Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
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Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
coconut oil that has the ability to suppress hunger and increase energy in your body.
Here’s a fourth major guideline to assist you in your fast. Whether or not you are focusing on the spiritual aspect, adding breathing exercises will bring more oxygen to the fire. After all, whether you’re in ketosis or burning sugar, your body makes energy by combining air and food to generate electrons.
Whatever it is you think you need, fasting is about deciding that you are in charge of it—about summoning the internal fire to say “no.”
One method is to put cold Bulletproof Coffee into your exercise water bottle but make it with very little if any butter. The MCT oil in Bulletproof Coffee raises ketones because it converts directly into the ketone known as beta hydroxybutyrate, or BHB, and it does so even in the presence of carbohydrates.
Intermittent fasting sets you up for developing that kind of resilience. You go all night without eating. You wake up, drink whatever beverage you need for whatever type of fast you’re doing: water, tea, black coffee, Bulletproof Coffee, whatever. Then, just before you’re about to break your fast several hours later, you do your workout. You don’t
... See moreStart with a mild fast before you exercise, whether it’s weights or high-intensity interval training. The best time to exercise is at the end of a fast, so for most of us doing intermittent fasting, it’s around 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. After the exercise, when your body is primed to repair and build muscle, break the fast. Have some protein. Have some fat
... See moreHere’s one more really cool thing about activated charcoal: it will reduce the severity of your cravings during your fast. It’s startling: you get cravings, you take charcoal, and now you don’t feel hungry anymore. What’s going on? The bacteria in your gut are freaking out because they don’t have any food, either, which causes them to produce lipop
... See moreSYSTEMIC PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES Your body makes enzymes to speed its biochemical reactions. Proteolytic enzymes break down proteins; you use them when you eat protein. But systemic enzymes are not enzymes that are meant to act on your steak; they’re meant to act on you. If you’re trying to crank up your body’s self-cleaning autophagy, take these enzym
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