The relationship between fasting during Ramadan and its immune effects Ramadan lasts between 29 and 30 days and you're required not to drink or eat anything just before sunrise to just after sunset this is a dry fast and what I mean by a dry fast is you're not drinking any water now before we get into the benefits I do want to point out this one very very important point if you look at some of the studies done on Ramadan.
You’re seeing some mixed reviews and I think the reason for that because what you eat before and after you fast is going to make or break your success if you are eating a lot of junk food or refined carbohydrates that is going to greatly inhibit these amazing effects that you could achieve.
If added keto-friendly foods low carb during the meals I mean think about it ketones, in general,
are antimicrobial when you do fasting you actually decrease cold cytokines there are different types of cytokines and cytokines are chemical messages that communicate between your immune cells there are certain cytokines that cause inflammation.
It'll decrease the trigger to inflammation also it will stimulate something called macrophages a macrophage is a large cell that eats bacteria and microbes and viruses this is like a professional what's called a phagocyte which not just like garbage disposal but it is a deadly killer any one of the first lines of defense for any type of invasion for microbes the more you can stimulate macrophages the better the immune system all right next thing is it will increase the microbiome.
what is the microbiome that describes the friendly microbes in your body that help you a great majority of your new system I'm talking like 70 percent are located in your large intestine and I'm talking about a microbiome?
Your risk for infection go straight up and vertical when you do fasting which is kind of weird because you're actually kind of starving them they live longer
there a certain types of genetic things that get triggered that support your immune system.
The next thing is resistance to stress when you fast you increase your capacity to fight off stress as well as DNA damage also when you fast you decrease oxidative stress you have fewer free radicals you're also going to get an increase in the production of your
antioxidant networks which also can help as well and lastly fasting will increase autophagy which is your body's ability to recycle old damaged parts as well as microbes there's a very specific type of autophagy called xenophobe.
which targets pathogens one huge benefit of fasting is basically the elimination of these microbes that can stay dormant in your body.
Ramadan has huge powerful effects on the immune system but I think it could be a lot better if you also add Keto
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