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As someone who has struggled with weight her whole life and as a "retired" competitive athlete I've found making the transition, particularly as I've aged, that more exercise and "clean" eating isn't always the answer to getting lean and generally feeling better.

And, over the years of yo-yo dieting I'm certain my metabolism has certainly been scarred. 

I've found through intermittent fasting/nutritional cleansing that I've been able to release not only unwanted pounds and fat but also gain lean muscle. I'm gaining lean muscle without a crazy amount of working out. 

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Intermittent fasting is essentially periods of voluntary abstinence from food and drink. While seemingly simple, for many this can appear contrary to what they’ve been told for years about diet. However, fasting is an ancient practice and is followed in a variety of different formats by populations globally. The current body of scientific literature continues to support an intermittent fasting-type diet as at least as effective as daily restriction of calories both for short and long-term interventions in terms of weight loss. 

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More importantly, intermittent fasting does not appear to lead to compensatory overeating on nondieting days. 

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Beyond the benefit of weight loss, fasting can also promote health through cellular and molecular mechanisms such as the activation of adaptive cellular stress response signaling pathways that enhance cell health and autophagy — a natural, regulated mechanism of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components (6). Research has also shown that regular intermittent fasting supports metabolic, heart, immune, and brain health, among other things.