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What Happens to Your Body When You Fast?
Introduction: What is fasting?
There’s a tremendous surge in the popularity of fasting. Fasting is a practice that dates back centuries. It plays a central role in many religions and cultures.
Fasting is defined as abstaining from some foods or drinks for a set period. And there are many ways of fasting.
Most fasts are performed over 24–72 hours.
On the one hand, intermittent fasting involves cycling between eating and fasting periods, ranging from a few hours to a couple of days at a time.
Fasting has many health benefits, ranging from increased weight loss to improved brain function.
This article will examine what happens to your body any time you fast.
Effects of fasting after 12 hours
There is a spike in growth hormone levels after 12 hours of fasting. Growth hormone is an anti-aging hormone. It is the primary fat-burning hormone, and it is involved in healing joints. It is also involved with protein synthesis (i.e., the production of new proteins). Some people take growth hormone to get injected — it isn’t recommended, but some take it to heal parts of their body. What many people don’t know is that fasting will automatically trigger the release of…
