Embarking on a weight loss journey? Consider fasting, a method that's not just about skipping meals. It's a transformative process that goes beyond shedding pounds, offering a myriad of health benefits. Let's delve into why fasting could be your best weight loss ally.
Why Fasting Is The Best Way To Lose Weight
Scientifically-Backed Reasons Fasting Helps Effortlessly Burn Fat Without Wasting Money on Gym Memberships, Supplements, or Expensive Equipment
- The ancient art of fasting has been practised for thousands of years.
- It is one of the most powerful tools on the planet for reversing insulin resistance, stubborn weight loss, and has long term protective effects against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons.
- It helps protect against liver disease, heart disease, and even cancer.
Benefit #3: Improves Heart health
Fasting has been shown to lower the “bad” type of cholesterol produced (VLDLs) and has almost no effect on the “good” type (HDL).
- Cholesterol in general gets a bad rap because it is so important in our body.
- The fact is, we NEED cholesterol. It has been mislabeled and marketed a certain way for profits, and for big companies and lobby groups to get rich. It is misleading and actually worse for your health to buy low fat, low cholesterol foods.
Cancer Prevention
Fasting can help your cells clean house through a process called autophagy
- Old cells, damaged cells, mutated cells, or ones that are not working are identified, and eliminated.
- With routine fasting, we turn on specific repair genes that will comb through cells and separate the good from the bad.
Benefit #1 Weight Loss
Fasting is arguably THE most powerful tool on the planet for weight loss. Fasting allows your body to truly tap into your fat stores in the body.
- When you temporarily restrict calorie consumption, you use up all the sugar stores in your body. Once this “easy” energy is used up, your body will then need to access your fat stored energy.
Benefits of fasting
Brains that are…well…brainier
- Fasting does some pretty cool stuff to the brain.
- Increases something called BDNF
- Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor – which helps with all of those cognitive related deficiencies
- Helps with new neurons to develop, grow, and mature AND prevents the death of neurons that already exist
- Also has the positive impact of getting rid of damaged cells in the brain
- When we fast, especially for periods over 24-48 hours, we are tapping into our fat stores for energy
Benefits of fasting
Improves Insulin Sensitivity
- Reducing insulin in the blood through fasting gives your cells a break, and improves resistance to it.
- Fasting is one of my favorite interventions to teach to folks who have insulin resistance, who are pre diabetic, or those dealing with Type 2 Diabetes.
