Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Today, we're going to talk about what to do if you stalled when you're doing intermittent fasting.

Now, this topic comes up quite often when I do my live show on Friday mornings.

So I'm just going to create this one video to cover all the basics.

Now, our bodies have been evolving for hundreds of thousands of years in relationship to starvation.

Starvation is a risk to your survival.

Human bodies have gone through a lot of starvation.

And so they have developed and have adapted certain mechanisms to help them survive.

So they're in your body and they're waiting, okay, when you stop eating.

So when you start fasting or you do fasting for a period of time,

that sends signals up to the brain that food is scarce.

So we're going to get some hormone adaptation.

Our cells are going to become more efficient.

You're going to start to develop this condition called autophagy,

where your cells are efficiently recycling damaged proteins and giving you new proteins.

Your body is taking the resources it has and becoming just very, very frugal and very efficient.

And you're going to lose less nutrients.

And you're going to have certain things that preserve your muscle from being used as fuel.

The body is going to start tapping into its fat.

When you go in a weight loss program, when you want to lose weight,

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