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you know it just never ceases to amaze

me how much improvement you can create

to your brain

doing fasting but there is a sweet spot

uh you’re going to have to fast for at

least 18 hours

and so you’ll have an eating window of

six hours

and a fasting span of 18 hours to really

see some major improvements in your

brain so it’s not hard you just skip

breakfast first meal is at 12

second meal is at six or it could be

first meal eleven in the morning

second meal at five

or first meal at one o’clock and the

second meal at seven and that means no

snacking during your fasting you can eat

during your eating window but i would

recommend just having two meals one at

lunch one at dinner and

if that’s a problem if you’re still

hungry

definitely add more fat at the end of

the meal whether it’s a big handful of

nuts pecans or or macadamia nuts or some

other types of fat now one of the

reasons i’m doing this video is

simply because there’s so much bad

information of what to eat when you get

off the fast if you have

any problem with your brain dementia

add

seizures parkinson’s alzheimer’s

so let’s just dive right in here now you

have

ketones right the benefits of ketones

for your brain and there’s other

benefits i want to talk about but

ketones in general are very very

therapeutic to your brain

sometimes you’ll hear this argument that

the brain only is can live on sugar or

glucose and

ketosis is dangerous that is completely

absolutely positively not true your

brain prefers ketones if

given the choice between a ketone or a

glucose

molecule as fuel

the brain will choose the ketones over

glucose

there are three ways to make ketones

you can make ketones by going the

ketogenic diet by reducing your carbs

and eating more fat and so some of the

fat you eat will be turning in the

ketones if you keep your carbs low

another way to produce ketones is just

fasting now you’re not going to eat

anything so your body will go after your

fat reserve and turn your own fat into

ketones

the benefit of doing fasting

compared to the ketogenic diet is that

you’re going to produce a lot more

ketones you’ll get deeper into ketosis

and you’ll have a lot of other

additional benefits that extend beyond

ketones you’ll have certain genes that

will be expressed just merely from the

fact of not eating and creating that

mild stress on the body which then

compensates and produces all these

magical wonderful things to your brain

our bodies our brains have evolved

from

not eating starvation

so we have all sorts of genes that help

us survive when we don’t have food i

mean think about way back before we had

the oil can eat buffets

i mean there are days that we didn’t eat

and if there wasn’t food available

we would die

so what happens is our brain becomes

smarter it becomes more focused it

improves when we don’t eat so then we

can find food to eat and a lot of people

will never discover this unless they try

fasting

and then they’ll find out wow i feel so

much better your mood your cognitive

function improves

and then they’re hooked so our brains

are majorly benefited by ketones

by

gene expression from doing fasting

and when you exercise you will generate

ketones as well and another major

benefit of fasting is that

you are reducing

glucose in the diet

and that alone

greatly reduces the destruction the

oxidation of what glucose does to your

neurons in your brain into your nerve

cells not to mention a lot of other

tissues and so the reality is that

a lot of people have actual damage to

their brains from a high carb diet from

the chronic exposure to glucose because

what glucose does to your neurons is it

destroys your neurons and then your

neurons can no longer

absorb glucose so they can’t get fuel

and the fact that the person never goes

on a ketogenic diet or or doesn’t lower

their carbs starves them even more

because if you don’t lower your carbs

you’re dependent on the glucose which

you can’t absorb and so the cells can’t

get energy or atp so it’s really the

lack of the fuel that the neurons

need that destroy

the brain so when you switch over your

fuel source

the neuron finally can get fuel

and ketones bypass this damage and feed

the neurons directly

also the support cells it’s called the

glial cells one specifically being an

astrocyte

helps feed the neuron so if you never do

fasting never do the ketogenic diet

unfortunately these cells have a very

difficult time getting fuel

thus all the complications uh that come

with diabetes to the nervous system to

your brain you have diabetic induced

dementia

you have diabetic neuropathy

that that’s damage to the nerve cells

because what happens is all this glucose

destroys the the capillaries the blood

flow to the nerves

and so the first nerves that show a

problem are the nerves on the bottom of

your feet that’s why you get peripheral

neuropathy like numbness burning on your

feet and then your hands and then it

destroys the capillaries to the eyes

which happen to feed the retina which is

a nerve it’s an extension of the brain

that’s the term diabetic retinopathy and

then there’s one more thing i want to

mention

there’s

a part of the nervous system called the

autonomic nervous system okay and when

you have diabetes

which is a high sugar situation or

condition

you could develop something called

diabetic autonomic

neuropathy and that’s quite interesting

because a lot of people don’t talk about

it but i’m going to go through the

different

conditions

that this can manifest as okay

number one a high pulse rate okay

because the autonomic nervous system

controls the the heart okay you can also

have exercise intolerance

because you can’t adapt to it because

the autonomic nervous system is all

about

helping the body adapt to stress and

exercises and stress you also have

another condition called orthostatic

