochondrial damage that standard medicine frequently tells you is permanent or "just part of aging."

Our programs are based on biology and nature, not pharmaceuticals. We do not sell supplements or use prescription drugs in our programs.

Claim control over your health naturally, safely, and as nature intended.

SCIENCE-BASED RECOVERY

Restoring Health & Vitality Through Science

Standard medicine refers to many health conditions as chronic diseases or metabolic conditions. We are taught these are incurable diseases instead of reversible conditions.

Many of these conditions can be reversed through FOY Fasting. While the medical system is designed to treat symptoms and manage your decline, the key to true recovery is using evolutionary biology to activate the body's natural repair mechanisms. We provide actual health care instead of disease and symptom management. Our concierge programs deliver personalized protocols tailored for clients ready to achieve lasting recovery.

The Real Reason You've Been Failing

You have been set up to fail.

Many health conditions are caused by how you were taught to eat and exercise. It is not your fault!

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    The US Food Pyramid misinformed Americans for decades, and nutrition advice has barely improved since. Your primary care doctor is likely to disapprove of our methods, as we specifically reject certain standard medical practices, such as the use of insulin for Type 2 Diabetes.
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    Ultra-processed foods are engineered to hijack your hunger. After the tobacco litigation toppled the cigarette industry, the cigarette scientists turned their attention to making addictive foods.
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    Big Pharma profits every time your body stays stuck.
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    Fad diets prey on your hope and pull the rug out, which is why calorie counting is strictly forbidden in FOY Fasting programs. Counting calories treats all food as simple math, completely ignoring that fat, protein, carbs, and sugar are each processed through entirely different metabolic pathways. Grouping them together isn't just wrong, it ignores basic biology, physiology, and nutrition.
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    Calorie restriction appears to work in the short term, but it is guaranteed to fail in the long run. The Biggest Loser proved that extreme calorie restriction rapidly depresses your metabolic rate; a suppression that lasts far longer than any temporary weight loss. The weight ALWAYS comes back because your metabolism drops faster and stays down longer than your baseline can recover. All non-hibernating mammals share these same physiological mechanisms. It's evolution. You didn't fail your calorie restriction diets. The so-called experts failed you.
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    You cannot out-exercise bad eating habits.
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    We do not sell health supplements and many are ineffective even when taken properly. FOY Programs rely entirely on the science of evolutionary biology, not on pills, powders, or pharmaceuticals. And a surprising number of supplements can be harmful or detrimental to your health.

What We Repair, and How

In short, we hack your biology.

We harness your biological healing capabilities without using supplements, holistic treatments, or medical devices.

We are experts at repairing your metabolism and mitochondrial function to reverse a multitude of chronic conditions. Our programs work by managing when you eat, applying precise nutritional science, and explaining when to exercise and how exercise can interfere with your body's natural repair mechanisms. The when is more important than what or how much.

Standard medicine manages the smoke. FOY Fasting focuses on the fire causing the smoke. We treat the biological root cause of your condition, not just the symptoms, so your body can repair the damage at its source. Conditions that can be reversed through FOY Fasting include:

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    Accelerated aging and cellular decline
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    Advanced metabolic disorders (severe insulin resistance, fatty liver, and kidney damage)
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    Autoimmune diseases (such as lupus and related immune dysfunctions)
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    Cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis
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    Erectile dysfunction
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    Hyperuricemia and gout
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    Neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's)
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    Obstructive sleep apnea
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    Open wounds that refuse to heal
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    Recovery from GLP-1 overuse (excluding NAION blindness or a severely damaged pancreas)
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    Sarcopenia (metabolic and disuse-related muscle wasting)
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    Select cancers (types caused by metabolic dysfunction)

Our protocols are developed through rigorous metabolic research to maximize ketosis and deep cellular autophagy. Most importantly, our clients are living proof.

Positive side effects of FOY programs include stabilized blood glucose to eliminate crashes and cravings, reduced systemic inflammation, and loss of visceral and subcutaneous fat.

Decades of insulin resistance have wreaked havoc on your metabolism and physiology, but the damage is not permanent. Restore your health and claim your new lease on life with FOY Fasting.

