Did you see this paper that came out over summer? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605141507.htm

Explains how, in both laboratory mice and humans, fasting for 2-4 days at a time caused cells in the immune system to first be depleted, with damaged immune cells being destroyed,  being followed, once eating was re-introduced, by stem cell regeneration of new immune cells.

They liken the effect to ‘flipping a regenerative switch’, and the work has implications for people with auto-immune diseases aswell as those going through chemotherapy, or with lowered immune systems.

Wouldn’t it be great if those new immune cells were not programmmed to destroy the body’s own tissues?

Many ancient cultures and systems of medicine used fasting to treat illness, and there are in fact many benefits to intermittent ( obviously not starving yourself, but on & off) fasting, many of which you can read about in the popular book ‘ The Fast Diet’ by Micheal Mosely

I for one am not going to wait. I have found the benefits of intermittent fasting to be excellent since losing loads of weight on the Fast diet a couple of years ago, and I regularly don’t eat until night time. I don’t have an auto-immune disease, but my little 9 year old daughter does. Tonight I’m going to sit down with her and ask if, if I stay with her and we light the fire, get a duvet down, stack up the biggest pile of films and programs, and she can watch as much and as long as she likes, she would go for a 2 day fast to see what happens.

Watch this space.