What Happens If You Don't Eat For 100 Hours?

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about what would happen if you don't eat for 100  

hours and it's critical that you watch this  video carefully because if you're like most  

people and you don't understand what happens in  the body and the Very idea of skipping a meal  

is terrifying to you then you'll probably never  experience the amazing benefits that you can get  

from fasting and these benefits include things  like weight loss reduced inflammation increased  

mental Clarity reduced insulin resistance reverse  type 2 diabetes you can detoxify the body you can  

improve longevity and even improve immunity and  all of these benefits come down to a handful of  

mechanisms that we really need to have just a  basic grasp on and I'm going to keep it simple  

for you so we can improve insulin sensitivity  we improve hormone balance when we fast we  

trigger Sur survival genes we can improve gut  health reduce inflammation and reduce oxidative  

stress and perhaps the most important benefit  that you really can't get very much of unless  

you do fasting is called autophagy and we'll get  into some great detail on that but fasting also  

comes with a few challenges so the number one is  fear we're afraid of what might happen we've been  

told that it's dangerous to fast we're afraid of  getting hungry we're afraid of losing muscle and  

getting hypoglycemia where our blood sugar drops  too low where do we get nutrients if we don't eat  

and of course there may be some Interruption of  your social life we also need to understand that  

fasting is not for everyone extended fasting is  not for everyone and there is also a risk that  

you might binge unhealthy Foods afterwards so  how do we deal deal with these challenges well  

it's pretty straightforward for fear you just  have to learn the truth if you understand how  

it really works there's nothing to be afraid  of and that's what we're going to talk about  

in this video Hunger muscle loss hypoglycemia and  nutrient deficiencies those are things we're going  

to cover throughout the video and when it comes to  disrupting social life that probably will happen  

but realize that you're not going to do this  type of fast like 72 hours 100 hours probably  

more than two to three or maybe four times a  year so during that time you just have to figure  

out hey how do I work around and how do I plan it  into my schedule if I want all these benefits and  

then it's not for everyone so for small children  pregnant women if you have a disease condition  

if you're extremely thin then you probably want  to think twice about doing an extended fast you  

can still do intermittent fasting like maybe 16  hour fasts most days uh that's not a problem for  

anybody but longer fasts probably not so much and  there is also the risk that if you don't eat for a  

while and you look forward to food and you're used  to eating all the time then you might be binging  

unhealthy Foods after but it really comes down to  what kind of food habits do you have if you mostly  

eat junk food and you get super excited and you  get into this long fast and you dream about food  

the whole time and you have a bunch of junk food  around the house then yes you will probably or  

possibly start eating a bunch of unhealthy foods  and overcompensate but if you already have good  

habits and there's only good food in the house  then that is not really going to be an issue so  

what happens when you stop eating when you start  fasting is that first you lose weight yeah I'm  

sorry it's terrible I knew that you didn't want  that to happen but oh well and this is because  

when you don't eat you have to use stored energy  that's the whole point of storing body fat and  

excess energy on the body so that we can use it  when there's no food avilable and the body can  

store two things for energy it's called glycogen  which is a form of glucose or carbohydrate and  

we can also store fat so in the beginning if your  body is used to using carbohydrates primarily then  

you will start using up this glycogen and you can  store about one pound of glycogen in your muscles  

and in your liver and now something interesting  though is that this glycogen is kind of like  

a sponge it absorbs and binds water so this one  pound of glycogen is going to bind three pounds of  

water which when you start using up the glycogen  now you also start releasing the water because  

there's no sponge there to hold the water so as  you burn through one pound of glycogen you will  

most likely lose four pounds of body weight and  then gradually as you start burning through that  

glycogen you will also start using up more body  fat and here's how that works so most people are  

adapted to eating large amounts of carbohydrate  and therefore when you put carbohydrate in that's  

the first few fuel that your body needs to use  up because really high blood sugar is dangerous  

to the brain high or very low blood sugar can put  you into a coma so when your blood sugar is high  

your body has to use that first and therefore  if you are used to doing that your body will  

start off burning a high level of carbohydrate  and a somewhat lower level of fat but then as  

time goes on on and you're not adding any new  carbohydrate your body will start to decrease  

