Millions who have adopted Intermittent Fasting (IF) as a way of life vouch for its benefit. Evidence from Decades of research on animals and humans point to the evidence of the wide-ranging health benefits of intermittent fasting. What is Intermittent Fasting? The 16/8 method is the simplest and easiest to follow. It involves skipping breakfast and restricting your daily eating period to 8 hours, such as 1–9 p.m. Then you fast for 16 hours in between. In India, Dr Jagganth Dixit espouses two meals a day and has a huge following, many of whom have experienced life-changing success. (Click to read Success Stories ). The NIH (National Institute of Health) has highlighted research findings that support the health benefits of intermittent fasting. How It Affects Your Cells and Hormones? While fasting our body undergoes changes at the cellular and molecular levels. Our body adjusts hormone levels to make stored body fat more accessible and the cells initiate important repair processes a
In the very near future, a large part of our understanding and management of immunity may come from the study of Microbiome. The pace of research in the area of the human microbiome and its interaction with the environmental microbiome has picked up. And the current pandemic of novel coronavirus or COVID19 may well pave the way towards ensuring sustained immunity. Every living organism is bestowed with the same privilege to propagate and evolve into a stronger species. The antibiotics and anti-virals have at its best managed to control them but not annihilate them. We have seen it in the case of antibiotics - we have today what we call the fifth-generation antibiotics and the bacteria continue to adapt and evolve developing resistance every subsequent generation of antibiotics. In the case of viruses, we now have vaccine-resistant polio strain. For the moment the antibiotics and anti-virals are meanwhile fire-fighting measures we need to have around. Martin Veysey Programme Director M