Natural Awakenings Eastern PA- December 2023

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Exploring Intermittent Fasting TIPS AND BENEFITS FOR IMPROVED HEALTH

Fasting has long played a role in major religions, but we did not begin to understand it from a scientific standpoint until Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, discovered how cells recycle and renew themselves during fasting, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2016. Since then, multiple clinical trials have proven the health benefits of intermittent fasting (IF).

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by Steven Masley, M.D., FAHA, FACN, CNS


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