the use of carbs all the way down to a very low  level and at the same time the stored fuel on  

the body is fat so your body learns to use more  fat it switches more to fat and if you are fully  

fat adapted and in a fast like after 48 hours in  or so then you probably use about 95 5% of your  

energy from fat and about 5% from carbohydrate  and you don't have to eat that carbohydrate it  

is already stored as glycerol triglycerides in  your fat cells in the fat that you stored there's  

a little backbone of glycerol that can become  carbohydrate and that's about that 5% so in the  

beginning you'll mostly lose water because that  glycogen can't hold on to the water anymore but  

over time you start using more fat and during a 3  to 4 day fast you'll probably burn through about 1  

to two pounds of fat now what a lot of people are  worried about and you may have heard this is that  

when you go on a fast then you become hypoglycemic  your blood sugar drops and you start producing a  

bunch of cortisol because cortisol is a stress  hormone that the body uses to try to raise blood  

sugar and increase gluconeogenesis meaning to  make glucose blood sugar from something other  

than carbohydrate and we can do that from two  things we can do it from protein and we can do  

it from this glycerol that we talked about that's  stored in the fat and once you become fully fat  

adapted that glycerol is enough so what about  this fear of hypoglycemia well when you go on  

a fast and you start burning more fat then your  body doesn't need as much carbohydrate and blood  

sugar for the brain but there's still a little  bit going on here so basically if if we say that  

we start at hypothetically this level and then  as we go through the fast and we don't eat now  

we're probably going to have a little bit of  an increase in cortisol and over time though  

then we reach a certain point and the body is  stressed because of we're not eating so it has  

to make that blood sugar but as the fat burning  increases now we don't need so much blood sugar  

anymore and we'll come back and talk more about  that so now that cortisol drops again so when  

people tell you that your cortisol is going to be  elevated and very high throughout a fast and it's  

very stressful for the body for that reason that's  not true because once you're fully fat adapted and  

you don't need the glucose anymore then your body  is not going to release cortisol for that reason  

but here's another thing to keep in mind that  if you go gradually on a low carb diet before  

you do this fast then this scenario is going to  look a little bit different so you're not going  

to start off with carbohydrates really high  because if you're on low carb you're already  

fat adapted so now your carbs are going to start  probably down here and you're all already burning  

more fat than carbohydrates because that's what  you're giving your body in the diet and now this  

carbohydrate is again going to drop down to  about 5% and the fat is going to increase to  

about 95 but there're very small changes it's  not so dramatic because that's what the body  

is already doing and now the cortisol response is  going to be much much less so just hypothetically  

it might go up a little bit and then it'll just  settle down again because there's no big stress  

you're already fat adapted you're already having  that metabolism in place but then we get to what  

some people might think is bad news and that is  that you'll probably gain four pounds back three  

or four pounds as you start eating again because  the four lbs you lost first were just glycogen  

and water and once you start eating again the body  is going to go back to storing some glycogen and  

absorbing some water so a lot of people now are  going to say hey then that was a total waste I'm  

not going to worry about it because I could lose a  measly pound some other way well that's not how it  

works that's not what you're looking for you are  setting yourself up for Success you're looking for  

the momentum and the long-term benefits and then  we want to understand hunger that's probably the  

single biggest deterrent for people because most  of us until we hear about this and give it a try  

most of us have probably never gone a day in our  lives without food I know that was certainly the  

case for me but there's two hormones insulin and  gin that we need to understand so insulin first of  

all is involved in fat storage whenever we eat our  blood sugar goes up insulin is released to take  

that blood sugar out of the bloodstream into the  cell where the some of it is used and the excess  

gets converted to Fat so the trend the tendency  for insulin is to promote fat storage and not just  

fat storage but lipogenesis meaning making fat  out of carbohydrate and when we have high levels  

of insulin when we become insulin resistant and we  have chronically High high levels of insulin now  

we will have a tendency we'll have some momentum  toward fat storage and what a lot of people don't  

realize is that if you have increased insulin  if you have chronically high levels of insulin  

and that promotes fat storage and prevents fat  burning then you're going to be more hungry than  

you would be otherwise because you store all that  energy but because of the high insulin you have  

