Fasting is not just an antiquated religious routine. Fasting is a way you can clean your body of unwanted excessive water and fat.
In Greek medicine fasting was believed to promote a natural method to help the body heal from infections, inflammation, and other ailments.
Today modern scientific validation provides evidence for fasting’s role in cellular repair, fat burning and water retention loss.
Casi Creativo has tthree-minute YouTube animated video on 36-hour fasting, in which he explains the step-by-step process of our body’s journey to achieving ketosis. What exactly is ketosis?
In short, ketosis is a metabolic shift from carbohydrate burning to fat oxidation for energy.
The brain initiates a chain of reactions that will ultimately trigger your body to a state of ketosis in which your system begins to clean house at a cellular level.
Your brain will begin to primarily use ketones as an energy source instead of glucose.
Your liver will shift from storing glycogen to producing ketone bodies from fat to fuel the body and brain.
Increased ketone production can lead to a rise in mental health clarity and suppression of appetite.
Fun fact, the liver will reduce the production of insulin-like growth factor which can be associated with anti-cancer and anti-aging, saving you a trip to a plastic surgeon office at least for a few more years.
If you are considering fasting, you should prep yourself mentally start slowly you don’t have to start with 36-hour fast beginners can choose between what are known as the 5:2 fast in which you will eat normally for 5 days and restrict yourself to 500-600 calories on two consecutive days.
The 16:8 method where you will fast for 16 hours and eat within an eight-hour window each day.
Also, eat stop eat: fasting for 24 hours once or twice a week and an intermittent fast, a strategy most used for weight loss, although evidence for its effectiveness is mixed.
Overall, you can expect to lose an average of 3-8 percent weight, but most importantly, you will cleanse your body from toxins at the cellular level through a process called autophagy (cell clean up mode).
Jose Mero, Architecture Department Chair here on campus said, “I’ve fasted for three months using the 16:8 method and lost 30 pounds.”
When asked how intense is fasting having to go though 16 hours straight without food Mero said, “After the first few days I felt just fine.”
He took a pause and then stated, “I did get lightheaded during my first workouts, but I was fine after a momentary system adjustment.”
Mero also informed that, “it takes total commitment and dedication but its well worth it not only for the obvious exterior but mentally and you start feeling great from the inside out.”
His goal is to keep losing weight after his one-month fasting break and bring back his system back to ketosis and clean house all over again.
The goal is to adopt fasting and making it your new normal and not just a temporary change of pace to lose weight.
Fasting is a life altering decision that takes conviction, dedication, and persistence long terms effects will make you healthier physically, mentally and spiritually.
