What Happens If You Eat NOTHING For 7 Days
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 Published On May 6, 2018

What happens if you don't eat for a week with an extended fasting weight loss plan? Find out how fasting effects your body and brain from long term prolonged fasting. If you're planning a water fast and want to transition from intermittent fasting this video will help.

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Timestamps:
6 Hours – Your Body Breaks Down Glycogen into Glucose: 3:06
2-3 Days -- Hunger Pains Diminish, Burn Off Glycogen Reserves 3:30
Enter a State of Ketosis 4:14
Loss of Libido, Shutdown of Menstrual Cycle 5:37
Break Your Fast Slowly 6:10
Health Benefits 7:51

382 Day Fast Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Health benefits of fasting study: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange...

Fasting has been steadily growing in popularity & a lot of people have questions about extended longer duration fasting. Unlike intermittent fasting this will typically involve not eating for a couple days. And most people immediately dismiss this as a viable option for Fat Loss & weight loss because there are so many myths surrounding this topic. People are worried about losing their muscle mass, they're worried about slowing down their metabolism, & they're worried about their health & well-being in general. So in today's video I want to go over exactly what will happen to your body if you don't eat anything for 7 days straight. If you're looking to burn some fat lose some weight or if you're just looking to try an extended fast I highly recommend you stay with me through this video because I can tell you exactly what to expect & help settle the myths & doubts in your mind about a longer-term fast. First off let me start by saying that you shouldn't just jump into a 7 day long fast without first getting used to shorter fasting intervals like intermittent fasting, the warrior diet, and the one meal a day diet. I recommend you first try to fast for only two days however, even if you did do a 7 day fast contrary to what a lot of you may think you're not going to just drop dead. Your body is very good at conserving energy when it doesn't have access to food. This is how Ghandi at 74 years old was able to go on a 21 day hunger strike & not starve to death. When you fast for an extended duration your body will mostly use stored body fat for energy. And even though Ghandi was already pretty lean before his fast he was able to complete all 21 days. For most of us we consider a normal diet as one in which we eat every couple hours. However, before the invention of things like farming & refrigeration our distant ancestors would experience long periods of fasting followed by periods of feeding when food became available. So most people are actually very capable of fasting for 5 to ten days without much of a problem even though a lot of people think they'll practically die from starvation just by just skipping a meal or two. Just to drive this point home even further there was study conducted by researchers from a University in Scotland that was published in 1973. In this study an extremely obese 27 year old man fasted for 382 days. And believe it or not he didn't drop dead. He actually went from weighing 456 pounds............ to 180 pounds. Such a long fast could obviously only be achieved under the supervision of doctors with the use of vitamin supplements like yeast, sodium, & potassium, but the amazing thing is that the researchers followed this man for 5 years after his fast ended & he managed to maintain his weight.... never crossing back above 200 pounds again. Studies like this completely disprove the myth that your metabolism will shutdown & won't ever function normally again just because you don't eat every couple hours or every couple days for that matter. A 7 day fast is definitely something that you can work up to overtime, so what should you expect to happen to your body over the course of one week of fasting. Well about 6 hours after your start the fast your body will completely finish digesting food & breaking down glycogen into glucose. That glucose is primarily used by your body for energy & even though it can last for up to 24 to 72 hours it will typically be depleted after just 6 hours. So for most people that's when you can expect sudden hunger pangs & food cravings to start kicking in. Also in this initial phase your mood will change because your body is still used to getting it's energy from glucose, so you can expect to be a little "hangry" in the beginning. These intense hunger pangs that can also come with the feeling of dizziness, weakness, & nausea, diminish after the first 2 days for women & can take 3 days for men. If you can overcome these first

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