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And just as exercise is more complex than just tearing your muscle fibers, fasting is more complex than just slowing your metabolic rate. You could make a simil
by alecst 5y ago
And just as exercise is more complex than just tearing your muscle fibers, fasting is more complex than just slowing your metabolic rate. You could make a similar (but wrong) “of course” argument that, while fasting, the body doesn’t have enough energy to repair itself, so it decays faster.
All I’m getting at is that this is a really complicated topic, and that the benefits of fasting go beyond just temporarily lowering your metabolism.
- solarmist 5y agoThat’s also kinda true (not the energy part, but the rest). Some of the studies I’ve read heavily imply this “decay” (clearing out trash) allows the body to kill off pre-cancerous cells and do other housekeeping things that it can’t do when the vascular system is busy doing nutrient delivery. This can happen with regular meals that a just a bit too big and a bit too regular. So just as it’s finishing up the rounds you’re adding new nutrients to be delivered. Apparently your body needs at least a few hours daily where it can focus on housekeeping tasks. I’ve come up with analogy of the same vehicles doing package delivery and garbage collection. So if they’re constantly busy will the former the latter will be neglected and things start to pile up.