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today we’re going to talk about the relationship between fasting during

Ramadan and its immune effects Ramadan lasts between 29 and 30 days and you’re

required not to drink or eat anything just before sunrise to just after sunset

this is a dry fast and what I mean by a dry fast is you’re not drinking any

water now before we get into the benefits I do want to point out this one

very very important point if you look at some of the studies done on Ramadan

you’re gonna see some mixed reviews and I think the reason for that because what

you eat before and after you fast is going to make or break your success if

you are eating a lot of junk food or refined carbohydrates that is going to

greatly inhibit these amazing effects that you could achieve if you added keto

friendly foods low carb during the meals I mean think about it ketones in

general are antimicrobial when you do fasting you actually decrease with cold

cytokines there are different types of cytokines and cytokines are chemical

messages that communicate between your immune cells there are certain cytokines

that cause inflammation and those are the ones that we’re talking about so

it’ll decrease the trigger to inflammation also it will stimulate

something called macrophages a macrophage is a large cell that eats

bacteria and microbes and viruses this is like a professional what’s called a

phagocyte which not just like a garbage disposal but it is a deadly killer any

one of the first lines of defense for any type of invasion for microbes the

more you can stimulate macrophages the better the immune system all right next

thing is it will increase the microbiome what is the microbiome that describes

your friendly microbes in your body that help you a great majority of your mewn

system and I’m talking like 70 percent is located in your large intestine and

I’m talking about a microbiome which I did a video on and I’ll

that link down below gives you incredible immune support and without it

your risk for infection go straight up and vertical when you do fasting which

is kind of weird because you’re actually kind of starving them they live longer

there’s certain type of genetic things that get triggered that support your

immune system next thing is resistance to stress when

you fast you increase your capacity to fight off stress as well as DNA damage

to also when you fast you decrease oxidative stress you’re gonna have less

free radicals you’re also going to get an increase in production of your

antioxidant networks which also can help as well and lastly fasting will increase

autophagy which is your body’s ability to recycle old damaged parts as well as

microbes there’s a very specific type of autophagy called xenophage which targets

pathogens one huge benefit of fasting is basically the elimination of these

microbes that can stay dormant in your body for many many years

Ramadan has huge powerful effects on the immune system but I think it could be a

lot better if you also add Keto if you’re new to my channel I put a link

down below of exactly what you should be eating to enhance your benefits if you

want more information about fasting check out this intro video right here