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so I always get this comment that when

you’re fasting you’re starving okay but

it’s not true you actually are eating

when you’re fasting your cells are

eating its own fat they’re being fed not

from the diet but from your storage so

the only time fasting is starving is if

you go way too long and you used up all

of your fat and you have no more fat

left so then the body is gonna start

eating up its muscles but that would

take a very very long time

so the average thin person is walking

around with about a hundred thousand

calories of fat on their body that

should last them for a very long time so

fat will give us glycerol and fatty

acids and these two will turn into

ketones but certain parts of your body

can definitely run in fatty acids in

fact 60% of the fuel used when you’re

fasting is fatty acids so it can use

that and as far as the brain is

concerned two-thirds of the fuel can be

ketones and one third will be glucose

now this brings up a question wait a

second I thought we can run our whole

body and ketones we don’t need glucose

not true we do need a small amount of

glucose one third of the brain needs

glucose the red blood cells need glucose

in certain parts of the kidney need

glucose however there is something in

the body called gluco neo Genesis where

the body can make its own glucose and

where does it get it from well you can

get it from glycerol which is part of

the fat breakdown as far as ketones can

give you 10 grams of glucose each day

recycled lactate which is a different

type of fuel you can get up to 40 grams

of glucose a day from that your organs

can generate up to 80 grams of glucose

per day and lastly alanine which is an

amino acid from your muscles can provide

up to 15 grams of glucose

now realize this would only occur if you

run out of this because when you do

fasting your body protects against the

loss of muscle only very small amounts

of muscle is used for fuel and that

would usually occur over a period of

time so you don’t have to worry about

losing your muscles if you’re especially

doing in a minute fasting or if you have

enough fat to actually use as your fuel

now after 30 hours of fasting you will

completely deplete all of your glycogen

which is the stored sugar and your liver

so now the only glycogen you have is in

the muscles and certain other organs but

that glycogen can be made from these

sources right here it does not have to

come from the diet our bodies are very

well adapted to this and especially the

brain the brain doesn’t even have to

develop new machinery for burning

ketones

it already has it ready so if you just

increase the ketones in your blood it

will take that as priority it loves

ketones and it thrives on ketones so the

significance of this alone tells us that

our body is very well designed for

fasting and intermittent fasting and it

does very well on that it doesn’t do

good on the frequent meals and the

snacks through the day and I just wanted

to create this video to let people know

that your cells are actually eating when

you’re not eating thanks for watching if

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