a lesser tendency to get it back you can't really  retrieve that with high insulin your body prefers  

to go and eat more and then of course the opposite  of that is true that if you can lower insulin then  

you can move toward fat burning and if you can  burn the fat and release those fat stores then  

you actually become less hungry so we'll come back  to that but there's also a hormone called gin and  

that's your hunger hormone and typically what we  think about is that grin Rises to make you hungry  

when your body is supposed to go and get food  when it's supposed to hunt something down and and  

eat something and then as you have satisfied your  body then this grin level drops to a low level and  

you're not hungry anymore until it's time to eat  again but it turns out it's not quite that simple  

because grin is mostly habitual so what does that  mean well let's say that you have gin rise in the  

morning when it's time to have breakfast and then  you eat and your gin drops and you're not hungry  

and then we repeat this a few times throughout  the day that makes perfect sense but what happens  

is this is mostly habitual the Gin Rises to  make you hungry as a habit to help you eat at  

the times that you usually eat so if you usually  have breakfast lunch and dinner then those are the  

times that your grillin is going to rise and it's  like a program in your body but here's the really  

cool part that if you get hungry and you ignore  it and you just have a cup of coffee or a cup of  

tea and 30 minute goes by then your gin is going  to drop anyway it's not going to stay high your  

body isn't evil and mean to you it's not going  to keep you miserable it's just trying to get  

you hey let's see if there's some food out there  somewhere because overall food is a good thing it  

helps survival but if there is no food around  it's not going to keep you miserable and keep  

that grin high it's going to drop down and try  again later so it's not as bad as people think  

just to ignore that hunger and go do something  else go for a walk have a cup of tea and that gin  

will drop and you won't be hungry and you won't  even think about it sometimes for the next day  

or so but insulin isn't just about weight loss or  hunger in fact it is the most important factor as  

far as most chronic degenerative diseases that we  try to reverse with fasting so when you have high  

levels of insulin over time you become insulin  resistant and what we're trying to do then is  

to reverse that and become insulin sensitive  so how does fat fasting do that why is fasting  

unique in that regard well your body wants to  maintain a very narrow range of blood sugar so  

when you eat something and your blood sugar goes  up now your body quickly releases some insulin  

to a similar to an appropriate corresponding level  and now this glucose comes back down into a normal  

range and then this insulin also comes down into  a normal range and then we do that over and over  

we do it one more time and we do it maybe three  four five six times in some cases and of course  

the insulin goes up and down but then we have  our last meal of the day and we get down into  

this range but then if we only fast for like 8  hours now this doesn't have time to get very low  

before we eat again and especially if your insulin  resistant if you have high levels of insulin then  

this is not going to drop back down into a good  level during just a single night's fasting but  

when you go beyond 8 and 12 and 24 and 36 hours  now the insulin keeps dropping for the duration  

of the fast because if you're not adding any new  food there is no reason for the body to release  

large amounts of insulin it's going to level off  at a baseline level where you just need enough  

to regulate your basic blood sugar but not enough  not large amounts to deal with incoming food and  

this is how long-term fasting extended fasting  Beyond 24 hours is probably the most powerful  

tool to break through plateaus of high levels of  insulin and insulin resistance and when you do  

that now you can start reversing type 2 diabetes  you can reverse hypertension in many cases people  

try this and they say hey blood sugar drops  but also my blood pressure normalized and of  

course some of the tremendous benefits would be to  reduce the risk of heart disease reduce the risk  

of stroke and reduce the risk of cancer these are  the big killers of mankind today and all of them  

even though there are other contributing factors  all of them are primarily metabolic conditions  

that we can improve the risk by becoming more  insulin sensitive and fasting will also reduce  

inflammation which if you recall heart disease  the primary risk factor the primary mechanism is  

chronic lowgrade inflammation that causes heart  dis so now we can start affecting these from  

many different directions so let's talk a little  more about heart disease because it's an important  

topic and people really need to understand some  things I want to illustrate this with a patient  

case we had someone come through they did some  blood work and in May of 23 they had a total  

cholesterol of 260 and then 7 months later in  January of 2024 very recently they had dropped  

that to 190 and the LDL cholesterol which is often  called the bad cholesterol was from 160 and it  

went down to 108 and the vast majority of doctors  and the vast majority of the general population  

would say that this was a great development  they would say that this person got a whole  

lot healthier he lowered his total cholesterol and  lowered his bad cholesterol but I want to tell you  

that these two markers are complet irrelevant  they are not the things to look at instead what  

you need to look at is the LDL particle count how  many LDL particles are there because when they  

measure LDL as 160 and it went to 108 they measure  milligrams per deciliter that's the total mass of  

