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What are the real virtues of fasting?

According to some specialists, fasting confers serenity and lightness, and it rebalances our intestinal flora. For others, it may cause stress in our body. The debate is not closed. © Silviarita / Pixabay / Europe 1

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French Muslims will know the start date of Ramadan on Tuesday evening. Beyond its religious aspects, the practice of fasting, reputed to be a source of well-being, is arousing growing interest. But it must be approached with caution.

Does hunger have virtues? For Muslims, who will enter the holy month of Ramadan this week, fasting is a way of drawing closer to God. A pillar of Islam, it follows an explicit Koranic prescription. Fasting is also seen as a way to detach oneself from one's material concerns, and to put oneself in the shoes of the most modest. Similarities are found in the fast preceding Lent for Christians. And most of the world's major religions offer periods of food deprivation, for a variety of reasons.

 

But beyond religious and spiritual questions, does fasting really have an interest? In recent years, "fasting and hiking" courses have multiplied in France, promising well-being and serenity. In various parts of the world, hospitals and doctors have taken up this practice for therapeutic purposes. But they are also very numerous to call for caution. And for good reason: fasting is not a miracle solution to all ills, and it does not just happen. What are its virtues and how can you benefit from them? Europe 1 gives you some keys.

 

What are the benefits attributed to fasting?

A rebalancing for the body. When the body goes a long time without consuming food, it draws on its reserves: in the first four to six hours following the last meal, it will assimilate the nutrients ingested, then it will start to dig into the sugars stored in the liver, in the fats of our body, in the proteins of our muscles and even goes, when the fast is very long, to seek energy in the bone marrow. However, when the body draws on its reserves in this way, it eliminates (in part) what could be toxic there. "The liver and the walls of the intestine regenerate, the pancreas and the stomach are put to rest and the intestinal flora is rebalanced", details in Madame Figaro Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, nutritionist and director of a specialized clinic in Überlingen, in southwestern Germany. From this process, many benefits can arise:

 

- A reduction in the production of sebum is, therefore, a skin that regenerates, becomes smoother. The hair comes out also strengthened

 

- A digestive system restored to working order

 

- Weight loss and, therefore, reduction of cardiovascular risks

 

A feeling of lightness for the mind. When the body is hungry, the brain also produces acetone, a powerful stimulant that promotes alertness and cognitive skills. And according to Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, after two or three days of fasting, the feeling of hunger disappears. "We are no longer in the classic 'I'm hungry, I'm eating, I'm full' cycle. We go into a state of contentment and we feel serenity," she explains.

 

This feeling of "serenity" or "lightness" is also at the heart of the promises of the federations which organize "fasting and hiking" courses (see below). The Moscow Institute of Psychiatry even uses fasting in the management of various mental illnesses, such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. And as Le Monde reminds us here, several hospitals in Japan also offer it to their patients as part of psychotherapy.

 

"It's a heresy. We must favor good dietary sense, consistency, balance"

Help with certain diseases? "The human body is much better adapted to the lack of food than it is to its excess", summarizes in Psychologies magazine Yvon Le Maho, director of research in biology at the CNRS. Several researchers are also studying the possibility of using fasting in the treatment of certain diseases: joint diseases, cases of chronic inflammation and allergy, cardiovascular diseases, disorders of the liver and the digestive tract, chronic fatigue ... Others even consider fasting as a means of supporting chemotherapy against certain cancers: conclusive tests have been carried out on mice by the American researcher Valter Longo, even if we are awaiting convincing results in the being. human.