“Eating breakfast breaks the fast. Skipping breakfast breaks the fat.”-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The incidents have comparatively increased for early deaths during their forties and fifties due to various reasons of health. These are going to increase in doubles as per the health experts. The progressive brain disorder like Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s disease are also increasing after fifties aggregating almost 5 millions today. Age related neurodegenerative disorders have so increased that they feared to be almost three times in next couple of decades.
Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Brain
Some of the disorders like degenerating of dopamine neurons or abnormal accumulations of amyloid can be minimised by reducing the frequency of the meals or through intermittent fasting. When there is adequate striving of the food to your stomach, there is desired neurochemical changes in the brain. Some of the legends like Plato, Mahatma Gandhi and others observed fasting on regular basis and maintained their overall health and their strong brain power were the examples of their strong decisions in life to influence the people for massive desirable changes in the society.
Some Of The Literature On Fasting
The Fasting Cure: Reset Your Body By Upton Sinclair
The author wrote about cure of some of the diseases after the experimentations on 250 people and improved their health.
The Fast-Diet : Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Dr Michael Mosley
Book unravels scientific trials which have shown that intermittent fasting helps the pounds fly off and reduce your risk of diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer, offering a dietary program you can incorporate into your busy daily life.
The 8-Hour Diet: Watch the Pounds Disappear without Watching What You Eat by David Zinczenko
Book says about making simple changes to daily eating patterns, the 8-Hour Diet triggers mitochondria-the energy centres of cells-and will.
Adaptive Stress Response Of Brain
When you interrupt your regular three meals and opt for fasting, your energy metabolism shifts and you start burning fats. When fasting is observed within few hours ‘Ketone Body’ state is obtained. It is the state with three related compounds produced during the metabolism of fats, two of which are used as a source of energy instead of glucose during a period of fasting or very low carbohydrate intake, the third being acetone, which is excreted. An unique idea of 5:2 diet has also become prevalent and adopted for fasting in which twice a week individuals take reduced amount of calories like 500 calories much less than the regular calorie intake.
Number of experiments have been conducted on animals like monkeys and mice. They responded better with better memories and found more active. In human also when nerve cell circuits are more active when they are fasting. Similar results have also been found when individuals are doing exercise. During our cross country coaching camp our coach observed that we were more active during season and almost dull during off season. The formation of nerve cells and their strength were scientifically observed with greater intensity.
In earlier days when people had epileptic seizures which were believed to be the after effects of demons. The victims were locked in dark room for several hours. It was believed that the effects of demons are vanished but in fact they were deprived of food and brain cells were more active during starvation and victims felt better. Now-a-day even epilepsy is treated with fasting as ketones are believed to be good neurons. When you are exercising your muscles, just like the muscles of your body, the process exercise will increase number of mitochondria in nerve cells too. This process ultimately increases the synopses in cells and therefore learning and retention becomes better. It has also found that with increased such activities, the repairing of oxidative damages done to DNA also becomes faster.
Monetary Benefits Of Fasting
When intermittent fasting is done regularly and if it is adopted by large number of people from the society, the expenses for the medicines and drugs are minimised. Service of less number of doctors and professionals are needed and there is overall drop of expenses incurred in pharmaceutical industries. These saved money can be utilised for better purposes when large number of people are healthy. Let us spread the information through different media so that human can have better life than ever before.
Take Away
1. Knowing what foods to eat while intermittent fasting is as important as knowing when to eat them.
2. Intermittent fasting activates a process called autophagy where your immune system destroys old, damaged cells, then recycles their individual components into new, healthy cells.
