This is a summary of the video transcript:
- The video explains what happens in the body when fasting for more than a day, up to 21 days, and whether it is beneficial or not.
- The video claims that prolonged fasting can improve mood, cognitive performance, blood pressure, and weight loss, but also has drawbacks such as muscle loss, uric acid increase, and hormonal changes.
- The video concludes that prolonged fasting is not recommended for longevity and quality of life, and that there are better ways to lose fat and stay healthy.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
- 1. Scientists in South Korea have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million°C for 30 seconds, a net energy gain and a stable experiment.
- 2. The core of the Sun has a temperature of 15 million degrees kelvins, which is about seven times lower than the fusion reactor.
- 3. Prolonged fasting of more than four days can have benefits such as weight loss, blood pressure reduction, cognitive improvement and neuroplasticity, but also drawbacks such as muscle loss, uric acid increase and hormonal changes.
- 4. The body adapts to prolonged fasting by switching from glucose to ketone bodies as an alternative energy source, but it also breaks down proteins to produce glucose through gluconeogenesis.
- 5. Prolonged fasting is not recommended for people who want to preserve muscle mass, fertility or growth hormone levels.