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i’m going to share several critical

things about prolonged fasting

that you need to know

fasting is very simple okay it shouldn’t

be that hard some people overthink it

and those things that are really simple

are usually extremely powerful

and that’s what fasting is i mean it’s

actually mind-blowing to think that the

absence of food just not eating can

create so many powerful effects and if

you haven’t tried it you should

definitely try it in order to understand

the benefits of fasting you want to

compare it to

another subject and usually a subject

that would be the opposite okay and that

would be

snacking okay if you look at what

snacking does to the human body

it is absolutely positively devastating

in fact i think out of all the things

that you can do

that create a negative influence on your

body snacking is at the top of the list

because of what it does to insulin it’s

a chronic

increase in elevation of insulin which

then leads to just a million other

problems i mean when you think about it

i guess i’ll just pull this up right

here real

quick

i don’t think you can ever heal the body

with eating frequent meals okay we have

this idea that you have to heal the body

with food right like food is nourishing

actually it might be nourishing but to

really heal you’re better off

not eating

um this idea that breakfast is the most

important meal is a total lie and i used

to promote it before i learned otherwise

what about promoting like bedtime snacks

for kids right or after school snacks or

this advice that you should never miss a

meal right

which i have no idea who started that

well actually i do

it’s the snack food industry that

started that and for some reason this

snacking food industry just doesn’t like

me for some reason i don’t know why it

is so if we look at snacking snacking

actually

makes you more hungry because you’re

eating a small amount of calories and

you’re stimulating insulin and that

lowers your blood sugar about an hour

and a half later so you’re going to

stimulate hunger

not stimulate your metabolism okay

you’re going to stimulate hunger

when you snack

and it’s going to promote

more

hunger okay so and you’re never ever

going to fix hypoglycemia

by

eating these snacks

because it just it keeps that

hypoglycemic low blood sugar thing going

on and on and on in fact it actually

slows your metabolism or shall i say

slows your ability to lose weight

because you develop insulin resistance

because you have this constant increase

of insulin and also it’s going to

promote a need for a nap okay right

after you eat you’re going to feel like

you need a nap and you may find that

eating does reduce moodiness and

grouchiness but soon after about an hour

later when your blood sugars are dropped

you’re going to revert back to this

moodiness

now in history

a lot of great thinkers

have commented on fasting and had

something to say about fasting

hippocrates

said to eat when you are sick is to fuel

your

illness

fascinating right

and then we have the ancient greek

philosophers right the great thinkers

pythagoras pythagoras required fasting

of his students okay so they can think

more clearly plato aristotle were

advocates of fasting ben franklin said

the best of all medicine

is rest

and fasting

mark twain said a little starvation can

really do more for the average sick

person

than the best medicine and the best

doctors and another very interesting

point about your fat okay your adipose

tissue

where did it come from why did we

develop this fat tissue that you hate so

much well we developed it from

scarcity of food okay food scarcity and

what this fat really is it’s a it’s an

efficient way of surviving it’s a way to

make your energy very efficient and when

some people express that they have a

damaged or slow or ruined metabolism

what they really have is an efficient

metabolism because now the body can go

with just a little bit of food for long

periods of time and that fat is retained

so fat is all about prolonging fuel

it’s all about helping you survive when

there’s no food so therein lies the

secret to losing fat okay

can you do it by adding more food by

eating something no you want to mimic

why we developed it in the first place

we want to mimic

starvation but not really starvation i

want to actually kind of

clarify what i mean by a mimic okay the

difference between fasting and

starvation really has to do with one

thing control who’s in control when

you’re fasting you’re in control when

you’re starving you’re usually

being controlled by the environment

because there’s no food

so if we were going to mimic starvation

we’re really being in control because we

could eat if we want right and so the

secret to getting rid of your fat really

is just to

do prolonged

fasting okay the power of prolonged

fasting is just remarkable for your

health so let’s go through the seven

critical things that you need to know

okay

the first thing i want to mention is

that

when you do

fasting

you really only want to drink water you

can have tea

you can have some coffee

but you definitely want to take

supplements and the reason is because

nowadays people are so deficient in

nutrients so even though when you go

through fasting your body

adapts and becomes very efficient at

holding nutrients and the requirement of

nutrients is a lot less you could still

have certain deficiencies of both trace

minerals especially and other things

like electrolytes and

even the b vitamins so i recommend

taking your supplements and the two main