How It Works (the basics)

A full-body reset, powered by biology.

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    New Client Onboarding and Strategy Call: FOY Fasting instructions are tailored to your health status, medications, exercise, eating habits, and lifestyle. FOY programs are strictly individual. Even identical twins require distinct instructions due to differing biological and environmental variables.
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    Customized Fasting Instructions Prepared: Every fast is engineered around your blood measurements, target duration, and personal schedule. Clients receive a dedicated instruction set and a corresponding FOY Chart for every fast.
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    Biomarker Tracking and Charts: Clients measure blood glucose and ketones via fingerstick testing during every fast. Fingerstick blood samples provide superior accuracy compared to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), which only measure glucose in interstitial fluid. FOY Charts track your real-time data to detect and correct deviations immediately.
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    Refeed and Recovery: Every fast ends with a structured refeeding protocol designed to manage hydration, balance pH, and preserve gut biome integrity (critical for fasts exceeding 7 days) while preventing digestive distress and glycemic spikes.
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    FOY Snacks (Exclusive to FOY Clients): Formulated to suppress hunger and ease transitions, these snacks extend fast duration without disrupting ketosis or autophagy.
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    Evolving the Instructions: Your Fasting Instructions adapt dynamically rather than repeating. Every subsequent fast utilizes new instructions tailored to your historical performance, updated health status, current medications, active conditions, and evolving biological metrics.

Why Everything Else Feels Like a Fight

and Why FOY is Different

Diet & Calorie Restriction Wellness Coaching Medication & Weight-Loss Drugs FOY Fasting
Method Eat less, move more Affirmation + tracking Appetite suppression Extended fasting (2–14 days)
Focus Willpower & weight Mindset & moderation Symptom control Biological repair and reset
Results Slow or stalls Varies widely Temporary relief Insulin resistance repair leading to reversal of the "disease"
Oversight None Coaches or peers Clinical, but impersonal Personal support from Co-Founders
Mechanism Stress response Partial adaptation Metabolic override Deep ketosis and cellular repair
Keeps You Dependent? Actually backfires over long term Often Too Often Teaches a new lifestyle - not a dependency

What If You're Scared to Start?

FOY meets you where you are.

Not eating for days seems extreme or impossible to most, especially when food has provided comfort for years. You have weathered cravings engineered in labs, tried pills that numbed instead of healed, and blamed yourself for diets designed to fail. You have asked doctor after doctor, "Why is this happening to me?"

That was not personal failure. That was the result of a medical and industrial system designed to fail you.

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    Direct, ongoing access to both founders to administer your custom Fasting Instructions and evaluate your FOY Charts.
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    Targeted protocols for nutrition, fasting progression, and exertion.
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    FOY Snacks to blunt hunger signals and ease the transition into extended fasting.

FOY programs do not rely on deprivation or the total elimination of specific food groups. While certain foods are restricted to optimize metabolic outcomes, FOY programs do not require the removal of carbohydrates and sugars from your diet.

FOY Fasting breaks the cycle permanently, reversing decades of metabolic dysfunction caused by flawed guidance and mismanaged habits through structure, continuous oversight, and biological precision.

What Happens In Your Body

The cascade of repair.

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    Your body transitions to burning stored adipose (fat) tissue as primary fuel...
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    Systemic inflammation decreases, reducing pressure on joint, gastrointestinal, and neural tissues...
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    Dysfunctional cells are degraded and recycled through targeted cellular autophagy...
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    Primary metabolic hormones, including insulin and cortisol, normalize to optimize fuel utilization...
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    Blood glucose levels stabilize, eliminating energy volatility, intense cravings, and cognitive dysfunction...
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    Heightened cognitive clarity optimizes mental stamina and focus...
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    Your body shifts from managing disease to reversing it as core metabolic markers move toward optimal function rather than symptom suppression.

Conventional medicine keeps you in a system designed to maintain dependency rather than resolve root causes.

The Founders Blazing the Trail

Built by a scientist and an MD.

