20 Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Boosts Metabolism
Part of the reason intermittent fasting helps you lose weight is due to the restriction of food, followed by regular eating, helps stimulate your metabolism. While long-term fasting can actually slow your metabolism, shorter fasts promoted by intermittent fasting have been proven to increase metabolism. In fact as much as up to 14 per cent, reported by one study.This is also a more effective tool than long-term calorie restriction, which can often wreak havoc on the body’s metabolism. Weight loss often goes hand in hand with muscle loss. And since muscle tissue is what burns through calories, having less muscle leads to a drop in your body’s ability to metabolize food. Intermittent fasting keeps your metabolism running smoothly by helping you maintain your muscle tissue as much as possible.