How Fasting Affects Your Body

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so today i want to cover all the different effects that fasting can create on your body i’ve done a lot of videos but i wanted to create one video especially for someone new to fasting so you can see how powerful fasting is for the entire body so let’s start with your brain the first thing that fasting will help you with is it will help you stimulate something called bdnf brain derived neurotrophic factor you can look at this as miracle grove for the brain it basically helps to repair and regenerate neurons yeah you would think if you stopped eating your brain cells would die no they thrive increasing stress resistance so your brain becomes resistant to stress so it can handle more stress interesting increased neurogenesis which actually is part of this right here so you’re generating the growth of more neurons and nerve cells and nerve support cells especially if there’s damage if you have alzheimer’s parkinson’s this is very very important then we have the production of more mitochondria mitochondria is the energy factories in all the cells including your brain so if these guys work right here you’re going to have memory you’re going to be able to focus you’re going to have better cognitive function fasting helps improve the number of mitochondria in the brain also decreases inflammation and i don’t even need to get into that because i think most people understand how deadly inflammation is on the different parts of the body but there’s probably nothing more powerful than fasting to handle inflammation okay there’s more things that fasting will do but i think that’s a good summary now the liver the first thing that fasting will help you with is making insulin more sensitive which is going to help blood sugars pre-diabetes diabetes most people have insulin resistance and so insulin doesn’t work that well fasting helps make insulin work so your blood sugars are going to do better your absorption of nutrients are going to do better also fasting helps in the detoxification process both detoxification of the phase one phase two enzymes to take poisonous chemicals and turn them into water-soluble harmless particles as well as stimulating something called autophagy which is your cells recycling mechanism to take damaged cells and make them new again fasting helps increase your antioxidant network also fasting is amazing to reduce a fatty liver to take the fat in the liver and use that for energy and clear out the fat on the liver thereby increasing the function of the liver in the detoxification of hormones its metabolism of food in the storage of vitamins in the production of bile the list goes on and on and on fasting helps decrease inflammation in the liver as well as in conditions like hepatitis if you’re going to decrease inflammation you’re also going to decrease fibrosis that’s scar tissue and fibrosis turns into cirrhosis and then we get to the gut okay we’re talking about the small intestine and the large intestine fasting increases the diversity of microbes in your gut apparently that stress causes this survival mechanism of different types of microbes growing which is fascinating fasting decreases inflammation in the gut and there’s a lot of conditions that involve inflammation also it decreases sibo very very important i’ll put a link down below for more information on that if you haven’t heard that uh video also it fasting helps make your microbiome your friendly bacteria live longer okay then let’s talk about the immune systems huge effects fasting will actually help you become immune to pathogens because the white blood cells increase in strength and size and in their weaponry to kill off pathogens periodic prolonged fasting like 72 hours can increase stem cells in your immune system so you’re basically growing a new immune system now the fasting effect on the pancreas is huge because if you think about it when you’re eating you’re constantly triggering insulin all the time especially when you’re snacking so that’s creating damage in little cells that make insulin it’s in the pancreas well when you fast you reverse the flow and you give the cells that make insulin a chance to heal and rejuvenate so you start to develop insulin sensitivity insulin starts working better that’s why if you’re pre-diabetic if you’re a diabetic it’s essential that you do intermittent fasting fasting is going to help your blood sugars then we get to the fat cell fasting stimulates lipolysis basically the breakdown of fat okay so we get rid of the fat cells if they’re too big if they’re too stuffed they reduce in size and you start generating ketones so you turn this into ketones which can be used for energy your brain loves ketones you get more energy from ketones you improve the insulin resistance situation so if you’re resistant to insulin that condition improves in fact fasting is the thing that creates a faster metabolism which is very different than starving or some low-calorie diet i’ll put a link down below for more information on that because i just did a video on that very interesting okay leptin it decreases leptin so you’re going to find that the the messages for hunger are going to go way down also it reduces inflammation which is going to help you in correcting insulin resistance okay let’s talk about the muscles the first thing that’s going to happen is insulin is going to become more sensitive so it’s going to work better so because insulin is anabolic which means you’re going to actually be able to build up your muscles the more insulin works you’re also going to get protein sparing so when you fast the muscles go into a certain state where they stop breaking down okay so it’s going to help you prevent protein loss from your muscles also increasing stress resistance so your body just becomes overall stronger and more fit to survive then we get to the heart muscle we increase more parasympathetic now parasympathetic is the opposite of sympathetic which is flutter fight stress mode so this is relaxation mode when people do fasting they feel calm their heart relaxes they’re able to rest and digest better also the heart rate comes down and there’s an increase in something called heart rate variability normally you have these heartbeats that are supposed to be on average i’d say 72 beats per hour right well you would think in a healthy heart you need the same amount of time for each beat but that’s not the case the healthier the heart the more erratic or the more variable the heartbeat should be because variability helps you in the adaptation of certain things and it’s less rigid so there’s a test that you can do i used to do it in my office that measures this and people with a very healthy heart would have a very high hiv and they would be able to handle a lot of stress because they have more parasympathetic and they have a huge recovery backup system the more rigid the heart is the stiffer the arteries the less variance you have between the heartbeats itself okay less blood pressure because things are more elastic and increased stress resistance so the heart becomes stronger to fight stress so in summary you can see that fasting creates some very cool effects and i didn’t get into the anti-cancer effects and there’s many other effects but at least this will convince you to try fasting yourself thanks for watching hey we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering in 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