How to lose weight and boost your immunity with 168 intermittent fasting (168 fasting diet)!

As you are all aware during the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few years, even if you have been vaccinated, some people will get the disease, and even if they do get it, some will recover without any symptoms, while others will suffer long-term after-effects.

Never before has the importance of autoimmunity been more apparent.

The most effective way to boost your immunity

It's easy to get swayed by advertisements for all sorts of immunity-boosting supplements and the like, but the easiest, most inexpensive and most effective method is simply fasting .

Fasting means 'abstinence from food' . In yoga teachings, it is said that 'fasting is a miracle cure for all diseases', and in France it is even said to be 'surgery that does not require a scalpel'.

Fasting centers have been around in Japan for a long time, and in recent years many hotels and resorts with on-site doctors have been established that make fasting the main focus of travel.

168The Effects of Intermittent Fasting

I have been doing 168 fasting (168 intermittent fasting) ever since I started my diet about four years ago.

This is a method of not eating solid food for 16 to 18 hours out of 24 hours, and eating a day's meals between 6 and 8 hours . By simply setting aside 16 to 18 hours of no food every day, I was able to eat whatever I wanted and not gain weight at all.

Energy consumed in digestion

Originally, eating consumes a lot more energy than you would imagine. For example, if you eat three meals a day, you need the same amount of energy as running a full marathon. And constantly digesting food puts a lot of strain on your internal organs .

Toxin accumulation and its effects on the body

And if you continue to have the eating habit of eating as much as you want of whatever you want, whenever you want, you may not immediately become ill, but your intestinal environment will gradually deteriorate and toxins will become more likely to accumulate in your body.

When these toxins accumulate, they cause indigestion, cell deterioration, a weakened metabolism, rough skin, mouth ulcers, and in the end, if the energy taken in from food is not consumed and remains, neutral fats are synthesized in the liver. These neutral fats flow through the blood and are stored in the fat cells that make up body fat, becoming subcutaneous fat and visceral fat.

The effects of fasting

This act of fasting involves stopping what you put into your body for a certain period of time, which allows your internal organs to rest, which in turn helps to metabolize unnecessary energy that has built up in the body, makes it easier to expel toxins, improves metabolism, and boosts your immune system.

Autophagy and the metabolic switch

Some people say that if you don't take in nutrients, your body will become malnourished, but that's not true.

Even when we are not taking in nutrients, our bodies have to continue to produce blood and cells. The materials used for this are old cells. At this time, old and unnecessary cells are used to convert them into new blood and cells.

This is called autophagy, and was proven by research by Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2016.

When autophagy is activated, a "metabolic switch" is turned on, making it easier to switch from glucose metabolism to ketone body metabolism, creating a virtuous cycle in which "autophagy" becomes even more active in a ketone body metabolic state.

It is believed that it takes at least 12 hours after your last meal for this "metabolic switch" to take effect, which switches from glucose metabolism to ketone body metabolism.

Recommendations for fasting

By spending a few hours in a state where your body is in ketone metabolism, your body burns triglycerides, which are the cause of weight gain, and converts them into energy, thereby reducing the causes of weight gain.

It is known that as your body gets used to this cycle, the "autophagy" process, in which new cells in your body self-eat old cells that contain bad proteins and are reborn as new cells, becomes increasingly active. That's why I always recommend that you go at least 16 hours a day without eating!

And when you finish your fast, eat only until you are 80% full, and eat foods that are good for your body, especially foods that your intestinal bacteria will enjoy, which will also help to activate your immune system. My standard lunch after finishing my fast is brown rice, miso soup with seaweed, pickled plums, and a little bit of protein.

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