Here are some of
@Helen past quotes on fasting, it does lots of good things.
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Therefore, fasting helps this syndrome. fasting for 30-40 days will downregulate Progesterone receptors since body will need tons of Cortisol while you are fasting.
Ray Peat is wrong on fasting in my opinion. what fasting does is shunt everything to Cortisol, this downregulates Progesterone receptors. And 3 beta HSD works like a clock later and NAD is available and not downregulated. Therefore, calorie restriction and fasting prolongs life. And that is why NAD rises on fasting or calorie restriction.
Plus, fasting gets rid of PUFA very fast. And I love periods of high Cortisol. I think this is what makes you young and keeps you young. after you come out of fasting your Cortisol level are very low all year around since receptors are super high unless of course you bombard yourself with sugar nonstop which kills the idea.
I can tell you about fasting. You get rid of all your PUFAs in 40 days fast. You get rid of all toxic metals, hormones, viruses, sibo, bacteria. Your digestion become better after the fast. No one is saying that it is good to be on fast and run on stress hormones. But your receptors will be reset and after you come off of the fast, all your hormones will be low. And now when you sit on your ass and over eat sugar. All your hormones are not being used and your body lowers the receptors. So your levels of Cortisol are high when you eat sugar all the time. and you have to eat like 20 times a day. This is not practical.
Bottom line, more stuff you take, MORE YOU AGE, since you can’t control all the interactions. And that is why calorie restriction, fasting can keep people very young looking. since it does allow your body TIME to balance itself and get rid of overload of certain minerals. The best thing is to fast and swim in the ocean and drink a lot of water.
Fasting allows you to stop all these repeating processes while you are fasting. You fast and you don’t eat your normal food. let’s say your food intake was overloaded into a copper side or zinc side or aluminum side. While fasting, you allow your body not to get toxic in this overload and it allows time to get balanced and to get rid of this directional imbalance that you were causing with your food intake. fasting is like a laundry day. You don’t allow new toxins go in and you get rid of old ones.
When you fast all your hormones will be lower since they become more sensitive. You don't want them to be high. What is the reason. You will be super androgenic after fasting. Like a kid.
Therefore, when you are fasting your protein synthesis is even better and the body is creating new tissue at better speed and of a better quality. So please stop listening to people saying cortisol is evil. THEY ARE TOTALLY WRONG. CORTISOL IS NOT WORKING, IT IS RAISED for a reason, and those who lower it, suffer from protein synthesis problems. They need to increase its reception, and this will cause cortisol to lower without decreasing protein synthesis and zinc from the cell.
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