Let's talk about what happens on the inside of your body when you're fasting.

So over here we have a start up a fast and we go 24 hours, 48 and 72.

So there's a lot of really magical things that happen when you fast.

Our bodies have developed over a long period of time and have adapted to starvation many,

many times.

So we have all these unique proteins that could express or turn down that have to do with

your brain doing better, the different parts of your body is surviving better.

Your bodies have not adapted to the frequency of eating like we do now, like every three

hours.

So right around 12 hours, we get this spike in growth hormone, growth hormone is anti-aging

hormone.

It's the main fat burning hormone.

It's the hormone involved with healing joints and it's involved with protein synthesis

or making different new proteins.

Some people take growth hormone, get injected, I don't recommend it, but they take it to

help heal certain parts of your body, but guess what?

Fasting will trigger it automatically.

So just by the fact that you're fasting, you can increase growth hormone.

And of course, exercise will also increase growth hormone as well.

So it starts about 12 hours and it increases as you go on and on.

Now at about 18 hours you start developing something called autophagy.

Autophagy is an interesting thing that happens with your body where you start recycling old

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