1052: Why Fasting May Be Making You Fat

If you look at studies across the board, the single most black and white thing you can do to reduce your risk of cancer is to incorporate regular long fasts

If you're relatively healthy, long fasts seem to not have any negative effects, which is so counter to what a lot of people believe

If you're healthy, regular fasts are one of one of the healthiest things you can do for your body

If your primary goal for fasting is fat loss, I'm gonna tell you this right now... bad idea ... for anybody

To prevent your metabolism from slowing during if you intermittent fast every day, make sure you're always hitting your calorie goal for the day

Fasting is a terrible way to lose fat

The best way to fast is to lead into it with a low-carbohydrate/ketogenic type diet that's relatively low calorie

Because fasting has been around for so long it's natural that our bodies would evolve to derive benefit from it

After ~48 hours of fasting, the body's older/unhealthy cells start to self-destruct

"We live in a society today where we are so used to getting everything we want right away that we've actually trained ourselves to believe that when you feel this grumbling in your stomach or you feel like you really want pizza or whatever... you're starving" - And it's not true!

When you're fasting, you tend to go into ketosis after a couple days. When your brain is running on ketones, for many people, it tends to feel sharper.

Fasting showed me that I could go 24 hours without food and not lose muscle... it got me to work on my relationship with food quite a bit

The day after your fast is a slow refeed. It's the second day after the fast where you can start to eat normally.

Fasting has become the new diet

If you starve yourself to lose weight, a lot of the weight that you lose will be muscle

People who fast for fat loss end up getting fatter over time

When you fast, you are essentially regenerating your body... you are essentially regenerating some of your cells

Fasting weakens cancer cells, making them more likely to be killed during chemo. It also allows healthy cells to become more resilient to cancer treatment.

Women are more sensitive to fasting than men

It's common that the first bowel movement that you have when you refeed after a fast is going to be diarrhea