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What is fasting?

Fasting is a technique of not consuming any food in a given period or a prolonged period to achieve positive* prolonged effects.

1. Intermittent fasting: This involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, typically on a daily or weekly basis.
2.  Water fasting: This involves abstaining from all food and drink except for water for a specified period.
3.  Juice fasting: This involves consuming only fruit and vegetable juices, often for several days.
4.  Restricted fasting: This involves restricting certain types of food or drink, such as meat, sugar, or alcohol, for a while.
5.  Religious fasting: This varies depending on the religion and can involve different types of fasting, such as abstaining from food during daylight hours or consuming only certain types of food.
6.  Time-restricted feeding: This involves eating during a specific window of time each day and fasting for the rest of the day.

It’s important to consult with a healthcare professional before starting any type of fasting regimen.

In this article, we are going to talk about fasting’s effect on muscle growth and hormones and what is the proper way to do it.

A full-day fasting or multiple days fasting:– Full-day fasting or multiple-day fasting has much more long-term effects as it induces body fat loss, recalibration of hormones, and cognitive functioning eventually improves muscle growth.

As fasting does not have a direct impact on muscle growth, as it works directly to induce growth by re-calibrating the „Circadian Rhythm„(Body Clock). The body clock is the ultimate foundation of all body functioning.

Fasting improves cognitive ability, sleep cycle, blood pressure, and cardiovascular activity.

Full-day fasting -The day before the fasting must eat before 19:00.

3 hours after waking up body will ask you for food as a regular norm for its energy needs that will be the phase for the craving, light mood, and first hardest part of the day. Eventually, the end of the day will be the second hardest part of the day.

Alternate day fasting– This is also quite effective as it can give you the result of multiple days of fasting in a row with slightly more time. It is the most recommended one for people working, with better effects on mood.

How does this induce muscle growth-

What it will do is put you in a situation where a body has to use its reserve resources and will end up eating bad dead cells to fulfill the energy demand of the body, using the stored fats and glucose.

As you have to do consistently many times to see the results.

the best way is to do it once a week. If you have some health condition consult your doctor first

Multiple-day fasting– is a bit more tricky and needs a lot of willingness to achieve this task but the effects are quite astonishing in terms of improving overall hormonal balance and fat loss.

Let’s talk about how it is going to induce growth, As it put the hormones back in their place improving the chain reaction where your sleep improves, which improves insulin levels, hormones, recovery time, and eventually muscle growth. It’s an interconnected web where all thing needs to be recalibrated to get results.

* As it is subjective ,what positive means for an individual.

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