Technical

The internal transition of the body from using sugar (glucose) to fat as the primary fuel source/enery.

Colloquial

The act or intentional practice of abstaining from something for an extended period of time (food, water, social media, etc.)

Mechanism of action

  1. Bloog glucose levels drop to threshold levels
  2. Liver bgeins producing ketone bodies through fat reservers.
  3. Body enters fast-induced ketosis as primary fuel source.

Fasting by-products

  1. Autophagy: process of senescent cell clean-up
  2. Ketosis: Entering ketotic state to meet energy requirements.
  3. Grelling: Grellin (hunger) lowerse / level out.
  4. Minerals: Pulling minerals from bone structure.

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