LDL cholesterol but the risk has to do with the  number of particles because if you have larger  

number of particles then there's more particles  that can bump up against the inside of the blood  

vessel and slip through if there are some cracks  and some gaps and the other factor that matters is  

how big are these LDL particles and again this is  not the only factor or the two factors but these  

are in my opinion the two of the most important  and two that are very easy to look at and if we  

have small particles less Les than 20.5 nanometers  then they're more likely to slip through the Gap  

so a large number of small particles are more  likely to slip through these gaps and cracks and  

cause plaques so here's what's really astounding  even though the total weight of the cholesterol  

went down dramatically and that might look like  a good thing the particle count the number of LDL  

particles actually went went up the total mass  went down the number went up so he increased his  

risk of heart disease but not only that of course  now you realize that these particles got a lot  

smaller so when we count the number of particles  under 20.5 nanometers he had less than 90 before  

and he went to 699 afterwards so now you're  all wondering what did this person do between  

May and January well here's the thing he had been  on a Statin drug for 10 years and then he learned  

some things about nutrition and diet he wanted  to reverse his diabetes and he wanted to heal his  

body and support his body naturally so he went off  the Statin drug so in May of 23 he had been off  

of his medication for about six months and then he  went back to his medical doctor who ran some blood  

work and of course he didn't run the particle to  so he didn't learn the real risk factors and the  

doctor told him you have to get back on a Statin  drug so he did and officially based on mainstream  

criteria the numbers went down and everything  looked good but as you now understand he actually  

increased his risk for heart disease along with of  course some burden on the body with the burden of  

medication and side effects and so on so I'm not  saying that everyone is going to react this way  

I'm not saying that nobody should take cholesterol  medication but this person shouldn't at least not  

that kind but if you don't measure what really  matters then you'll never know so if you never  

had this done I suggest you get that checked  and I'll put a link down below where you can  

get some discounted blood work if you don't have  access to it because unfortunately most places  

will not cover these tests and it's called an  NMR cholesterol panel and I also made a course  

where I go into a lot more detail about not just  cholesterol but about everything basically that  

can show up on your blood test if you really want  to start understanding the body that'd be another  

good thing to do and I'll put a link for that as  well but now let's talk about how this relates to  

fast and again I'm not saying that everyone's  going to have these results but here's what  

happened to me last time that I did a 100 hour  fast which was a few months ago so we're going  

to compare the beginning and after a 100 hours  my total cholesterol went from 220 to 255 now how  

does cholesterol go up we hear that you shouldn't  eat foods that are rich in cholesterol because it  

raises your cholesterol and that may or may not be  true depending on the person and what you eat but  

I ate nothing and my cholesterol went up by a good  bit my LDL went from 146 to 169 I ate nothing and  

my cholesterol went up and that means it's not  really related to the amount of cholesterol in  

your diet it has to do with hormones and metabolic  balances and checks and Bounds and the fact that  

you have some cholesterol all stored in your fat  tissue that gets released but that's not a bad  

thing but like we said these markers are not the  ones to look at so let's look at the important  

ones and my particle count went from 1709 to 1222  and this is dramatic if you look at this my LDL  

milligrams per deciliter the mass and weight of  cholesterol went up I had more cholesterol but  

dramatically fewer particles so of course now  you understand that means they got bigger and  

the number of particles under 20.5 nanometers the  ones that would be damaged and damaging went from  

