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let’s discuss the best way

to balance your hormones now this method

is

pretty expensive i don’t know if you’re

gonna be able to afford it

it’s actually

free okay because you are fasting and

you’re actually saving money while

you’re doing this

but believe it or not fasting is

probably one of the best things you can

do for your endocrine system all the

different hormones as well as a lot of

other systems including your autonomic

nervous system which i will cover in

another video

now when they did the research with

fasting

sometimes they used

alternative day fasting where you’re

pretty much eating what you want one day

and then you’re not eating anything the

next day right i don’t like that at all

because you never really get into any

type of adaptation so it’s probably

pretty painful and hard to do because

you never get rid of your appetite

and then you have the five and two which

i also don’t like where five days a week

you’re eating what you want and then

two days of the week probably on a

saturday and sunday you’re doing 500

calories again you’re not going to be

able to adapt into fat burning too well

and you’re probably going to suffer

through those two days okay then you

have time restricted eating

which is intermittent fasting where you

have

a certain window where you eat and then

you don’t eat for another window so it

could be for example

18 hours of fasting

and six hour eating window or maybe 20

hours of fasting in a four hour eating

window so i’m going to cover all the

main hormones but

this right here this hormone right here

this is where you’re going to see most

the benefits okay insulin insulin

reduction

insulin sensitivity

all that is improved when you do fasting

and if we look at the magnitude or the

influence of reducing insulin

on your entire body

as far as health goes i mean it’s just

off the charts as far as

benefits you decrease inflammation well

guess what that’s going to do to your

thyroid which by the way

90 of all

thyroid problems when we’re dealing with

autoimmune

is hashimoto’s and you’re going to have

a lot of inflammation so just by

reducing inflammation you automatically

improve

the thyroid gland okay diabetes this is

involving a gland called the pancreas

right it’s part of the endocrine system

and then you have insulin resistance

which is behind so many problems

including developing a fatty liver and

gaining weight and metabolic syndrome

which includes high cholesterol and high

blood pressure and like i said before

the autonomic nervous system see when

you have high insulin and high glucose

your autonomic nervous system which

involves the flight or fight mechanism

the digestive system

the cardiovascular system all of that is

improved greatly when you normalize

insulin one side effect from a diabetic

is autonomic nervous system dysfunction

especially in the digestive system and

in many other systems since the

autonomic nervous system crosses over

into a lot of different body systems

okay let’s where do we start well let’s

start with leptin leptin

decreases when you’re fasting and leptin

has everything to do with your appetite

so your appetite is going to go down

it’s going to make it really easy to

fast when you have no appetite

you hear rumors that

fasting will

negatively affect the thyroid really

well

how do you diagnose a hypothyroid

condition or even a hyperthyroid

condition

by thyroid stimulating hormone which is

a pituitary hormone okay

you don’t diagnose it with t4 you

diagnose it with this pituitary hormone

and by the way

when you do fasting there is no change

with the thyroid stimulating hormone

there is a decrease in t3 which is the

active form

of thyroid hormone but that is occurring

because you’re either losing weight or

your ability to burn fat is increasing

decreasing the need for energy see

before you did fasting the metabolism

seemed to be slow because you’re only

burning glucose you’re not tapping into

your fat reserves so your whole energy

system is off it requires a lot more t3

to run this body machine

well now it doesn’t so it goes down it’s

just adapting so the thyroid

does not

suffer when you do

healthy fasting and i’m talking about

fasting with

nutrients because of all the

complications that occur when someone

fasts it mainly has to do with the

electrolyte losses okay and compounded

by

b vitamin deficiencies

so as long as you have the sea salt

electrolytes and b vitamins

you’re going to definitely avoid a lot

of

issues all right the next one i’m going

to talk about is androgens for females

but guess what if you’re a female you

don’t want a lot of androgens because

that’s a condition called pcos you have

too many androgens so you get facial

hair you get alopecia you lose your hair

you start having a deeper voice you

start gaining weight so that condition

actually is improved with fasting in

fact what’s really behind this spike in

androgens

is insulin so when you do fasting you

lower insulin and you normalize

androgens and things start coming back

in the balance with females when you do

fasting there hasn’t been any major

change with follicle stimulating hormone

or luteinizing hormone the two hormones

that

come from the pituitary that come down

to the ovary those two hormones are not

affected by fasting and then we have

estrogen there’s doesn’t seem to be a

lot of change with estrogen when you’re

doing

fasting now what about in some of the

mice studies okay they have they show

infertility well there’s really a lack

of evidence of infertility

there has been a loss of the menstrual

cycle for a period of time

but what’s interesting about these

rodent studies is that

the total menstrual cycles

of the lifespan of a rat don’t seem to

decrease it’s only when they’re doing

fasting so apparently that menstrual

cycle just continues a little bit longer

in their life there hasn’t been any

evidence to show that fasting

causes infertility in human bodies all

right now what about testosterone in men

some studies show that it does decrease

but with no loss in strength but in

other studies it does show that it will

increase luteinizing hormone by

67 percent

and

increase testosterone by a hundred and

eighty percent from my knowledge working

with

tens of thousands or even hundreds of

thousands of people

worldwide i have not seen a negative

problem with testosterone

in men at all when they’re doing fasting

let’s now get into cortisol okay here’s

another misconception um you’ll see

little articles that we’ll talk about

the negative aspects of

fasting because it’s going to increase

your cortisol and you’re going to be

stressed out the first thing you need to

know is that if cortisol does increase

you’re not going to then be stressed out

because cortisol is a hormone that

responds to stress it doesn’t cause

stress it just causes the body to adapt

to stress states and cortisol is a

counter regulatory hormone so in other

words when you stop eating sugar and

your blood sugar goes down cortisol is

mobilized to increase your sugar to a

certain

level but if you’re increasing your

cortisol temporarily from fasting okay

and not chronic stress what is

interesting is that there’s two

different receptors

for cortisol okay

one receptor that’s involved with stress

and another receptor involved with other

things that might trigger cortisol and

so apparently when you’re doing fasting

and you have an increase of cortisol

the effects are not bad the effects are

not the same as

a stress response and that has

everything to do with what that cortisol

does with the receptor and the different

effects that that receptor will then

create but if you want more information

on that topic there is a real

interesting

dialogue by dr uh mark madison okay and

i put that link down below where he

talked about that he’s a

researcher in this area in the topic of

fasting

now what about growth hormone well guess

what growth hormone will increase and

that’s a good thing because growth

hormone is all about

repair it’s about

muscle it’s about increasing your

endurance

it’s about healing it’s an anti-aging

hormone and it’s also a fat burning

hormone it’s going to help mobilize

fat as fuel

what about prolactin okay well there’s

apparently no change with prolactin and

the two other things i want to mention

in this video

is number one fasting greatly improves

your circadian rhythms it improves

certain timing flows in your body and

with that comes along a lot of different

hormone flows that are set up on a

timing mechanism so just by the fact of

improving your circadian rhythms you’re

going to improve your hormones overall

or at least balance these hormones that

have been out of balance probably

because

of this too much insulin

last point i want to bring up is your

gut microbiome greatly improves when you

do fasting and from that comes a lot of

improvements with your hormones as well

which i will have to do another video on

that now i think the next most

appropriate video to show you is the one

on fasting how to do it correctly check

it out i put it right here