Medicine proves the great benefits of fasting for cancer patients

Medical research has revealed that fasting helps greatly in preventing or treating cancer when a person is infected.

According to the site "Medical News Today," fasting fights cancer by reducing insulin resistance and levels of inflammation in the body.

The source added that fasting works to combat complications caused by chronic diseases affecting the body such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, which are two leading causes of cancer.

Healthy fasting requires not to eat any calories during a specified period of up to hours or only a very small number of them.

Fasting makes cancer cells more responsive during chemotherapy, as well as protecting healthy cells in the body and boosting the immune system, scientists say.

In 2014, the National Library of Medicine conducted an experiment to see whether fasting promotes resistance to cancer test mice, and researchers monitored changes in animal stem cells.

The researchers found that fasting for two to four days helped stem cells in rats to resist the complications of chemotherapy for cancer.

In addition, the mice who have been subjected to fasting have been able to renew their stem cells better, meaning that the benefit of fasting is not limited to prevention only from the deadly disease.