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there’s a very interesting influence of fasting on  the autonomic nervous system what is the autonomic  

nervous system it’s part of the nervous system  that works on automatic and it does many things  

but there’s three divisions you have the  sympathetic which is flight or fight you have  

the parasympathetic which is the rest in digest  and you also have something called the entiric  

which is part of the digestive system now i  had a testing device when i was in practice  

that measured the autonomic nervous system it  was a technology called heart rate variability  

and you may be able to get your own unit that’s  fairly affordable i’ll put a link down below for  

various options for that but it’s a very good way  to measure how much sympathetic nervous system you  

have and how much parasympathetic nervous system  you have and you can do your own research to see  

how fasting can influence this part of the nervous  system but there’s some interesting studies i’ll  

put some links down below that show a significant  improvement in your parasympathetic nervous system  

as well as significant suppression of your  sympathetic nervous system so in other words  

it activates the parasympathetic the ability to  rest and help you digest food as well as recover  

at the same time lowering your stress response  your flight or fight mechanism now if we look at  

the opposite situation a diabetic right because  with fasting you’re running your body on ketones  

but if you’re diabetic you’re basically running on  sugar right there is a condition called diabetic  

autonomic neuropathy that occurs with diabetics  and there’s not a lot of information on this topic  

but here’s the thing it’s well known that  diabetes causes peripheral neuropathy right  

like your fingertips going numb or your toes  becoming numb but diabetes can also destroy  

the nerves of the autonomic nervous system  and this can greatly influence your heart  

and your digestion and other organs here’s a  short list of what can happen it can increase  

your blood pressure it can increase your pulse  rate it can cause erectile dysfunction it can  

cause orthostatic hypotension what does that mean  it means that your blood pressure goes down when  

you stand up too fast okay that’s kind of like  a mild version of another condition called pots  

which i’ve done videos on and one of the remedies  would be fasting and taking vitamin b1 by the way  

constipation is another symptom gastroparesis  where your digestive system is very very slow and  

sluggish hypoglycemia and then thermal regulation  problems and that would have everything to do with  

your temperature whether you’re sweating when  you shouldn’t be sweating or not sweating when  

you should be sweating so if you have any of these  conditions you should start doing fasting because  

fasting can improve your overall autonomic nervous  system a couple of things i would recommend take  

benfotamine and alpha lipoic acid which will  actually speed up the process but typically  

the average person who i saw in my clinic was  very very stuck in too much sympathetic nervous  

system flight or fight and they just didn’t have  enough parasympathetic recovery or the ability  

to rest get rid of their stress and actually sleep  so this is just another video to encourage you to  

keep fasting and if you’re new to my channel and  want to start fasting i put a link down below  

check it out hey before you go if you’re  benefiting from any of my content i would  

love to hear about your success story  please share it in the link down below