30- Day Cleanse - Day 12 and 13

Saturday night, I started my first 48-hour cleanse. After completing my first cleanse day, I did a LOT more research on the subject, and maybe it's not so crazy after all. 

Our bodies divide most of its energy between three major areas in the body: the brain, the heart and other essential functions (like breathing), and the stomach (digestion). Obviously, the heart and other essential functions cannot get energy diverted from it, because then we would die. The brain and the stomach therefore are two areas that divide up the rest of the energy depending on need. Think about when you eat too much - you normally feel tired; you're body is using any expendable energy to digest the huge meal you just consumed which diverts some of the energy from your cognitive functions. When food is in your stomach, it must be digested. Consider when you are sick, the best thing to do for your body is rest and drinking water. Eating a lot is generally not encouraged, because it takes energy to digest. Chicken soup is normally recommended when ill... and that's because it's most made of water, which is the best thing to consume when sick. If you eat something, your body, again, needs to digest it, which diverts energy away from your body to fight the bacteria or virus that created your cold. 



So we know that eating = digesting = energy. 

So basically, this intermittent fasting of the program that I am on is giving the digestive track a break in order to heal, repair, and cleanse anything it might have not have had energy resources for otherwise. Abstaining from food is associated with better cardiovascular health and less cardiovascular stress – similar to what calorie restriction provides. It also “resets” sensitivity in your body to insulin and accelerates the clearing-out of waste left by dead and damaged cells, a process known as autophagy.


For further information on starting to research this topic, check out the article on Huffington Post by Dr. Andrew Weil: "Intermittent Fasting: A Healthy Choice." 

In addition, here it the full university study conducted about the products I use for the 30-Day Cleanse (Intermittent Fasting) System that shows compared to participants eating a normal "heart healthy" diet a

• 56% greater reduction in average weight loss 
• 47% greater reduction in average body fat 
loss 
• Twice as much visceral fat loss 
• 35% greater reduction of oxidative stress 
• Greater adherence in subjects 

I am officially on board with these products!