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so today I want to answer the question

can intermittent fasting change your

nutrient requirements it’s not a simple

answer of yes or no there’s more to it

so let’s take each concept the first

thing you need to realize is that when

you do in a minute fasting or fasting

prolonged fasting you’re living off your

reserves unless you’re taking nutrients

during that period and by the way I do

recommend taking nutrients during the

fast because we don’t know if you’re

deficient and there’s a lot of variables

involved number one what is your current

diet when you eat or your doing what one

lady said on my show recently internet

keto which is like a random selection of

pretty much anything as long as it’s low

carb there’s so many things that can

affect this question number one the food

that you’re eating

what kind of soils is it growing on a

lot of foods in America are basically

they look good on the outside they’re

really big but they’re empty with

nutrients like tomatoes for example it’s

taste like nothing and you also have

foods that are very deficient in trace

minerals like zinc for example or iodine

because they’re not grown on soils that

they replenish them these minerals and

then when you’re on the keto plan or

some other plan how nutrient-dense are

those foods okay that’s one question

what about your history

how long have you eaten junk foods junk

foods deplete you of nutrients refined

foods pull out the B vitamins and

minerals potassium especially what about

your gastrointestinal tract do you have

enough stomach acid if you’re on any

acids chances are you don’t have enough

stomach acid and you’re not going to be

able to break down the proteins

you’re not going to absorb the minerals

effectively that would be one factor

what about the gallbladder let’s say for

example you don’t have a gallbladder or

you don’t have enough bile you’re not

gonna be able to absorb vitamin A de or

K as well as you should

are you a medication what if you’re on

metformin that pulls out b1 or let’s say

you’re in diuretics it depletes

potassium there’s so many other factors

here at stress depletes B vitamins and

calcium

grains you have the phytates in the

fiber and the brand of grains which

block zinc for example and other

minerals let’s say for example you have

malabsorption because you have scar

tissue or you don’t have the villi to

absorb certain nutrients in your in your

intestine because you have IBS or celiac

or something like that or you have an

alteration in your genes that don’t

allow you to absorb certain nutrients

it’s called polymorphism and then let’s

say for example you’re in keto and

you’re consuming less carbohydrates so

you’re gonna dump a lot of fluid in

water and with that you lose some

electrolytes sometimes and also salt

when you’re on keto you need actually

more sodium you actually need more b2

you need a bit more potassium because

your diet has shifted so different

things can require different nutrients

the other factors that you need to look

at is the difference between water

soluble vitamins and fat soluble

vitamins the water soluble vitamins are

not stored very long maybe several days

with the exception of b12 ok b12 can be

stored for up to a year or more ok and

also vitamin C can be stored in the

adrenal gland but let’s say for example

you have adrenal fatigue and you’re

depleted of vitamin C I don’t know if

you realize this but if you have no

vitamin C for 4 months you can start

developing symptoms of scurvy which is

kind of an advanced deficiency of

vitamin C you have a lot of it’s called

classical deficiencies like beriberi

which is a b1 deficiency rickets which

is a vitamin D deficiency pellagra which

is a vitamin b3 deficiency and all of

these are very severe vitamin

deficiencies but let’s say for example

you don’t have those severe deficiencies

you have a subclinical deficiency well

the body will then ration out certain

nutrients for the most important things

but not necessarily satisfy the demands

for everything in your body so for

example if your body is low in b1 it may

use it

only for blood clotting but not

necessarily for DNA repair a cancer

prevention so it rations out the

nutrients for the most important things

based on what it means to survive right

now and so these subclinical

deficiencies can create long-term health

problems the RDAs were meant to prevent

these major diseases but not necessarily

to optimize all the functions for

long-term health so if you have a

subclinical deficiency you may end up

with a hair loss or have fatigue or have

anxiety or sleeping problems because

your body is using those things for

things that are more important for

survival right now so when you’re doing

fasting or intermittent fasting you may

not show any of the deficiencies for the

fat side of a vitamin

mainly the water-soluble vitamins and

this is another reason why you know when

you’re doing keto B vitamins are

important now when it comes to minerals

and trace minerals they don’t stay in

the body for very long okay except

certain minerals will like it’s very

difficult for your body to get rid of

excess iron for example or calcium but

the minerals that you use a lot of like

potassium magnesium but even sodium but

not as much those minerals are used more

and your body can get rid of them a lot

easier than iron and calcium when you’re

doing in a minute fasting I recommend

taking two B vitamins as well as these

minerals and trace minerals just to make

sure now another factor is your microbes

your microbes can make certain vitamins

like vitamin k1 as long as you have the

microbes in there so if you history up

taking a lot of antibiotics and you have

an imbalance of microbes or you have

SIBO which is small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth that can alter your vitamin

production from your microbes and if you

have like inflammation in your gut that

can also alter your ability to make

vitamins and if you have damage in the

lining of your gut in the small

intestine or large that can also prevent

the absorption of those nutrients your

body also makes certain Biba

it’s like biotin for example so anyway I

just wanted to create this one video to

show that’s not a simple answer there’s

a lot of things you have to look at you

have to use judgment you have to look at

your history do I have a reserve of

nutrients left in my tissues to pull out

of and as my current diet nutrient-dense

is it healthy keto or not play it safe I

recommend taking B vitamins trace

minerals and electrolytes during the

fast all right thanks for watching if

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