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so today I’m going to talk about the

number one danger of prolong fasting

okay and that danger would be this you

die okay I mean unfortunately you can’t

fast forever right at some point you’re

going to run out of fat Fuel and you’re

going to run out of muscle and organ

fuel because that is what happens after

you do fasting it turns into starvation

once the muscles are being consumed for

calories and then there’ll be a point

where you just die however that’s not

going to happen to you because I’m going

to show you exactly how to do this

because on the flip side there’s no

other action that you can do to create

more Health than prolonged fasting so

I’m going to show you how to do this

safely a couple other problems with

fasting that people run into is that

they may lose some muscle okay or they

may create nutritional deficiencies

because the purpose of eating is to not

just get fuel but to also supply all

your nutrients however that’s a really

simple problem to overcome if you know

what nutrients to take but in this video

I want to talk more about

protein and specifically muscle protein

how to prevent the loss of your muscle

while you do prolonged fasting the

question is how do we get the benefits

of improved immune system or getting rid

of cancer if we have cancer or

strengthening our brain getting more

cognitive function in elevated mood

improvements and getting rid of

inflammatory conditions and degenerative

conditions as well as extending our life

and how do we do all that and retain our

muscle protein now the first thing you

need to know is that the fatter you are

the longer you have the ability to eat

yourself and I’m talking about eating up

your fat your reserves when you’re doing

prolonged fasting you are living off

your body tissue specifically adipose

tissue and the more of that you have the

law longer you can fast without any

problems unfortunately especially with

people that have cancer that really want

to do prolonged fasting for like 20 days

or even 30 days if they don’t have

enough fat it becomes very difficult

however I’m going to show you what I’m

going to recommend and today we’re just

going to answer a lot of questions one

question I’m just going to handle right

from the very beginning is can you gain

muscle while you’re doing fasting

fasting is not the best strategy for

building up your muscle mass okay

chances are you’re not going to build

too much muscle when you’re fasting even

no growth hormone is going way up

because muscle growth is a reflection of

more calories as well as exercise and so

if you’re eating no calories it’s going

to be very difficult to increase muscle

mass however I’m more interested in

preserving muscle mass okay and a couple

things you need to know about preserving

your muscle number one the more you are

into ketosis the less muscle you’re

going to break down so ketones prevent

the breakdown of muscle tissue that’s

one thing the other thing that happens

when you do fasting is you really Spike

growth hormone and growth hormone also

spares your muscle okay it prevents the

loss of muscle muscle preservation is a

Survival action so your body wants to

preserve muscle so it will go after

other things first and so this is a

perfect bridge to this topic of

autophagy autophagy is a condition in

your body where your body is recycling

old damaged proteins throughout the body

okay

your muscles not just protein in fact

every single cell in your body contains

some protein you have skin intestines

fascia connective tissue all of that is

protein and when you do prolong fasting

you trigger autophagy and so you’re

getting this recycling of this damaged

protein into new amino acids so there’s

a lot of benefits from autophagy and one

being getting rid of pathogens so if you

have viruses in your body that are just

kind of lingering around your body will

take care of those and get rid of those

and so people have a concern about their

muscles being eaten up from autophagy

but you have to realize that like I said

before all cells are made from protein

skin intestines and so your muscles

actually are going to be dining off of

your skin cells and intestine cells the

damaged skin cells the damage connective

tissue cells maybe scar tissue that you

had or all of this damage protein will

be fed to your muscle before your muscle

gives up its amino acids which is a

really cool thing now as long as you

have enough fat your body is not going

to tap into the muscle reserve of any

significant amount this video is not

really about intermittent fasting this

is about prolonged fasting so you’re

fasting uh three days five days seven

days two weeks a month okay the question

is how do we make sure that we preserve

a muscle especially if you are going in

to this prolonged fasting with atrophy

okay let’s say you’re menopausal and

some of your muscles are atrophied okay

which looks very very similar to fat and

you start doing long-term fasting how do

you deal with that because some of that

muscle is also damaged now this is what

I recommend

autophagy is inhibited by eating and

eating protein especially okay but it

goes on like a gradient type thing right

so when you start eating less than a

thousand calories a day you’ll start

triggering autophagy to a certain degree

and the last that you eat the more

autophagy you’re going to trigger so it

really has to do with quantity or

