What are some benefits of fasting during Ramadan?
Yes there are medical benefits to fasting. However Muslims don’t use Ramadan to lose weight. Muslims fast during Ramadan because it is ordered by ALLAH(Subhanna wa ta’ala). Fasting clearly improves motivation and creative energy; it also enhances health and vitality and lets many of the body’s systems rest. It promotes relaxation and energization of the body, mind and emotions, and supports a greater spiritual awareness. Physiolocially, refraining from eating minimizes the work done by the digestive organs, including the stomach, intestines, pancreas, gallbladder, and liver. Most important here is our liver, our body’s large production and metabolic factory, can spend more during fasting cleaning up and creating its many new substances for our use. Breakdown of stored or circulating chemcials is the basic process of detoxification. The body and lymph also have the oppurtunity to be cleaned of toxins as all the eliminative functions are enhanced with fasting. Each cell has the oppurtuni
