How fasting improves blood markers of metabolic syndrome?

-Insulin sensitivity
-Blood sugar
-Blood pressure
-Triglyceride

The worsen these markers the closer you are to death.

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Your body produces insulin whenever you eat basically.

The average people eat several times a day and snacks in between.

Which means they don't stop producing insulin.

This causes insulin resistance, and they end up obese and diabetic.

When you fast, you don't eat, therefore, you don't produce insulin.

When you don't produce insulin, you become more sensitive to it.

It's actually simple logic. Nothing fancy about it.

Because you don't eat during your fast, your blood sugar also drops to the normal level.

But it never drops to dangerous levels as some people say.

Because the human body is smart and produces counterregulatory hormones like glucagon, noradrenalin, adrenalin.

These hormones regulate blood sugar and make sure it doesn't drop to the dangerous levels.

Let's talk about blood pressure.

You need to know this first,

Insulin holds sodium and water.

So, what happens when you have too much insulin?

Your blood volume increases to dangerous levels.

Therefore, your blood pressure increases.

If you ever tried fasting, you might have noticed that you pee more during a fast.

That's because you can't hold water when you lack insulin.

And this lowers your blood pressure.

And triglycerides...

How does the triglyceride level drop?

Because you're burning fat during fasting.

Two mechanisms:

1-Adrenalin and noradrenalin make you utilize fats.

2-Once you run out of carbs, those triglycerides go into the liver to be turned into ketones.

Both reduce triglyceride in the blood.

That's basically all.

So, everything happens for a reason within the body.

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