Starting a fast for 5 days, water only.
Got through 10 days with one meal/day a week ago, and re-fed last week.
Over the last 10 years, there's been an explosion of new biochem around a bacterial compound found on Easter Island. The target of this compound is called mTOR, and it's widely found in living things, including us.
mTOR seems to be a centrally important enzyme, controlling so much of our biochemistry that it affects things as diverse as mental state, intelligence, autoimmune disease, muscle growth, size, fat deposition, longevity, and cancer resistance.
SO naturally, it's human nature to mess with it.
Which is what I'm doing on purpose. I spent $2.50 on chemical reagents to use during the experiment, which ought to result in a huge shift in my white cell mass. In a good way.
I've become alarmed at the my speed of adaptation to weightlifting over the last six months. It's about 30% higher than expected, putting me on track to hit the expected goal in 8 months instead of 12, even with deliberate slowing of increases. That can only mean high IGF levels.
High IGF means faster muscle growth and less diabetes. Sounds good? Well it also means more cancer, and reduced lifespan.
Hopefully, fasting will drop the IGF level, and purge defective white cells, so the cancer risk will fall. It will save me a few days food costs too. And I get to cut before the usual pre-Christmas bulking phase.
Got through 10 days with one meal/day a week ago, and re-fed last week.
Over the last 10 years, there's been an explosion of new biochem around a bacterial compound found on Easter Island. The target of this compound is called mTOR, and it's widely found in living things, including us.
mTOR seems to be a centrally important enzyme, controlling so much of our biochemistry that it affects things as diverse as mental state, intelligence, autoimmune disease, muscle growth, size, fat deposition, longevity, and cancer resistance.
SO naturally, it's human nature to mess with it.
Which is what I'm doing on purpose. I spent $2.50 on chemical reagents to use during the experiment, which ought to result in a huge shift in my white cell mass. In a good way.
I've become alarmed at the my speed of adaptation to weightlifting over the last six months. It's about 30% higher than expected, putting me on track to hit the expected goal in 8 months instead of 12, even with deliberate slowing of increases. That can only mean high IGF levels.
High IGF means faster muscle growth and less diabetes. Sounds good? Well it also means more cancer, and reduced lifespan.
Hopefully, fasting will drop the IGF level, and purge defective white cells, so the cancer risk will fall. It will save me a few days food costs too. And I get to cut before the usual pre-Christmas bulking phase.