amounts of calories and so you can

induce autophagy or get the benefits

even doing a low calorie type diet it’s

called calorie restriction okay you can

do that but of course you’re going to

get a little bit more benefits if you’re

doing just straight fasting with no

calories for the first two or three days

okay 48 to 72 hours I’m going to

recommend not taking any type of protein

or amino acid supplements however

at the fourth day of fasting you

introduce amino acids and here’s why

amino acids are the building blocks of

protein and so by taking straight amino

acids it gives your body this already

broken down building block that your

tissues can start to use immediately

your liver doesn’t have to work to break

it down and when you take amino acids

there’s very little calories okay but

when you start the prolonged fasting if

you allow the body to clean up a lot of

the old damaged proteins which then add

the amino acids let’s say the fourth day

and then you start taking amino acids

after that you are consuming something

that’s very low calorie your muscles can

then utilize these amino acids and the

other tissues can utilize these amino

acids to prevent fatigue and to prevent

any type of loss of any protein tissue

from there on out and at the same time

get all these wonderful benefits the

type of amino acid blend that I’m going

to recommend I put a link down below low

because this specific blend has been

proven to be very effective and it does

not turn into sugar like a lot of other

collagen type products or protein

products do so in other words you want

to use an amino acid blend that is very

very balanced the next question is

should you exercise or not well this all

depends again on how much fat that you

have as your reserve and also it depends

on how adapted you are to fat when you

start ketosis and you’re new to it you

can be in ketosis within two or three

days okay but to be really fat adapted

that takes more like a month to three

months okay where you are just burning

fat like a machine when your body is in

that situation you can handle a heavier

workout a more intense workout because

when you work out you’re going to be

tapping into fat not just your sugar

reserves your glycogen in your muscle

and your liver in which you would run

out really quickly and then get really

tired so the more adapted you are the

more you’re going to maintain your

energy while exercising and exercise as

itself is a very potent stimulus of

autophagy and so you’ll get a lot more

benefits if you combine the exercise

with prolonged fasting

but if you’re not fully adapted long

walks would be totally fine and

something I would recommend and then the

next question is supplements what type

of supplements should you be taking well

this is the list right here electrolytes

okay electrolyte powder make sure you

have electrolytes with enough potassium

because our buys require a lot of it the

B vitamins are very very important you

may want to take nutritional yeast

unfortified because that gives you the

natural form of B vitamins sea salt very

important no less than one teaspoon a

day a lot of people do not consume

enough sea salt and you’re going to feel

very weak when you do this process

especially your muscles because of the

sodium that’s required that go along

with these other electrolytes like

potassium you might want to take vitamin

D better yet get sun if you can if you

can’t take vitamin D simply because even

though it’s a fat soluble vitamin so

many people are deficient in vitamin D

going into it and so fasting tends to

aggravate this deficiency the other

thing I’m going to recommend is omega-3

fatty acids a good source would be cod

liver oil because cod liver oil not only

has

omega-3 fatty acids but it also has

vitamin d as well as Vitamin A so you

can actually kill three birds with one

stone I would also recommend a natural

source of vitamin C and vitamin E if

you’re doing like maybe a week of

fasting or longer just because those are

two other vitamins like the water

soluble vitamin C that’s going to go

through your body pretty quick and we

don’t want you to start ending up with

vitamin C deficiencies as well as

Vitamin E deficiencies and this way

you’ll maintain your strength you’ll

prevent nutritional deficiencies you’ll

be able to even exercise and you’ll be

able to get the benefits of weight loss

too and look healthy as you lose weight

as well as all the internal benefits

that are occurring with this prolonged

fast now one last point about cancer

if you have cancer and you’re doing this

I would try to go longer without taking

the amino acids simply because there are

certain amino acids that can feed the

cancer so if you do a straight fast

without the amino acids I think you’ll

benefit greatly unless you have certain

symptoms like significant muscle loss

things like that but overall I would

rather lose more weight and be very very

skinny and get rid of the cancer then be

focused on you know preventing that

weight loss and end up dying from cancer

prolonged fasting is hands down the best

strategy of getting rid of cancer if you

have cancer even if it’s stage four I’ve

done videos on this so realize that any

negative effects from fasting don’t even

come close to the benefits of doing

fasting for cancer now I have another

video on the details of how to do

prolonged fasting and what to eat after

you stop fasting and check it out I put

it up right here