If you are looking to drink a glass of
wine here or there and have your fasting
lifestyle, and you want to stay keto adapted,
you want to stay in this fat burning place.
Then these are incredible hacks.
Dr. Mindy here and on this video, I am
going to explain to you what happened
when I broke my fast with wine.
Yep.
I had a very interesting observation that
I can't wait to share with all you guys.
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And if you are like me.
I know you all have been wondering
if you can go from a fasted state,
right into your glass of wine.
So on this video, I'm going
to show you what happened.
Okay.
Here's the scenario.
So I am wearing a CGM
continuous glucose monitor.
The one I'm wearing is by Neutrisense, and
we are in the middle of a fasting experience
with our Resetters and I had been fasting
all day long, 24, close to 24 hours fast.
I came home, wasn't hungry.
And so I poured myself a glass of red wine.
And I drank my wine and linked up my CGM.
And what I found was shocking.
Literally my blood glucose
dropped with one glass of wine.
So I started thinking to myself, Oh my
gosh, well, I teach you guys all the time.
And our Resetters about protein
and fat and how they will bring
your blood sugar level down.
And if it brings your level
down, then that allows you to get
into ketosis in an easier style.
So it really had me conflicted
because I felt like.
Okay, well, wine is not a health food.
This is not what we want to
be teaching, but I saw such a
dramatic decline in my blood sugar.
How can I use wine as a tool to be able
to help my fasting and ketogenic efforts?
And here's what I've come up with.
I basically have four ways that you can
fast and you can have your wine too.
And then at the end of this video, I'm
going to talk a little bit about when I
think where you should put your wine in.
So, first thing that I'm going to
tell you is what that observation
did for me is it taught me.
That my blood sugar goes
up when I'm stressed.
And for me, stress isn't necessarily like
I'm worried about something sometimes.
Um, that particular day, I,
it was just a very busy day.
I'd been on a lot of podcast interviews.
So already my blood sugar was
high because of my activity level.
This is happening to you guys as well.
When you're, when your stress
goes up, your blood sugar goes up.
So what I said to myself was, gosh, I
think I'm going to need to find some
tools that I can use to be able to
bring it my stress down, especially at
the end of the day, because I do not
want to get in the habit of breaking my
fast every night with a glass of wine.
So the first aha I had was.
Okay.
Stress was high.
I need to come up with some tools.
Like I love a good cup of tea.
I love sitting down and
chatting with my family.
Um, a good more bath, a hot pack.
Some of you, you could go out for a walk.
You, if wine lowers your blood
sugar, you can create some other
habits that will do the same.
So that you're not always
breaking your fast with wine.
Okay.
Second thing.
And this one is really important and this is
why I don't want to break my fast with wine
all the time, but it gave me some insight.
And that's that.
Think about your poor liver.
When you are in ketosis, what you are
asking your body to do your liver to
do is you're asking it to make ketones.
Now your liver will pro well
prioritize one key thing that you
eat or drink, and that is alcohol.
The minute you put alcohol into
your system, what your liver will
do is stop breaking down estrogen.
It will, it will stop detoxing.
You.
It stops everything and prioritizes alcohol.
So knowing this.
I do not want to be putting that kind
of stress on my liver day after day
after, day by breaking my fast with wine.
But I thought to myself, Hmm.
What if I pull myself out of ketosis first?
So I come home after fasting all day.
I eat a good solid meal.
Maybe have some protein and some
fat and then have my glass of wine.
Now my liver, isn't having to make
ketones and deal with the added
stress of alcohol in its system.
So going forward, that will
be a little hack that I use.
Okay.
Third thing.
And this one is really, really important.
Not all wine is made the same.
So, what I drink is biodynamic
wine that is free of chemicals.
You guys probably know
you've heard me before.
Talk about dry farm wines.
We will put a link tool, dry
farm wines in the notes here.
But what I love about dry farm wines is
they've already tested for the chemicals.
The worst chemical is glyphosate,
which is really hard on your liver
and very toxifying to your brain.
And glyphosate is sprayed on
everything it is in our environment.
If you want to know more about glyphosate,
go to the resetter podcast and hear
my interview with MIT scientist, Dr.
