How to perform intermittent fasting correctly to have its advantages?
Once we manage to establish a type of diet that is right for us, we can start fasting. We should always listen to our body when we start fasting.
We can start with natural fasts between 12 and 18 hours a day. This is very easily accomplished by eating a large meal, not eating anything after dinner, and then quickly stopping when our body feels hungry. You don't have to determine the exact number of hours, you just have to listen to what our body asks of us. Thus, if we eat dinner at 9:00 p.m. and do not feel hungry until 12:12 p.m., we will be fasting for XNUMX hours and letting our body rest. We must not force ourselves. The moment we feel hungry we have to eat.
During the fast, we can and should drink water, infusions, water with a little salt or potassium, even bone broth. This is important for the electrolytes we need.
Pure fats like MTK oil, coconut oil, ghee, etc. can also be added to the beverage like coffee. With this we would not break the fast and we would gain energy.
Special situations
There are cases where care should be taken when fasting is intermittent:
If we suffer from hashimoto or thyroid problems. In these cases, it is necessary to eat as soon as we are hungry, so as not to affect the thyroid gland.
When we have high ferritin; L higher triglycerides 70 or more than HDL; metabolic syndrome ; fasting glucose above 95 post, diseases such as cancer, etc... these situations are of greater cardiovascular risk. And it can be useful for fasting from 24 to 72 hours, yes, first you have to regulate your diet well or it will be complex.
It is possible that it is very curious that in this second case a fast of several hours, even days, is recommended. This is due to autophagy and apoptosis.
Autophagy “eats itself” and it turns out that when we fast for more than 16-24 hours, our body starts eating all the wrong cells it has, including tumors.
Apoptosis is when cells are destroyed. Wrong or very old cells that are destined to end.
Thus, our body regulates and cleanses itself during fasting and that is why it is important to follow a nutritious and healthy diet for our body.
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