How to Jump Start Your Body Into Ketosis

Making your immune system maybe more hyper vigilant against the cancer cells that you already have. So as far as jump starting your body into ketosis, you could use exogenous ketones. Okay, without supplements you ask. Jump starting can be done with exercise. I wouldn't recommend vigorous exercise. I would recommend, you know, a walk to three-hour walk, for example, you might want to preface that with a short high intensity, 10-15 minutes, or something to just kind of activate your sympathetic nervous system, but not too much to do some, you know, push-ups, chin-ups, a little bit of a few sprints. I believe that when you activate your sympathetic nervous system, mobilize a lot of free fatty acids for fuel and set your body up for a more effective fat burning and more effective transition into ketosis when you do kind of a low impact walk. I've done a lot of testing on myself of glucose and ketone levels in different scenarios, and that seems to work really well. I did that yesterday, actually. So fasting can stimulate autophagy, and perhaps, you know, make the immune system sort of more hyper-vigilant against cancer and pre-cancer cells, I mentioned, but you need to acknowledge that if you fast too long or you calorie restrict too long, that can suppress your immune system. Let me see lean body mass. So there's a couple ways to get around the loss of lean body mass that's going to happen. You have to realize that you're losing a lot of water when you do a fast. So your weight may go down, but a lot of it's going to be water weight. You could probably mitigate some of the muscle loss with branch chain amino acids. And I would buy just a pure branch chain amino acid product that's just branch amino acids and you can consume that sort of if you're going to continue doing any form of exercise, I wouldn't recommend doing, you know, high intensity exercise if you're fasting. But if you do do any exercise to take your branch chain amino acids before and maybe during. It's important. I always emphasize this when people talk about, you know, wasting away when you fast. And George Cahill's work at Harvard shows that the physiological shift that occurs when you're fasting, when you enter a state of fasting ketosis functions to have a really profound protein sparing effect.

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