My 4 Day Fast -Post 4 “Sleep Aspect”
This is the final post regarding my 4 day fast experiment. If you caught my last blog series, on how I got epically sick for the first time in 8…
This is the final post regarding my 4 day fast experiment. If you caught my last blog series, on how I got epically sick for the first time in 8…
I have no problem preparing meals at home where my meal is aligned to my biology and goals, and my kid’s meals are slightly different to be aligned to theirs. But I know myself well enough, that if they were home eating whatever, I wouldn’t be able to make it through a 4 day fast.
My last post was on the physical aspects of my 4 day fast. Today I am going to discuss the “Mental aspects”! Should you do a 4 day fast for…
Many of my clients or potential clients think about fasting quite often, mainly because people want to lose weight and often fasting can play a role in achieving that goal as well as other benefits like autophagy. Many are afraid of 4 day or longer fasts, and so was I, so I decided to do one myself.
To sum up why I got this nasty cold. It had nothing to do with who I did or did not interact with, or what the latest buzz on the news is. I slept poorly every night for greater than two weeks, and I did it to myself with poor decisions that caused an overload of inflammation that my mitochondria eventually could not keep up with.
Sun management is very important. I’ll be honest, the west has is completely backwards. Waiting to go outside till the warmest part of the day (high sun) to do your activities, or hiding in your artificial lit boxes all week, then getting some real sun for hours on the weekend, and having to resort to slathering sunscreen on so you don’t get burnt.
This trip was a different story. I ended up having at least 1 drink on 9 out of 14, non-driving days. So I basically had 3 years worth of alcohol in 2 weeks, and it messed me up.
I know this next statement is going to piss a bunch of you off (especially you foodies), but while it can taste yummy, and be presented fantastically, most restaurant food sucks from a healthy mitochondria perspective.
Elevated uric acid drives the inflammatory signal in our bodies and will cause the metabolic syndrome behind all our chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and brain disorders that include depression, dementia and Alzheimer's.
I believe breathing and breath work is so important for health and optimal functioning.