Time to Detox
8 Benefits of Fasting
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Are you ready to detox? Are you ready to improve your flexibility, mental clarity and digestion? Are you ready to get away from lockdown bad habits? Are you ready to feel the warmth in the air and to start to have longer days with more energy?
Spring can be seen as the season between seasons, it is the pause between summer (highest energy) and winter (lowest energy) and because the energy has such an expansive nature it best supports your body to expel unwanted toxins and to rebuild. It is the season of change, for rebirth, renewal and regrowth.
Let’s have a quick look at the Natural Element Health theory of spring. Despite its recent surge in popularity, fasting is a practice that dates back centuries and plays a central role in many cultures and religions. Fasting allows your body to take a break from the normal grind of digestion and switch into restoration and healing mode.
Defined as the abstinence from all or some foods or drinks for a set period of time, there are many different ways of fasting.
In general, most types of fasts are performed over 3days, 10 days, or 6 weeks for maximum healing.
Intermittent fasting, on the other hand, involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, on my detox we will be doing a 3 day intermittent fast with 16:8 hours of fasting: eating.
Fasting has been shown to have many health benefits, which I will outline some of them below, for example, increased weight loss to better brain function.
The seasons all have a direct effect on our health, and the seasons affect the balance in our bodies as well as the external climate surrounding us.
I love Spring, it always makes me just feel happy, to feel the warmth in the air and to start to have longer days with more energy around providing me with more energy. I also love not having to wear so many clothes and be able to wake up and get up and not feel like diving back under the doona.
Chinese Medicine encourages us to make changes in our lives to match the environmental changes. This is how we stay healthy and balanced. It also helps us to prevent illness and imbalance.
8 really good reasons to do a fast this spring:
1. Promotes Blood Sugar Control by Reducing Insulin Resistance 🍩
Studies have found that fasting can improve blood sugar control, which is especially useful for those at risk of diabetes, which has become such a lifestyle health issue.
Decreasing insulin resistance can increase your body’s sensitivity to insulin, allowing it to transport glucose from your bloodstream to your cells more efficiently, and back to the bloodstream when you require it for energy.
Coupled with the potential blood sugar-lowering effects of fasting, this could help keep your blood sugar steady, preventing spikes and crashes in your blood sugar levels, and therefore spikes and crashes in your daily energy levels. This will also help stop those bad sugar cravings.
2. Promotes Better Health by Fighting Inflammation 🔥
While acute inflammation is a normal immune process used to help fight off infections, chronic inflammation can have serious consequences for your health.
Research shows that inflammation may be involved in the development of chronic conditions, such as heart disease, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Research has shown that reducing processed foods, sugar alcohol, flour products and animal products has greatly reduced the inflammation in us, together with the chronic long term health issues.
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3. Enhance Heart Health: Improve Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Levels 💔
Heart disease is considered the leading cause of death around the world, accounting for an estimated 31.5% of deaths globally, that is frightening and many of us are walking talking time bombs and we don’t actually know it.
Switching up your diet and lifestyle is one of the most effective ways to reduce your risk of heart disease.
There has been much research that has found that incorporating fasting into your lifestyle routine is especially beneficial when it comes to heart health, reducing triglycerides and cholesterol which accumulates in our bloodstream.
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4. May Boost Brain Function and Prevent Neurodegenerative Disorders 🧹
Studies have found that fasting could have a powerful effect on brain health, including your brain function as well as your brain structure.
Fasting can protect your brain health and increase the generation of nerve cells to help enhance cognitive function. Fasting also helps relieve inflammation, so it could also aid in preventing neurodegenerative disorders.
Research has shown that fasting may protect against and improve outcomes for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s.
5. Aids Weight Loss by Limiting Calorie Intake and Boosting Metabolism⚡️
Many fad dieters pick up fasting as just a weight-loss method and do not look at all the other positive health benefits. Theoretically, abstaining from all or certain foods and beverages does decrease your overall calorie intake, which leads to increased weight loss over time.
Some research has also found that short-term fasting may boost metabolism by increasing levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, which could enhance weight loss.
In fact, one review showed that whole-day fasting could reduce body weight by up to 9% and significantly decrease body fat over 12–24 weeks.
In addition, fasting was found to be more effective than calorie restriction at increasing fat loss while simultaneously preserving muscle tissue, which is important to maintain bone helath.
6. Increases Growth Hormone Secretion 💪🏼
Human growth hormone (HGH) is a type of protein hormone that is central to many aspects of your health. Even as you get older it is important to maintain high levels of HGH to repair and rebuild muscles and organs and stop age-related degeneration.
Research shows that this key hormone is involved in growth, metabolism, weight loss and muscle strength.
Several studies have found that fasting could naturally increase HGH levels which also helps to reduce high insulin levels.
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7. Could Delay Ageing and Extend Longevity 🥳
Animal studies have found promising results on the potential lifespan-extending effects of fasting.
It has also been shown that the abstinence of food, for controlled periods of time has a restorative effect on the body allowing for repair of the body organs and a reduction in the loss of telomeres on our DNA.
8. Aid in Cancer Prevention 😱
Research is still in the early stages in human trials but has been showing promising results, such as the reduction of tumors and in the support of healing after chemotherapy.
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Thanks for reading and let me know your thoughts on my 8 Benefits of Fasting and most importantly how you went with some of the activities in the comments below. Post your pics and comments and tag me @naturalelementhealth, I’m on Instagram and Facebook.
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