351 to less than 90 and again less than 90 simply  means that there are so few that they have a hard  

time measuring and coming up with a number or they  don't bother because they're so few they just put  

less than 90 and one of the biggest factors in  heart disease and cardiovascular disease and what  

causes the particles to shrink is inflammation  and oxidative stress if we damage these particles  

they're going to tend to get smaller so let's  look at more factors about this inflammation  

so fasting can reduce inflammation and it can do  this many many different ways it will reduce the  

pro-inflammatory white blood cells so you have  all these white blood cells as part of your  

immune system and sometimes it's appropriate  to have more inflammation and sometimes less  

inflammation but fasting tends to reduce the  particular cells that promote inflammation so  

overall we get less inflammation it will act can  act as an immune system reset and if your immune  

system has a tendency to make a lot of these  pro-inflammatory then with a reset we can lower  

that chronic level of inflammation and a lot of  inflammation in the body has to do with the gut  

so when you don't eat any food now there's no  food to irritate so you reduce gut irritation  

and you're also not feeding the pathogenic gut  bacteria you're feeding all bacteria less but  

especially the pathogenic ones tend to like the  processed foods and the sugar but overall you're  

getting a break to give give your body a rest to  heal that gut and as a result you can improve your  

balance of your microbiome which can further  help in gut healing and if everything works a  

little better if you have a healthier membrane a  better biome now you can actually have less food  

intolerances you can start tolerating food better  because that's really all about how well your gut  

is doing it's not really you that's allergic to  food it's the whole environment in your gut that's  

allergic to food but there's even more ways that  you reduce inflammation with fasting you reduce  

free radicals and you reduce oxidative stress  when you don't eat because most free radicals  

and oxidative stress comes from processing and  burning through food another big factor is that  

you're increasing ketones when you're burning  through your fat stores your body upregulates  

ketones and they are anti- inflammatory and  this also helps with mitochondrial repair so  

mitochondria are little things inside your cells  that make virtually all of your energy 95% plus  

of all the energy that you use are actually made  by a little separate entity inside your cells and  

whenever you make energy when you burn food and  make energy you create free radicals and oxidative  

stress that's unavoidable but the healthier your  mitochondria are the cleaner that happens when  

you have old and sick and damaged mitochondria  it's kind of like rust it's like an old rusty car  

it doesn't burn clean at all it just fumes and  spews things everywhere but if you can improve  

the health of those mitochondria and repair them  now they're going to increase their capacity to  

make energy but also burn much cleaner and then we  have autophagy so even if you don't have a disease  

even if you are at your ideal weight autophagy  would be the reason to do this fasting anyway  

so autophagy means selfing but it doesn't mean  that you're going to start chewing on yourself  

it's not that type of self-eating it simply means  that when there are no new resources when you're  

not adding new resources to the body especially  protein then the existing resources become so  

much more precious and the body has to get better  and better and better at utilizing and making the  

most of those resources and as a result it will  increase its recycling ability it will perform  

cellular cleanup so that it can go out in the body  and look for things that are a little bit degraded  

some cells that that aren't so healthy some  misfolded proteins some bacteria anything that  

could be a resource the body just start looking  really really hard and as a result you actually  

improve your immunity because some of these things  that go out looking for things are part of your  

immune system your white blood cells and overall  you perform quite a powerful detoxification as  

through the mechanism of autophagy and here's  another way to think about autophagy I'm sure  

you've all heard the saying when the going gets  tough right the tough get going well when you're  

fasting then it gets a little tougher and now  your body has to get much much better and one  

thing that happens is it starts upregulating human  growth hormone this is a tissue building hormone  

it is a muscle sparing hormone any new tissue any  repair any growth that you want to make you need  

human growth hormone and during a 3-day fast  you could actually upregulate your levels of  

human growth hormone many many times some Studies  have shown like seven eight 10 times more growth  

hormone during a fast and this brings us to  one of the fears or concerns which is muscle  

loss some people say oh if you don't eat protein  you're going to lose muscle no you won't not sure  

short term and 3 4 5 days is short term if you  go from months and months yes you will reach a  

point where your body starts breaking down muscle  to turn into glucose but muscle is the last thing  

your body wants to break down because you need it  you need your muscles to propel the body and go  

find new food and that's why the body upregulates  this human growth hormone so dramatically to make  

sure that because it's it's muscle sparing you're  not going to use up any muscle you're going to  

use everything else first all the debris and as  I said before you don't really need the muscle  

