The Problem With Fasting No-one Talks About
Why do good things always get ruined by idiots?
Fasting is booming. Google Trends shows us that interest in fasting has increased by over 400% since 2004. Both medical experts and self-proclaimed health gurus have jumped on the bandwagon and pretty much all of them praise the benefits of fasting.
If you fast regularly, you will grow older, your insulin response will dramatically improve, your skin and hair will become stronger, you will leverage the power of a metabolic process called autophagy, and, above all, you will lose weight.
Now, fasting in itself is not new. Most notably, fasting has played an important role in many religions for millennia. But the acceptance of fasting as a main stream health hack is a relatively new development.
This, in itself, is a great thing. Obesity plagues much of the western world as we are literally eating ourselves to death. Fasting helps to prevent this. In fact, there are no real health concerns with thoughtful fasting that I know of — apart from the obvious.
The real problem with fasting is in fact cultural.
More, more, more
Much of the western world — the one plagued by obesity — revolves around the concept of more. More equals better…
