2016 Nobel Prize winner scientifically proves that fasting is good for health

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese scientist has scientifically substantiated that fasting is good for one’s health.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese scientist has scientifically substantiated that fasting is good for one’s health.

Ohsumi’s discoveries have led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how a cell processes its contents. His discoveries have opened new ways of understanding the fundamental importance of autophagy for a large number of physiological processes, such as adaptation to starvation and response to an infection.

Autophagy is the process of utilizing and recycling unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular components—the so-called cellular rubbish which accumulates in cells.

The Nobel Prize winner’s discovery indicates that abstaining from food and keeping fasts is healthy—the body truly cleans itself. This is confirmed by the Nobel Prize Committee.