Ive started doing 18 to 19 hour fasts out of desperation due to feeling like i just cant stomach carbs and just feel bad eating. So i got onto fasting like the buddhists do that is 18 to 19 hours. Which is a bit longer than 16 8 so it promotes more autophagy and cleanup. I just need something as my gut is in pain and getting worse and none of the doctors help. Im hoping it ll grow new nerve and gut cells. So i did an 18 hour fast and i noticed my nervois system like scanning and becoming more deeply attentive near the end. It was like my awareness was penetrating my nerves. I wonder if its scanning to clean up dead cells or to heal. It felt very theraputic whatever it was.
I think if you eat a lot of carbs, your mitochondria burn carbs, but eventually you get insulin resistant, so you actually don’t get enough carbs to burn. Likely after 18 hrs you finally get some ketones and your cells are happy. I think alcohol burns nicely as well but causes other problems of course.
KCKO