0:00 if you have a brain you definitely need to fast let's talk about why your brain loves ketones and when you don't eat your body is actually eating your own fat and it's converting into ketones and it's feeding your brain if if your brain has a choice between glucose in the blood or ketones in the blood which is a byproduct of fat it will always go after the ketones over glucose there's a there's a lot of magical things that happen to your brain when you start fasting especially when you do periodic prolong fasting you get neurogenesis now what is that that is the regrowing of neurons and that's wild you also get a spike in this protein
0:46 bdnf brain derived neurotropic factor and that protein stimulates the Regeneration of cells in your hippocampus that's the area where you have like a relay between your your database like your memory database and also it's involved in learning and many other things also the Regeneration of the cortex of the brain and the forebrain I mean only certain parts of your brain can be regenerated and thank goodness we can regenerate uh these parts right here so you have improved learning uh improved memory and alertness you also have another interesting thing uh you get a spike in plasticity what the heck is plasticity that has to do with your neurons
1:31 connecting adapting and being more flexible and less rigid which is actually a good thing the other thing that happens is that your brain cells start resisting stress it's called neural protection so if there's some type of insult whether it's a chemical like chemotherapy or whatever your cells just start surviving better you also get something called neuronal autophagy autophagy is the recycling of damaged protein prots but when you're fasting the body is clearing out these damaged proteins out of the neurons in the brains gets rid of damaged mitochondria in the brain so it actually makes your brain younger which is very very cool and it helps your existing
2:17 neurons survive better now in our bodies we have friendly bacteria we have unfriendly bacteria there's a friendly eoli that we have that does not create any problem for us and that eoli helps to combat the unfriendly uh strain and what's interesting is when you stop feeding these microbes they actually can live four times longer than if you feed them go figure also yeasts survive twice as long when you put them on a fast and so fasting is very beneficial for your brain hey before you go if you're benefit benting from any of my content I would love to hear about your success
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