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There are some of the things we even do or engage into that we don't even know the benefits of it until we start seeing the Manifestation later. Many of us engage in fasting but do you know that fasting goes a long way to help improve your health state? Fasting beyond the casual meaning we all know it to be as the abstain from food for a particularly period of time. 




But beyond the spiritual benefits and probably the cultural significance that fasting holds, it also offers a lot of health benefits that many of us did not know. Most of the time, whenever I am fasting, I always begin to meditate as what is happening in my body system presently. Well after carrying out the research, I have come up with the result.


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When you start the fasting most especially in the early hours of the fasting, nothing really much started because digestion might still be taking place in your body system. But when you begin to move to the 8 -12 hours of the fasting, then the insulin in the body system begins to adjust. In fact the level of our insulin will start dropping because at this point, our body is making use of the glucose in our body system to supply energy for us. 



When the fasting is approaching around 12 hours to around the 16th hours, at this particular point, the glucose in our body might want to be exhausting out and so the body system start to burn the remaining fats therein that we have. When our fasting is approaching the 15th hour, our body will begin to produce something called the ketone bodies.  This now will be giving us energy that the glucose supposed to give actually. That is when we will begin to feel a bit tiredness, it is the body reacting 


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When this continues for the next 24 hours, the fact been burned to sustain and gives us energy is what result to weight loss. That's why people who want to experience weight loss apart from been recommended to exercise, they will also advise them to fast. The more you get to the stage whereby your body have used all the glucose in the body system and have also used the fats, it now starts to adapt to lead to weight loss.



For me personally, I think the health benefit of fasting is not emphasis enough in our society. We most of the time talk about the spiritual benefits and probably the cultural significance it has, but beyond those two benefits, it has tremendous health benefits in our body system. It helps to regulate our blood flow, helps to build our immune system and generally help us to stay healthy as we need it. The earlier we understand this, the better. I personally have vowed to start practicing fasting. I have not really been doing it before but now seeing the health benefit it has, I will start engaging in it. 




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# <center>References Sources</center>


- https://www.inhousestudiofitness.com.au/blog/2019/5/15/the-hour-by-hour-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting




- https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fasting-benefits



- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322065



- https://www.doctorkiltz.com/fasting-benefits-by-hour/