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Scientifically-designed fasting diet lowers risks for major diseases
- jmnicolas 10y ago> "food products supplied by the nutrition company L-Nutra" There you go, yet another attempt at making money on something you can do for free. As I understand it, the benefits of fasting come from the energy liberated from not having to digest food, energy that can be spent on repairing the body (this is why animals don't eat when they're sick). If you don't have medical problems that would prevent fasting, do 5 days of REAL fasting or one day a week or whatever feels right to you. Then you will understand that for western people "hunger" is more psychological than physical. The longest fast I did was 2 weeks. I could have gone longer physically (no hunger sensation) but psychologically I needed to eat something. I do much shorter but more frequent fasts nowadays, it's easier on the willpower.
- jcims 10y agoThere's actually a bunch of interesting research about the benefits of time restricted diets and short term fasting. Dr Rhonda Patrick talks about a number of them on her podcast, some papers here: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/t/fasting https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/t/fasting
- derrickdirge 10y agoWhen you say "REAL fasting" what do you mean exactly?
- jmnicolas 10y agoI eat nothing AT ALL and just drink water enough to not be thirsty.
- DrScump 10y agoBlogspam of http://news.usc.edu/116479/scientifically-designed-fasting-diet-lowers-risks-for-major-diseases/ http://news.usc.edu/116479/scientifically-designed-fasting-d... with author credit stripped. Journal article: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/377/eaai8700 http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/377/eaai8700 Paper available there (paywalled)