Stephanie . She talks about how
life the glyphosate is ruining.
Our brains and our immune systems.
So I don't want to take
a glass of glyphosate.
I want to make sure that the
wine I'm drinking is free of
chemicals, but also low in sugar.
So dry farm wines has zero carbs,
zero net carbs, zero sugar.
Uh, a lot of wines have added sugar.
So make sure you're doing a
biodynamic wine that is chemical
free and keeping your sugar low down.
That would be a key part of
trying to incorporate wine
into your fast and lifestyle.
Okay.
Number four.
And these are my hacks.
So if you followed me for a while,
Hopefully, you know, I'm a very
impatient person and I want results fast.
So in why I'm doing this video for
you guys is I want you to understand
that wine can influence cortisol and
you can use it as a tool, specially
clean wine, like dry farm wine.
But we need some hacks to support the liver.
So I want to share with you some of
my things, favorite supplements that
the night I take my have my glass
of wine, I add these supplements in
the first one is a liver supplement.
So liver supplement, this is my
favorite one by systemic formulas.
It's called L liver.
Bye.
Have a glass of wine.
Couple hours hour afterwards.
I will support it myself with liver.
Okay. Second one.
And this is a hangover cure it's called
bind and bind is fabulous for binding to
any toxins that you and this works for food.
This works for alcohol.
You take two before you go to bed.
Uh, unfortunately a lot of people
use this to, uh, to help them.
When they need to over-correct after a lot
of alcohol, it is a true hangover cure.
So bind is my second go-to supplement
on the nights I have a glass of wine.
Okay.
Third day we are in a pandemic
and our immune system needs our
glutathione levels to be high.
So when you drink alcohol, you're
depleting your glutathione levels.
So the third supplement that
I recommend is called GSL.
And GSL is a great glutathione supplement
that will add glutathione back in.
So your immune system gets depressed.
Alcohol has been at, at its all
time high because of the pandemic.
A lot of us are at home having a couple of
glasses of wine feeling sorry for ourselves.
So make sure you're adding that
glutathione back in because they're
nothing will make you feel worse than
if your immune system is depressed.
And now you're vulnerable to this virus.
Okay.
Third thing.
Is magnesium.
You've got, if you're truly having trouble
sleeping when you are drinking, which
a lot of you that are menopausal women
might be finding, add in some magnesium.
My favorite is men.
One of the challenges we have with
drinking wine is that it interrupts
our sleep, especially our deep sleep.
So make sure you're putting
that mineral load back in.
So if you struggle with sleep, uh, after you
drink, you might try some added minerals.
And then my last hack for
sleep is this is my favorite.
It's called DRAM.
And it's a melatonin supplement
that will absolutely knock you out.
Raise up your, your melatonin
and allow you to sleep.
The interesting thing, as you probably
know those of you that drink, know that
a lot of times, if you drink too much,
you wake up at two in the morning where
you wake up at the two in the morning.
Cause that's the time the
liver is talking to you.
So if you add in a liver support
like L liver and you take some DRAM.
Now you've got yourself some
good old fashioned melatonin.
You've got some liver support and
you will sleep well as you move
through the day or through the night.
The last thing I want to tell you is, um,
we are a huge fan of castor oil packs too.
So if you know, you love to drink biodynamic
wines or alcohol in general, and you're
have this fasting laugh lifestyle.
Um, then you want to lean into some
things like a castor oil pack where
you put castor oil on the pack.
And it goes around your liver and it helps
to open the liver up and dilate it so
that the toxins don't stay in the liver.
So these are hacks.
We never want you to hack an addiction.
So if you are somebody who has a very
frequent alcohol, uh, situation going
on, these are not crutches to be used
for that, that addiction should be met.
Head on.
Um, but if you are looking to drink a
glass of wine here or there and, and
have your fasting lifestyle and you
want to stay keto adapted, you want
to stay in this fat burning place.
Then these are incredible hacks.
So there you go.
That's what happened when I broke
my fast with wine as always, I hope
this information helps you guys.
If you resonate with it,
share it out into the world.
We can all be stronger
immune stronger this year.
And fasting is a key part of that.
And you can drink your glass of
wine on occasion and have it not
kill all your fasting efforts.
So hope that helps.