What Really Happens When We Fast?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Today, we’re going to talk about what happens on the inside of your body when you’re fasting.
There are a lot of beneficial effects of fasting on the body. Over a long period of time, the human body has developed and adapted to starvation. However, our bodies have not adapted to frequent eating.
What happens when we fast?
Effects of fasting after 12 hours—There is a spike in growth hormone.
Growth hormone is involved with:
• Anti-aging
• Fat burning
• Healing joints
• Protein synthesis
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about what happens on the inside of your body when you're fasting. |
| 0:49.3 | So over here we have a start of a fast and we go 24 hours, 48 and 72. |
| 0:57.3 | So there's a lot of really magical things that happen when you fast. |
| 1:00.8 | Our bodies have developed over a long period of time and have adapted to starvation many, |
| 1:06.9 | many times. |
| 1:07.8 | So we have all these unique proteins that get expressed or turned on |
| 1:11.8 | that have to do with your brain doing better, the different parts of your body surviving better. |
| 1:17.3 | Our bodies have not adapted to the frequency of eating like we do now, like every three hours. |
| 1:23.5 | So right around 12 hours, we get this spike in growth hormone. Growth hormone is the anti-aging |
| 1:30.0 | hormone. It's the main fat-burning hormone. It's the hormone involved with healing joints, and it's |
| 1:37.5 | involved with protein synthesis or making different new proteins. Some people take growth hormone, |
| 1:43.8 | get injected. I don't recommend it, |
| 1:45.6 | but they take it to help heal certain parts of your body. But guess what? Fasting will trigger it |
| 1:52.0 | automatically. So just by the fact that you're fasting, you can increase growth hormone. |
| 1:56.4 | And of course, exercise will also increase growth hormone as well. |
| 2:01.5 | So it starts about 12 hours and it increases as you go on and on. |
| 2:05.7 | Now at about 18 hours, you start developing something called atophagy. |
| 2:10.6 | Itophagy is an interesting thing that happens with your body where you start recycling old damaged proteins and microbes as well. |
| 2:21.3 | One type of protein would be the advanced glycated end products, which basically when you |
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