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May 27 - August 14, 2023
When you see a low-fat label on a product, quickly put it back on the shelf. Equate low fat to high-sugar, highly toxic ingredients—two things that will quickly cause you to pack on the pounds.
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When you see a low-fat label on a product, quickly put it back on the shelf. Equate low fat to high-sugar, highly toxic ingredients—two things that will quickly cause you to pack on the pounds.
Insulin resistance is a condition in which your cells can no longer successfully use insulin as a hormone to escort the sugar from your food into your cells.
Insulin resistance is a condition in which your cells can no longer successfully use insulin as a hormone to escort the sugar from your food into your cells.
Growth hormone performs three key functions. The first is that it helps you burn fat, especially around the midsection. The second fabulous process that growth hormone provides is muscle growth.
Depending on the length of your fast, decreasing blood sugar levels stimulates your body to make growth hormone fivefold, giving you back that youthful feeling.
Eat your food in an 8- to 10-hour time period, leaving 14 to 16 hours for fasting.
When your cells are in a state of autophagy, viruses and bacteria that enter them can’t replicate. This is key during cold and flu season, a pandemic, or anytime someone around you is sick. Any fast that’s longer than 17 hours will
Cycling in a longer autophagy fast once or twice a week often helps maximize sex hormone production.
36-hour fast every once in a while to: Minimize weight-loss resistance; Release stored sugar; Reduce cholesterol.
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, have challenged this theory, stating that it’s not our genetics that cause disease but rather malfunctioning mitochondria.
Methylation is a complex cellular process that can be simply explained as the pathway in which your cells push toxins out. When your mitochondria are healthy, they turn on methylation and swiftly escort toxins out of your cells. When your mitochondria are damaged, you will be low in glutathione, not methylating properly and therefore allowing toxins to stay stuck inside, leading to inflammation, damaged cell parts, and in some cases allowing disease genes to be triggered.
Estrogen thrives when you keep glucose and insulin low. If estrogen were doing the ordering, it would request a salad over a sandwich. Bread spikes your blood sugar, which is not to estrogen’s liking. Once your period starts and your body ramps up your estrogen levels, leaning in to a low-carbohydrate diet through
To make estrogen you need more of the good cholesterol known as high-density lipoprotein, or HDL.
Within your menstrual cycle you will need the most estrogen production during the days leading up to ovulation, so adding in good fats and plenty of phytoestrogens is essential.
Where estrogen likes your blood sugar to be low, progesterone would prefer that you keep your blood sugar a little higher. Because of this it’s common the week before your period to crave carbohydrates.
Often it’s not your human cells that are requesting food; your gut microbes are the ones screaming at you. If you feed those microbes, they stop giving you hunger signals. You can do this by adding a prebiotic powder to your water, coffee, or tea. Remember, prebiotics feed the good bacteria in your gut. Specifically, the prebiotic fiber inulin can appropriately nourish these little critters.
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If you do decide to check them, the best time is first thing in the morning and right before your first meal. You want your blood sugar to be between 70 and 90 milligrams per deciliter (4.0–5.0 millimoles per liter) and your ketones over .5 mmol/L. You also want to see on your second reading that your blood sugar is dropping and your ketones
If you choose to use a ketone reader, you’ll know you are in ketosis when the reader says .5 mmol/L or greater.
Dandelion tea: A daily cup of organic dandelion tea can nourish a sluggish liver.
