What Happens When You Don't Eat for 3 Days? (72-Hour Fasting Transformation)

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What Happens When You Don't Eat for 3 Days? (72-Hour Fasting Transformation)  Ever wondered what happens inside your body when you stop eating for 72 hours? This video breaks down the shocking science behind a full 3-day fast — from fat burning and autophagy to mental clarity and hormone reset. Whether you're trying to lose weight, detox, or explore the benefits of intermittent and extended fasting, this is the transformation your body goes through hour by hour.  Discover the incredible changes in metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and energy as your body taps into its deepest reserves for survival. Backed by science and real-life experiences, this video is your ultimate guide to understanding the potential benefits — and dangers — of not eating for 3 days. Watch till the end for tips on how to safely prepare for and break a long fast.   ---  Audience Queries:  1. Is it safe to fast for 72 hours? 2. What does the body burn during a 3-day fast? 3. Can you drink water during a 72-hour fast? 4. What are the stages of fasting hour by hour? 5. How much weight can I lose in a 3-day fast? 6. What are the signs your body is benefiting from fasting? 7. Who should avoid a 72-hour fast? 8. What are the mental effects of extended fasting? 9. How do I properly break a 3-day fast? 10. Can fasting for 72 hours boost immunity?  ---  15 SEO Tags (comma-separated): 72 hour fast, fasting benefits, 3 day water fast, intermittent fasting, extended fasting, fasting transformation, fat burning fasting, autophagy fasting, weight loss fast, how to fast for 3 days, no food 72 hours, what happens when you fast, fasting for beginners, detox fasting, health benefits of fasting   ---  Hashtags: #Fasting #72HourFast #IntermittentFasting #WeightLoss #FastingTransformation #Autophagy #HealthTips #Detox #FastingBenefits #NoFoodChallenge

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00:00What if you stopped eating for three days? We've been programmed to nourish our body to heal,

00:06right? Before you buy into that, let me just turn your universe upside down for a minute

00:11and just hear me out. There's one single problem behind all chronic disease, including cancer,

00:17and that is insulin resistance. You don't get insulin resistance by not eating. You get insulin

00:23resistance by eating too frequently. Too much insulin that leads to insulin resistance blocks

00:27the cells from getting any fuel. When we overnourish our body by eating too frequently,

00:33we create this insulin resistance situation. Every single person that has a slow metabolism,

00:39they went on many diets. The diets that destroy the metabolism the most were you're going to be

00:44eating five to six small meals a day. You get a snack before a meal so you don't overeat because

00:50this crazy idea that too many calories equal weight gain. Actually, it's more of the frequency of meals

00:57that creates insulin resistance, that creates chronic disease that will make you very, very

01:01overweight. But when we start to not eat so frequently and we start to do intermittent fasting,

01:07things start turning around. Let's get into the benefits of intermittent fasting and prolonged

01:12fasting. If you were to eat right now, your insulin will go up. And because insulin is going to go up,

01:18that higher insulin is going to prevent a lot of good things that are going to happen.

01:22Let's say you're going to fast for 18 hours and then you're going to eat at, let's say,

01:2712 o'clock noon and then you'll eat at six o'clock. So that's a six-hour eating window and then you have

01:32an 18-hour fasting window. A lot of benefits are going to happen if you do that. You're going to

01:36lose weight in your midsection. You're going to feel better mentally. Your mood will come up and your

01:43inflammation will start going down as well. When you do intermittent fasting, you're not really

01:47tapping in to all the stored sugar in your liver unless you start doing prolonged fasting. So let's

01:54say, for example, we're fasting from 24 hours one day to 48 hours two days. What's going to happen when

02:02you start doing this is you are going to take the benefits that I just mentioned and start to turn

02:07them way up. And one thing that's going to happen is you're going to deplete most of your glycogen in

02:13your liver. It's like a sponge with water. You're holding a lot of fluid. So in other words, you're

02:18going to lose a good amount of weight. And some people mistake that with actual fat loss. It's

02:23actually water loss. This is why when you start doing prolonged fasting, you'll lose the water first

