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by  N.Morgan Fasting is the willful refraining from eating for a period of time. In a physiological context, fasting may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight, or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting. Fasting: A Long-Neglected Facet of the Human Condition For millennia,  fasting  has been one of the anchoring rituals in a variety of spiritual denominations. For example, all the major world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism espouse religious doctrines that prescribe fasting on designated calendar days (1). In addition, fasting is a practice rooted in evolutionary biology, since throughout evolutionary history, human bodies have adapted to periods of feast and famine. Matron and colleagues articulate this with, “Because animals, including humans, evolved in environments where food was relatively scarce,...

by  N.Morgan Fasting is the time you spend without eating or drinking something. It turns on your body’s repair mode and helps in restoring hormonal balances. A 2014 study based on animals found that fasting improves overall health. It regulates blood pressure, normalizes insulin sensitivity and reduces inflammation. Intermittent fasting optimizes health and lowers the risk of developing chronic ailments. Intermittent Fasting To try this, you have to fast for sixteen hours straight and arrange your meals in an eight-hour span. You should eat your food between noon and 8 p.m. Start off with this schedule, and you won’t have any trouble as you sleep through half of the fasting. Some like to drink coffee or tea. When it comes to food choices, you should lower the intake of carbs and eat more healthy fats, such as coconut oil, olive oil, olives, butter, eggs, avocados, and nuts. The only challenge brought by this type of fasting is the fact that your body will have to ge...

by  N.Morgan Fasting is the long used ancient practice of abstaining from eating for a day, or sometimes even a week or more, and requires discipline. This practice has been used to treat various health issues, and even a brief fast can completely re-boot the immune system. Yet, while some nutritionists criticize this notion, researchers have discovered that hunger in short spurts can kick-start stem cells into producing new white blood cells, whose role is to fight against foreign invaders such as viruses and bad bacteria. The findings of scientists at the University of Southern California show that fasting is highly beneficial for people suffering from damaged immune systems, like cancer patients on chemotherapy, or people with auto-immune disorders. Valter Longo has investigated the effects of fasting on yeast cells and found that when he starved a colony of yeast cells, about 95% of them would commit suicide via apoptosis. Copper Home Page APeX...