With fasting comes bad breath, weakness, tiredness, hunger, resilience and endurance.  Fasting is the bedrock to high spirituality. Apart from spiritual benefits, fasting is great for you and these are few scientific proofs on the impact of fasting on your body.

Detoxification
Fasting detoxifies your whole body. The tiredness, bad breath, headaches, dizziness, and hunger tell tales of the cleansing taking place inside of you. Fasting clears off the toxins. Fasting makes you whole again and it effortlessly repairs damages in your body without your knowledge.

Breakdown of fatty acids
Fats are composed of transformed fatty acids. During fasting, these fatty acids are broken down. The body burns stored up sugar for energy. The unused fat got used up. You are more likely to lose weight while burning the stored up fat when you fast. You might experience boil or pimples, this happens when the body is being scrubbed clean and all the bad rancid oils are sent packing. You may also feel pain in your joints, this is due to the reconstruction of tissues and breaking down of unwanted fatty acids. (more…)