Intermittent Fasting (IF)

• Mental Clarity. Once your body is keto-adapted, your brain can effectively run on ketones, which are derived from the fat breakdown in the liver.
• Fitness while fasting. The benefits include higher metabolic adaptations, improved muscle synthesis and improved response to post-workout meals.
• Intermittent Fasting and Muscle. Intermittent fasting is beneficial for muscle mass while fat mass decrease significantly.
• Autophagy. The fasting process will activate autophagy in your cells.
• It will increase your ketones quicker than if you were just eating a standard ketogenic diet.
• Intermittent Fasting and Cancer. Fasting for 2 days to a week can have a protective effect on the cells in the body while they are undergoing intense bouts of toxicity.

The process by which the cell devours itself.

• Non-essential parts like damaged proteins are recycled and invading microorganisms and toxic compounds are removed. 
• Autophagy plays an important role in stopping the aging process, reversing disease, and preventing cancer, but it doesn’t happen all the time. 
• Autophagic processes can be initiated by fasting, protein restriction and carbohydrate restriction.

• Skipped meals - when you skip over a meal to induce extra time of fasting. 
• Eating windows - this condenses your entire macronutrient intake between a 4 and 7-hour window. The rest of the time you are in a fasting state.
• 24-48 hour cleanse - where you go into extended fasting periods and do not eat for 1-2 days.