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9 incredible effects of fasting

How the effects of fasting on our body and mind can help us lead a long, healthy and balanced life.

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We have probably all heard a lot about fasting in recent years and how it can affect everything from our general wellbeing and weight loss, over improving focus at work to an effective strategy in fighting numerous diseases including cancer and achieving greater longevity.

Large scale scientific studies are still limited mostly due to a lack of funding.
After all, there is no money to be made from abstaining from food.
On the contrary, if fasting delivers on its promise to be a free remedy against a variety of illnesses, it very much goes against the financial interests of the Pharma industry as well as doctors.

Most likely you won’t hear your doctor recommend you fasting as a first line treatment for diabetes, liver disease or cancer.
After all, a healthy patient is a bad patient and a good patient is a patient who can temporarily be relieved from their symptoms, but who keeps coming back…

And the more that science uncovers the effects of fasting on animals and humans, the more fragmented the fasting…

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Wanja Stier

Software developer by trade, proud dad, part time blogger. I write about health, fitness, technology and other topics of interest to me.