to make glucose because you have 5% carbohydrates  stored in the fat tissue which is plenty to work  

during ketosis another thing that increases  dramatically is another hormone called brain  

derived neurotrophic factor or bdnf and that's  basically Miracle Grow for the brain and why does  

the body do this well remember when the going gets  tough the body gets better at everything it needs  

to get better so it needs to increase its ability  to learn it needs to increase its ability to adapt  

and find new Solutions and human growth hormone  and bdnf are necessary for bu building tissue  

which includes brain synapses anytime you learn  something it's because you rewired your nervous  

system you're sending out new little tentacles  that connect to other tentacles to create a neural  

network and that's how we learn so during a fast  you're actually better at learning you're better  

at adapting and one more way the body gets better  is it improves survival fasting trip survival  

genes called cin so even if you don't have a  disease these are very very powerful reasons  

to do a fast now and then anyway but a lot of  people are confused about how long does it take  

that's very common question autophagy when does  it start and like most things in the body it's  

not like a cut off it's not black or white like  nothing up to this point and then it's all on  

on instead we want to think of it as gradual now  for the first 12 hours you're probably not getting  

any autophagy hardly at all and then up to about  72 to 100 hours it's going to increase to a Max  

Level and then it's going to Plateau so depending  on how your diet is if you're high carb if you're  

already fat adapted if you're in ketosis after 12  hours you're probably going to have very little  

but after 6 it's going to start kicking in just a  little bit now again on high carb you're probably  

not getting anything yet and then as time goes 24  48 72 100 hours it gets to deeper levels but you  

don't want to just think about this as how deep a  level you reach even though that's important you  

want to think about how long am I in that state  because the time there is like a multiplier so if  

you're doing inter in fasting and low carb you're  getting a little bit probably a little bit of  

autophagy for a few hours every day and it's still  significant because it's every day but if you go  

longer fasting like 24 hours that would be more  like a one meal a day and then as you go longer  

and longer and longer now you get to deeper levels  but you multiply that level by the time that  

you're in that state now for the average person  there is no way to directly measure autophagy  

this is very complicated to do in a lab setting  but there are some simple things you can check  

for yourself that give you a good approximation  a good indication of where you are and ketones  

is one where if you are normal and you're eating  like most people you're probably going to be 0 to  

0.1 and this is ketones in in milles per liter and  the Ketone we're measuring is beta hydroxy beate  

and there are urine strips there are breathalyzers  but if you want to have a number that's accurate  

you want to get a blood test you and you can get  this yourself you buy a little keto meter and you  

buy these little sticks and uh my favorite is keto  Mojo because they've been around forever and they  

very reliable and consistent plus their uh reorder  sticks are very affordable so I'll put a link down  

below there but then as you get into 12 16 hours  it's going to depend on if you're fat adapted if  

you get any reading so the average person might  be at 0.2 they might start seeing something creep  

up whereas if you're low carb or already in some  level of ketosis after 16 hours you're probably  

going to start seeing one 1.5 something like that  and everyone's going to react differently produce  

different amounts of ketones but as a rule of  thumb just to see approximately what you might  

expect would be that after two days you might  see numbers in the two range and three days in  

the three range and after four days in the four  range so again some people are going to have more  

or less but just to give you an idea of of where  it's heading and the other marker you want to keep  

keep an eye on is glucose and again it's going to  start off for a healthy person probably around 90  

mgram per deciliter if you want to convert that  to milles you divide by 18 and you get five and  

then as the fast keeps going you're going to see  those markers drop maybe 85 80 70 60 even if you  

get down to 50 or 40s toward the end of a fast  that's not a problem if you're feeling good if  

you have symptoms of hypoglycemia if you're dizzy  lethargic lightheaded then that's something that  

you want to keep an eye on because if it if you  get symptoms then you probably want to eat but  

if you're feeling okay then it's all right for  the glucose to go down because the brain needs  

energy and when you eat a lot of carbohydrate  your body is going to burn the carbs first and  

and your blood glucose levels are always going to  be relatively high but as you eat fewer carbs the  

reason the body makes ketones is to provide an  alternate fuel and as carbs go down ketones go  

up now there's an even more interesting marker  it's a ratio so if we divide the glucose by the  

ketones we get the gki or glucose Ketone index  and and what we do here is We Take 5 divided by  

