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FITFORGOOD GYM · May 25, 2020

Benefits of Fasting

A brief on what happens to your body when you fast. Some benefits of fasting and a takeaway on how we help you become fit for good now.

FITFORGOOD GYM • May 25, 2020

Benefits of Fasting

Over time your body has adapted to fasting not frequent eating.

"DETOXING"
There are a lot of "Detoxing" recipes out there for detoxing. the fact that you need to consume something to let your body detoxify itself does not make any sense, especially when your body is engineering to detox itself. It like saying, "I had a beer now, let me drink something else to detoxify myself". Alcohol is a poison to your body which the liver breaks down to safer substances.

How do you detox?
FAST!

 First 12 hours

There is a increase in Human Growth Hormone, it is the main hormone for muscle recovery, fat burning and involved heavily in protein synthesis.
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Hour 12 to 18

Autophagy

Your body will recycle old damaged protein and make new proteins. All that old material sticks together and block capillaries in your body. Your body begins to clean that up. Pretty much your body consumes old cells and make fresh new ones.
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Hour 18 to 24

Ketosis

Your gut begins to heal. Your glycogen stores gets depleted and your body begins to run on ketones. So if you have a fatty liver, your body will start to process those fatty stores for energy. So, if you ever wondered how to heal a fatty liver, here is your answer. 
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Hour 24 to 48

Gut Healing, Heart Health, Brain function, Antioxidants

Inflammation issues like arthritis, autoimmune issues, etc. reduces. 
Your intestines gets a chance to recover and heal. If your eating all the time, your gut is always working and never gets a chance to rest. Your heart also responds better to Ketones(from fat) rather than glucose and you find you cardiovascular state improves. Your Brain also begins to repair at 24 hours.
Now at this point you may think your loosing muscle protein but your body becomes more efficient, turning on certain genes to space muscle protein. Also, you are still benefiting from autophagy allowing old protein to be recycled into new protein. Your body also produces antioxidants. You get Oxidative stress only when the antioxidants in your body is less that the amount of oxidation happening. Your body starts producing Stem cells.
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Hour  48 to 72

Stem Cells, Mitochondria and the risk for Cancer reduces.

Stem cells are neutral in the sense they are turned into what ever cells the body needs for healing and repair. Your immune systems also improves.
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TAKEAWAY
Start Slow. It is very beneficial to fast periodically and you cannot short cut it but having a lifestyle of gorging your self with anything you want at anytime and then fast for 72 hours. 
Begin with intermittent fasting with a 16:8 ratio, where you fast for 16 hours and eat for 8 hours. Your can then try shortening your eating window and progress from there. This is not a diet or a diet Fad, this is to help you move into a new lifestyle into not having hunger cravings. You learn to eat nutritiously and allowing your body to work for you. Let  your body do what it was designed to do, heal, repair, adapt and survive.
After all, we want an approach that is sustainable. A diet isn't and how long will you fight your cravings and be unhappy, What if you stopped having your cravings and felt better, faster, stronger?
Now we are not doctors, this has worked well for us and our clients and results have been seen.
Contact us and we will guide you to a better lifestyle of eating and exercising so it becomes second nature to you and is no longer a chore in the quest to look and feel fitforgood.

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