A great write up on this subject! I know that fasting works, and that what you've written about here is likely spot on, but it really shouldn't work, so there must be something else going on with fasting.
If we don't eat anything for 6 hours, our bodies go into starvation mode, meaning that if we haven't taken in any nourishing food for 6 hours our systen detects we are starving and need food.
Fasting somehow illustrates there is a secret path of sorts where we can literally starve ourselves and improve our health. Now, can we find out what that is?
They are doing research on it now, so I found these articles I quoted interesting. It's something for the medical profession to endorse something works that doesn't involve taking some "new and improved" drug!