You don't start by starving yourself, how to starve is very delicate. If you starve all the time, none of us can stand it, and your body needs some essential nutrients to activate repair mechanisms. So, light fasting, that's the most recommended protocol for anti-aging science.

I'll tell you directly how to do it. It's very simple, it's divided into two phases and you can also do it step-by-step.

The first phase is the most important, the fasting has to last for more than 16 hours to ensure that our cells adequately sense caloric deprivation and start the repair process.

This is not as difficult as you think, because your sleep is going to be 8 hours, so you can schedule your meals from 8 am to 4 pm or 11 am to 7 pm, as long as they are eaten within 8 hours, you are free to choose.

When you're first starting with light fasting, you can just do this step and eat well the rest of the time. This is the way I use it the most. You don't even have any discomfort yet, the energy intake has been greatly restricted during this period and the anti-aging genes have been activated once.

In the second phase, you'll want to limit the total number of calories you eat on this day of fasting, aiming for 500-800 calories throughout the day.

You can work your way down from 1,000 or even 1,200 calories to slowly reach this goal. Eat a balanced diet, just reduce portions proportionally. To make sure you get your vitamins and fiber, you can eat a variety of colorful vegetables and fruits together, low-calorie fruits like apples, blueberries, and kiwis are great, and if you can't get it all together, consider a multivitamin supplement. Specifically how to eat, I recommended a meal list here for you, you can follow.

The third stage is the rhythm of long-term light fasting anti-aging. One day a week is fine, no more than three days.

You can do it every other day, or two days in a row, but three consecutive days of light fasting, as well as a program of more than three days a week, has seen a risk of nutrient deficiencies in many weight loss studies and is therefore even less recommended for healthy people.

Hearing this, you may have thought: since energy restriction can be anti-aging, it seems that prolonged fasting is reliable, so wouldn't it be better not to eat? Now there are a lot of such projects, join retreats in scenic locations, begin to practice extreme fasting, do not eat or eat very little, 14 consecutive days, 1 month, said it can cure all diseases, prolong life.

Here I must make a reminder, extreme fasting is not recommended.

Why? Because ancient Daoist fasting practices, and today these modern fasting programs, not at all on a level. First of all, the past Daoist practitioners is many years of practice, can start to initiate fasting, is already step by step, have done a lot of physical preparation for the people. Secondly, after they had started to practice fasting, they would still follow their original lifestyle of moderate eating habits.

However, today's crash fasting, regardless of the previous destiny, without asking for a follow-up, comes up with extremely low energy, which is similar to cramming for exams last-minute. Its biggest problem is that, in our body, fat cells and energy metabolism have memory, such an extreme approach will only make your body remember, current energy scarcity, I have to protect myself tightly to prevent fat loss.

So what we see is that for many people just after experiencing the fasting regimen, everything is good, but as soon as you return to the original lifestyle, the body begins to compulsively store fat, obesity, blood lipids, blood sugar, blood pressure, these in a year after two years, even worse than before the fasting.

So, it is better to go back to the light fasting that is not so difficult to do with half the effort.