How a 3-Day Fast Resets Your Immune System

The benefits of fasting are many and various. Fasting supports good health by promoting a healthy body weight, encouraging normal cognitive function, and even facilitating detoxification. Now, research has also shown that fasting may help reset the immune system.

How Does Fasting Reset the Immune System?

Like every other system in the body, the immune system is subject to wear and tear. Aging, aggressive medical therapies, oxidative stress, environmental toxins, and the like can all accelerate the degradation of immune cells.^{[1, 2, 3]} When immune cells are weak and frail, they’re not as effective as they should be in protecting your health. This is where fasting can help.

Constipation is a taboo subject for many people. If you’re too embarrassed to discuss it, know that you are far from alone. Constipation affects about 14% of adults in the United States and accounts for an astounding 3.2 million medical visits every year. It’s a common and widespread issue. Nobody wants to talk about it, but for the sake of our health, maybe it’s time we opened a dialogue.^[1]

Americans spend three-quarters of a billion dollars on laxatives every year, and it’s not helping.^[1] Pharmaceutical laxatives and stool softeners often make constipation worse. Laxative overuse can lead to dependency, making it difficult or impossible to have a bowel movement without using strong laxatives.^[2] Over-the-counter (OTC) laxatives also tend to produce some serious side effects including abdominal cramps, dehydration, dizziness, low blood pressure, electrolyte imbalance, and bloody stool.^{[3, 4]}

Mitochondria power every cell in your body and are very susceptible to the surrounding environment. By controlling the environment you can harness the power of your mitochondria to give yourself more energy, brain function and natural anti-aging benefits!

What are mitochondria?

Responsible for more than 90 percent of cellular energy, your mitochondria are organelles that power every cell in your body and are necessary for the body to sustain life and support growth. There are more mitochondria in your body than there are cells and bacteria! These little ‘powerhouses’ dictate how you feel all the time and are the bedrock of a strong body and a powerful mind.

In today’s world of deadlines, demands and a general desperation to create more time in our days in order to get more done, it can be very easy to believe that we feel overwhelmed because we’re just so busy. Yet there is much we can do to create more of a sense of calmness within us.

We understand that for physical fitness, we need to train our body – we can’t just get up one day and run a marathon. The same is true for our mind – it requires a daily practice of ‘training’. Here are two great ways to build a happy mind.

Katrina Kaif is unarguably one of the fittest actors in the Indian film industry these days. The Bollywood beauty has on and off laid a lot of importance on the concept of staying fit and healthy, and clearly the result shows. The 34-year-old is always particular with her workout sessions and has often shared videos with celebrity trainer and Pilates master Yasmin Karachiwala.

The most recent was Kaif and Karachiwala trying out some combination Pilates moves under strict instructions from well-known master trainer Ann Toran from New York. The short video shows the Jagga Jasoos actor focusing on breathing and stretches while doing exercises that would not only strengthen the core but also tone the arms, calves and thighs.