Today’s topic is on Fasting: So what is fasting? Is fasting relevant today Let us explore a little.

So, it depends who is fasting and what their belief is. And what their respective faith tradition prescribes them to do or is it medically prescribed?

First I will talk about what scientists and researchers are saying about fasting and its effects on our health and diseases. And then I will talk about what Islam prescribed about more than 1400 years ago.

Links:

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/14/17007284/why-secular-lent-misses-the-point-christian-ash-wednesday

The Mystery of Fast-5 and D.I.E.T.: Bert Herring, MD at TEDxRiversideAvondale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdQgiTPiRYo - Fasting - A path to Mental and Physical Transcendence by Phil Sanderson.

TED TALK: Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does to Your Brain. Mark Mattson is the Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UkZAwKoCP8 - Ted Talk - Why fasting bolsters brain power by Mark Mattson.