Prolonged Fasting and IGF-1

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today we’re going to talk about prolonged fasting and igf number one now what is igf number one i’ve done other videos on this and it stands for insulin like growth factor number one it’s a hormone that is made in the liver it’s stimulated by growth hormone and it acts like growth hormone in the body so it’s kind of an extension of growth hormone growth hormone is made by the pituitary it goes down the liver it triggers the liver to make igf now igf is vitally important to the growth and development of tissues in the body so whatever the functions of growth hormone are those are the same functions as igf and when you’re not eating insulin goes down igf goes up to mobilize fat to actually give you fuel so it’s one of the fat burning hormones so it’s a vital hormone but when you look through the research on this there’s an association to increasing the risk of cancer if igf is too high now it’s not that igf number one is not the sole cause of cancer it’s involved in cancer because it’s a anabolic hormone it makes things grow and it inhibits something called apoptosis so this is where certain cells like cancer cells commit suicide well igf number one can inhibit that so that can kind of counter your body’s ability to get rid of cancer so it’s known to promote cancer prostate breasts liver cancer but you have to realize there’s a lot of other things that have to happen in your body for you to get cancer definitely you have to have damage to the mitochondria you have to have a shift in that metabolism to fermenting glucose so the only reason i’m bringing this up is to show you another huge benefit that occurs when you do prolong fasting as i mentioned before when you donate insulin goes down and then the igf number one goes up so when you fast for three to five days you get a pretty good decrease in igf number one like a 30 decrease you’re also getting a major decrease in glucose you’re tapping out your glycogen reserve in your liver you’re decreasing insulin so your immune system starts to thrive your inflammation goes down which is always connected to the spread of cancer and you have all sorts of amazing neural regenerative things that happen like your brain cells start growing also if you have pcos this is essential to do periodically when you do a fast for greater than five days when you get into five to seven days or even longer you create a much deeper drop in igf number one like a 60 drop also you get a massive drop in glucose and insulin so you just created an environment in your body where cancer just absolutely cannot exist not only are you starving it it’s fuel and glutamate which is an amino acid that can fuel cancer too so you you’re not consuming any glutamate so that’s going to be down and you’re dropping igf number one so you’re going to make it next to impossible for cancer cells to survive also you’re going to find that you’re going to clear up diabetes type 2 and you’re basically just going to live longer so doing a longer fast every so often is extremely therapeutic to your body now if anyone tells you that prolonged fasting is harmful to your body or it’s starving i’m going to put some links down below for you to just look at to show you that it’s absolutely really good for your survival of your cells to do periodic prolonged fasting now if you’ve never done it before you want to ease up into it and gradually do it and definitely take nutrients while you’re fasting but you’re going to find that after a day or two your hunger is going to be completely gone you’re going to have energy your cognitive function is going to go up it’s going to be very very beneficial at three days into your fast your cells start to resist stress and toxins so they become stronger which is just a survival mechanism it’s quite fascinating the point of this video is just to increase your awareness on the benefits of prolonged fasting periodically especially for cancer and also just to make you aware of what’s happening with igf this is not a bad hormone it’s just that when you do fasting you’re not just merely starving the cancer of fuel you’re doing some other very powerful things as well thanks for watching 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