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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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Digest - Breast Feeding, Pregnancy, Weight Watchers, Prostate Cancer, and Erectile Dysfunction

Fievel is protecting his prostate.
Here are a few valuable articles that I didn’t think warranted a full write-up. Enjoy!
More girls than boys benefit from breastfeeding
For the study, investigators tracked responses to a first infection after birth and found that breast-fed girls were the least likely to be hospitalized with an acute respiratory disease. Only [...]

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New Weight Loss Drug

Here are two articles on weight loss drugs. The first one is about Histalean, a new drug that makes weight loss safer. The makers believe that it targets the H1 and H3 receptors to reduce the desire to eat fatty foods. According to the article, the study was conducted on men and [...]

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