{"id":96258,"date":"2019-09-15T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/fasting-for-72-hours-can-reboot-the-entire-immune-system-research-shows"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:42:27","slug":"fasting-for-72-hours-can-reboot-the-entire-immune-system-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/fasting-for-72-hours-can-reboot-the-entire-immune-system-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Fasting for 72 Hours Can Reboot the Entire Immune System, Research Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fasting-for-72-hours-can-reboot-the-entire-immune-system-research-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anybody can cook, even if it\u2019s only a fried egg \u2013 but <em>not<\/em> just anyone has the discipline to fast. This ancient practice of abstaining from eating for a day, or sometimes even a week or more has a history of curing a whole host of health problems, but even a <em>brief<\/em> fast can completely re-boot your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>This practice isn\u2019t without criticism by modern nutritionists and unbelievers, but research implies that when the body is hungry in short spurts, it can kick-start stem cells into producing new white blood cells.<\/p>\n<p>White blood cells, also known as leukocytes, are the cells which the immune system uses to fight against foreign invaders like viruses and bad bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody can cook, even if it\u2019s only a fried egg \u2013 but not just anyone has the discipline to fast. This ancient practice of abstaining from eating for a day, or sometimes even a week or more has a history of curing a whole host of health problems, but even a brief fast can completely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}