Burn it Nutrition Podcast · Joseph Navarro Fitness, Nutrition, Ketogenic, Paleo, Keto, Diet Coach

Ep184: Fasting Beyond Weight Loss: Autophagy, Loose Skin, and Lasting Transformation with Chris James

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Chris James lays out his seven-day prep week: fewer meals, lower-density foods, portion control, then a juice cleanse before a fast.

1. Burn It Nutrition Podcast Ep184 examines extended water fasting, with guest Chris James describing a 90-day plan that he says helped his brother lose about 100 pounds without loose skin. 2. Host Joseph Navarro interviews James, a fasting coach who began researching health 10 to 16 hours a day for eight months after a 2015 layoff. 3. James's central claim is that disease starts with cellular dehydration, so "eating your water" and structuring it matters as much as the fast itself. 4. His origin story starts at age 28 as an electrical apprentice in a 120-degree fabrication shop, where a severe dizzy spell resolved within 24 hours of drinking water. 5. His first fast lasted 13 days on water and, he says, cleared a decade-long infection and produced weight loss of about two pounds per day. 6. His brother began fasting at roughly 375 pounds and lost about 25 pounds in the first week, then about 100 pounds over three months, while reversing diabetes and clearing a childhood toe fungus. 7. James describes a "fasting shrink week" between days 14 and 21 of a pure water fast, when the scale barely moves but inches drop, and he says breaking the fast at day 14 avoids it. 8. For beginners he outlines a seven-day prep: cut from six or seven daily meals toward one meal a day, favor water-rich foods over calorie-dense ones like a Snickers bar, then finish with a juice cleanse before a fast of three days or less. 9. On loose skin, he says dehydrated skin cells "lose their elasticity," and that autophagy, which he calls peak-benefit at about 72 hours, combined with hydration prevents it. 10. Navarro and James also discuss structured water, including cold-steeping fruit in a gallon for four hours and charging distilled water in glass in sunlight, which James says raised pH and tasted sweet. 11. People interested in extended fasting, weight loss, and hydration will get the most from this episode.

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