 Intermittent Fasting has been used for centuries for healing and spiritual purposes.
Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine, prescribed a practice of fasting and drinking apple cider vinegar. He said "to eat when you are sick is to feed your illness".
The ancient
Greek
philosophers
Plato and Aristotle
called fasting "the physician within" as it is intuitive that when you are sick, you don't eat.
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "the best of all medicines is resting and fasting."
(all excerpts from Dr. Jason Fung - Fasting a History Part 1)
Today most of us are just 'fasting' when we sleep. We have evolved in our eating habits to eat all day and often until we sleep, and then eat again
soon after we get up. So in-spite of the health benefits of longer term fasting, we are limiting our fasting, and its benefits, to a very small window of the day. What are those benefits? Read on.
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