14 Scenarios When Fasting Might Be Your Best Approach
There’s a ton of talk about intermittent fasting in the ancestral heath sphere for general health and wellness as well as weight loss, but little indication of specific applications for the practice. Anytime you attempt a “radical” health practice like not eating, it helps to have a good reason to do it. That will not only give you something to aim for, but it will ensure you actually have a physiological justification for your experiment. Never go in blind. What are some of the specific scenarios and conditions where fasting makes the most sense? 1. You Are Intractably, Morbidly Obese It used to be that an accepted and well-tested fix for morbid obesity that was unresponsive to other methods was long term fasting. One experiment was very long term: over a year of not eating anything except for multivitamins. (Disclaimer: I’m not recommending this approach, but it is interesting.) Back in 1965, an obese Scotsman of 27 years and 456 pounds came to the Department of Medicine in Du