Intermittent Fasting, also known as intermittent energy restriction. It can be defined as various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting and non-voluntary fasting over a given period of time. Usually, it is done for 16/8 hours.

Nowadays many people especially women have adopted this as their regular routine. Similarly, we can see a lot of YouTube videos and articles regarding intermittent fasting. Moreover, social media has influenced many audiences showing its advantage for physical and mental health.

Intermittent Fasting with Its pros

1. Changes in the function of hormones, cells, and genes:

Well, When you don’t eat for a while, several things happen in your body. For example, your body changes hormone levels to make stores of body fat more accessible and initiates important cellular repair processes. Hence, some of the changes that occur in the body during fasting are insulin levels, human growth hormone, cellular repair, and many more.

2. Helps you to lose weight :

The main objective of this fasting is to lose weight. Generally speaking, it will make you eat fewer meals. Unless you compensate by eating much more during the other meals, you’ll end up taking in fewer calories. Additionally, it enhances hormone function to facilitate weight loss. Lower insulin levels, higher HGH levels, etc.

3. Reduce stress:

Oxidative stress involves unstable molecules called free radicals. Free radicals react with other important molecules, such as protein and DN, and damage them. It helps to reduce this type of stress.

4. Beneficial for heart health:

This fasting improves numerous different risk factors, including various heart disease. Heart disease overall the world has been increasing day by day which has been killing a lot of people.

Intermittent fasting and its cons

As everything has two sides Intermittent fasting has both positive and negative effects on health. Some of the side effects are :

1. Headache
2. Digestive issues
3. Irritability
4. Fatigue
5. Bad breath

When to see a doctor before intermittent fasting?

Contact your doctor before starting intermittent fasting if you have conditions such as: 

• Eating disorders.
• Problems regulating blood sugar
• Women having a history of amenorrhea
• A woman trying to conceive
• Pregnant or breastfeeding
• Low blood pressure
• Taking any medicines for a long time

you guys can also check an article related to mental health.