The Wall Street Journal published an article by a leading German medical researcher who said he used fasting to help his patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, rheumatism, abdominal disease, migraines and arthritis.
The article, written by the professor at the University of Chariti's Medical Center in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Michaelsen, said fasting was one of the greatest trends in recent years to reduce weight.
Adding that he personally used the so-called fasting intermittently to help patients who suffered from several chronic diseases, such as: diabetes, hypertension, rheumatism, abdominal disease, as well as pains such as migraine headaches and arthritis.
Intermittent fasting
"There are different ways of fasting," he said, but he recommended his patients not to eat breakfast or lunch until at least 14 hours were spent - after at least - after the last meal.
"This makes lunch the most important during the day. It reduces the amount of time spent daily in the body's handling of food, and extends the time spent cleaning and maintaining the body's cells, which have positive health outcomes."
He explained that there is a logic to refrain from eating for a specified period, even if any intake of food, no matter how much more in the other period.
When we eat, our bodies secrete insulin, which hampers the process of self-acclamation by which cells break up broken old components to release energy and build new molecules.
"Self-induction" helps to reverse cell aging and build immunity, he says, stressing that fasting promotes self-induction and allows molecules to work at full strength.
The proper mind in fasting
Fasting can contribute to improving brain health and happiness. Laboratory animal experiments at Dr. Matson's laboratory in the United States reported that animals who had intermittent intermittent episodes showed less susceptibility to Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's.
For any meal that should not be taken if the person wants to fast intermittently, Dr. Michaelsen prefers not to eat breakfast, coffee and a little butter in the morning when waking up and eating lunch without restrictions in quantity, no matter how many.
Lunch is the ideal time to burn calories and the body needs the greatest amount of energy. This, of course, contravenes the famous wisdom that says, "I am breaking like a king, cheating like a prince and eating like a poor man."
The author also said that fasting may help prevent the return of cancer, as preliminary findings from a study by researchers at the University of California published in 2016 show.
Fasting Spiritual Training
He concluded by saying that fasting is more than just restricting calories or food. "For many people, too, there is a spiritual experience. People face many kinds of shortages throughout their lives, whether in money, achievement, or communicating with others. .
In fasting, man abandons consciousness of what he wishes to receive or enjoy, that is, an exercise in self-conscious deprivation. That is why successful fasting increases self-efficacy, because we overcome an instinctive need in a way that gives us physical and mental strength.
"The magicians do nothing, there is no sorcery, anyone can come up with witchcraft, anyone can achieve his goals if he thinks, if he can wait, and if he can fast," he concluded, quoting a remarkable phrase in Herman Hess's "Siddhartha" "He said.