Our ancestors had it tough: obtaining food was quite a task. However, as a result, this became the evolutionary advantage of humanity.
Research in the field of fasting has been conducted for decades, but to this day, there is no conclusive scientific data on the benefits or harms of such practice.
Today, fasting (not to be confused with hunger) is a voluntary choice of each individual. It is often resorted to when people want to shed extra kilograms, for religious reasons, and other motives.
Scientists from the EU conducted a study that helped them understand how the human body reacts to fasting. The corresponding study was published in the scientific journal Nature.
The experiment involved 12 healthy volunteers who consumed only water for a week. Scientists conducted blood tests on them and found that changes occurred in approximately a thousand proteins, of which 66 did not return to normal even three days after the end of the fasting period.
The authors of the study hope that in the future, it will help to scientifically study fasting. However, researchers acknowledge that they cannot fully rely on the results of their experiment, as too few volunteers participated in it, and a control group was not formed.