Muslims were commanded to fast during Ramazan more than 1,400 years ago, the ancient Greeks recommended fasting to heal the body, and today some scientists are advocating a modified fast for its mental and physical benefits.
You might be wondering besides spiritual what would be its health benefits?
Here, we’ve got you a list of prominent health benefits which you can garner this Ramazan:
Lowering Cholesterol
Experts have also found that restricting food intake during the day can help prevent health problems such as high cholesterol. According to the researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, after 10 to 12 hours of time fasting, the body starts scavenging for other sources of energy throughout the body to sustain itself as the body pulls LDL (bad) cholesterol from the fat cells and uses it as energy.
Moreover, this as a result can lead to a healthier heart consequently, improving muscle performance along with enhanced blood vessel growth and lowers blood sugar.
Weight Loss
It’s true that fasting will result in weight loss and even turns out to be a great time for the people who aimed to lose weight for so long but didn’t get the courage. The most effective way to lose weight is by opting for a healthy eating plan that can be followed in the long term.
During Ramazan your portion sizes change as your appetite changes and reduces the hunger hormone levels in the body. When you fast, your body goes into conservation mode, burning calories more slowly and switches from utilising carbohydrates to fats as its primary fuel and ensures a constant source of energy to the body and similarly improves metabolism.
The most effective way to lose weight is by opting for a healthy eating plan that can be followed in the long term. Ramazan can be a great opportunity to adopt healthy dietary modifications if you want to lose weight and maintain the loss.
Detoxification
Since the body gets a break from food therefore, allowing the digestive system to rest and minimize the workload on the organs of digestion; the intestines, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and even the kidneys, and let them to repair and restore themselves by eliminating body toxins present in the form of nicotine and other harmful drugs, air pollutants, fats, cholesterol, and free radicals. Hence, fasting offers an amazing detoxifying effect.
Improves Mental Health
According to Dr. Ebaa Al Ozairi from Kuwait there are scores of mental health benefits of fasting in Ramazan as it enhances self-control, improves mood and relieves a person from anxiety and depression.
According to research, it has been observed that fasting increases the endorphins level of and makes you feel more alert and happier. Similarly, endorphins help to get you more focused, with better brain function and reduced stress levels as a result.
Improves Immunity
There have been many studies on the effects of Ramazan fasting on the immune system, which have shown that fasting can restore the immune system by producing new white blood cells, which rejuvenates the immune system to fight infection.
It has been reported that in an effort to save energy during fasting, the body recycles many of its old and damaged immune cells, which later promotes the generation of new, healthier immune cells when the fasting period ends.
Fasting is an incredible greatest natural healing therapy, if done correctly, can improve one’s digestive system and overall metabolism.
