Health

What Really Happens When We Fast?

Fasting Reverses Everything: In this video, we’re going to talk about what happens on the inside of your body when you’re fasting. There are a lot of beneficial effects of fasting on the body. Over a long period of time, the human body has developed and adapted to starvation. However, our bodies have not adapted to frequent eating. What happens when we fast?

Effects of fasting after 12 hours—There is a spike in growth hormone.

Growth hormone is involved with:
• Anti-aging
• Fat burning
• Healing joints
• Protein synthesis

Effects of fasting after 18 hours—You develop autophagy.

Autophagy is involved with:
• Recycling old and damaged proteins as well as microbes
• Decreased amyloid plaquing

(The effects of Islamic fasting are here in autophagy).

Effects of fasting after 24 hours—You really start to deplete your glycogen reserve and run on ketones.

Benefits of fasting after 24 hours:
• Decreased hunger
• Decreased cravings
• Increased antioxidant reserve
• Increased oxygen
• Better fuel efficiency
• Decreased inflammation
• Gut healing
• Improved cardiovascular function
• Improved cognitive function

Effects of fasting after 48 hours:
• Stimulate stem cells
• Decreased risk of cancer/tumors
• Make more mitochondria

Effects of fasting after 72 hours—Do periodically
• More stimulation of stem cells
• Better immune function

How to get these incredible effects of fasting:

• Do intermittent fasting on a regular basis
• A good average pattern of intermittent fasting is doing 18 hours of fasting with a 6 hour eating window
• Do periodic prolonged fasting to achieve additional fasting benefits
• Take minerals during fasting (water along with nutrients )
• Exercise in the mornings
• You may have increased LDL (This may not be something to worry about)

The Benefits Of Long-Term Fasting

Dr Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, the Scientific Director of the Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting clinics, talks about the benefits of Long-term Fasting. She also explains the advantages compared to intermittent fasting. Buchinger Wilhelmi actively contributes towards international research on fasting and “real-food” nutrition: The research department led by Dr. Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo and coordinated by scientific project manager Franziska Grundler is currently working on several major studies.

Nobel Lecture: Autophagy

Autophagy The Secret of Fasting – an Intracellular Recycling System by Yoshinori Ohsumi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan Yoshinori Ohsumi delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2016 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.