#996 What Happens When You Don’t Eat for 2 Days – The Metabolic Timeline That Heals Your Body Hour by Hour with Ben Azadi

Metabolic Freedom With Ben Azadi

Ben Azadi

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ben Azadi takes listeners on an hour-by-hour timeline of what happens inside the body during a 48-hour water fast. From digestion and insulin reduction to autophagy, fat-burning ketosis, stem cell regeneration, and a dopamine reset—this is the ultimate metabolic transformation guide. ⏰ 12–14 Hours: Complete Digestion → Energy is diverted from digestion to cellular repair Insulin Drops → Bloating decreases, energy rises ⏰ 16–17 Hours: Autophagy Begins → Cleans out damaged cells and mitochondria Mitophagy Kicks In → Optimizes fat-burning and anti-aging ⏰ 20 Hours: Ketosis Accelerates → Burning body fat, not dietary fat Mitochondrial Biogenesis → 400% boost in energy production Metabolism Increases → Burn more calories effortlessly ⏰ 24 Hours: Intestinal Stem Cell Activation → Gut healing, reduced leaky gut Surge in Human Growth Hormone 2,000% in men 1,300% in women ⏰ 30 Hours: BDNF Boosts → Brain-derived neurotrophic factor = brain repair and plasticity Mitophagy in Brain Cells → Cognitive clarity, less risk of neurodegeneration ⏰ 36 Hours: Deep Ketosis & Inflammation Drops Fat Burning Peaks → Even while at rest ⏰ 48 Hours: Apoptosis → Clearance of zombie cells (senescent cells) Stem Cell Generation → Tissue regeneration, anti-aging Dopamine Reset → Less emotional eating, reduced sugar/social media addiction 🧭 Join the Challenge:👉 Free 3-Day Burn Fat Challenge 📍 Register: http://www.burnfatchallenge.com 📚 Based on Ben’s new book Metabolic Freedom 🎁 📚 Purchase Ben's new book Metabolic Freedom today to receive immediate access to a FREE course on metabolism with exclusive interviews from Gary Brecka, Dr Daniel Pompa, Dr Jason Fung, Megan Ramos, Cynthia Thurlow & more. CLICK HERE: https://www.ketokamp.com/free-course 🔎 Find all of the Metabolic Freedom Sponsorship deals and coupon codes here: https://www.ketokamp.com/sponsorship-deals

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0:00.0	The Greek definition for metabolism is to transform. Your metabolism is designed to take food and to transform it into energy so you feel good and burn fat. We are determined to deliver the science and art of metabolism to you.
0:23.3	We bring on the thought leaders in this space to have life-changing conversations so you could apply
0:28.4	and upgrade your metabolism. The topics covered here include biohacking, ketosis, carnivore, fasting
0:35.7	strategies, mindset, and metabolic health.
0:39.2	Your body was built to be self-healing.
0:41.5	Our goal is to identify the interference and remove it.
0:44.8	You are a masterpiece because you are a piece of the master.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Metabolic Freedom Podcast.
0:51.4	My name is Benazotti.
0:52.8	I'm the best-selling author of KetoFlex, and I want to thank you for spending part of your day with me.
1:02.0	This is crazy.
1:03.0	What if I told you going without food for two days will transform your health?
1:08.0	Look, doctors will never tell you this. But I'll be going through a timeline
1:12.3	on what happens inside of your body, hour by hour, when you go without food for 48 hours.
1:18.0	Starting at the 12 hour mark, all the way to the 48 hour mark and everything in between,
1:23.5	you're going to be super shocked. And I'll be addressing at the end of the lesson, the best
1:28.8	way is to do this type of fast, how to break it, what breaks a fast, and so much more.
1:33.1	Let's start with what is happening inside of your body when you go just 12 to 14 hours
1:38.2	without food. At the 12 to 14 hour mark, two major benefits start to happen. Number one,
1:47.3	you complete digestion. It takes about 14 hours to complete digestion, and it takes a lot of energy to digest food. So there's a process
1:53.3	called energy diversion that is turned on around this time frame of a fast. Energy diversion is this.
2:02.0	Your metabolism requires a lot of energy to digest food.
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