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| YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT…and you are what your metabolism and Genes allow you to be. There is another factor involved in your health and this simple fact has been available to the masses for thousands of years. You are “what you believe”. Researchers at MIT have discovered that fasting for 24 hours flips a metabolic switch in mice, causing their guts to enhance their intestinal stem cells. Intestinal stem cells are what powers the intestine, and as people age this powerhouse starts to slow down. Ever wonder why you put on more weight as you get older? Thank your gut flora, including these cells. |
The researchers found that fasting for just one day caused intestinal cell regeneration to double. While the trial has yet to be performed on humans, the biology behind these stem cells isn’t wildly different to ours at all.
So, even though a 24 hour fast might make you hangry (hungry + angry, duh), it looks like it will undoubtedly speed up your metabolism. These cells regenerate on their own roughly every 4 days, so while it isn’t our place at all to tell you how to diet much less tell you that fasting will work for everybody, the science is in.
