Does Fasting Increase Adrenaline?
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so this question came up recently in my live show does fasting actually increase adrenaline because a medical doctor says you shouldn’t be doing fasting because it’s going to raise adrenaline and you’re going to be all stressed out completely ridiculous now it is true that the pre-adrenaline hormone or neurotransmitter because adrenaline and noradrenaline are neurotransmitters they’re not hormones but they act like hormones but it has been shown that when you start fasting your noradrenaline does increase about 48 not 48 times 48 so it goes up a little bit but also your metabolic rate goes up your resting metabolic rate goes up so fasting helps your metabolism but think about what’s happening you are not eating so your body is going to live on your fat you’re going through the state of ketosis you’re living on fatty acids and ketones and in order to mobilize as fat you have to stimulate the fat burning hormones and a neurotransmitter called adrenaline so adrenaline is there to mobilize the fat and it is true that short-term fasting can elevate cortisol which is a stress hormone but that’s a normal process when you don’t eat cortisol is one of the hormones and it’s called a glucocorticoid because it helps you metabolize glucose but what it does is it helps mobilize stored sugar so this is not a abnormal thing it’s just a normal thing to help you maintain normal blood sugars when you’re sleeping so it’s one of the hormones that’s involved in preventing hypoglycemia but long term cortisol decreases if you’re doing fasting on a regular basis the fasting will increase not the flutter fight sympathetic nervous system but it will increase the parasympathetic nervous system and this is why people feel so calm and relaxed and stress free so the next time someone tells you that it’s going to increase your adrenaline and stress you out just send them this video before you go if you have a question about a product or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you need a debug because it’s not going as smooth i have a keto consultant standing by to help you this is just for the people in the us hopefully in the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below so you can call and get some help