FASTING VS STARVING

1. Fasting targets your body fat, while starving goes after your muscles and organs.

When you’re starving, it means there’s no more fat to burn. Fat is an energy reserve your body stores. When you start fasting, your body feeds on this energy source.

2. When you’re fasting, you have a spike in growth hormones; when you’re starving, you have atrophy of the muscles; your muscles begin to waste away; you hit a decline.

3. With starvation, there's a cognitive deficit; your mental processes and thinking become impaired, but with fasting, you have neurogenesis, which is the process by which new neurons are formed in the brain.

4. With starvation, you’re going to be weak and tired, but fasting makes you stronger and more energetic. You feel strong like crazy; your entire body is focused on getting things done; you’re not trying to digest things.

5. With starvation, you start having nutritional deficiencies like Beri-beri, pellagra, and scurvy, and your immune system becomes weakened.

With fasting, your immune system builds up, your body’s antioxidant are improved, your metabolism is improved, how?

The good bacteria in your gut starts to become diversified and start to live longer. Your intestinal walls become strengthened.

What people don’t know is that overloading the system with food, especially overly processed foods like junk food, shawarma, pizza, hot dogs, and the like, is very bad. Your system and the enzymes weren’t designed to handle such things.

When you constantly eat overly processed foods, they frustrate the enzymes, they frustrate the intestinal walls, they mess with your gut, and to a great extent wipe the good bacteria, this can then result in inflammation with resultant symptoms like heart burn, indigestion, acid reflux, etc.

6. With fasting, inflammation goes away. The enzymes in your liver becomes strengthened. When you fast, you kill off cancer cells like crazy.

7. Fasting is healthy, starving is not.

The interesting thing is, people don’t eat for a day and think they’re starving. My dear, no, you’re not even close to starving. There’s enough fat reserve in your body to carry you for at least 2days (48hrs).

The longer you stay away from food, the more fasting benefits you.

Fasting 2x in a week is very healthy for the body (intermittent fasting), and going on a prolonged fast (i.e 48hrs and so on) from time to time is even more beneficial.

It’s important you start gradually, for example, you haven’t fasted before and you just wake up and jump to 48hrs fasting, it will bite you, it will harm you. Start with intermittent fasting, 10hrs, 16hrs fast, 22hrs, 24hrs, and you build on it. While you fast, what can you eat or have that doesn’t break the fast?

1. Water
2. Black coffee (this is coffee without sugar or any additive in it. It’s just plain coffee)
3. Diluted apple cider vinegar

DID YOU KNOW???

When you get injured, in the healing process your body might form scars to heal the wound, certain times there is accumulation of excessive amount of collagen resulting in a raised scar which do not regress. This is known as a KELOID (raised scar).

What’s collagen?
Collagen is the main structural protein in mammals.

5 reasons why eggs are good for your health.

1. Eggs contain all the essential amino acids. Amino acids are the ultimate building blocks. Your body doesn’t produce essential amino acids, so you need to get them from food daily and one of the major sources is eggs. 2. Eggs contain choline. A single egg contain about 147mg of choline. Choline is good for the brain, it is an essential nutrient required for the normal development of the brain.

There was a farmer named Fleming; he was a poor Scottish farmer. He took care of his farm as if his life depended on it. One day, when he was on the farm trying to make a living for his family, he heard the cry of a child. The child was crying out for help. The cry for help was coming from a nearby bog (a wet, muddy ground). He left what he was doing and ran to the bog. When he reached there, he saw the terrified boy screaming and struggling to free himself.

There was one time I got this effervescent vitamin C tablets. I put it in water and drank, that night, my stomach was upside down. I checked the contents and boom “aspartame” was used (i.e the sweetener). I researched aspartame and what I discovered wasn’t good. They say it’s better than sugar, that it’s healthier, that’s bullshit. It messes up your gut. Harms the microflora. And it doesn’t surprise one bit that it can cause cancer. This is the rubbish that is sold in drinks and a lot of other things.

Stella has been married for 5 years now and has no child. She has gotten pregnant twice, but it was the same tragedy: the child dies after birth. The last one died three months after birth, just as she finished celebrating. People in the village are already saying she is a witch. Her husband is not even finding it easy anymore, as he is the only son, and his family is on his neck to marry another woman and send her away.

1. You don’t need to take your bath with medicated soaps
2. Sleep paralysis is not a spiritual attack, nobody is grabbing your neck
3. Diarrhea lasting for a day is a good thing
4. As a man,you’re to wake up with an erection several times in a week
5. You don’t need feminine wash Using medicated soaps or antiseptics for your daily bath is not good, why?

The semen released when a man masturbates is different from the one released when he actually has real sex. When men have sex their semen volume is higher than that seen when they masturbate. Also, there is increased concentrations and total amounts of prostaglandin E and polyamines in the ejaculate.

Did you know?? There are different types of tears. All tears are not the same, the content of tears varies. When you cry because you’re heartbroken, the tears are different from tears when an irritant enters your eyes. There are different types of tears. There is the reflex tear, the basal tear, and the emotional tear.

