Did you know that a fast actually increases your metabolic rate? It's a myth that your metabolism slows the moment you stop eating. Early in a fast, it actually does the opposite.
As blood glucose tends to drift down when you stop eating, your body releases more norepinephrine (a close cousin of epinephrine/adrenaline), and your resting energy expenditure climbs up. In healthy adults who fasted for 84 hours, resting energy expenditure rose about 14% by day three, while norepinephrine more than doubled.
Of course, the more adrenaline and its sibling rise, the more they inhibit insulin release. This further amplifies the metabolic rate effect, insofar as insulin slows metabolic rate very well.
This is clearly not "starvation mode." There is simply a metabolic cost to your body mobilizing fuel and keeping you alive while you take a break from food.
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1/6) Maybe you've heard of the Wolverine Stack—a peptide combination of thymosin beta-4 (TB4) and BPC-157.
But I bet you haven't seen this… This is a mouse heart after a heart attack.
In the control group, the blue tissue is dead scar tissue. An entire section of the heart wall has died. Now look at what happens when the heart is treated one of the key components of the Wolverine Stack.
The red tissue is living heart muscle. As you can see, dramatically more of the heart survives.
In other words, this compound literally helped save heart tissue after a heart attack.
Sounds almost unbelievable. So, let's back up and look at the data.
¡El colmo del descaro! Balcázar pretende una pensión vitalicia sin haber sido elegido presidente por voto popular. Quien asumió el cargo de forma transitoria no puede exigir los mismos privilegios. El Estado no debe premiar ambiciones personales con dinero de todos.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump Just Lit the Fuse
With one stroke of his pen, President Trump sent the climate cartel into total meltdown.
An executive order to surge coal power through the Department of War.
While green grifters rage on cable news panels, American coal miners are smiling ear to ear.
This is not symbolism.
This is sovereignty.
For years, the public was told to accept higher bills, weaker grids, and industrial decline in the name of “transition.”
Factories shuttered.
Energy prices soared.
Reliability eroded.
Now the message is clear:
Energy independence.
Real jobs.
Real baseload power.
No more kneeling to radical environmental ideologues who would rather see the lights go out than admit they were wrong.
The climate cartel is screaming.
The miners are back.
And Washington just shifted the balance of power.
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Drugs that raise LDL - SGLT2, Thiazides, Beta blockers - do these cause heart disease? Not that I am aware.
Drugs that lower LDL - CETP inhibitors, Hormone replacement, Niacin, Fibrates - do these lower heart disease? Not that I am aware. Why don't people ever discuss these drugs?
Statins increase insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance increases diabetes risk.
The very thing prescribed to “protect” your heart is destroying your metabolism.
Make it make sense...
Ketones increase mitochondrial efficiency
β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) produces more ATP per unit of oxygen than glucose or fatty acids.
This improves energy output while reducing metabolic stress.
Ketones reduce mitochondrial oxidative stress
BHB lowers reactive oxygen species by:
Increasing NAD⁺/NADH ratio
Upregulating antioxidant pathways (SIRT3, MnSOD)
Reducing electron leak in the electron transport chain
Ketones stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis
Ketones activate PGC-1α, the master regulator of new mitochondrial formation.
Result: more mitochondria and better metabolic resilience.
Ketones improve mitochondrial signaling
BHB acts as a signaling molecule, not just a fuel. It: Activates AMPK
Inhibits HDACs (epigenetic benefit)
Improves insulin sensitivity
All of which protect mitochondria.
Ketones stabilize mitochondrial membranes
They reduce inflammation-driven damage and improve membrane potential, which is critical for ATP production.
Ketones enhance autophagy and mitophagy
Fasting or nutritional ketosis increases the turnover of damaged mitochondria, replacing them with healthier ones.
Summary
Ketones:
More efficient fuel
Lower oxidative stress
Increase mitochondrial number
Improve metabolic signaling
Support autophagy/mitophagy
Improve cellular resilience and longevity pathways
Mikhaila Peterson Fuller: “I Beat Autoimmunity and Depression by Eating Only Meat”
When she was 7, Mikhaila Peterson Fuller was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
By age 17, she’d already lost a hip and an ankle to the disease.
Sixteen years of immunosuppressants, injections, antidepressants, and stimulants left her barely functioning—mentally and physically shattered.
At 23, her health collapsed again: rashes, chronic pain, crippling depression. Out of desperation, she cut her diet back to meat and whole foods. Within two months, her symptoms nearly vanished. She weaned off all medications.
Her autoimmune disease, fatigue, and depression—gone.
Later, pregnancy and withdrawal from SSRIs brought symptoms back.
So she went even further—removing all plant foods. Six months later, remission again.
Attempts to reintroduce plants? Always led to relapse.
Today, thousands in her online community report similar results—people failed by conventional medicine but regaining their health through a meat-based diet.
She points out:
– The ketogenic diet has treated epilepsy since the 1920s.
– Alzheimer’s is being termed type 3 diabetes, driven by carbs.
– One in five Americans now has an autoimmune disease.
– One in six takes psychiatric medication.
Fuller argues our chronic illness crisis began when we abandoned ancestral food: red meat, fat, and simplicity.
She calls the demonization of meat “one of the greatest nutritional blunders in history.”
Studies linking red meat to disease, she notes, were based on populations eating sugar, seed oils, and processed foods—not steak.
In Kenya, adding meat to children’s diets raised test scores by 45%.
Women owning livestock gain freedom, food, and income.
And ruminant meat, she says, “is the only single food that can sustain human life without supplementation.”
The first Harvard study on the carnivore diet (published by Oxford University Press) shocked researchers:
– 90% reported improvement across all conditions.
– Over 80% of diabetics stopped all medication, including insulin.
For Mikhaila Peterson Fuller, it’s not a trend—it’s survival.
And she believes radical dietary simplicity could hold the key to reversing chronic disease, mental illness, and metabolic decline—before we usher in a lab-grown food future built on mistakes.
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I both appreciate and am dismayed by the obsession with longevity. In our quest for longevity, we tend to treat aging as an adversary. I think there's a selfishness at the heart of this. Such a view misses some real benefits. Getting old brings wisdom, new priorities, and strong family connections across generations.
As a dad, any physical aches I feel are more easily forgotten or tolerated when I focus on my children. The real secret to longevity is your offspring.
If you want to live forever, have kids!
BREAKING 🚨 President Trump just put the world on notice saying America will not join G20 held in South Africa since they are k*lling Christians
Save Christians at all costs 🙏