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so today we’re going to talk about what type of nutrients you should take

when you do a fast now when you’re doing intermittent fasting

on a daily basis it’s less important than when you’re doing prolonged fasting

like 48 72 hours or even much longer what you

have to realize is that most people going into a fast

are already deficient of some nutrient so fasting basically exaggerates that

deficiency what we’re trying to avoid when we’re

doing a fast is to avoid certain nutritional

deficiencies that create symptoms like dizziness fainting

fatigue a rash that’s developed some muscle cramp

leg cramp some palpitation in your heart or a heart arrhythmia

or feeling cold now this is a topic that has a lot of different variables you

have a person’s overall diet before they

started a fast they might have been on a diet with high

nutrient dense foods for years or maybe they’re a diabetic or pre-diabetic

where they have insulin resistance and then if there’s certain goals that

you have let’s say for example you have an autoimmune disease you have a lot of

inflammation in the body or let’s say you’re trying to improve

your immune system to fight off some cancer having these

nutrients in your body while you’re doing fasting i think is a really good

idea of course this goes against the true

definition of a fast where you’re basically eating nothing

taking nothing except you’re drinking water but if

you’re consuming nutrients and or herbs there’s not going to be

very many calories involved so it’s not going to necessarily bump

you out of ketosis it’s not going to affect the benefits of

fasting too much and not just by preventing a nutrient

deficiency but providing nutrients that enhance the

antioxidant networks in your body your body makes antioxidants and you can

also get them from your diet those nutrients can enhance your own

body’s antioxidant network this definitely applies to if someone

has inflammation or even they’re trying to handle cancer

because you’re getting a tremendous amount of free radical damage

and we know fasting already will help that but if we compound that with

certain nutrients i think we can actually even have a

bigger impact as a very minimum if you’re doing fasting

number one and number two i think our requirements

taking electrolytes especially a good amount of potassium

magnesium sodium and chloride this is salt

and then you have the b vitamins you can get these

through nutritional yeast which will not provide

very many calories but can provide a natural source of the b vitamins

you don’t want to do the synthetic versions and then the longer you

fast the more you’re going to need additional nutrients especially trace

minerals and especially zinc selenium and iodine

because you don’t have a mechanism in your body

that you can store zinc for probably more than about a

couple days since a lot of people are already

deficient in zinc selenium and iodine doing a fast will really make them

deficient so trace minerals are also very very

important and then you have vitamin d now normally we do store vitamin d for a

period of time it’s a fat soluble vitamin but most people are deficient in vitamin

d going into a fast this would be a really

important one to get as a supplement or get it from the sun

if you took cod liver oil you would get not only vitamin d

you would also get vitamin a at the same time

as well as dha and epa which are omega-3 fatty acids so

that’s why i like cod liver oil and then we have vitamin

c you have usually about two weeks of vitamin c reserve in your body

so it really depends on what you eat when you eat

to whether you have enough vitamin c in your reserve

you also have vitamin e you have k2 that are also very important but these

two categories right here are a must and then these are also

important if you’re going longer and longer now there are two nutrients

that you probably don’t need when you’re doing a fast number one is iron

most people especially men have way too much iron

it could eventually lead to cirrhosis or scar tissue of your liver

and you can have fatigue arthritis and the list goes on and on

so i definitely do not recommend taking any type of iron

supplements calcium is another mineral that i think a lot of people

have too much of but it could be other factors too like

they don’t have enough k2 to transport the calcium and these are

two minerals that usually most people have too much of so

we don’t want to supplement them there’s another thing i want to talk

about which i already mentioned but i want to elaborate on it

and that’s taking herbal supplements or certain food concentrates when you’re

doing a fast for the antioxidant benefits and

a lot of the phytonutrients which are not essential but they’re an extra thing

that gives some really amazing added benefits to your

health number one if you have diabetes or some

autoimmune disease or whatever those can target

the free radical damage and minimize the collateral damage

from those free radicals they can bring down inflammation

there’s so many benefits including anti-cancer benefits

so we have green tea and there’s other types of tea that will create some

similar effects as well garlic and capsules will give you some real

strong anti-viral and anti-cancer effects and then you have the wheatgrass

juice powder which is a super concentrated amount of

chlorophyll carotenoids a lot of other nutrients and then of

course you have turmeric which you can get in a powder

or a supplement there’s a lot of different things you can take these are

four real good ones but when you’re fasting why not do things that will

compound your results and give you more benefits alright guys

so if you haven’t seen my video on all the

side effects to fasting and the remedies i put that video up right here check it

out