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550: Fasting Expert: The Complete Guide to Fasting (Do It Correctly!) | Dr. Mindy Pelz

The Ultimate Health Podcast

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How Long Does It Take to Be Fasted to Be Superhuman?

It takes about eight hours is what the literature is saying for us to start to see that glucose has come down enough after a meal. 12 will start the supercharged moment. You're now over into fat burning. If you stay in that fasted state going into 12 hours, 13 hours. Now we got the supercharged factors kicking in. We're going to see testosterone go up and hormone growth hormones go up. And all of a sudden your body starts to go into that superhuman state, usually after 12 hours. So 8 will get you there. But that isn't really where the magic starts at eight hours. That's just my personal opinion.

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