禁食-排毒-嫩肤 JIN SHI / PAIDU & NEN FU FASTING / DETOX & REJUVENATION

Fasting is not starvation. To fast is to voluntarily abstain from foods for therapeutic or religious purposes. Many religious groups including Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus incorporate periods of fasting into their rituals. Muslims fast from dawn until dusk during the month of Ramadan, and Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus traditionally fast on designated days of the week or calendar year.

Fasting has been practiced for millennia, but only recently studies have shed light on its role in adaptive cellular responses that reduce oxidative damage and inflammation, optimize energy metabolism and bolster cellular protection. In lower eukaryotes, chronic fasting extends longevity in part by reprogramming metabolic and stress resistance pathways. Fasting in humans cleanses the body of toxins and it excites the cells into processes that are not stimulated when a steady stream of fuel from food is present. When fasting, the body does not have its usual access to glucose, forcing the cells to resort to other means and materials to produce energy. As a result, the body begins gluconeogenesis, that is the metabolic process by which organisms produce sugars or glucose for catabolic reactions from non-carbohydrate precursors.

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