2. Improves insulin sensitivity and sugar use in the body
A study has shown that, after periods of fasting, insulin becomes more effective in communicating the cells in the body to take up glucose from the blood. This allows people that have fasted to tolerate sugars better than people who did not fast.
When our cells because more sensitive to insulin like this, we are less likely to have excess sugars in our blood and hence less likely to develop diabetes.
3. Fasting helps to regulate the hormones in your body
Fasting can help improve hunger by regulating and resetting patterns of release of hormones in your body. Many people that become obese due to excessive eating of foods mostly do so because they no longer receive the signal of being full on time — the hormone just doesn’t do its work well anymore.
We can make use of fasting a means of resetting this. Fasting makes us feel real hunger and therefore makes the body recalls what real hunger is. This will reduce the amount of food we eat after we have stopped fasting because the body has gotten back what true hunger and fullness are.
To experience the true nature of hunger, this would mean staying away from food for like 12 to even 24 hours.
I knew about most of these already but the new ones like living longer and improving skin are quite amazing.