Emotional tears contain Leu-enkephalins which is a natural painkiller. This is why you feel light after crying. Sometimes, you may even sleep off.

1. Vitamin C = chief antioxidant
2. Vitamin A also plays an important role in maintaining vision.
3. Vitamin A is also called “anti-inflammation” vitamin. It supports the immune system. It also good for the liver.

1/2 4. Vit B2 + vit B3 helps the body release energy from food breakdown
5. Vit B1 = anti-stress vitamin. It helps the body better withstand stress.
6. Vit B5 & vit B6 play important role in the synthesis of neurotransmitters. They help keep the brain and nervous system healthy.
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1. Paracetamol will work faster on an empty stomach
2. Don’t take NSAIDs (eg diclofenac, felvin,ibuprofen) on an empty stomach
3. Eating oily food & taking antimalaria meds like the artemether/lumefantrine will make it work better
3. Taking diclofenac for ulcer pain is suic*dal👇🏿 One of the side effects of NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) is they can predispose one to ulcer, if you’re to use them, you have to eat first.

1. Zobo is good for the heart and can also help in weight loss.
2. Zobo is not good for pregnant women or breastfeeding mothers.
3. Fresh tomatoes is good for prostate health.
4. Onions are rich in antioxidants.
5. Eggs are good for weightloss.
6. Soda will not clean your lungs. Zobo (Hibiscus tea) is not only good for the heart, it also help reduce the risk of stroke in people who are at risk.
Zobo is also helpful when it comes to weight loss.
If you want the health benefits that comes with taking zobo, go for unsweetened zobo. Very important.

“Period care package” but it contains, Ribena, Apple fruit juice, McVitie’s digestive, McVitie’s butter shortbread, Maryland cookies, packs of Maltesers, Crunchy. Sugar upon sugar upon sugar, your blood sugar level can just spike anyhow and you will be more predisposed to hormonal imbalance. These things feed your sugar cravings which is bad. Apart from that, sugar is inflammatory, it will only worsen your period cramps.

One of the best ways of handling anger and stoping yourself from transferring aggression to someone is breaking the anger down into tiny components and trying to trace the cause of the anger. Use “why”? Ask yourself, “why am I angry”? Next, screen the answers you, ask yourself again, “are these really why I am angry”? Break it down.

1. Cucumber is good for your kidneys.
2. Spinach is rich in iron and vitamin E.
3. Avocado pear is good for your heart.
4. Banana is good for sexual health.
5. Turmeric is good for the heart.
6. Red bell pepper are rich in antioxidants.
7. Fresh tomatoes are rich in antioxidants. Cucumbers are almost water. They’re made up of 96% water. Water is good for your kidneys. Water helps your kidneys remove waste from your blood in the form of urine. Taking cucumber regularly can help prevent kidney stones.

1. Garlic is good for the heart and the immune system
2. Curry is good for people living with diabetes
3. Eggs are overall best when it comes to nutrients
4. Ginger is good for the lungs
5. Onion helps improve cholesterol profile
6. Red bell pepper is good for the heart & lungs Garlic contains a chemical known as “allicin”.

Allicin promotes the production of white blood cells, thereby improving the immune system.

Garlic has immune-boosting properties.

1. Metformin depletes vitamin B12. Deficiency of B12 can result in tingling of the hand,numbness of the feet.

2. Taking ciprofloxacin & artemether/lumefantrine may increase the risk of irregular heartbeat.

3. Sugar is a major culprit in cardiovascular diseases not salt.

THREAD Metformin is a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It works by reducing the amount of glucose produced by the liver and improving the body's response to insulin. (Insulin is a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar levels).

Last year, these two things happened:

I asked a friend of mine how she was doing? She told me she doesn’t want to talk about it as it’s not like I will solve her problems—and she was right. Her problems then, I can’t solve. I told myself, I would never ask her for any reason how she was doing ever again. And even if she had a problem I could solve—I pray it never happens—I will stay clear of it.

Men go through a lot daily. The life challenges. The expectations they have to deal with. The trauma. The abuse they don’t speak of, etc. The end product of bottling all of these is depression.

If you’re going through any of those & now, you’re depressed, these will help you: 1. Seek professional help (eg see a therapist):

Seeking professional help is important when one is dealing with an issue such as depression. Professionals are well trained and can counsel you, provide you with meaningful help to overcome depression.

A lot of men struggle with addiction to drugs, alcohol, or other substances.

Here are tips on how to deal with such:

THREAD 1. Seek professional help:
Seeking professional help is one of the best ways to handle addiction and substance abuse. Professionals can provide help such as addiction treatment or counseling. The health care professional walks you through how to beat addiction or substance abuse.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics in 2022, there were 3,345 recorded road traffic accidents between January and March alone. Had it been that emergency care has been administered promptly, more preventable deaths would have been prevented.

THREAD
RT A lot of people died because there were no functional ambulances equipped with functional equipment and trained personnel who would administer first aid to them while they were being rushed to the hospital.