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The Intriguing and Surprising Benefits of Intermittent Fasting on Your Body

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Intermittent fasting is more famous with each day that goes by.

Celebrities like Hugh Jackman and Dwayne Johnson are swearing that is the most single effective way to weight loss.

Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson

Still, a lot of people are still scared that intermittent fasting will make them so hungry, that it will be impossible to do.

Fasting is definitely not starving to death. There are still a lot of confusion about it.

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What is Really Intermittent Fasting?

Intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting is simply the fact not to eat during a certain period of time.

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For millions of years, we only eat when we needed too. So intermittent fasting was a very natural state to be in.

Now it turns out that we are eating all the time. You have to understand than the « 3 meals a day » is just a cultural process and not a biological necessity

Of course, you are allowed to drink as much water, green tea and coffee as you want, if you don’t put sugar in it. You can also drink diet sodas, even if it is not good for your health, it is still allowed in intermittent fasting.

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What are the Benefits of Intermittent Fasting?

Decrease Fat

It will maximize your hormonal balance by boosting your human growth hormone to a very high level : more than 2000% of the increase after a 24 hours fast !

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But you don’t have to go this extreme. You can only fast 16 hours for example, and you will still have tons of benefits.

Fasting will improve your overall immune system, help to detoxify your body and will promote fat burning.

But it also has tons of properties, mainly due to the human growth hormone release:

  • It Decreases fat accumulation
  • It triggers healthy hair Strengthens bones
  • It will improve your blood circulation
  • It decreases the symptoms of aging
  • It helps you to lose a lot of fat
  • It is good for your cholesterol
  • It allows you to build more muscle.

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How Do You Get Started?

Started

It is very simple.

The best and easy way to do it, is to stop eating at 8pm. Then you can start again to eat the day after at 12am. Since you will sleep, it will ease the whole process because we tend not to want to eat food during the night.

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Of course you can still drink coffee during the morning.

Remember that once you took this habit, it will be very natural for you, and the benefits you’ll get from it will be huge.

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Alex Joe is a content marketer & journalist who formerly worked out of Digital Expo Inc. office. He writes eBooks, which considering where you’re reading this, makes really perfect sense from his kin. He’s best known for writing entertainment, enterprise & gadget, including the New York Times.

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