Co-Founder Jason Shugart spent years testing conventional nutrition and exercise models without success. Refusing to accept chronic dysfunction, he spent months analyzing a century of biochemistry and metabolic research to crack the physiological code. His discoveries yielded the foundational fasting protocols behind FOY Fasting.

Co-Founder Richard Orange, MD, spent 30 years in medicine without managing metabolic recovery or encountering the term "autophagy." Weighing over 400 pounds and facing critical physiological issues, his medical training offered no solutions for his own health concerns. He initially dismissed Jason’s protocol as dangerous, conflicting directly with conventional medical doctrine. However, a decades long friendship kept him listening to Jason's progress. Only after observing Jason’s undeniable transformation and reviewing the underlying research did Dr. Orange agree to try these new methods.

Experiencing complete metabolic reversal over the following year exposed the systemic failures of standard medical practice, prompting Jason and Richard to launch FOY Fasting to provide these health benefits to others.

"I was not simply carrying excess weight. I suffered from severe fatigue, cognitive brain fog, and intense neurochemical food dependency. Standard medicine managed my physiological decline rather than reversing my underlying conditions."

— Dr. Richard Orange

Standard treatments failed to resolve his severe metabolic deterioration. Initiating therapeutic fasting eliminated his food cravings, restored cellular energy, and normalized his clinical biomarkers.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What is required of me?

Depending on the FOY Program you select, your current health status, medications, and compliance, you will need to commit 8 to 36 months to restoring your health and changing your life. You will be taught what to eat and, more importantly, when to eat. Exercise and mobility are NOT required for your FOY Program to be successful. Every client must use blood stick meters rather than continuous glucose monitors.

What will I get from completing a FOY Program?

A new lease on life, unbelievable until you experience it. There's a feeling that overwhelms you the moment you break that bond and realize you don't need that meal. We call it Food Freedom.

Why are the programs so long? Why is the duration range so varied?

The damage in your body accumulates over time and each decade of damage generally takes months to reverse. After 3 months in your FOY Program and at least 6 fasts (each 4 days or longer), we typically have sufficient information to provide a reasoned opinion about the length of your journey.

What is the cost?

Programs range from $17,000 to $100,000+ USD dependent upon multiple factors. The quote cannot be provided until your application is completed and you have completed your interview with the founders. We cannot accept insurance. HSA and other health accounts are frequently used upon authorization.

Do you take payments?

Payment plan options are available through third party companies. Full payment is required before your FOY Program begins.

What if I cheat?

Cheating is not a problem. Our custom charting methods reveal the cheats, both intentional and accidental glucose and insulin spikes.

Do I have to exercise?

No, exercise is not required. In fact, exercise is discouraged during fasting periods, as it interferes with the repair physiology the FOY Programs are designed to maximize.

Do you work with chefs, nutritionists, trainers, etc?

Working with outside chefs, nutritionists, or trainers is possible, but only after FOY interviews your principal experts. If approved, these arrangements run a minimum of 12 months.

The Results

Speak for Themselves

I had ballooned to 333 pounds, and pretty much found out that I was a full-blown diabetic. If I didn't change my lifestyle, I would die. My latest A1C was 5.6. I'm under 240 pounds today.

LaMarr D.

I've done every single diet known to mankind. But then when I started this journey, the obsession with food is gone. I was losing weight every week. It's literally life changing.

Glenn G.

I started fasting after a cancer diagnosis. I've had a couple of scans, and there's no cancer there. I'm in remission. If you take the step like I did, it will change your life.

John H.

Our Principles

What We Stand For

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    You can choose to restore your health and change the rest of your life.
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    We provide the knowledge and experience that have proven results.
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    We believe the system profits when you stay blinded to the truth.
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    We believe weight loss should feel like liberation, not punishment.
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    We believe you deserve to feel powerful in your own skin - and clear in your own mind.
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    We measure results with your metabolic biomarkers — not just a number on the scale.

Ready for a Return to Health?

If there are no available spots in the Program best suited for you and you are desperate to start repairing your health, request an Open Spot below.

You can also complete the application now, and you will be contacted when a spot becomes available in a Program appropriate for your conditions.