Good article/blog and there's plenty of tedious scholarly
articles to further explain if you want to go there, which I encourage and do
myself.
AND building on the article, when one fasts (dry fasting
(DF) is even quicker: 1 day of DF'ing is like about 2-3 days of water fasting
and other than being thirsty, DF'ing is easier) the body's autophagy
process/activating ketosis and vise versa works even better/cleans the system quicker because
it's self-eating the stored junk proteins as well as ketones from stored fat,
rather than the proteins from food eaten. And the body hydrates itself with
metabolic water which is stored in fat, so as the body hydrates itself it also
then burns that fat up! AND plenty of junk gets stored in the fat, as well as
those junk proteins, so the cleaning really amps up! AND the excess fat can
cause insulin resistance, which can cause diabetes, hypertension, and
cardiovascular issues, which can all affect hormone imbalances and cause other
illnesses, as well as premature aging, so another reason why manipulated
autophagy is great.
Gotta get used to the hunger and thirst, but as one builds
tolerance, it's not so bad. Mind over matter. The brain is used to eating all
of the time, but once the body goes into survival mode, some of that shuts
down, and the body really isn't that hungry and can live on fat stores/junk
proteins as this article discusses. Ketones are appetite suppressants. The body is amazing!!!
This is why I fast and when I eat, I eat keto. Major game
changer--and I use to be a raw/vegan fruitarian and I'm glad I gave that up, as
it wasn't working for me. There's a reason, many reasons in fact, why people
and animals fast to heal. And when eating a ketogenic diet, one switches from
one level of ketosis to even deeper, and therapeutic, level of ketosis when one
fasts. (Fasting just means giving stuff up but not necessarily everything all at once. One can fast from sugar, alcohol, wheat, face book, TV, etc.) As far as fasting goes, all cultures do it. Humans have been fasting for thousands of years, for
forever, and clearly with very good reason which the body is so intelligently
designed to do.
Beyond all of this, the self-mastery and peaked energy levels are so rewarding in and of themselves.
