Fasting Affects Your Hormones Greatly

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so I want to talk about the hormone effects that can occur from doing a fast some really interesting research I put the link down below comparing fasting for two to seven days versus fasting from 8 to 20 days so this would definitely be a longer fast compared to a shorter fast now this data is not based on intermittent fasting but at least you can get a concept of what could happen to the endocrine system when you start to fast the first hormone that’s involved is adrenaline okay this is a counter regulatory hormone so in other words when you go to sleep at night and you’re not eating sometimes you’re going to get a release of glycogen so your body’s going to use glycogen as fuel especially if you haven’t adapted to fat-burning what happens is the glucose is being released and the blood sugars going up this way and then insulin comes in there and pushes it down and so there’s counter regulatory hormones adrenaline being one of them that will kick in and release the sugar and raise the sugar back up to prevent a crash and blood sugars that can happen especially if you are instant resistance this is the main reason why people may feel that they’re not sleeping that well when they’re doing fasting I realize that’s a temporary situation it’s gonna get better after you have adapted a little bit better and you’ve lessened the insulin resistance issue what you can do in the meantime is take a little calcium don’t take calcium carbonate take calcium citrate or calcium lactate right before bed and take some b1 okay I like nutritionally use for that and this should help chill this out a little bit so you can sleep through the night but you can see in a shorter turn fast it’ll go up more than a longer fast okay next one hormone is cortisol cortisol is a stress hormone but it’s also a counter regulatory hormone to prevent the blood sugar from dropping too far same is what I just talked about right here so cortisol released because cortisol is a glucocorticoid it releases sugar in the system to try to keep the sugar up goes up when you do a fast between two to seven days but with time after your liver adapts to ketosis you’re not going to have this spike in cortisol okay leptin here’s the thing with leptin it’s a hormone that satisfies you when leptin goes up you’re satisfied you no longer have an appetite now the problem is that overweight people people that are obese have high levels of leptin but it’s not working in their body because they have leptin resistance and then leptin doesn’t work anymore so you hear you have this overweight person that is starving all the time because they may have high levels of leptin but it’s unavailable to them when you start doing a fast you start to reverse this process and you make the receptors for leptin work better so leptin will come down to a normal range but the point is that what caused the leptin resistance in the first place is a high level of leptin so all we’re doing with fasting is reversing that whole thing you’re reversing two things you’re reversing leptin resistance as well as insulin and resistance right here and this is the next one one I want to mention when you do fasting the biggest benefit from that is the reduction in normalization of insulin so insulin will come down and insulin is tied into so many problems not just weight but inflammation cognitive function your mood your kidney function your vision your heart so you’re going to get massive benefits from fasting just by normalizing this one hormone then we get the sertoli serotonin will increase both in a two to six day fast as well as a eight to twenty day fast and serotonin is going to give you a lot of cognitive benefits you’re gonna sleep a little better at night and the main thing that serotonin will give you is just a a good state of well-being the next one is very and that’s growth hormone growth hormone really goes up especially from a two to seven day fast growth hormone is the anti-aging hormone most people over the age of 50 are deficient in growth hormone it also is protective against muscles collagen joint problems it protects against a loose skin and wrinkly old skin very very important and it also influences your cognitive function too next one is glucagon nom what is that this hormone is the opposing hormone to insulin it’s made in the pancreas but it does the opposite of insulin so it helps you burn fat it helps protect your proteins the way that you increase this is you decrease this right here so it kind of works kind of like on a teeter totter but fasting is a very powerful trigger of glucagon exercise will trigger it as well exercise will also trigger growth hormone especially if you do high intense interval training next one is t3 now I did a video specifically just on this recently and I’ll put the link down below but sometimes t3 will decrease okay now you might think oh my gosh that’s gonna be a problem with my metabolism but it’s not because what you’re gonna have is you’re gonna have an increase in reverse t3 which is kind of like a t3 storage because your body is adapting to this new fuel and it’s becoming more efficient what’s very unlikely you’re gonna have any other bad symptoms from this except you may have a slightly low t3 it might still be within a normal range just on the low side I wouldn’t worry about that because as soon as you eat this will come up and then we have estrogen estrogen may decrease when you do fasting well that’s not a problem if your estrogen dominant but what if you’re already low in estrogen one of the best things to take would be to take some vitamin E natural vitamin E in the whole complex to help balance your sex hormones and this is one of them right here and when you do fasting it’s very important to take supplements while you fast just because you don’t know if you’re deficient in a mineral like potassium or some vitamin and because you’re not eating you’re not getting the nutrients if you’re deficient that can create even more stress on the endocrine system but if you do fasting with nutrients it’ll protect the endocrine system and you have minimal issues with hormones but if you take a look at some key things that have happened when you fast you get massive improvement by decreasing insulin increasing serotonin increasing growth hormone and glucagon and some of these other hormones will come back to normal once you’re fully adapted but I’m just bringing up the different changes that can occur when you do a fast thanks for watching with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering keto absolutely not Karen and it’s an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out I think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it’s just so easy to be keto but is it simple it’s super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it