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Let’s talk about what happens on the inside of your body when you’re fasting. So over here we have a start of a fast and we go 24 hours 48 and 72 so there’s a lot of really magical things that happen when you fast our bodies have developed over a long period of time and have adapted to starvation many many times. So we have all these unique proteins that get expressed or turned on t6hat have to do with your brain doing better the different parts of your body is surviving better our bodies have not adapted to the frequency of eating like. We do now like every three hours so right around 12 hours we get this spike in growth hormone growth hormone is the anti-aging hormone it’s the main fat burning hormone it’s the hormone involved with healing joints and it’s involved with protein synthesis or making different new proteins. Some people take growth hormone to get injected I don’t recommend it but they take it to help heal certain parts of your body but guess what fasting will trigger if automatically so just by the fact that you’re fasting you can increase growth hormone and of course exercise will also increase growth hormone as well so it starts about 12 hours and it increases as you go on and on now at about 18 hours you start developing something called autophagy.
Autophagy is an interesting thing that happens with your body where you start recycling old damaged proteins and microbes as well one type of protein. Would be the advanced glycated end products which basically when you combined glucose with a protein It becomes very sticky so let’s say you’re on a high carbohydrate diet and that sugar combines with your own protein in your body and that start to glide Kate or just kind of destroy some of the protein in your body and then they don’t function anymore and they get sticky and they clog things up well guess what your body will start cleaning all that up and tuning these damaged proteins into new amino acids where your body can use them amyloid plaquing which occurs in the brain and other parts of the body is a type of protein that can be cleaned up with a toffee gene so it’s any type of cellular proteins that are not working anymore in your body.
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Autophagy will start cleaning that up and start to renew the tissue and it starts right about 18 hours and it gets more and more as you start fasting in about 24 hours and a little bit longer you start to really deplete this glycogen Reserve this storage supply of glucose in your liver so the more that the liver is depleted with glycogen the more you’re going to be running on ketones as the alternative fuel and if you have a fatty liver for example your body will start using that fat and turning that into ketones so your body is finally able to start tapping into this stored energy and you’re running more and more on ketones which is a superior fuel and because your running on ketones ketones are an appetite suppressant so your hunger goes away cravings are gone there are antioxidants.
So you’re building up your antioxidant reserve they pro0vide more oxygen so your body is running out more oxygen less co2 then it’s more efficient and because ketones are a much more efficient fuel than glucose the thyroid does not have to work as hard and you may find that your t3 is a little bit lower but the thyroid stimulating hormone is normal and all that means is your thyroid is adapting to this new type of fuel now some other cool things that are happening right around 24 hours is that your inflammation is dropping significantly if you wanted to even speed it up more you can add some vitamin D to that and that will really help you so any type of conditions that involve inflammatory states like arthritis bursitis autoimmune type conditions start to improve about 24 hours you start getting more gut healing because the gut now doesn’t have to work so frequently with the gallbladder being stimulated and the pancreas stimulating its enzymes the gut finally has a chance vitamin D to that and that will really help you so any type of conditions that involve inflammatory states like arthritis bursitis autoimmune type conditions start to improve about 24 hours you start getting more gut healing because the gut now doesn’t have to work so frequently with the gallbladder being stimulated and the pancreas stimulating its enzymes the gut finally has a chance to just chill out so if you have this condition called SIBO which there are microbes in the small and testin and they should normally be in the large intestine that starts to become corrective you start increasing stem cell in the gut so your gut starts to heal the heart loves ketones way better than glucose so you start getting improvement in the cardiovascular function and as well as the brain function there’s something called BDNF.
This is a factor that helps make new brain cells so your brain starts to repair at 24 hours as you keep going on you would think you’re going to be losing muscle protein but that’s not really what happens because your body becomes more efficient and there are certain genes that are sparing proteins so it’s not using muscle protein so the efficiency of fuel is much better plus with autophagy you’re using the old damaged proteins and giving you new protein so the combination is really good so the amount of nutrition that you really need to run the body is a lot less because the body just down and it can run on less amount of nutrients so that’s a positive thing now the other thing that happens during autophagy is that you’re also cleaning out microbes and fungus and mold and yeast and to kill off those microbes your body develops certain oxidants and you also have antioxidants on the flipside so Your body actually makes things like hydrogen peroxide to kill off microbes but it also in the left side makes its own antioxidants to actually protect the body against the oxidation so we have this entire balance it’s only.
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That we get this thing called oxidative stress which things start breaking breaking down but when your doing fasting your getting a nice balance of more antioxidants and your body is starting to heal now when you get to 48 hours you really start to stimulate the stem cells these are undifferentiated cells in other words they’re cells that don’t have a purpose so they can turn into this tissue or that tissue depending on what the body needs so you start to stimulate the stem cell and get more healing and more repair more anti-aging you also get decrease risks of certain types of cancer you shrinkage of certain tumors you start making more mitochondria now if you push it and go up to 72 hours you get even more stimulation of stem cells.