When Less Is More - Might Fasting from Carbs Increase your Metabolic Health?

You may have read about Ketosis which is a state of metabolism where your body is primarily burning fats called ketones and burning very little or no glucose or carbohydrates. When your body is in this state, it's able to balance its energy metabolism much better and almost everyone reports reduced cravings and hunger. Many studies and anecdotal evidence point to this state of metabolism having benefit for pretty much whole-body health. Two of the largest energy-consumers in the body: the brain and heart, both love to use fats as an energy source. In fact, mitochondria can burn either glucose or fats and fats actually burn more cleanly than glucose does. This results in the generation of far fewer AGE's which are Advanced Glycation End-Products. These cause protein cross-linking in the body which is basically scar tissue that can even be below the surface of the body and all throughout the inside of your cells and you not even be able to directly see the signs.

So you can use a source of healthy fats found in such foods as Coconuts, Avocados, Eggs, GrassFed Butter, Fish, and so on. Coconut Fat is able to be obtained in the diet in a concentrated form known as MCT oil. This is a fraction of the Coconut fats which are the healthiest and most potent and usable form of MCT's.

Aside from eating these foods rich in healthy fats, you may also greatly benefit from allowing your body to have a rest or partial rest from digesting foods at all. If you stimulate the immune system and trigger cell membrane and blood turnover, you'll be in a prime time for fasting and allowing your body a good opportunity to go into phagocytosis - a state of breaking down the old cells in the body and recycling parts and giving more clean growing space for the younger, newly generated cells and cell parts.

Phagocytosis:


Enzymes are very important in this process of digesting food as well as creating the conditions for phagocytosis. If you are doing a fast or trying to lose weight, MCT's easily digestible protein, good hydration, good sources of fat, and some enzymes can make a big difference in your strategy! MCT's are incredibly good at reducing cravings and helping to provide energy in a way that's actually providing a source of energy rather than stimulating energy like caffeine in Red Bull or Coffee.

A couple of amazing high-enzyme foods include Avocados and Wheatgrass juice. And then if you throw in some fresh salads, and high amounts of Vitamin C and Orange juice, you're actually creating the pH conditions in the gut for healthy bacteria while also providing lots of Vitamin C for the stimulation of the Immune System.

High-Enzyme Foods:


For Enzyme supplementation, I would recommend the PuraDyme Enzymes:


Once you begin strengthening the health of your gut, you create better conditions internally which actually modifies the way that all the food you eat is digested and treated. So this is basically a synergistic process that builds up over time. So it's better than a synergistic process. As you know, a synergy is when combining two or more compounds or foods creates a results stronger than the sum of both of them if they were used separately in isolation. So when you start detoxifying and upgrading the human body and seeing how it's a beautifully orchestrated machine...an ecosystem really...and that the trillions of bacteria cells in our gut are basically an extension of our own organism...you gain a new perspective of how lifestyle changes work. Because of these principles, it's important that you make sure that the change you are looking for is something you truly want to make happen. And then stick with the lifestyle change. And then you should know that there are lots of basic cycles that the body goes through pretty naturally. These are called bio-rhythms. And you can actually benefit greatly by consciously generating these cycles whilst being still mindful and flexible about the signals your body is sending...

So the beauty of upgrading the actual system is that you are practically upgrading the effects of the foods that you put in later. It's a compounding process similar to beginning a savings account when you are younger. It's the same dollars but as they compound over time they begin to each earn higher amount of interest because collectively they are stronger because they are organized into a larger balance in the same account. Upgrading the metabolic pathways in your body leads to better processing speed. You can choose between different types of software on your laptop. You could use free video editing software or you could use professional grade Adobe software with a much larger feature package. You get better results and capabilities with the premium software but when you upgrade the entire system at the machine level, whatever software you decide to use works better and you can also run more software simultaneously.

Another way we can help our digestive system process work better and also help our newly created cells build-out better is to provide the body with an easily-digestible and immune-enhancing protein powder that is both highly-nutritious and very convenient to consume. The most popular kind of protein is Whey protein but if you are Vegan, good sources of protein include Pea and Hemp protein. If you go with Whey protein powder, grassfed has its benefits. The brand I would recommend for Grassfed Whey Protein is Upgraded Whey Protein with Colostrum and powdered MCT:


The beauty of this protein is that it's especially-absorbable because of the minimal processing that it has undergone and more importantly, it packs a powerful immune-boosting punch. The whey itself and then especially because it includes the Colostrum which is the freshest milk output from a newly-lactating cow. (first 3 or so days of milk productions) This Colostrum contains immune-enhancing immunoglobulins which is the same reason a human baby is able to grow so fast and healthy when they are breast-fed by their mother.

So these basic types of SuperFoods and supplements can enhance your performance when regularly used or when used as part of a combination in a cycle for fasting or detoxification purposes.

There are two other antioxidant supplements which could prove to be beneficial for this type of detoxification protocol (or overall lifestyle). These are Chaga Mushroom Extract and also Lyposomal Glutathione. If Lyposomal Glutathione is too costly, you could get reasonably similar results using Lyposomal Vitamin C.

Chaga Mushroom provides an unbelievably high amount of Super-Oxide Dismutase which is able to cool down inflammatory reactions and help give your immune system an advantage in the anti-entropy fight against oxidative strress that is the process of being a living organism.

Glutathione has been called "The Body's Master Antioxidant" for its role as basically a stronger form of Vitamin C...In fact its role in the human body is so precious that we use Vitamin C to actively recycle Glutathione and keep our stores of it strong. Another antioxidant which is important to have plenty of so we can stay young and healthy...


Lyposomal Vitamin C is a hi-tech form of Vitamin C which takes a hint from Biological systems by wrapping the Vitamin C inside of a phospholipid bilayer of healthy fats which guards it against the extreme pH of our stomach acid. Since normally Vitamin C consumed in the form of, let's say, an Orange, would still be contained within the cells that make up the Orange, this is just a way of mimicking nature so that it's a more available way to supplement with the vitamin and you get more value from it.

All of these suggestions should help you on your journey whether you're planning to do a fast or detox or incorporating these regularly into your health regimen. As with any other machine, the body is designed to go through cycles of use and rest and to be cleaned up from the toxic build-ups that they experience. For a full list of my other detoxification recommendations, see my Detoxification Page on the webstore.

Supplements aren't the only keys you can use to unlock your inner potential. It's your mindset which will also help you become the healthy, high-energy human being you are...on the inside. It's all about bringing out that inner shine that's already there. The genetics are there. The blueprints are there. Your body knows how to heal itself. Like polishing up a rock, just get on your grind and polish up the inner-workings a bit and you're ready to shine.

Cheers to Optimization my friends...