If you want an effective way to control your weight, feel more energetic, promote health, and detoxify your body of harmful toxins, intermittent fasting is the answer.
There are several studies that show that drinking only liquids and restricting food for short periods of time can help you prevent disease and live longer.
What is intermittent fasting?
You follow a food-restricted diet for a short period and then resume a regular diet right after the fast is over. One of the most popular forms of fasting involves fasting for a period of 16 hours, twice a week. There are people who do fast for 24 hours, but you should only try it if you are already comfortable with regular fasting.
You may think that fasting is difficult, but it’s very simple, you don’t have to count calories, plus you already fast while you sleep. The body repairs itself at night, intermittent fasting allows energy to be used elsewhere in the body to rejuvenate, rather than digest.
The health benefits of fasting
There is scientific research showing that intermittent fasting has many health benefits. By reducing your calorie intake by 30% twice a week, you reduce disease, increase life expectancy and improve your health.
Increase shelf life
Fasting can reduce age-related diseases and increase life expectancy in humans according to a study in the “Journal of Nutrition Biochemistry.” It also improves brain and cardiovascular functions, lowers the risk of stroke and coronary artery disease.
Increase weight loss and reduce diabetes
A recent study shows that intermittent fasting can prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and help with weight loss. The study also showed how quickly it increases longevity, improves health, reduces neurological disorders and disease.
delay aging
There is also a study showing that fasting improves neurodegeneration, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes in rodents. In humans, it improves rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, hypertension, obesity and delays aging.
improve memory
In mice it causes a significant improvement in learning and memory.
How to do it
Fasting is not that difficult, it helps to improve the functioning of the digestive system and to sleep better.
The easiest way to apply it is to start with a 16 hour fast, sleep and fast. You can do this by skipping breakfast, eating from noon and stopping eating at 8:00 p.m.
Please note that while you will be fasting for 16 hours and not eating any food in that time frame, you should drink plenty of water. This will help remove all the toxins from your body and keep your body and brain working well.