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A study finds that the process of fasting for a 72-hour period followed by re-feeding with a healthy, nutritionally focused diet can, essentially, regenerate the entire immune system. Read more, in this post from Awareness Act about how fasting can boost your metabolism and immunity. There has long been controversy surrounding the potential benefits or hazards of fasting. On ... Continue Reading
Have you heard about the popular new diet trend called intermittent fasting? It’s been popping up in health blogs, Instagram stories, and Twitter feeds, but intermittent fasting is not a new concept or a passing fad. In fact, intermittent fasting is not really a diet—it’s a pattern of eating. It goes way back thousands of years to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who would go ... Continue Reading
Large variations have been observed in individual responses to fasting, meal timing and frequency. This post from Breaking Muscle examines the long-standing beliefs about eating healthy. When I started out in practice, around twenty years ago, a few things were tantamount to being sacred in nutrition. One was that you must eat breakfast, another was that you must eat at least ... Continue Reading
For far too long, a high fat diet has been demonized and sold off as terrible and unhealthy, but what if it holds the secret to healing from chronic disease? This post from Mercola.com discusses in detail this metabolic dietary approach for optimal health. There's emerging scientific evidence that a high-fat, low-net carb and moderate protein diet is an ideal diet for most ... Continue Reading
Multiple scientific studies have proven that fasting does good things to your brain; then why doesn’t Big Pharma show interest in studying it? This post from Collective Evolution highlights the benefits of fasting & intermittent fasting on your brain, and the science behind it. Below is a TEDx talk given by Mark Mattson, the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience ... Continue Reading
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