You'll wake up feeling refreshed and your whole body will benefit. Your skin will improve its tone and texture. Your hair, nails,internal organs and mood will all reap the
benefits. The hibernation diet is about recruiting your own natural recovery system for weight control.
Your brain demands constant energy but can not store any. The energy your brain uses comes first off, from your liver. However, the liver can only store a small amount of energy at a time - about 75 grams.
During the night, your body needs new energy to build new cells for your bones, skin, muscles and all your vital functions. Your recovery gland (known as the pituitary, master of the recovery hormone production) that sends out the message, while you're asleep, to do all this reconditioning.
Working through your liver, your body spends at least 4 hours a night doing all this calorie demanding maintenance work, and these calories come from your fat storage. The first 4 hours of sleep, called slow wave sleep, is when your overnight repair system are their busiest.
During sleep, our body uses fat for energy during rest and recovery. For this to occur, our liver must be adequately stocked with fuel reserves to get through the 8 hour fast.
When our liver is fueled, our blood sugar is stable and our body can use fat stores almost exclusively for energy. One of the best ways to fuel our liver is to eat 1 or 2 tablespoons of honey within an hour of bedtime.
Honey has the same amounts of glucose and fructose.Your liver takes in the fructose. The fructose regulates glucose into the liver. That keeps your blood sugar level balanced all night. With no sudden highs or lows, your liver has storage to keep your brain fueled. Now your recovery hormones get on with their job and they use up your fat storage to do it.
So some principles of this new lifestyle are: going to bed with enough fuel in your liver to feed your brain, using honey as the fueling mechanism at night and exploiting your own body's capacity to burn up fat reserves.
Cited from the book titled The Hibernation Diet ...by Mike and Stuart Mcinnes with Maggie Stanfield
Your brain demands constant energy but can not store any. The energy your brain uses comes first off, from your liver. However, the liver can only store a small amount of energy at a time - about 75 grams.
During the night, your body needs new energy to build new cells for your bones, skin, muscles and all your vital functions. Your recovery gland (known as the pituitary, master of the recovery hormone production) that sends out the message, while you're asleep, to do all this reconditioning.
Working through your liver, your body spends at least 4 hours a night doing all this calorie demanding maintenance work, and these calories come from your fat storage. The first 4 hours of sleep, called slow wave sleep, is when your overnight repair system are their busiest.
During sleep, our body uses fat for energy during rest and recovery. For this to occur, our liver must be adequately stocked with fuel reserves to get through the 8 hour fast.
When our liver is fueled, our blood sugar is stable and our body can use fat stores almost exclusively for energy. One of the best ways to fuel our liver is to eat 1 or 2 tablespoons of honey within an hour of bedtime.
Honey has the same amounts of glucose and fructose.Your liver takes in the fructose. The fructose regulates glucose into the liver. That keeps your blood sugar level balanced all night. With no sudden highs or lows, your liver has storage to keep your brain fueled. Now your recovery hormones get on with their job and they use up your fat storage to do it.
So some principles of this new lifestyle are: going to bed with enough fuel in your liver to feed your brain, using honey as the fueling mechanism at night and exploiting your own body's capacity to burn up fat reserves.
Cited from the book titled The Hibernation Diet ...by Mike and Stuart Mcinnes with Maggie Stanfield
Gipson's Golden, Inc.
