My thoughts on WATER FASTING (fastest fat loss possible_)

What is going on, Eye of Warriors? So today we're going to talk about my thoughts, my thoughts on water fasting. Now, I know that this is really popular in the fasting landscape. I know it's really popular amongst you guys because water fasting provides this level of speed that a lot of people are looking for when it comes to weight loss. For some reason, people don't want to go through a slower process of losing weight or even a more sustainable process of losing weight. They want to go through a very quick process of losing weight. Now, water fasting will provide that fast weight loss. There is fast weight loss attached to water fasting. Depending on how long you do it, you have the ability to lose weight very quickly with water fasting. But, and here's a big but, it is actually not the healthiest thing that you can do. And here's the reasons why, right? And I'm not going to try to just be here and just like, you know, try to kind of beat you over the head with stuff when it comes to water fasting. But I do want to be completely honest with the scientific data that we have, with the understanding that we have of water fasting and the major limitations that come with it so that with me, I'm always going to be honest with you guys regardless of if this is something that you want to do or not. I'm going to be compassionate about that, but I'm going to be honest with you guys. The reason you lose a lot of weight with water fasting really quickly is because nothing is getting fed whatsoever. Not just your body fat, but also your muscles aren't getting fed. Nothing is getting fed. Muscle, glycogen, body fat, nothing. So what ends up happening, believe it or not, is that your brain is going to require, your brain is going to require glucose source. It needs it. And when you're fasting for long periods of time, exceeding over, you know, two, three days, your body's not going to work, your brain is not going to work off the ketones throughout that entire process. What it will end up doing is at a certain point, it will turn over, and it will do a process called glucose neogenesis and start burning muscle tissue. It'll actually start burning muscle tissue, turning that muscle tissue into glucose because that's what glucose neogenesis is, taking a non-carbohydrate source inside your body and transforming that non-carbohydrate source into a carbohydrate source, thus glucose, for your brain. So your brain can only work with about 70-something percent on ketones. After that, it needs glucose. Now here's the crazy dangerous part about it. When that happens, it's not that it stops and turns around and starts, you know, burning fat. It is now simultaneously burning muscle as well as burning some fat because obviously, wherever it can get the energy is going to get the energy. But you're deteriorating muscle tissue at a rapid, rapid pace. Now, when you do this and you go on the scale, you're going to see massive weight loss because number one, you're probably depleting all of your water because your glycogen is getting depleted which carries water, plus your drinking water which can then help you release more water. The more water you drink, the less the water retention is, plus the glycogen depletion. And then you are rapidly depleting muscle and then you're also losing body fat at the same time. So the conglomerate of all of that stuff, having zero glycogen in your system at all times, losing rapid amounts of muscle tissue, losing body fat, releasing water retention, all of that stuff has now put you in a position where you have lost so much weight on the scale. Now, this is one of the reasons why I say do not use the scale as the be-all end-all. Some people say, no, I don't pay attention to the scale, I don't care about the scale, but when they get on that scale, that number means so much to them. They want the number to reciprocate their efforts. They want the number to reciprocate what they feel they should be seeing. It should be a reduction in weight. There should be weight loss happening here. Why isn't that the case when I'm seeing this? And that same effect, that same negative effect that happens in your brain when you see weight loss not happening or weight gain happening on the scale when you feel that you should be losing weight based off the things that you're doing, that same deception in the mind happens in the opposite direction. When you do a water fast and you see the massive amount of weight loss, you don't combine that or look at that as evidence that you've lost muscle. You don't look at that as evidence that you are completely glycogen depleted for the entire time. You don't look at that and see that you've lost so much water because you're drinking so much water. You don't look at that and say any of that stuff. What you see is a positive moment, a moment of weight loss, a moment of weight loss that you assimilate to body fat loss, and that is not the case. The majority of that weight loss that you will be seeing on that scale will come from all of those things put together, not just body fat. I just want you guys to know that. Glucose neogenesis will take place. Your body will not be simply running off of body fat. A lot of dangerous things could also happen during water fast, like your blood pressure could