Fasting Lifestyle: Simple Shifts: Profound Results

Fasting refers to the deliberate abstention from food and/or fluids for a period of time, for therapeutic purposes. Recent scientific research has explained how fasting positively affects our physiology, cells, aging, disease and overall health.
In 2016 Dr. Ohsumi changed the fasting landscape dramatically when he won a Nobel prize for his work on autophagy. Autophagy means “self-eating” and is the body’s way of cleaning out damaged cells in order to regenerate newer, healthier cells. Fasting triggers this magical autophagy process and can provide significant health benefits. Because fasting works to repair and heal on a cellular level, research suggests that it can slow down the aging process and help conditions like obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, some types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, IBS and chronic or autoimmune conditions.