5 Health Benefits of Observing a Fasting

2. Increases Body’s Resistance to Stress

A lot of us suffer from stress at one point or the other. Some way more than others. What causes this stress? There are a lot of different reasons that stress can be linked to. With fasting, you will be improving your body’s resistance to stress. Stress is partially caused by free radicals in the body (unstable molecules that carry reactive electrons). Long story short, the free radicals react with other molecules in your body and change the dynamics of certain cells, leading your body to have more stress. Fasting causes your cells to start functioning by getting energy from other sources than it would if you had a normal food supply in your body. When this happens, your body goes into a survival mode and gets rid of the bad cells and starts to replace them with healthier ones. Over a long-term period, less free radicals will be formed and your cells will be able to fight off the free radicals that do form in your body.

This will keep a chemical balance in your cells and your body, thus causing less stress.

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