https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1675170885458882560
This is such good information...some people do this yearly to reset their immune systems...the replies are always interesting to read...Dr. Makis has been such a champion for truth...I truly appreciate his calling...
Caloric restriction in general triggers cellular autophagy, fasting is just a way to do it without counting calories back from before anyone discovered thermodynamics and knew what a calorie even is. There's nothing magical about fasting itself other than making yourself miserably hungry.
This isn’t true. Simple calorie restriction does not induce autophagy. It is a duration of time without ingesting anything that triggers digestive processes in your body that starts it. It requires 16-18hrs of fasting before your body begins to enter autophagy.
And there is a lot that is “magical” about fasting. The amazing healing properties of our God given bodies are turned on during fasting.
And miserably hungry is only a state of mind. Your mind is a spoiled rotten child and when you first deny it food it will scream and cry like a baby. Master your body, tell your flesh no, you really aren’t starving after 18hrs of fasting. You just don’t have any will power to control your flesh because you/we have lived a life of indulging our fleshly desires at every whim.
A fat person has more cells than a skinny one. Cutting weight cuts the number of cells. Otherwise a fat person would have gargantuan fat cells if cell count never changed.
Absolutely evolutionarly evolved to dispise hunger. A compound called Grelin is what is responsible I think. The fasting body puts alot of its resources on keeping your brain at full power, otherwise finding food might be impossible. But the body obviously doesnt want you to be HAPPY that your STARVING.
Actually, losing bodyfat reduces what is inside those fat cells (fat, glycerol, and water), but does not get rid of the fat cells themselves. Doesn't really matter, because you will still get lean. But that is how it works.
Ghrelin is a hormone that kicks in when your body thinks it is TIME to eat, not that you SHOULD eat. If you are used to eating multiple times throughout the day, ghrelin will kick in around those times, and you will feel hungry. But that hunger will pass in an hour or so. After several days of fasting, you don't get hungry anymore. Obiously, it cannot be purely a hunger signal if it goes away completely.
Probably true, generally, but a fat bastard DOES need to "starve" for a period of time, to correct the overindulgence they have been abusing their body with for years and years to get into that situation in the first place.
The longest fast on record was something like 382 days. He was Scotsman in the 1970's/1980's, and he started fasting at 426 pounds. He kept going for more than a year, and ended his fast at around 180 pounds.
He had no health complications whatsoever, and kept the fat off for the rest of his life.
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However, the number of fat cells stays constant in adulthood in lean and obese individuals, even after marked weight loss, indicating that the number of adipocytes is set during childhood and adolescence.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06902
The above study used a combination of two unique procedures:
The scientists were able to determine the age of fat cells in the body by measuring the incorporation of radioactivity from the atmosphere into the DNA of the fat cells.
They compared the mass of the fat cells in relation to the full amount of adipose tissue in a extremely large number of human subjects whose body weights varied widely.
The scientists found that people who have obesity produce approximately twice as many new fat cells annually as lean people. They also found that fat cell death happens at twice the rate among people who have obesity, compared to lean people. Even if the people with obesity they studied lost a significant amount of weight, their total number of fat cells in the body remained constant, but the size of individual fat cells fell substantially.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106343#1
Several years ago, I can't remember when exactly, I stopped eating breakfast, and had nothing until lunchtime. I can't say if it's related, but the last time I've been sick will be four years in July, and I'm thinking that's about the same time (four years ago) that I stopped eating breakfast.
A little over a year ago I also ditched dinner, and now do all my eating mid-day, within a three hour window, and at 57 years old I'm in the best shape of my life, and look and feel much younger.
100% agree. The problem with calorie restriction in my experience is that you are still focusing on food. Usually all day. The five small meals thing for me is a total nightmare.
I was watching Aaron Rodgers' interview with Tucker Carlson and he was talking about his fasting habits, and mentioned that fasting totally changes your relationship to food. You eat to live not live to eat. That is EXACTLY it for me. I just finished a 44 hour fast yesterday (didn't make 48) and it put me back in control of my diet. I broke my fast mid day, didn't eat after 5 ish, it is now morning, and I am not hungry at all. For me it is I think a blood sugar thing but also a mental reset. Find something other than food to entertain.
You can also have black coffee and teas with nothing added.
Try this for a week:
Eat the same way you do now, but dry fast for the rest of the day, and only have a sip of water here or there if you really need it.
Humans never drank water all day long. That is a new fad.
I do this as well, only eating from noon until 8PM and have lost a lot of weight.
Also switched to carnivore diet just over a month ago, which sped up the process even more. Lost 27 lbs. in 5 weeks after the switch.
I do the same
Maintaining a low insulin level in the body, most of the time, is THE #1 KEY to good health, and especially to lean body mass.
When a person eats 5-6 meals per day, especially if those meals/snacks are high in carbs or dairy, insulin spikes. Those multiple insulin spikes throughout the day disrupt the body's natural hormone signals and cause bodyfat storage.
Obese people eat not only junk food, but they eat frequently throughtout the day. This is WHY they become obese.
Like you said, far too many people eat for entertainment, rather than health. The results speak for themselves.
The "graze like a cow" advice is probably the single worst advice that mainstream knuckleheads preach (i.e. doctors and "licensed, certified dieticians" -- yeah, licensed and certified via education that is 180 degrees opposite of how the body actually works).
Based on my own personal experience I agree 1000 percent
Calories, per se, have nothing to do with health or fat/lean.
Calories are a unit of heat measurement, and was invented back during the steam engine days to figure out how much wood or coal to put into the engine to generate the power needed.
A "calorie" is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of water.
That has nothing to do with the biochemistry of the human body.
What matters is the macronutrient content, since the body processes (via digestion, absorption, and assimilation) the protein, fat, and carbohydrate taken in.
Each of these macros is processed differently and has a different effect on the hormones of the body.
There was a man who did several self-experiments where he proved that eating a set number of "calories" would have different effects on lean mass vs. bodyfat, if the types of food were different, even thought the amount of total "calories" was the same.
He ate different diets of 5,000 calories per day, which the mainstream advice says would make him fat. Eating a meat-based diet, he did not get fat. Eating a vegan diet, he did. Eating a junk food diet, he piled on the fat. These were all the same 5,000 calories/day for 21 days.
He did another diet of 3,500 calories. Meat-based, he lost bodyfat. Plant-based, he got a little fat.
So, the amount of food ("calories") does have some importance, but it is the amount of WHAT foods that matters most.
Fasting is the total absence of food, and can have a dramatic effect on overall heath and function of the body -- especially good for healing the sick.