99% of People Never Flip Their Body’s Fat-Burning Switch
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What really happens to your blood sugar
when you fast for 24 hours? You're going
to have hypoglycemia. Everyone knows
that. This is why people push snacks on
you because we want to avoid the
shakiness, the dizziness, and the
fogginess that you get from
hypoglycemia, low blood sugar. I'm here
to tell you that is one of the biggest
lies around. It's BS. It's not true, and
I'm going to prove it. Fat burning is
the backup fuel that your body uses when
you run out of sugar. That is such a
lie. In fact, it's just exactly the
opposite. Fat burning or ketosis is
actually the primary operating system in
your body for fuel. Think about this.
What have humans been running on
throughout history from the very
beginning? Did they have a breakfast?
Did they eat snacks? They went out and
had to hunt for their food. They had to
forage for food, looking around for
anything that resembles foods. And
sometimes it was plants, sometimes it
was animals, sometimes it was nuts and
seeds, whatever they could find. Maybe
they eat in the afternoon. Maybe they
eat in the next 2 days. It wasn't that
consistent. For thousands of
generations, the human body was designed
to function, to be sharp, to be fast, to
be able to hunt without a constant
glucose supply problem. How did they do
that? Fat. Fat is the primary fuel
system. So, how can I prove that? Well,
let's just take a look at one thing. We
have stored sugar in your liver. It's
called glycogen. We only have 400
calories of stored glucose in your
liver. Your body has 120,000
stored calories in your fat. And this is
for a lean person. Glycogen is only for
the quick energy that you need for very
small amounts of time. Look at this.
Within 8 hours, 50% of the liver's
glycogen is gone. 8 hours, 12 hours, it
goes down more. 24 hours, 90% of the
glycogen is depleted. I need to share
something with you, which is quite
shocking. The average person
never really depletes their liver of
glycogen, ever. They have three plus
meals per day that are very heavy in the
carbohydrate. They also have
carbohydrate snacks. The glycogen never
empties. And I want to answer these
questions. Question number one, does
your blood sugar drop when you fast? The
answer is no, it does not. In 1973, a
team of researchers took 19 healthy
volunteers and fasted them. And then
they did what most researchers don't do.
They actually did needle biopsies of the
liver. Real tissue, real measurements.
They didn't guess. At 8 hours of
fasting, more than half the glycogen in
the liver was completely gone, okay? By
12 hours, you're at minimal levels,
okay? At 24 hours, 90%
of your glycogen is depleted. It's gone.
Now, glycogen is stored sugar. Now, if
your glycogen tank after 24 hours is
virtually depleted,
why is your blood sugar not crashing? If
you did this right now, you would find
your blood glucose coming down just
slightly, but barely coming down at all,
okay? After 24 hours, your blood sugar
will probably be between 70 or 80. It
barely moves because your liver doesn't
just store glucose.
It makes it. And I want to introduce you
to a new term. It's called gluco stand
for glucose neo
new
genesis, the creation of or the making
of. Guess what the liver makes the sugar
out of? Fat. So, in other words, most of
the body can very easily run on fat
fuel, and only a small portion of the
body really needs glucose primarily.
Now, I do want to mention your muscles
for a second because your muscles also
store glycogen, but that glycogen in
your muscles, which is stored sugar,
can only be used by the muscles. No
other part of your body can use it. I
think this is a design because if you're
running away from a tiger, the initial
fuel that you're going to use is not
going to be fat. And this is why when
you fast, you don't eat your muscles
because they do have fuel that's sitting
in there called glycogen, but also you
have another thing. You have a spike of
growth hormone that prevents the
breakdown of muscle. So, your body's
going to preserve muscle
until you tap out all of your fat
reserves. But remember, you have at
least 120,000
calories of fat on your body even if
you're not overweight. All right, so the
next question is, "When does my body
switch to fat burning?" Usually between
12 and 24 hours. That's when it starts.
When you stop eating, the body flips a
switch. When your body switches over to
fat burning and ketosis,
you have fat burning starting, you have
things that help you make ketones, and
then you have something else that turns
on the full fat burning effect. But then
check this out. You have a cleaning
effect. It's called autophagy because
when you're not eating, your body is
going to clean up damaged tissue or
damaged proteins that it doesn't need,
and it's going to start being efficient
and recycle that into fuel. And then we
have the last thing that's affected
where we're turning off the growth of
things and we're turning on the cleaning
effect. Autophagy only occurs if you're
fasting. Not to mention, ketones have a
natural anti-inflammatory effect. When
someone chronically consumes glucose,
they start developing insulin
resistance, and what that is is the cell
no longer can take in as much glucose
because it's a protective mechanism, and
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three, what happens to glycogen when you
fast? We've already covered that. What
about muscle glycogen? We've already
covered that. Number five, why is my
fasting blood glucose higher in the
morning? You ate no carbohydrates
through the night. Why is it higher? The
only reason that's happening is the
gluconeogenesis
is a bit out of control. Why? Because
the machine that controls it is broken
to some degree. That's called insulin
resistance, and that's what you see in
prediabetes and definitely diabetes. In
which case, they need to go low-carb and
do intermittent fasting for a longer
period of time
to the point where
they'll wake up and it's not a problem.
One simple solution is just to go for a
walk and burn off that extra glucose.
Number six, is hypoglycemia, that's low
blood sugar, a blood glucose problem?
The answer is no, it's not. I used to
have blood sugar issues if I didn't eat,
I would get dizzy, fainty, [snorts]
irritable, okay?
I thought I had a blood glucose problem.
That is not a blood sugar problem. Yet,
doctors recommend having a little candy
in your pocket to prevent hypoglycemia.
They even have glucose pills that you
can buy for it. But, here's what's
really happening deep inside your body.
You have three main things happening
when you don't eat or you fast.
You have low insulin. I mean, think
about what insulin does. It lowers blood
glucose. So, there should not be
anything pushing the blood sugar down.
And then number two, you have another
hormone called glucagon, and it
mobilizes blood glucose to raise your
blood glucose. And then you have
adrenaline and cortisol, which also
mobilize blood glucose to raise your
glucose. Now, if you notice, what's not
on the list is when people skip meals.
Healthy people can do intermittent
fasting all day long and keep normal
blood glucose. In 2001, researchers
fasted 33 healthy people for 72 hours,
not 24, 72 hours.
Zero cases of hypoglycemia, not even
one. What about the person that can't go
3 hours without getting shaky, without
being irritable? With those people, it's
very simple. They're on a high-carb
diet. Why? Because the carbs caused the
problem. And the Whitehall study showed
this oversecretion of insulin occurs 3
to 4 years before type 2 diabetes.
Eating every 3 hours is the worst advice
you would ever get, because the body was
designed to fast for long periods of
time. So, I hope you now understand what
happens when you fast for 24 hours, and
also realize that the fat-burning
machine is the primary operating system.
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