Researchers have proved that for cancer patients who practice intermittent fasting during treatment experience reduced negative side effects of treatments such as chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is associated with side effects such as severe fatigue, nausea, weakness, diarrhea, as well as abdominal pains. These patients will be highly tolerant to chemotherapy than other patients who don’t practice regulated fasting. Some patients have experienced reduced cancer morbidity and increased cure rates.

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21 Feb 2012 Intermittent Fasting and Brain Health Permalink|View Comments (5)|Post Comment|Share|Posted by ReasonLoading…Via the Guardian: “Fasting for regular periods could help protect the brain against degenerative illnesses … Researchers [had] found evidence which shows that periods of stopping virtually all food intake for one or two days a week could protect the brain against some of the worst effects of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other ailments. … Reducing your calorie intake could help your brain, but doing so by cutting your intake of food is not likely to be the best method of triggering this protection. It is likely to be better to go on intermittent bouts of fasting, in which you eat hardly anything at all, and then have periods when you eat as much as you want.

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