0.1 we get 50 if we take the next one we see that  we get down to 4.7 assuming that we are in some  

level of ketosis and we have gotten our ketones up  to maybe one and these would be typical numbers in  

the beginning so for an average healthy person  who has good blood sugar control but very very  

little ketones you're probably going to start off  with a ratio at 50 and then as you start making  

some ketones this is going to drop very quickly  and what theyve found in some research is that  

for the truly really deep levels of autophagy  you want to get that ratio down to about a one  

and in some studies they' found if you get it  down to one that's where you can really starve  

a cancer you can even start reducing or reversing  or eliminating certain types of tumors so as your  

levels of ketones increase you're going to see  these numbers change pretty quick because again  

ketones go up glucose go down if we divide we  seek faster changes and these are pretty close  

to what I had last time that I did 100h hour  fast I think I ended up with 55 or something  

in terms of glucose and I think I was over five  on ketones but again it's not a competition but  

just roughly what you can expect to see what about  nutrient deficiencies well even though your body  

needs nutrients it doesn't need them every hour  or every day there are certain things that the  

body has reserves of we store fat for many many  months a lot of the fat soluble vitamins will  

have enough for months and even the water soluble  vitamins and nutrients you're not really going to  

need them every day missing a few days is going  to be perfectly fine now there's one exception and  

that is something called electrolytes those are  something that you really do want to supplement  

during a fast and the reason is that electrolytes  are charged particles that are dissolved in the  

water and water and electrolytes tend to follow  each other and if you remember talked about how  

as we burn through the glycogen the glycogen is  a sponge and as we burn through it it releases  

water that water flushes out and it takes  electrolytes with it the other reason is  

that when you fast your insulin levels drop and  high levels of insulin will tend to increase the  

reabsorption to excessively reabsorb electrolytes  now before you can find find a balance long term  

when you get into a fast if you've been at  a very high level and you start fasting and  

your insulin drops now that's one more way that  you can start losing electrolytes and water and  

the vast majority of symptoms and problems and  challenges that people run into like fatigue  

and headaches and nausea Lethy Li headedness it  is most of that is because they are losing too  

many electrolytes and if you supplement some  electrolytes then most of that you will never  

experience and the four main electrolytes that you  want to make sure is in there is sodium potassium  

magnesium and calcium these are the big ones you  need hundreds or thousands of milligrams every day  

in some products you're only going to find sodium  and potassium in differing ratios in some of the  

better ones you're also going to see magnesium  and calcium so of course when I made my product I  

included all of those but I also put in something  called trace minerals and there is between 70 and  

80 I think I've seen 72 quoted and these are other  minerals charged particles that you need in very  

very small amounts like milligrams or micrograms  even and there's between 15 and 20 of these that  

are absolutely essential meaning necessary for  life and most people because of their depleted  

diet are deficient the vast majority of people  are deficient in one or more of these trace  

minerals so it's just good to get a product that  has all of that in it but when I made my product  

I didn't just want a good electrolyte powder I  wanted the ultimate fasting companion so I put  

in a couple more things mang bisglycinate and  zinc L carnosine and those are both chelated  

means they are bound to amino acids so they're  more bioavailable they're more food like than  

just a salt and manganese is necessary for tissue  regeneration and also blood sugar regulation both  

of those are of course super important during a  fast and zinc L carnosine has been shown to help  

in gut healing specifically so a lot of people  are going to benefit from fasting in terms of  

gut healing and then if you add these two things  then you're giving your body a little extra boost  

there but it's also made for everyday mineral  supplementation so you can just take one scoop  

a day and on purpose I didn't put a lot of salt a  lot of sodium in there because everyone has a salt  

shaker and salt is dirt cheap so as you eat food  you just sprinkle your salt on that however when  

you go on a fast of more than 24 hours and you  don't eat any food at all now you want to increase  

to two to four scoops of this electrolyte powder  because you're not getting any electrolytes and  

you want to add some salt extra to your electroly  drink to make sure because you're not adding  

any salt to the food so by doing this you can  eliminate the vast majority of complications and  

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