Top healthcare trends to watch in 2019

Intermittent Fasting

The concept of fasting exploded in the health and wellness industry this year and will continue to grow in 2019. Integrative practitioners tout fasting supreme for losing weight, boosting mental clarity, and even reversing signs of aging, cognitive decline, and other chronic disease symptoms.

The most common fasting method is what some call the 16/8 method or the Leangains protocol—skip breakfast and restrict your daily eating window to 8 hours, such as 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Other methods include fasting-mimicking diets, restricting calories and eating specific nutrients to achieve the same benefits of fasting.

Experts say fasting is ideal because it’s easy to implement and it’s free, so we can expect to see a lot more of intermittent fasting and fasting-mimicking diets next year.