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Chapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really WorksChapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really Works
mixture of fat stores and lean muscle tissue to make up the energy deficit. It is
effectively impossible for the body to be burning only muscle or only fat – it is
always some mixture of muscle and fat. But there are several factors that
determine how much muscle versus how much fat the body burns:
 Minerals and Enzymes – if the body does not have a sufficient supply of
vital enzymes and minerals, the chemical reactions which burn fat and
transport the stored toxins out of the body do not function.
 Water – the body requires water to burn fat and to flush toxins stored in fat
out of the body. Dehydration increases muscle and sugar burning and
decreases fat burning.
 Starvation Mode – if the body has been regularly deprived of calories, it
will enter starvation mode in attempt to survive as long as possible, which
locks down fat stores and causes more muscle to be burned.
 Toxicity – if the body requires fat to store excess toxicity, then it will not
want to release dangerous amounts of toxins in the blood stream, causing
it to burn less fat and more muscle.
 Stress – if the body is under great stress, and in particular if it is not
getting enough sleep, levels of stress hormones (cortisols) increase,
locking down fat stores and causing the body to burn less fat and more
muscle.
 BCAAs – branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) are the molecules that
muscles are made from. When the body burns muscle tissue, it releases
BCAAs into the blood stream, which creates a feedback effect causing the
body to recognize that it is already burning up muscle, and hence to burn
more fat and less muscle. This effect can be leveraged in our favor to
encourage fat burning by taking BCAAs during cleanses, fasts, and before
exercising on an empty stomach to maximize fat loss and minimize
muscle loss.
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