There are many benefits to intermittent fasting. One of these benefits is getting your health back in order. When it comes to intermittent fasting there is a correct way and a not-so-good way of doing it. Intermittent fasting is something which can also act as an intermediary to regular, full-on fasting, as practiced by people who are either driven by religious reasons or purely for health reasons.
Intermittent fasting for health benefits
As far as the direct health benefits of intermittent fasting go it’s simply a matter of giving your body a chance to recover from all the work that I had to do in digesting the food that you eat and allocating all the nutrients to the various parts of your body. If you do not give your body the break that it requires, from all digestion that it has to complete, that’s pretty much the same as what happens when you operate car for 24 hours around the clock without giving it a break to perhaps refuel, run some maintenance, or just give it a rest once in awhile.
The importance of intermittent fasting is kind of highlighted by the need to detox, even though detoxing isn’t something that a lot of people practice but a lot more people should actually be practicing. Your kidneys, for example, need some time to regenerate cells and so does your large intestine as well as your small intestine. Your entire alimentary canal needs a little rest in order for it to regenerate, even though it’s common knowledge that this is one of the most robust set of organs which can go for a long time in the completion of functions without any visible signs of fatigue.
So that’s as far as it goes with the direct health benefits of intermittent fasting.
Intermittent fasting for resistance
Have you ever gone to the toilet and you’re actually amazed at how much waste actually comes out of your body, even though you don’t have an appetite and so you haven’t been able to eat as much as you usually do? Where does all this waste come from? Sure, some of this waste comes from natural biological process of your body organs shedding their cells, such as tissue cells as part of the natural regeneration process. However, a lot of this waste comes from food which has built up and stored as toxins within your bodily organs. The body sees this as the perfect opportunity to get rid of these built-up toxins.
If you’re not accustomed to the process of fasting you cannot simply go from not fasting at all to fasting like those people who perhaps do it as something like what forms part of their religious beliefs. These people’s bodies are used to fasting and so they can handle the extreme changes that their bodies are subjected to when they are essentially not feeding themselves, followed by feasting.
Therefore, fasting intermittently can help you build up this resistance and you won’t quite find yourself suffering from feelings of dizziness and the likes once you get to stage where you can fast for longer periods of time.
