Brain Power

the benefits of fasting is that eating less gives our metabolism a break, affording our body respite from this process.

a healthy brain is about feeling good

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vitamin C helps with the absorption of iron.

It should take at least ten hours to burn through the carb stores in your liver and blood, but you can give the process a boost with exercise

point it will have run out of sugars to use as fuel and will need to find a new energy source. And so, it begins converting stored fat into ketone bodies, another type of fuel that the body and brain can use for energy instead of sugars.

After some time without food, the body will have burned through all the glucose circulating in the blood, and the glycogen stored in the liver.

Fasting makes the cells in the body and brain better able to cope with stress, and has been found to improve immune function, as well as memory, learning, cognitive skills and alertness.1

Alzheimer’s disease is that the brains of people with the disorder have a reduced ability to use glucose, possibly because the transport of glucose is blocked by amyloid plaques that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.

our ability to learn and plan