Just wondering if anyone has recipes or suggestions on this topic. Halfway through a 7 day extended fast and choosing keto upon return to eating. Looking for keto vegetarian options. TIA
Vegetarian keto refeeding after EF
atomicspacebunny
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I think Chia Seeds would be the best thing for breaking such a long fast for a Vegetarian?
Personally I think fasting extensively as opposed to intermittent fasting where you have absolute control and balance over your levels of autophagy but beyond 10 days of strict fasting is no more beneficial than fasting for 40 days (e.g. spiritual reasons?) in my opinion. Autophagy is a catabolic state (depending on skeletal muscle exertion[5]) and I suppose you have to decide how long; do you want your body to seriously eat itself?
The more often you fast extensively the easier it gets, however the more X’s you fast extensively within a short period of time, the more calories (eat as much as you want[4]) you will need when you do eat…or it gets dangerous?
Autophagy does not make-up for acute micronutrients deficiencies, bad gut flora biome ratios or a leaky gut; gastrointestinal tissue full of holes that allows what you eat to go directly into the blood stream without being properly broken down by your own digestive enzymes and the enzymes of the gut bugs in your intestinal tract[3]?
References:
- Gut Bacteria Enzyme Can Transform a Blood Cell’s Type: “… Enzymes made by bacteria in the human digestive tract can strip the sugars that determine blood type from the surface of red blood cells in the lab, a new study finds.
- “… For longer duration fasts, we often try NOT to calorie restrict during that eating period. Often, as people get used to fasting, we hear very often that their appetite starts to seriously go down. Not up. Down. They should eat to satiation on their eating day. There’s a very good reason for this decrease in appetite. As you start to break the insulin resistance cycle, insulin levels start to decrease. Since insulin is the major regulator of the body set weight (BSW) your body now ‘wants’ to go lower. In response, hunger is suppressed and total energy expenditure is maintained. So – appetite goes down and TEE stays same or goes up. Remember that standard Caloric Reduction as Primary (CRaP) strategies produce the opposite. Appetite goes up and TEE goes down. Which do you think will work in the long run? …” …More
- “…Researchers studied the effect of whole body protein breakdown with 7 days of fasting. Their conclusion was that “decreased whole body protein breakdown contributes significantly to the decreased nitrogen excretion observed with fasting in obese subjects”. There is a normal breakdown of muscle which is balanced by new muscle formation. This breakdown rate slows roughly 25% during fasting. …” - J. Fung