I want to talk about the difference between fasting and keto and which one is better.

I had this question come up underneath one of the descriptions of my YouTube videos, so I want to just talk about it.

So when we talk about keto, we're talking about low carb.

Now you could do keto with zero carb. You could do that, but most people have just a small amount of carb.

They might have it between 20 and 50 grams.

But when you're doing fasting, you're bringing it down to no carbs because you're not eating anything.

Just for the fact that you have no carbs means that you're going to have way more ketones than when you do actually do keto if you compare them together.

Now with keto, you're going to be eating at a certain frequency.

And every time you eat, regardless of what you eat, if there's any significance of calories, you're going to stimulate something called GIP.

That's in a small intestine. That triggers a spike in insulin.

So even though you're consuming low carbohydrates, you are stimulating insulin when you eat to a certain degree.

So over here, when you're fasting, there's no GIP stimulated.

So you're going to have a lot lower insulin and a lot more ketones that are generated.

Next thing is that when you actually are in ketones, you will stimulate certain genes that will help you in various ways.

But when you're fasting, you actually enhance even additional genes that have to do with survival.

And definitely have to do with anti-aging and longevity, which will help the brain become more focused and the heart to become more efficient.

And those ketones that are generated for both will actually increase more oxygen in the body and less CO2.

And ketones in general act as antioxidants.

Now with fasting, you're going to get much more autophagy.

And that is a condition where your body is recycling old damaged proteins and turning them into new tissue.

Now with ketosis, you are going to get some autophagy, but not nearly as much.

So just by looking at these two alone, you can see that fasting has a much more powerful impact on your health than just ketosis.

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