Frédéric Azuelos, a naturopath with an atypical background, recently published a series of videos explaining the practice of fasting and the principle of autophagy, based in particular on his own experience. In them, he explains the benefits of fasting, as well as the factors you need to take into account to determine whether or not fasting is advisable for your particular situation. Frédéric strongly recommends that you seek professional guidance when fasting for the first time. See also our article on the subject available here: The Benefits of Fasting, My Personal Experience.
What was your path to naturopathy and what are your areas of specialization today?
My name is Frédéric AzuelosI’m 57 years old. I’ve always been driven by a quest for meaning, a desire to understand the world and find my place in it. Even if everyone has a more or less atypical career path, mine is quite singular.
After my studies, I chose renewable energies. A meaningful profession. But one question kept haunting me: how could I contribute to a world more respectful of living beings? So, in 1997, I made a radical decision. I left everything behind. A backpack. A ticket to Latin America. And off I went. Eight months into the trip, my life almost turned upside down. A health problem threw everything into question. Months of medical wandering, to no avail. Until one day, in a small village in the Amazon, I discovered some local plants. Within three weeks, my health had completely recovered. It was a revelation: what if another kind of medicine was possible?
Back in France, this question never left me. I studied naturopathy, in particular nutrition and the impact of emotions on our health. Today, I accompany people who want to regain control of their well-being. I help them to understand their bodies, to prevent rather than cure, and to regain lasting health.
How do you assess exposure to heavy metals and when should you consider a detox?
Exposure to heavy metals has become a major public health problem. We live in special times: our water is polluted, our air is polluted, our soil is polluted and our food is polluted.
The heavy metals are everywhere, and it’s impossible to avoid them. Our bodies may have an exceptional capacity for decontamination, but only if our organs are functioning optimally – which is far from the case. Our diet is depleted of essential nutrients, our sleep is less and less restorative, our digestion disrupted by processed products that our body doesn’t recognize. Stress is reaching stratospheric levels, and we’ve become a sedentary species. For most of us, physical exercise is insufficient and no longer allows us to detoxify. detox detoxification. The result: toxin levels rise, and when they spill over, we get sick.
This alarming fact is borne out every day by the explosion of so-called diseases of civilization, for which allopathic medicine often has no answer other than chemical treatments, masking symptoms at the cost of destructive long-term side-effects.
Yet there are simple and obvious solutions to staying healthy: choose an organic diet, learn to manage stress, get a good night’s sleep, practice daily physical activity, and live in low-pollution environments. But these are not enough to remove accumulated heavy metals. We are all concerned.
Fortunately, Mother Nature offers us an exceptional ally in the form of Chlorellaa micro-algae capable of absorbing heavy metals like a sponge. When taken regularly, it helps the body detoxify its tissues.
How did you discover eChlorial and why do you recommend our micro-algae?
A friend once told me about a small family business producing micro-algae in a pollution-free environment. He told me about their omega 3 from marine plankton. As plankton is at the very beginning of the food chain, the risks of heavy metal contamination are extremely low, if not non-existent, unlike the fish oils used to produce these fatty acids. These omega-3s are marketed everywhere, but how can we be sure that they no longer contain heavy metals? Should we rely solely on the certificates provided by the producing laboratories? I remain sceptical. Doubts persist.
With omega 3 from marine plankton, this doubt largely disappears, certificate or not. As for the production of microalgae is based on a unique process, with no contact with the polluted external environment, guaranteeing the absence of toxic elements. That’s all it took to convince me. eChlorial has earned my trust and allows me to recommend these supplements with complete peace of mind.
What “little levers” do you think bring 80% of the results for your customers?
A dietary adjustment with the least toxic food possible, good stress management, daily physical exercise, meals eaten mindfully with careful chewing, and getting back to sleep: these are the things that enable me to achieve a rapid and significant improvement in my customers’ state of health.
What message would you like to pass on to people who want to take back control of their health?
Realize that the best investment, now and in the future, is to do everything you can to stay healthy.
Do you have a quote or maxim that guides you in your practice?
“If you take care of your health today, you won’t have to take care of your illness tomorrow.