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Part 6: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? - Q&A

Recapping The Goodness
First, I’d like to give a quick bullet-point run-down of some of the effects of fasting that I reported on in the last five posts.

Liver glycogen levels are depleted within 8-10 hours. Muscle glycogen falls by 50% over 24-hours, even without exercise.
After depleting glycogen, amino acids are recycled to be broken down [...]

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IF: “Long on promises, short on delivery?”

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This is the first post by Greg Davis.
Modern Forager is no stranger to fasting, having reported on its potential benefits in several posts. But has one of the paleo/low-carb heavyweights, in Dr. Mike Eades, weighed in against the practice of intermittent fasting?
In one of his posts this month on his popular [...]

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