3 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Fasting. For hundreds of years, fasting has played an important role in a number of different cultural and religious practices around the world. For those who don’t know, fasting refers to a set period of time during which a person abstains from either all food and drink or restricts their diet to only a few select food types. While limiting your nutritional intake for a period of time sound counterintuitive to your health, some specialists such as registered dietician Rachel Link suggest that fasting may potentially bring some unexpected benefits to a healthy lifestyle. #IntermittentFasting #FastingDiet #FastingBenefits
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1. Fasting Helps Weight Loss:01:00
2. Fasting Helps Your Blood Sugar:02:04
3. Fasting May Prevent Illness:03:12
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1. Fasting Helps Weight Loss
If you’re looking to shed a few extra pounds, then fasting may be an obvious solution. Apart from the obvious fact that fasting reduces your overall calorie intake, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that fasting may also increase your body’s production of a neurotransmitter knbown as norepinephrine, which has an effect on boosting your metabolism. Additionally, another study showed that participants in a fast also experienced a significant increase in the production of human growth hormone, or HGH. HGH is a naturally-occurring protein within your body that plays a number of key roles related to your health, including weight loss and muscle strength. By increasing the body’s secretion of HGH as well as speeding up their metabolism, a person fasting could potentially see a reduction in fat while still maintaining muscle mass; this means that intermittent fasting could indeed prove to be a viable weight loss option for certain individuals.
2. Fasting Helps Your Blood Sugar
According to a study published in the World Journal of Diabetes, fasting for short-term and intermittent periods of time was shown to lowered levels of blood sugar for participants struggling with type 2 diabetes. Another study from the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, both intermittent fasting and alternate-day fasting were found to be equally and significantly effective when it came to decreasing levels of blood sugar within the body. These findings are noteworthy because decreasing blood sugar benefits your body’s health by reducing its resistance to the hormone insulin. By decreasing resistance and making your body more susceptible to insulin, your bloodstream is able to transport glucose directly to your body’s cells much more efficiently. Of course, if you already struggle with diabetes or abnormally low blood sugar, you might want to hold off on fasting until you’ve had time to discuss the potential pros and cons with your doctor. We’ll get into more detail on the safety precautions involved with fasting a little later in this video.
3. Fasting May Prevent Illness
There are a variety of ways in which nutrition researchers have linked fasting to a number of potential health benefits. For starters, fasting may help prevent the onset of chronic inflammation, which can lead to unwanted health conditions such as heart disease and arthritis. A study in volume 32 of Nutrition Research monitored 50 adults who participated in intermittent fasts over the course of a month; the result was that participants exhibited significantly decreased levels of inflammatory markers. Additionally, a small study published by the Obesity Society also indicated that fasting on alternating days may be an effective way to reduce your body’s levels of LDL or “bad” cholesterol by 25 percent, as well as lower the number of triglycerides in your blood by up to 32 percent. Not only does this reduction in bad cholesterol and triglycerides help regulate your body’s blood pressure, but it can also serve to improve your heart’s health by reducing the risk of heart disease.
In addition to helping your heart, fasting may also benefit your brain as well; studies involving mice have indicated that fasting in rodents help improve both brain function as well as brain structure. Similarly, other studies such as one published by the Journal of Molecular Neuroscience have suggested that intermittent fasting may also help stave off neurodegenerative disorders in rodents by increasing the generation of nerve cells and enhancing cognitive function.
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