Impact of supervised beego, a traditional Chinese water-only fasting, on thrombosis and haemostasis.

ABSTRACT: Beego is a traditional Chinese complete water-only fasting practice initially developed for spiritual purposes, later extending to physical fitness purposes. Beego notably includes a psychological induction component that includes meditation and abdominal breathing, light body exercise and ends with a specific gradual refeeding program before returning to a normal diet. Beego has regained its popularity in recent decades in China as a strategy for helping people in subhealthy conditions or with metabolic syndrome, but we are unaware of any studies examining the biological effects of this practice. To address this, we here performed a longitudinal study of beego comprising fasting (7 and 14 day cohorts) and a 7-day programmed refeeding phase. In addition to detecting improvements in cardiov

SUBMITTER: Fang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258074 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature