Friday Favorites: The Benefits of Fasting for Healing
Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from?
Initially I had put off doing studies on fasting, since there were so few good studies, but there’s been an explosion in research interest in the last few years.
Check out these videos on fasting:
• The World’s Largest Fasting Study ( )
• Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss Put to the Test ( )
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? ( )
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? ( )
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test ( )
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? ( )
• The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test ( )
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test ( )
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating ( )
For all of my videos on fasting, see the topic page ( ).
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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
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Wow! Thanks
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The original title at @0:29. “Preservation of ‘favoured’ races in the struggle for life”. 🙂
I think Alan Goldgammer has the answer.
Fasting can do a lot. Lets see what Greger has to say in the next video
Totally agree, 40 days and just water
@@fadrianesp2993 Did you do it?
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to “TRY” to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
Thank you!
Sun dies out or gets blocked. I use human powered generator to charge battery banks to run led lights for indoor growing.
Human powered, how? Is it a crank or what’s the mechanism?
@Skye_7_7 bicycle effect
All of this said, fasting has been shown to lower metabolism, causing weight gain. It was also shown in the video that the dogs were having their metabolism changed.
It’s also been shown that the reason fasting helps with your health is because you’re not eating the unhealthy things that caused health problems in the 1st place for long enough that it gives your body time to heal itself.
Fasting can be good for cleansing your body of toxicities, for lowering metabolism if it’s too high, for meditation or similar purposes & for saving food for others. Since it lowers metabolism, it can be done safely if you keep eating “enough” (just ends up being less). Fasting every day for 1 month lowers metabolism for about half a year to a year, for example. However, a faster metabolism is also associated with better health. This makes it a bit of a trade-off depending on what’s most needed.
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After the indulgence of Yesterday we all need some fasting