Do you want to live long? Eat less then! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States conducted a fasting experiment and found that mice fasted for 24 hours had a significant increase in the regeneration ability of intestinal stem cells. The Institute of Healthy Aging at the University of London also wanted to know whether there is a positive correlation between food restriction and lifespan increase. They controlled the rats' food intake to reduce by 40%, and as a result, the rats lived 20-30% longer.
If converted to human age, living 30% longer is equivalent to living longer than 20 years! There are also studies on reducing the production of cancer cells. Fasting not only slows the proliferation of cancer cells in cancer-bearing mice, but the mice in the fasting group have fewer side effects when receiving cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Asians have practiced fasting for thousands of years, and practitioners have personally experienced the benefits of restricting food. Religious fasting seeks to be clean and able to be closer to the divine soul in the sky; while medical fasting is to be a thorough, free from disease.
He gave an example. In the 6th century BC, Venerable Mulian visited the ancient Indian genius doctor Qi Po and asked him, "What should I do if my disciple is sick?" Qi Po replied: "Only fasting can cure the disease fundamentally." The genius doctor is not ashamed. He is a genius doctor. In the Buddha's time when there were no various precision inspection instruments, the genius doctor could diagnose and treat diseases from the perspective of regenerative and immunological medicine!
Autophagy can make cells younger!
In 2016, Japanese professor Osumi Yoshinori, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, explained the principle of "Autophagy" (Autophagy). When people fast, old cells will start a way to eat themselves and recycle resources. The mechanism of reuse is that the body will not expel the old and bad ones, but will turn the garbage into gold and regenerate some new cells.
Every time I hear people shouting, "I'm going to starve to death, I'm going to starve to death!" In fact, you can't "die" after a little bit of starvation. On the contrary, you will "regenerate." Harmful proteins and organelles control the damage caused by aging.
The longevity gene is not a legend
Lausanne Kashen said that fasting also has a "repairing" effect, relying on the longevity gene deacetylase (Sirtuin). It is this enzyme that allows humans to continue to survive in various difficult living conditions such as high temperature exposure, lack of water and food. Its main job is to repair. There are two kinds of people in this world. The first one lives to 50 years old, but looks as old as 100 years old, which means that free radicals prevail in his body. The second is to live to be 100 years old, but it seems to be only 50 years old, which means that the deacetylase in his body does work well.
The longevity gene deacetylase is not for food, on the contrary, if you have an empty stomach, it will come out to help you repair cells immediately. Because it is an enzyme that accompanies us through the crisis of survival, you have to have a little "crisis", for example, if you have nothing to eat, then it will help.
Clever use of 16-hour fasting, re-evolution of body and mind
Since ancient times, the ancient Greeks, ancient Indians, and Christians have practiced fasting and purification, Buddhists have not eaten at noon, Muslims’ fasting month, and Taoism’s fasting have restricted food in hundreds of ways. If it is for health considerations, Lausanne believes that today's 16-hour intermittent fasting is most suitable for most people to perform, and has the least impact on daily routines. It can also activate cell regeneration and repair mechanisms.
The "16-hour intermittent fasting" method is very simple. I used to eat 3 meals a day, but now I have reduced it to two meals. Lobsang Kashen said that he usually skips dinner. "Not eating after lunch" is the best practice for Buddhists. Skipping dinner is very good for the body and can become the norm. But if you want to socialize at night, 16-hour intermittent fasting means eating late for breakfast the next day and fasting for 16 hours. This is fine, but if you eat too much at night, it may affect sleep. It is best not to become the norm.
You can do 16-hour intermittent fasting once a week or every day. Reserve 16 hours of fasting time for yourself to start regeneration and repair, do not eat anything, but can drink water. In addition to preventing various degenerative diseases, through fasting, you will most obviously feel that your thoughts are smoother, your body is more relaxed, and your mood is more happy.
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