>>76317335I see two main benefits to fasting intermittently:
- it deloads your digestive system instead of forcing it to release acid and insulin all day long
- it burns fat through ketogenesis, cycling fat instead of just letting in sit on your body forever
I would agree that prolonged fasts are pointless, I never fast longer than 48 hours, this is where you start running into things like electrolyte depletion.