categories of supplements i would

recommend are the electrolytes

and the b vitamins but of course if you

can also do some other ones like

vitamin d

vitamin c that would be

important what you don’t want to do is

you don’t want to do like branch chain

amino acids you don’t want to have

little

snacks

no you don’t want to do that and there

are some programs that promote that but

i don’t recommend that because what

you’re going to do is you’re going to

inhibit this very powerful thing that

gives you

huge benefits okay called autophagy what

is that

that is a condition it’s not a thing

it’s a condition in your body

that

basically recycles old damaged proteins

okay so

fasting is the most potent

trigger to

autophagy and so autophagy is kind of

like self-cleaning it’s cleaning up the

old dead proteins it’s cleaning up

pathogens in the body it’s stimulating

all sorts of genes for long-term

survival and longevity

it helps to clean up

damaged mitochondria which is directly

behind the root cause of cancer so this

is why

prolonged fasting is the best solution

to cancer

and if you have not seen my videos

on two amazing

success stories with cancer

like stage four cancer i’m gonna put

those down below

but it’s very powerful so autophagy is a

condition

where you’re recycling like damaged

protein i’m talking about amyloid

plaquing that’s involved in alzheimer’s

talking about the um the damaged protein

involved in chronic disease like in your

eyes like from diabetes

from chronic inflammation

and by the way when you start doing

prolonged fasting you can just

erase any inflammation in the body and

it’s

amazing for autoimmune type conditions

as well so we’re recycling damaged

proteins not just your muscles but

proteins involved in the enzymes the all

the different metabolic pathways the

things that are damaged it cleans all

that up

so just make sure you do uh your water

you know a couple other things like tea

and coffee in your supplements but

nothing else okay

the other thing i want to bring up is

the amount of water i would recommend at

least two and a half

liters of water now there are dry fast

and that’s a whole different thing but

for most of you watching i i don’t

recommend you do that do a water fast so

you’re basically drinking a good amount

of water

what’s interesting about doing a fast

your body will make its own water out of

fat but that’s for another video

i just recommend you drink enough water

and the reason i recommend you drink

water is when you start fasting

boy you just dump your glycogen okay

your stored sugar

and you’re burning up the sugar first

and then

with that um

is the release of a lot of fluids

because

you have a tremendous amount of water

that’s tied in with this stored

blood sugar in your muscles and your in

your liver so you’re going to get rid of

a good amount of fluid initially and

with that

becomes a loss of electrolytes so you

want to put back in those electrolytes

probably the biggest risk of doing these

fast okay

is when you’re doing them without

electrolytes because uh you can create a

lot of

problems with your heart

you can you can faint

you can even have heart attacks why

because you’re you’re basically

depriving your body of key

uh electrolytes and realize that sodium

chloride is also

part of electrolytes okay so you need

salt and other electrolytes

if you feel weakness in your muscles

that is an indication that you need

more

salt okay and of course i’m talking

about sea salt and electrolytes

i’m also talking about potassium

magnesium

calcium

things like that now

let’s go into number three refeeding

this is when you

start to eat again now i’m not talking

about

intermittent fasting right now i’m

talking about prolonged fasting when

you’re fasting 48 72 hours you’re

fasting five days you’re fasting you

know 14 days 21 days

30 days whatever

and you could do a five day or even a 21

day fast several times to the year

and

just keep your health at a whole new

level

the some of the problems with fasting

that i want to bring up is like you

don’t want to do fasting when you’re

pregnant when you’re lactating

you don’t want to do fasting if you have

anorexia however

if you have stage four cancer

or

cancer in general

personally i would do prolonged fasting

immediately so if you’re doing a

prolonged fast all right

what do you eat

coming off the fast

well you want to do

something healthy of course

but you don’t want to do a big meal okay

and you especially do not want to do

something with refined carbs and sugar

and the reason is because you’re going

to create a huge shift of potassium okay

out of the cell and 98 of all your

potassium should be inside that cell

and so

in order to store sugar you need

potassium so you’re going to just suck

out this potassium

too fast

and you’re going to end up with a severe

imbalance uh of potassium in the blood

inside the cell there’s going to be this

huge imbalance and that can create some

dangers so do not

do

you know just regular foods or refined

carbs when you come off

this prolonged fast instead do a little

bit of salad maybe a little egg

just a little bit of something and then

wait for a couple hours and then you can

maybe have a little bit of nuts

and wait for a little bit do a little

avocado and gradually kind of come out

of this okay you do not want to do a big

meal

like i did and that was a really good

demonstration of what not to do because

i just pigged out i ate all this food at

this huge meal

and oh my goodness did i

end up with a serious

uh digestive problem