hypotension that’s a condition where you

stand up and you

you get dizzy or you could even pass out

a severe condition

of that is called pots and so one of the

remedies at least a temporary remedy is

benfotamine which is a vitamin b1

because b1 greatly

improves the complications of

diabetes uh insulin resistance and

problems with insulin in general but

ultimately if you have orthostatic

hypotension

you need to get off the carbs for sure

and then we have another condition

called gastroparesis which is a

condition of that affects the autonomic

nervous system to the point where

everything moves very very slowly

through your digestive tract okay that

comes from destruction of the autonomic

nervous system another condition would

be constipation because if the nerves

that go to the smooth muscle of your

colon are not working you’re not going

to be able to digest and everything is

going to be very sluggish and you have

another condition called esophageal disc

motility which is a fancy term for you

you get regurgitation up into your

esophagus from the stomach or heartburn

acid reflux that type of thing you can

also have chest pain or a feeling that

food is stuck in your throat and you

might have difficulty swallowing all

those conditions can stem from a problem

with your autonomic nervous system

because of the way the blood sugars have

affected that part of the nervous system

but you don’t necessarily have to be a

diabetic to have those conditions

because

you could literally be a pre-diabetic or

you could have severe insulin resistance

and have

some of those symptoms as well

the reason i’m bringing that up because

if you have similar symptoms you need to

change your diet but let’s just kind of

go through some of the amazing effects

of

fasting on your brain number one it

slows down the age-related

brain decline and brain-related diseases

like alzheimer’s parkinson’s things like

that so fasting slows down the aging

brain and it helps to reverse damage to

the brain from these other chronic

conditions

fasting also allows the brain cells to

finally get the fuel that it needs if

you have damage from a high carbohydrate

diet fasting reduces inflammation

within your brain fasting stabilizes

your neurons

as in doing the ketogenic diet for

seizures which is a neuron that becomes

out of control so this is why ketones

can help stabilize

the over excitation of a neuron

fasting has certain gene benefits by

expressing certain genes

that help the nerves connect better

fasting increases genes that increase

the repair action

of the neuron fasting will also greatly

boost

antioxidants in certain parts of your

brain

that will help decrease the

complications of some chronic

inflammation or chronic type of brain

problem whether you have alzheimer’s

parkinson’s or

some type of autoimmune disease of the

brain like ms

so if your body makes more antioxidants

it’s called

endogenous antioxidants you can then

reduce the free radical damage that can

occur when you have all this

inflammation fasting will also give you

benefits with something called autophagy

so for example if you have plaquing of

the brain because you have alzheimer’s

or you have some type of scar tissue in

your brain or some damaged proteins in

your brain

when you fast you go through this

autophagy and autophagy is basically

recycling these proteins that are

damaged in your brain so it’s making

your brain new again fasting can also

greatly improve

structures in the brain like the

structure that controls the circadian

rhythms

that help you sleep and fasting also

greatly improves your mood it’ll bring

you up

from either

a depressed state or a state of anxiety

so fasting will affect your mood and

your cognitive function and i’m talking

about your ability to learn

your ability to

focus and be productive

your memory and that includes also

spatial memories so let’s say for

example you just parked your car and you

can’t quite remember where you parked it

well

fasting can help you locate

yourself in space your gps for example

is going to be off so your internal

ability to locate and navigate

through things especially when you’re

driving

gets lost so you basically can improve

your navigation as well as your motor

skills your coordination your balance so

one of the reasons i’m doing this video

is to help put you on the right track to

give you the correct information so you

can optimize your your brain function

because

if you do a search right now for

alzheimer’s okay what’s going to come up

on the first page of google is a diet

from hopkins university is a diet that

webmd will recommend which is a diet

from the alzheimer’s association and

these diets are all the same in fact the

diets are all the same for diabetes

heart disease it’s the same old same old

and i’m not kidding i’m gonna i’m gonna

list some of the things that they

recommend for dementia

for heart disease

for diabetes and i’m not kidding at

least three servings of

whole grains every single day okay right

there it’s gonna create inflammation

and it’s also gonna increase your blood

sugars you don’t wanna do grains

with these conditions number two beans

more than three times a week okay all

right whatever beans are high in carbs

that’s that’s kind of a minor point next

one and this is what hopkins said

less than five pastries or sweets per

week i mean you don’t want to do any

sweets okay it’s bad advice to even

allow people to consume pastries or

sweets

for dementia or heart disease whatever

next one all right one glass of wine or

another alcoholic

beverage again why are you even

recommending wine or alcohol when

someone has this condition is there any

benefit

in pastries or alcohol or whole grains

for dementia and the answer is no

so

if you’re new to my channel and you want

to get on the right diet to optimize

your brain health

you need to watch this video right here

you