Benefits of Fasting by Veda5 Ayurveda Retreat in Rishikesh, Kerala & Goa

Tradition of Fasting

The tradition of fasting has existed in all parts of world since years together. Though this tradition mostly remained confined to religious and spiritual purposes, the legacy of using fasting for medical purposes also existed in different corners of the world. Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical science is a good example of it which has applied fasting effectively while treating different ailments such as various kinds of fevers, diarrhea, dysentery, and vomiting. In a way, Ayurveda has provided a scientific framework for using fasting as a therapeutic measure. This framework clearly defines, who may fast, who should not fast, how to fast and for how long? Ayurvedic philosophy charts out all such parameters which enhance efficacy of fasting but at the same time avoid its undesirable effects.

Systematic Fasting

While excessive fasting can prove harmful in multiple ways, insufficient or inappropriate fasting too can be useless. That’s why Ayurveda insists that fasting should be undertaken in measured and systematic fashion so that it can achieve its desired results and contribute to person’s wellbeing without weakening him in any manner. Ayurveda claims that fasting done in systematic manner can digest many harmful substances from body, ignite gastric fire, open various channels of body and improve functioning of different systems in body including digestive system.

New Research

New research has only vindicated Ayurveda’s claims and further uncovered unthinkable benefits of fasting. Apart from carrying out various physiological functions, healthy cells from our body also eat up dead, damaged, abnormal (even cancerous) cells. In medical language this activity is called autophagy. Research done by Japanese scientist Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi has shown that fasting allows our body time to consume all dead, abnormal and harmful cells effectively and therefore protect the body from numerous dreadful diseases like cancer. Dr. Ohsumi’s work won him Nobel Prize few years ago. His advice to people is to make fasting a part of life and undertake it periodically. Periodical fasting allows body cells sufficient time to complete their autophagy and ensures that body remains free from many serious pathologies. Dr. Ohsumi’s work supports the approach maintained by Ayurveda to use fasting as an important therapeutic tool.

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Dr. Abhijit

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