Handy Explores What Happens to Your Body If You Don’t Eat For 72 Hours

Posted by elain martell on March 28th, 2020

Introduction

The latest fad to maintaining a good healthy lifestyle is to follow a fasting routine. From ancient times, the saints have preached fasting as a way to give a rest to all your organs and reboot your body giving you a fresh start. There are various regimens of fasting floating around. Handy explores the pros and cons of not eating for seventy-two hours and the effects it can have on your body.

The Effects

1. Changes in the body’s internal system - When you fast for three continuous days, it is like you are putting your body in some sort of repair and maintenance mode. In these three days, the stomach lining is completely shed and is replaced by a fresh one. Your high insulin levels get under control and the fat stored in your body is used up for the body’s survival. Thus, the fat gets depleted and your body gets into shape.

2. You tend to lose weight - After seventy hours of fasting, you see a reduction in your weight. But this is not a reason to be happy about it. You have likely lost the water content in your body rather than the body fat. The body uses up the stored glycogen to run its normal functions. This results in losing water and weight. 

3. Focus on your emotional health - When you are not eating for a couple of days your mind may wander to areas which you don’t normally explore owing to your busy schedule. Research suggests that a long fasting enables you to have greater control over your mental health and you can get time to counter your bottled-up emotions. You are clearer and focused, and you learn to appreciate the things around you. 

4. Experience of foul mouth smell - When you don’t give your body food, it goes into ketosis and starts shaking the fat cells for energy. When your body goes into a fat-burning mode, you release ketone bodies through your breath and the smell of it is often unpleasant. You may have an experience of it when talking to a person with great abs. 

5. Daily experience - On the very first day of fasting you may feel very hungry and it's difficult for you to keep away from your daily snacks and food. Drinking water on a frequent basis may help you. The second day is no better as you may experience headaches, weakness, irritation and you might want to skip this whole exercise. The third day is the best of all. You are happy that the past is going to end. Your body has also adapted to the recent changes and you do not feel the regular hunger pangs.

Conclusion

Handy feels that the key to the success of the seventy-hour fasting is to keep yourself hydrated at all times. Remember, you are doing this for the holistic goodness of your body and you definitely do not want to fall sick. Water takes care of all the major deficiencies occurring during this period and helps your body to function normally. Just, don’t attempt to fast for so long if you have any illness.