Our overall health could be improved by fasting
Posted on: 18/Jan/2019 11:22:29 AM
It is known that fasting is restraining from some or all foods, drinks etc for a specified time period. We might have seen our family members or relatives or others fasting for certain specific reasons. Till now it is said that fasting could lead to health issues in us. Next time suppose you fast and if someone warns you mentioning about the health issues you could get due to fasting then tell them about this amazing information.
The news is fasting could lead to improvement in our overall health plus it could give protection for us against ageing associated diseases. The circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscles get affected by fasting and this result in rewire of metabolism. Finally improvement in the health and protection against ageing associated diseases could be got. This was proved by the research study and the study was published in the Cell Reports.
The point is the circadian clock operates inside the body and its organs as an intrinsic time keeping machinery to preserve homeostasis in response to the changing environment. In the peripheral tissues, the food was known to influence the circadian clock. It is brought out that till now there is no clarity on how the lack of food influences the clock function and how it finally affects the body.
Lead author Paolo Sassone-Corsi spoke about how fasting influences the circadian clock and fasting driven cellular responses which work together to achieve fasting specific temporal gene regulation. He then explained how skeletal muscle appears to be twice as responsive to fasting as the liver.
It was pointed out by the researchers that fasting could essentially reprogram a variety of cellular responses and hence optimum fasting in a timed manner is a strategy to positively affect the cellular functions. In the end overall health is benefitted and protection against ageing associated diseases would be got.
