{"id":968,"date":"2020-04-01T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T19:36:55","slug":"fasting-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Fasting and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The New England Journal of Medicine recently featured a\nreview article titled \u201c<em>Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging and\nDisease<\/em>\u201d written in cooperation by the NIH and Johns Hopkins\nUniversity.&nbsp; They start out the review by\npointing out that it is a blatant misnomer that humans should eat three meals a\nday plus or minus snacks (excepting the rare individual with special\nnutritional needs).&nbsp; They go on to point\nout that over the million and a half years that humans have evolved our\nmetabolic machinery has been programmed to eat less often and to sustain\nfrequent short fasts.&nbsp; Then comes the\nmodern era of grocery stores, refrigerators, and fast food restaurants and with\nit a decline in health fueled primarily by obesity, but also by the uncoupling\nof healthy metabolic and immunologic pathways.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main benefits of fasting are:&nbsp; the reduction of free-radical production,\nimproved glucose regulation, improved stress resistance and suppression of\ninflammation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two main ways to fast are either intermittent (once a\nweek) fasting for an entire day or by doing \u201ctime restricted\u201d eating.&nbsp; The former can be achieved by reducing your\ncalorie intake to 500 calories for one day a week.&nbsp; The latter can be achieved by eating your\nusual daily caloric intake during 6 hours and fasting for 18 hours.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main benefits of fasting involves the\nmetabolic shift from glucose to ketones as an energy source.&nbsp; Ketones act not only as an energy source but\nas potent signaling molecules that slow aging and reduce inflammation.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors go on to cite hundreds of research articles\ndemonstrating the benefit of fasting to help diabetes, cancer (both the\ndevelopment of cancer and its spread), neurodegenerative diseases, asthma, MS,\nand arthritis.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Journal of Medicine recently featured a review article titled \u201cEffects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging and Disease\u201d written in cooperation by the NIH and Johns Hopkins University.&nbsp; They start out the review by pointing out that it is a blatant misnomer that humans should eat three meals a day plus or minus snacks (excepting the rare individual with special nutritional needs).&nbsp; They go on to point out that over the million and a half years that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=968\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[427,428,429],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fasting","tag-intermittent","tag-ketones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}