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The Ben Azadi Show

There Are 7 Levels of Fasting and Level 6 Creates the Exact Environment Cancer Cells Cannot Survive In: The Full Breakdown With Ben Azadi | #1335

The Ben Azadi Show

Ben Azadi

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Get your Myoscience Fasting Berberine Accelerator here: https://bit.ly/4aVZxcl  Pre-order Keto Flex Revised and get free bonuses at: https://bit.ly/4wKG1sM   7 Levels of Fasting Nobody Talks About, Including the One That Starves Cancer Cells There are seven levels of fasting, and most people never get past level two. Ben breaks down each level, what organ it heals, and why most fasting advice stops way too early to unlock the real benefits. From the 12 hour fast that frees up your pancreas, to the 16 hour fast that triggers autophagy (the Nobel Prize winning process where your cells clean out their own junk), to the 24 hour fast that flips your liver into fat burning mode, Ben walks through the science level by level. Then things get interesting. At 36 hours, inflammation markers drop and the immune system starts clearing out dysfunctional cells. At 48 to 72 hours, growth hormone floods the body, up to 2,000% in men, to protect muscle while burning fat. And at 5 days, the metabolic environment shifts into one that researchers have shown cancer cells cannot survive in. Key takeaways: 16 hours triggers autophagy, the cellular cleanup process that won a Nobel Prize in 2016 24 hours flips your liver from sugar burning to fat burning, producing ketones that can boost mitochondrial energy by up to 400% 36 hours drops inflammation markers and triggers an immune system reset 48 to 72 hours floods the body with growth hormone (up to 2,000% in men) to protect muscle while burning fat A 2019 German study followed 1,422 patients fasting 4 to 21 days, with 84% reporting health improvements and under 1% adverse effects 5 day fasts create a metabolic environment, backed by USC research and a 2022 Cancer Discovery paper, that cancer cells cannot survive in 7 days shifts something psychological: you realize you were never as hungry as you thought Research and names referenced: Dr. Valter Longo (USC), Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016 Nobel Prize), Otto Warburg, Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic (PLOS One, 2019), Intermountain Medical Center growth hormone study. Find All The Ben Azadi Show Sponsorship Deals ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ketokamp.com/sponsorship-deals

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There are seven levels of fasting and your doctor has probably never mentioned six of them.

0:28.9

Each level unlocks a different healing mode inside different organs. Level one talks to your pancreas.

0:35.6

Level three heals your liver. Level 5 floods your body of a hormone

0:40.2

that makes 18-year-olds look and feel the way they do. In level 6, the one that I was thinking about

0:46.0

not putting in this lesson, because in this level 6, it's the exact metabolic environment

0:51.4

that cancer cells cannot survive in. And that's not me being dramatic.

0:56.6

There's a 2014 USC study and 22 cancer discovery paper that I'm going to walk you through

1:03.5

in a second. Unfortunately, most people never get past level two, which means most of them never

1:09.4

burn the fat they're trying to burn.

1:11.2

They never heal the liver they're trying to heal and never touch the immune system reset

1:15.7

that nature literally built in your biology.

1:19.2

And stay with me because by the end of this lesson, you'll know exactly which level you're at,

1:24.1

what you're missing, and how to climb to the next level without fighting your

1:28.2

body. Now, before we dive in, we need to throw out the word fasting. Fasting isn't starvation,

1:34.4

fasting isn't punishment. Fasting is a signal. Every hour you go without food. Your body

1:41.1

reads that signal and changes what it's doing. Which genes are turned on

1:46.7

and turned off, which hormones are flowing, which cells are getting repaired, and which cells

1:52.0

are getting recycled. We are hardwired for fasting. For a very long time, human beings did not

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