Hey guys in this video we're going to talk about refeeding dangers after prolonged fasting,

okay? So let's say you do a fast for 48 72 hours a week longer and then you have your first meal.

If you're deficient going into this fast and you pig out and you have this huge meal,

you could risk the danger to your heart and to your overall electrolytes and you can actually

faint, you can pass out, you can have even more serious side effects because what happens

is that you got your insulin levels so low by doing fasting that you're going to eat and you're

going to spike your insulin, it's going to go way out, okay? You're going to get this huge shift

in electrolytes which are electrically charged minerals like potassium, magnesium,

phosphates, things like that. You're going to have this huge shift inside the cell because insulin

acts as a key to allow these minerals to go inside the cell. The problem is you're going to create

a severe deficiency of these minerals in the blood in the plasma, okay? So you're going to get

all sorts of hyponatrimia that's low potassium in the blood because all these minerals have shifted

inside the cell, thus the intracellular shift. So in the body you have this balance of minerals

in the blood and inside the cell. So we get a lot more minerals that go inside the cell and

a lot less minerals that go inside the blood and then we get all these problems in the body.

So what you should do as your first meal is eat something very small like maybe half of avocado,

maybe a little bit of broth with soup with sea salt, maybe a little bit of egg and then wait

a little bit and then have a little salad, wait a little bit, have a little bit more. So you

gradually put the food in your body, that way you decrease the risk of any problems to the heart

or any other parts of your body. It's also important to build up to these prolonged fasting

periods. So with a lot of nutrients in the body and also let your body tell you when to do a

prolonged fast. So let's say you're going to go for a period of time and you're like just really

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