Fasting on Ekadasi
Fasting on Ekadasi Ekadasi is a well known fasting day. This blog is about the reason behind what is so special about ekadasi to fast. What is Ekadasi? Ekadasi is eleventh day of the moon 15 day cycle i.e. 11th from full moon or no moon . Why Fasting on Ekadasi? https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/press-release/ Autophagy means -- "Eating Thyself". Autophagy earned nobel prize in 2015. It is concerned as one of the revolutionary discovery in the medical science. Brain biopsy will tell exact nature of the problem, we tend to accumulate junk in our brain and it absolutely have no space to breath and grow in the right way. Samething is applicable through out our body. Fasting induce this autophagy, which is nothing but cleaning the unused debris within our body. As there are zero calories going inside the body our body would start consuming this unused cells and cleans itself. Note: This process is very very different from general dieting . Dieting co...