How to Break Your Fast the Right Way

Break your fast the right way, don't do it the wrong way. If you do it the wrong way, you can actually lose some of the health benefits of fasting. What do I mean? When you break your fast, you want to make sure that you're actually maximizing the benefits from it. So there's three things you should actually put in. You want to put in lots of colorful foods when you break your fast, like polyphenols. Those are your red, oranges, purples, greens, and all those things in food. Third thing, you want to make sure you put plenty of prebiotic fiber when you break your fast. This actually will feed the healthy bacteria that survive the fasting cycle. Another thing is you probably want to do maybe about 30 grams of protein to actually feed your muscles to make sure you maintain your muscle mass. That'll also help satiate you a little better. You don't want to gorge yourself. You don't want to eat 2000 calories after a fast. That's how sometimes people will mess their metabolism up and cause massive sugar spikes. And one of the purposes of when you break the fast is not to create a massive sugar spike, which then will cause a crash, you know, four hours later. So that's the purpose of the 30 grams of protein with the fiber and the colorful foods. That's the best way to break your fast.