02:27and then it plateaus. That doesn't mean it's not working. It just means that you dumped a lot of

02:31water with that stored sugar. When you start doing prolonged fasting one to two days, you are going to be

02:37burning mostly ketones. 87% of your fuel is ketones. You're not feeding your microbes, but they're

02:46thriving. Your hormones, especially human growth hormone, will start to go straight up and vertical. And

02:53then you can increase that growth hormone when you do fasting by 2000%. So you're not going to be losing

02:58muscle, but it actually will help the growth of muscle, but it'll also help the burning of fat. It's one of the

03:05most powerful fat burning hormones. You're going to notice the benefits on your brain because you have

03:10a higher level of ketones feeding the neurons. Autophagy is going to kick in. Autophagy is where

03:15you're taking the junk and you're turning it into new cells. So think of the self-cleaning oven. And it's

03:21a magical process where you have to get certain resources and fuel from somewhere. And so your body

03:27will definitely tap into your fat, but it will also tap into stuff that's not really needed in the body.

03:32And it starts to convert that into very valuable resources that your body needs. You see, you cannot

03:39go into autophagy when you nourish your body, when you're eating. Even when you take supplements,

03:44you're not going to significantly increase autophagy. It's only when you don't eat. Prolonged fasting

03:50allows you to prune your brain and it allows you to build new brain cells. You only do that to a

03:56certain degree, but with intermittent fasting, but a lot more when you do prolonged fasting.

03:59Insulin powerfully shuts down autophagy. Insulin shuts down fat burning. It shuts down the

04:05regrowing of the brain cells. And with that, what happens when you fast longer? Let's say we're

04:11going to go to 72 hours. Autophagy starts cleaning up intracellular pathogens. I'm talking about viruses.

04:19I'm talking about Epstein-Barr virus, even the herpes virus. Do you realize that there's no drug

04:24or even no supplement that can actually get rid of these latent viruses? The only way to get rid of

04:30them is through prolonged fasting. But not only that, when you start to go up into three days of

04:37fasting, you start to stimulate your immune system. The thing that actually protects you against cancer,

04:44autoimmune diseases. I mean, we're just told all these ideas that we have to nourish the body to get

04:49healthy. No, we actually don't. There's no doubt we need to nourish our body when we eat, but prolonged

04:54fasting transforms your health in so many different ways. You can do stem cell therapy. Some of the

05:01therapy is like $50,000. Well, guess what? You can get a stem cell therapy for free by just not eating.

05:09And also, I wanted to point out the inspiration for this video is from this book, Metabolic Freedom

05:14by Ben Azadi. I highly recommend you get it. I'll put a link down below in the description. Here's a couple

05:21last minute tips. When you're doing a water fast, whether it's intermittent fasting or prolonged fasting,

05:26you're not eating anything except you're drinking water. And so what breaks that fast is a certain amount

05:32of calories. So you wouldn't want to consume bone broth, for example. But you could do coffee. You could do tea.

05:39Why? Because it doesn't have any calories. It's when you add in certain things that you have a problem.

05:44Very important thing to note when you do intermittent fasting and prolonged fasting

05:47is to have enough sea salt. If you don't have enough sodium, you will feel tired. So when you're

05:54doing intermittent fasting, make sure you add a little more sea salt and probably like a teaspoon

05:59per day spread out and you can mix it with water. And I also recommend you do other electrolytes like

06:05potassium and magnesium because if you're deficient going into a prolonged fast, those deficiencies are

06:11exaggerated. I want to say one last important thing. You can really mess yourself up when you do

06:17refeeding after a three-day fast. Don't make the mistake that I made where I just started loading my

06:23body up with all this food. I got very sick. Maybe you started with some bone broth, wait a little bit,

06:28have a little bit of steamed vegetable, wait a little bit, have an egg. And then you let that settle for

06:34several hours and then have a slightly bigger meal. Maybe the following day, go back to your normal

06:40meals. But the point is the worst thing you could do is have a lot of carbohydrates or introducing food

06:46after a prolonged fast. That would be the worst mistake. So to get all the details on how to do

06:51prolonged fasting, you should watch this video right here.

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