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Fasting Can Improve Overall Health By Causing Circadian Clocks In the Liver and Skeletal Muscle To Rewire Their Metabolism, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceDaily: In a University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers found evidence that fasting affects circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscle, causing them to rewire their metabolism, which can ultimately lead to improved health and protection against aging-associated diseases. The study was published recently in Cell Reports. The research was conducted using mice, which were subjected to 24-hour periods of fasting. While fasting, researchers noted the mice exhibited a reduction in oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and energy expenditure, all of which were completely abolished by refeeding, which parallels results observed in humans.
"The reorganization of gene regulation by fasting could prime the genome to a more permissive state to anticipate upcoming food intake and thereby drive a new rhythmic cycle of gene expression. In other words, fasting is able to essentially reprogram a variety of cellular responses. Therefore, optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases." This study opens new avenues of investigation that could ultimately lead to the development of nutritional strategies to improve health in humans.
"The reorganization of gene regulation by fasting could prime the genome to a more permissive state to anticipate upcoming food intake and thereby drive a new rhythmic cycle of gene expression. In other words, fasting is able to essentially reprogram a variety of cellular responses. Therefore, optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases." This study opens new avenues of investigation that could ultimately lead to the development of nutritional strategies to improve health in humans.
I wouldn't say religion *knew* fasting. It used it for an entirely different purpose.
Yeah, and you would be wrong.
It is well known in the western world that fasting has many health benefits. However it is obviously time to find a new term to describe the US. You seem not to belong to the "western world" anymore with your retarded science.
We have 2019, and now a science article like that pops up and immediately idiots with no education whatsoever pop up and say: that can't be true.
Hint: in most religions fasting was done during periods were they had no food anyway. Wow, that was so easy.
Islam is probably the first one (if you discard Christians, because they did not fast because of "oh Jesus died, we don't eat now' but because they actually lived mostly in north Europe where they actually indeed had no food) were fasting was artificially introduced, because they simply copied it from Christians. But they were smarter, as they had irrigation and food: they were allowed to eat after sunset. Hence: Ramadan is actually a big party.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
When you stop putting food in your mouth you lose weight.
You don't lose 10 lbs in one week even if you eat ZERO food.
Losing a pound of fat requires a calorie deficit of 3500 calories. An adult male has a breakeven point of about 2000 calories per day. So the most you are going to lose in one week of ZERO food is about 4 pounds.
You can do better if you exercise. Running a mile burns roughly 150 calories for a 200 lb adult male. So to lose an extra 6 pounds (what he claims), he would have to run 140 miles during that week. An out-of-shape fat guy is not capable of doing that, and even a super-athlete could not do it while fasting for a week.
He's not wrong.
Yes he is. His claim is total bullcrap.