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When your body is forced to break its tissues, it always prefers to sacrifice first its damaged proteins and old or sick cells. Technically all damaged proteins and old, sick and cancerous cells are tagged by immune cells to be digested by the body's Ubiquitin enzymes and the nitrogen byproducts are then recycled back into new cells and tissues. Ubiquitin enzymes are your body's demolition force… When called to act they search and destroy broken, damaged, or sick cells to keep your tissues' integrity and protect against abnormal growth and tumor formation. That's how this tissue rejuvenating mechanism works. But to trigger it you need to use a different strategy from that of muscle buildup. Let's review the differences between these strategies. How to Build Your Muscles Up Most people believe that, to gain muscle, you need to feed it frequently throughout the day. It has been speculated that the minimum protein intake required to promote muscle gain is about 1g/per pound body weight. Bodybuilders often consume 2g/per pound body weight per day. This means that a 150lb bodybuilder may consume 300g protein (equivalent to three pounds of meat or 50 eggs) per day. That's a lot of protein to shove in… The combination of intense strength training with frequent meals and a high protein and calorie intake seems to grant muscle gain. Nonetheless, this regimen may come with a price - inferior muscle fiber quality. Yes, a big muscle isn't necessarily a better muscle. A big muscle can be a liability - that's if it's made with inferior fibers. One of the most determinants of your muscle quality is your muscles' biological age. When your muscle gives up to the aging process, it gradually loses its fiber quality. And as time goes by it gets increasingly dysfunctional. So here is the point: Conventional fitness and bodybuilding are set to build your muscles but they fail to keep them biologically young. The consequences: you gain muscles with inferior quality and a physique which is highly susceptible to premature aging. How to Rejuvenate Your Muscle To trigger muscle rejuvenation, you need to initiate muscle breakdown and turn on the mechanism that signals satellite cells in your muscle to commit and convert into new muscle cells. This can be done by combining intermittent fasting with short intense exercise. But to fully take advantage of this strategy you need to know what your options are. Intermittent Fasting/Options Intermittent fasting (from morning to evening followed by a large evening meal [not including post exercise recovery meal]) can be done in three ways: fasting, undereating or pulse feeding. Fasting If you choose to fast you can do water fasting or vegetable juice fasting (have one up to a few vegetable juices daily). Exercise while fasting, and have your recovery meal right after and your main meal at night. Undereating If you choose to undereat rather than fast, minimize your food intake during the day to small servings of light, low glycemic mostly raw foods such as fruits, vegetables, whey protein, or lightly poached eggs every 4-6 hours. Do your workout while fasting (30 minutes after your latest snack) followed by recovery meal and have your main meal at night. Undereating is less extreme than fasting; this is your most viable strategy for rejuvenating your muscles and brain. Pulse feeding Pulse feeding involves frequent use of small whey protein meals with no sugar added every 3-5 hours throughout the day. Do your workout while fasting (30 minutes after your latest whey meal) followed by recovery meal and have your main meal at night. This regimen is geared towards athletes. As a general rule, have 1-2 recovery meals (whey protein) after your workout. Intermittent fasting by itself has been recognized as a proven effective strategy to help negate physical and cognitive aging. Adding exercise to this routine will "seal the deal" and shoot the anti-aging impact of this regimen to another level. Exercising While Fasting Can Produce Enormous Benef its IF Carefully Done Fasting promotes muscle breakdown along with the removal of broken proteins and damaged cells towards recycling. Nonetheless, to fully rejuvenate your muscle, you need to grant regeneration of new muscle cells. And that's where the short intense exercise comes into play. It turns on the mechanism that converts muscle satellite cells into new muscle fibers. And it targets your fast neuro-motors and helps keep your fast muscle fibers intact. Abby's Magazine - Volume 5 Issue 1| Page 59