The feeling of hunger is caused by the hormone ghrelin. "Ghrelin is the so-called hunger hormone. ... So what happens over multiple days of fasting? This study looked at the question specifically. 33 subjects had their ghrelin measured over 84 hours of fasting ... Over 3 days of fasting, ghreli...

Thank you for the share on fasting, this very vital health ritual is much on the airwaves right now. I was blown away by how many health benefits there are with fasting, and increasingly backed up by scientific research. Interesting that fasting is becoming popular and the internet makes it easy to...

Christine wrote:Please share your experiences Anders.

I have shifted focus to fasting, but yeah I can post some of my experiences in the thread about mindful fasting: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1487" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What to eat during the week when not fasting? My plan is to allow any kind and any amount of food, including junk food sometimes. In this way the result of the fasting becomes easier to measure. If the fasting is combined with some super healthy diet, then it becomes more difficult to tell which hea...

How much water to drink during the fasting periods? I heard in one video (don't remember which) that a man got seriously ill because he drank too much water, and it wasn't even in relation to fasting if I remember correctly. So I plan to drink water only when thirsty. In that way my body can automat...

When looking at different intermittent fasting methods on the internet, it shows that my plan is more extreme than most of the popular intermittent fasting methods used today. The reason for this is that I want to be sure to match this kind of scientific research: "periods of no food for two to...

Despite fasting having been used for thousands of years, it has been a largely ignored area of research until the recent decade or so. Now scientific studies have shown lots of health benefits with fasting, such as the 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine. "Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cellular biologist from J...

It's amazing how much intermittent fasting can improve health. Here I found a list: "The Benefits Of Intermittent Fasting 1. Weight Loss 2. Improved Tolerance Of Glucose 3. Boosts Metabolism 4. Improves Longevity 5. Understanding Hunger 6. Establishes Routine 7. Stimulates Brain Function 8. Boo...

I'm frustrated by slow progress (although my emotional health has improved a little bit). So I'm going to experiment with combining the subtle energy healing with what's called intermittent fasting, which means for example eating 6 days in a week and fasting 1 day, and repeating it for a couple of m...

In this video Douglas Gabriel, a former NSA systems analyst presents some wild ideas about the dangers of information technology. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDJ_CUcOzk[/youtube] Douglas mentioned that Rudolf Steiner has predicted the internet and wireless connections as a web over the...