Abstract
At present, various complications such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and neurological disorders have become treatable, almost completely, but the drugs used for the treatment may cause some severe side effects such as hypoglycemia, kidney complications, diarrhea, anemia, rashes, dyskinesia, insomnia, hypotension, confusion, hallucinations, compulsive behavior, and neurological complications. Some treatments cause defects in whole organ systems including damage to the immune system, lungs, heart, nerve endings, and reproductive organs. Many treatment approaches are using non-pharmacological techniques for treating diseases, without synthetic drugs. One such technique is fasting, a process where starvation conditions are imitated voluntarily. Intermittent fasting is done in ratios of fasting and food intake, where a person deprives himself of food for 16 h and food intake is followed for the rest of 8 h. Alternate day fasting includes alternate days of food intake and fasting. Time-restricted feeding is done by allowing food consumption only during the metabolically active phase of the day. Fasting mimicking diet is done by reducing food intake to very small levels which mimics the conditions of fasting. Reported beneficial effects of fasting have been found in diseases such as cancer, blood pressure disorders, autoimmune diseases, fibrosis, inflammation, insulin sensitivity, and oxidative stress.
Highlights
In this fast-paced scientific world of today, there has been development and innovation of unimaginable scale
The techniques, the drugs, the chemicals, etc., even though they are highly effective, come with a lot of side effects, adverse effects, other related complications, and even creating unimaginably painful situations which sometimes even lead to death
No of calories intake is reduced to fasting levels Feeding is done only a few hours every day Cardioprotection Obesity Hypertensive Prevention to Cancer Reduction in tumor growth Neuro‐protection from aging Anti‐inflammatory Cardioprotection Anti‐fibrosis Prevention to cancer Circadian rhythm impairment Skin complications Improve Insulin sensitivity Atherosclerosis Alzheimer’s disease Chronic degenerative diseases Auto‐immune disease Immunosenescence Diabetes Irritable bowel disease Cardioprotection Glucose metabolism Obesity Neuroprotection Increased glucose activity in the brain
Summary
In this fast-paced scientific world of today, there has been development and innovation of unimaginable scale. This, fasting technique can be followed acutely for a short period of time like few days, a week or it can be continued for long periods like months together, it is called chronic ADF In a study, they showed that the effect of alternate-day fasting in agerelated complications such as fibrosis and age-induced inflammation and very good results was obtained the fasting almost nullified the harmful effects of age on the heart of rats [19,16].
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