Does fasting facilitate weight loss?
Men aged between 30 and 40 and post – menopause women inevitably tend to gain weight – fasting can reduce this occurrence. Many people keep their normal weight during fasting or counter the tendency to gain weight by following a regular, professionally supported healing by – fasting schedule. When fasting fat becomes the primary source of energy right from the start -and not protein. It is, however, also correct that protein is broken down during fasting, also from muscle cells. Muscle cells are, of course, able to give up proteins without being destroyed in the process. The breaking down of proteins is a reversible phenomenon, achieving a therapeutic effect on certain illnesses. A preliminary loss of fluids occurs during fasting as it does with most other diets. On the one hand this can be explained by the loss of the water bound to glycogens and proteins, and on the other hand on the desalinating and dehydrating effects of the fasting. A most positive effect is thereby achieved on hi