tired and i’m like okay i will never do

that again in fact i need to have other

people learn from my mistakes

all right if you’re doing a prolonged

fast and i’m saying

probably 72 hours or longer realize that

all these ketones are going to make you

pretty acid it’s not a bad thing it’s

just that if you’re doing apple cider

vinegar and you’re adding that you’re

going to add some more acidity and that

can throw off your ph and you may find

that your your pulse rate it’s like a

very loud pounding

pulse rate in your ear that’s going to

make it difficult to sleep because your

ph is off and your breathing might be

affected too like like air hunger like

can’t get enough air so don’t just don’t

do the apple cider vinegar if you’re

doing a fast longer than 72 hours you

may want to do some baking soda just a

little bit like a an eighth of a

teaspoon in some water and drink that

especially if you start having a

build-up of like a gout symptom from the

uric acid that goes up uric acid is one

of the most powerful antioxidants in

your blood and it’s a normal thing but

some people that are predisposed to gout

might have a flare-up especially when

they

are doing this initially okay but

normally it’s not a situation and number

five do the healthy version of the

ketogenic diet don’t just go back to

regular foods because first of all the

carbs are going to kind of nullify some

of the benefits that you had okay

because this this whole goal of doing

fasting is to get rid of the bad effects

of a high carb diet and a junk food diet

so why would you want to go back to that

so i would highly recommend combining

healthy keto with the intermittent

fasting

okay number six dawn phenomenon

what is that that has to do with your

blood sugars going up

okay maybe between five

in the morning to eight like all of a

sudden your blood sugars go up like you

didn’t eat any sugar where is that sugar

coming from well your liver is making

sugar okay there’s a problem with

insulin resistance

which is still occurring because it

takes

a quite a while to get rid of that

condition it could take months

even up to a year or a little bit longer

to fully get rid of that if you have the

dawn phenomenon all that means is that

you have insulin resistance okay

and i wouldn’t worry about it too much

however if it concerns you i would go

for a long walk and just burn off that

sugar

it’s not coming from your diet okay it’s

just your liver is making the sugar

and that’s a big difference between

consuming sugar all right it’s

you’re not going to have a problem and

also that problem is going to go away

with time

versus some people might think oh

fasting is bad because it raised my

sugar so i’m going to stop doing that

that would be a mistake and so a couple

other little things you can do you can

probably take berberine or other things

like cinnamon to help

reduce insulin resistance okay all right

number seven knowing when to break your

fast

now should you just dive right into a

prolonged fast

well you know what you could you could

are you going to feel great maybe not

especially if you haven’t fasted you’re

gonna have to go through a period of

time where your body adapts and so it

might take you several days before you

start feeling good

so a lot of people do this gradually and

they kind of ease into it after doing

you know weeks of intermittent fasting

so

you could just cold turkey just jump

right in and do prolonged fasting okay

however when you start fasting

what you’re really doing is you’re

switching from the glucose fuel

to the fat fuel okay and then also the

body then has to make new enzymes for

ketones okay so your body actually is

running on fatty acids

as well as ketones especially for your

brain your brain can’t run in fatty

acids it runs on ketones so

just think about this you’re not going

to feel really good in your head when

you start doing fasting simply because

it takes a while to develop ketones so

in the meantime what you could do is

take mct oil or you can take ketone

supplements

and get rid of those symptoms however

you may not feel good mentally

at first but then you start adapting and

your appetite goes away and you feel

good

that’s a really good indication that

you’ve adapted okay so if you’re doing

this gradual okay

there’s always going to be a transition

phase where you’re going to have to go

through something

that’s going to be uncomfortable but

just realize push through that like you

might have hunger

pains you might feel

a little bit kind of off

but then

if you push through that

that will go away

because your body

has is forced to adapt to this new

method of burning fuel there’s no other

shortcuts other than just pushing

through that sometimes so at some point

going from intermittent fasting to

prolonged fasting you’re going to have

to go through

a little bit of this transition it’s

normal it’s not abnormal

i’m just letting you know

before you go through it so you can

not be freaked out about it but when i

say don’t eat if you’re not hungry eat

when you’re hungry

i’m mainly talking about doing

intermittent fasting

but when we get into prolonged fasting

should you eat when you’re hungry

no actually we’re going to just push

through that

to the other side

okay so that’s kind of a little bit of a

little point i want to bring up

now since we’re on the topic of fasting

i think it’d be very important for you

to learn a little bit more about

how to speed up the process and that

would be how to make insulin more

sensitive so you should watch this video

right here