drop simply because, believe it or not, there's possibilities of being dehydrated. I know it sounds weird, but you can be dehydrated considering that eating food is like 20 to 30% of your intake. Some people just don't even like water, don't even drink water that much, but because they're doing a water fast, they're like, oh, well, here's my glass for the day, or here's my two glasses for the day, or my three glasses, and you're technically not actually consuming as much water as you think you are, even though you're consuming more water in a glass than you normally would. It's just the fact that you're also not eating that's removing like 20 to 30% of the water that you were drinking before. So there's a weirdness to it, but you actually could somehow become dehydrated by doing a water fast, not by drinking water, but by doing a water fast because of the way that people do it. It wouldn't even be recommended, and nor would I recommend for you to do a water fast without medical supervision, especially if you're going past that two-day mark going into multiple days. Keep in mind that water fast studies are very, very, very, very limited, which makes it even more dangerous. It's just, in humans, it's very limited. We don't really know enough. We don't have enough of that data out there to make a good determining statement on what would happen if you do a water fast. But studies have shown that after five days of just water fasting, that your cortisol just goes up incredibly high. And that is the hormone, the breaking down hormone, which, yeah, it helps with burning fat, but it also helps with breaking down muscle tissue. And breaking down muscle tissue is just unhealthy in and of itself, not to mention all of the nutrition that you just won't have that helps protect. So all of that stuff, those are fortifying kind of things, the nutrition, the protein, all that stuff that help you kind of hold everything together and even retain or build muscle during that time. Which, by the way, over time, having more muscle is much better for weight loss and weight maintenance, because when it's all said and done, weight maintenance is actually the issue that we have, especially here in the United States, is not weight loss. People can lose weight, but most people that lose weight cannot keep the weight off. So it's actually important to put yourself in a position where you can lose weight and keep it off. And having muscle helps doing that because of the metabolic adaptation and how it drives your metabolic rate, because our lean mass is the primary driver for your metabolic rate. So you wanna have as much muscle as possible when you're losing weight. And if you're doing something that's literally degrading your muscle at the fastest rates possible, which is a water fast, that is something that you definitely want to be mindful of if you're ever thinking of doing a water fast. Now, am I saying not to do it? Technically, no, I'm not saying not to do it, but I am saying to do it under medical supervision. Stop trying to do these things on your own. Also keep in mind that your refeed, you can't eat a big meal. You have to be very, very mindful of how you're going to do a refeed and what you will consume in the first few days because you're not gonna just be able to just eat right away the same way you were eating before. So you gotta be super, super careful with how you refeed, what you're doing during the process, the kind of exercises, the things that you're doing. It's just so, you're just walking this tightrope so much that it's not worth it. And at the end of the day, when you finally get to whatever weight you were looking to get to, keeping it there is going to be near impossible because you don't have a strategy of weight maintenance. You only had a strategy of rapid weight loss because you can't keep doing this. You literally, you eventually have to eat, right? You can't keep doing this. So then what ends up happening? You're not gonna have a weight maintenance strategy. The best way to lose weight is to lose weight with something where then you can also maintain the weight loss with that same tool. And don't, trust me, it doesn't work in the way that you think. Like, oh, I'll just do this and then I'll do intermittent fasting. And then it, no, you'll still tend to, you'll tend to still mess up, gain weight, not create the rhythm. The rhythm, the biological rhythm of eating and fasting would not even exist. You would have to do that all over again. And just because you fasted without eating for so long doesn't mean that you are acclimated to eating and fasting on a daily period. An intraday fasting and eating schedule is completely different from just full-blown fasting for multiple days. So hopefully this video has helped you guys. I see that you guys are very interested in water fasting. So I definitely wanted to give you my thoughts, talk a little bit about the science or the lack thereof with when it comes to intermittent fasting, water fasting, and just give you a heads up. I want you guys to be as safe as possible, but I do also want you guys to reach your weight loss goals. Let me know down in the comment section down below if you guys have been thinking about doing this, if this video was helpful and informative for you. And yeah, just your overall thoughts on water fasting.