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the body's ancient hack for eating yourself clean before the next meal.
means The deliberate act of going without food, and sometimes drink, for a stretch of time — whether for health, religion, or protest.
from From Old English fæstan, 'to abstain from food,' rooted in a Germanic family (compare German fasten and Old Norse fasta) tied to the idea of holding firm or 'making fast' — the same fast that means 'steady, secure.' To fast, then, was originally to hold yourself firm against the urge to eat. The word 'breakfast' is its mirror: the meal that literally breaks the overnight fast.
- cellular cleanup
- Triggers autophagy, the cell's self-recycling program
- nobel nod
- Autophagy research won the 2016 medicine prize
- brain fuel
- After hours, liver makes ketones for the brain
- ancient practice
- Every major religion built fasting into ritual
- record holder
- One man fasted 382 days under supervision
ramadan — islamic holy month observed by 1.8 billion muslims worldwide, involves fasting from dawn to sunset
yom kippur — jewish day of atonement requiring 25-hour fast, observed annually in september or october
lenten fast — christian practice of fasting or abstinence for 40 days before easter, observed by catholics and orthodox christians