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In this video, we are talking about the benefits of fasted exercise.
You know, when you look at these different fitness gurus who stay lean and shredded all
year round and you look at these different Hollywood actors who have perfect physique and
you look at the tricks that they use, one of them that all of them are using is fasted
exercise.
Again and again, when I look at how they do this, how do they stay so lean and ripped
all year round, it's through fasted exercise.
So, I'm going to go ahead and teach you how to do it and some of the science behind it,
and why it even works.
Let's go ahead and jump right into this and at the end of this video, I'll go ahead and
share with you some of my pro-tips.
Now one of the things that's really important to mention here before we jump into the science
is that when we look at fasting and exercise, we're talking about intermittent fasting.
We're not talking about a three-day fast.
We're talking about intermittent fasting where you're going to fast for 16 hours, and eat
your meals within an eight-hour period.
If you're not familiar with this, check out my powerful videos on intermittent fasting
and it will give you all the details.
Now the reason that this works so well in that you're able to actually cut fat while
doing this fasted exercise is because the sympathetic nervous system is activated.
So, the sympathetic nervous system, what it does simply is sets off a cascade of events
that really forces your body to burn fat.
Now, the sympathetic nervous system is activated because you are in a fasted state, and you
are putting your body into an exercise routine which is putting a little extra stress on
the body.
So that sympathetic nervous system is activated and it forces the body to burn fat, as I said.
Now the next big thing that happens is there's an increase in acute oxidative stress.
Now you've probably heard me talk before about chronic oxidative stress being really bad
for the body because it just breaks it down and it tears down your cellular function and
so much more, but acute oxidative stress can be a good thing, and here's why: because what
it will do is it will really boost antioxidant activation.
Now one of the major antioxidants that it boosts is one called glutathione.
Once again, you might have heard me talk about that one before.
And glutathione is simply the most powerful antioxidant in the body.
I always refer to it as the armed guard that takes the bullet when your body has a threat.
Now this armed guard is protecting you from oxidative stress, from free radicals, from
chemical exposures, the list goes on.
So, when we boost glutathione in our body, it does some really great things for overall
bodily function.
Now the other thing that is activated is a really powerful enzyme called superoxide dismutase.
Now this enzyme, what it does is it actually protects-- or it actually repairs and helps
recover our cells from free radicals such as superoxides.
So, when we are fasting and exercising, we're getting this boost of superoxide dismutase,
but also a powerful antioxidant called glutathione.
Now the next big thing that happens when we do fasted exercise is cyclic AMP and AMP kinase
are activated.
Now these two cellular factors and catalysts simply force the burning of fat.
They force your body to use glucose so that during the exercise you're burning sugar,
and then after the exercise you're burning fat, and that is what helps so much to actually
burn that fat off the body.
The next big thing that happens is brain-derived neurotrophic factor is activated.
And when we look at neurological well-being and also the biological youthfulness when
it comes to your nervous system, simply, brain-derived neurotrophic factor is going to help with
the production of new neurons and new communications in the brain, and when we look at anti-aging,
this is a really big deal.
Now just like brain-derived neurotrophic factor doing good things for your brain, the muscle
regulatory factors are also activated and that, just like you-- just like what brain-derived
neurotrophic factor does for the brain, this does for the muscles.
It helps with the stimulation of new muscle growth and also helps keep your muscles young.
And we can look at these two factors in the body working as an anti-aging mechanism to
help keep us youthful and also promote longevity.
Now, here is a really important thing that happens when we do fasted exercise and it
has to do with your hormones.
Because, when we look at the studies, what we see is that when people were doing fasted
exercise, they were able to boost growth hormone by up to 1300% in women and 2000% in men.
Now when we look at so many people who are trying to stay young and promote youthfulness
in their body, like these Hollywood actors are trying to build muscle but also age gracefully,
simply what, in many cases that they're doing is they're getting growth hormone.
They're also getting testosterone, they're getting these different hormones because their
levels are low in their body.
But if we want to do this naturally, if we want to boost these anti-aging hormones naturally,
simply do it with fasted exercise.
So, it really helps boost the growth hormone, it also does great things for boosting testosterone.
And now last thing I want to mention here when it comes to the hormones is it helps
increase insulin-sensitivity.
Okay, when we look at major disease today, diabetes and heart disease and so many of
the other ones out there, one of the major ways that these diseases start is with the
insulin not being sensitive, the insulin not being heard.
If we want to promote healing in our body, we also want to avoid these different disease
out there.
We want to make sure that our hormones are staying very sensitive, and by doing fasted
exercises, it increases insulin sensitivity which is going to do many great things for
shuttling sugar into the cell and keeping our bodies functioning as they should.
Now, at the end of this video I told you I would mention some pro-tips, so let's go ahead
and jump into those.
Now, the first thing I want to mention is that when you're doing intermittent fasting,
you need to be following a good quality diet.
This is so important.
You should not be doing this when you're eating a greasy food diet, fast food, that kind of
thing.
You need to be eating a good whole-food diet that supports the body nutritionally and make
sure that you're getting the proper nutrients so that you can actually really benefit from
this.
Now the other thing that I want to mention is that if you want to really amplify and
magnify the results that you can get from fasted and exercise, high-intensity interval
training is your way to go.
If you're not familiar with what that is, check out the video I did.
I did a very powerful video on high-intensity interval training that shows you all the ins
and outs that you need to know in order to start using it and the benefits from it.
And so, first of all, make sure you're following a good-quality diet, utilize high-intensity
interval training, and then, a lot of these benefits, though they are really directed
toward intermittent fasting and exercise, one of the things that you can do is you can
actually just exercise before breakfast.
Okay, let's say if you're somebody, you've got some different health concerns, and this
whole thing sounds just a little bit too aggressive for you, one of the ways that you can still
see the benefits of this, it's not going to be as amplified, it's not going to be-- you're
not going to boost growth hormone as much, you're not going to get as good of results.
If you still want to see some of the benefits of this, then what you can do is simply exercise
before your first meal of the day.
So guys, I hope that this information was super powerful for you.
Like I said, this is just the one trick that you didn't know.
The one thing that you really needed to uncover in order to stay lean.
I hope that you implement this information, be sure to give the video a thumbs-up, share
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Any ideas for future videos, put those in the comments section below, and then until
next time, folks, make it a great day.