So many of you know that I use fasting in my life,
I use it when I work with patients and I think it's really an incredible tool in
order to help us heal and recover and I think it's very important for longevity
purposes. I want to talk about some of the different forms of fasting and then
after that I want to go into the benefit some of the benefits of fasting ok. So
I'm going to start from the easiest to and go to the hardest so what I consider
the easiest forms of fasting that is really easy for you to implement and
then go to the hardest forms of fasting which gets a little bit tougher but it's
still totally doable I do it all the time.
Trust me it'll be ok. So intermittent fasting is when you go and you eat all
your meals within an 8 hour period. So that means that you're going to eat with
an 8 hour period, fast for 16 hours. The reason it's so easy is because you're
still eating the same amount of food you're just eating within a certain
window of time. You're supposed to be eating the same amount of calories that
you would normally eat and eat like you would normally eat however you want to
do it in a smaller window allowing your gut in your body of the chance to heal
during those other 16 hours. Now when you're doing intermittent fasting it's
very important to be on a good quality diet. You don't want to do intermittent
fasting when you're on some really like for instance the standard American diet
where you're eating a lot of processed foods and carbohydrates so anyway you
want to do intermittent fasting when you're following a diet more like the
ones that are outlined in the heal yourself cookbook okay so intermittent
fasting once again eating all your meals in an eight hour period and then fasting
for 16 hours very doable I do this all the time and it's something that I
really like and it's very easy to implement.
So juice fasting is something
that is fairly simple as well. And it's actually the one of the reasons I like
it is because it tastes really good. So you can make some incredible tasting
juices. I have an example of one right here. This right here is a mixture it has
a lot of greens in it some carrots it doesn't look so pleasant ,however it
tastes really good. Um so juice fasting is when you're going to
take you know kale, and spinach, and cucumber , and some
fruits and then you make a really good tasting juice and you literally just
drink juice for a couple days. Um typically I like to do three to four days and the
reason that juice fast I think is easier because once again it tastes good. You
can change it up you can have all different types of juices and you can
have different flavors and so though you're not eating any solids you're just
simply drinking juice during those couple days like I said three to four
days is what I like to do. Um it's a really great fast to do.
Well the reason I like the bone broth fast is because it is loaded with collagen okay. So you get all
types of collagen and minerals from the bones of whether it's uh chicken or beef
bones or whatever type of bone broth you're making and you just drink that
throughout the three to four day period and you get amazing healing benefits
from it. You get the benefits of it healing your gut and giving supporting
you with all that collagen and then you also get the benefits of all the
minerals from the bones. Now an example of bone broth would be this guy right
here okay, so this is what bone broth looks like this is actually chicken bone
broth. Now for more details on how to make this stuff I'll link an article
below that actually has some of the details of everything I'm talking about
in these episodes. It's hard to get into a crazy amount of detail because I could
talk here for two hours straight and so anyway that's what bone broth looks like
it's probably one of my favorites I have done four day bone broth fast multiple
times.Three day are a little bit easier to do and the reason I think three days
is easier is because you can start like on a Friday and then a Saturday and a
Sunday. And when you're doing fasting you want to do fasting during a time that
you have more of an opportunity to rest okay so you don't want it to be doing
fasting when you're having a crazy work schedule or you know you're running
around with your kids and things are stressful that's not the time to do
fasting. Fasting should be done when you have the opportunity to rest and relax
and take a nap during the day and whatever is necessary because your body
is actually going through a healing process while you're fasting.
The reason water fast is the hardest to do is just because it's simply water,
like you are literally going 3 to 4 days in only drinking water. A lot of it's a
mental game you know like it's just that you you smell food or you see food or
you dream about food whatever it is a lot of it's a mental game. Out of all the
forms of fasting water fast is definitely the hardest just 'cause it's
flavorless but I will say that many times that my bone broth fast turn into
water fast because if you've ever fasted when you drink anything of the same for
3 to 4 days, like in the case of a bone broth fast you get a little bit tired of
it. Day 3 you're like really I find myself....I don't want... I can't put that out
there for everybody, but I find myself getting really sick of the bone broth. So
I'll start drinking more water. So a lot of times my bone broth fast turn into
water fast. But anyway those are the four types of fast that I typically recommend
and the, like I said the easiest intermittent fasting all the way down to
water fasting, which is certainly the hardest. Why would you even want to do
fasting in the first place because it doesn't sound fun it doesn't sound
comfortable and you know like there's there's a lot better there's a lot
better ways you probably like to spend your days. And the truth is you want to
do it for your health because it offers incredible benefits
the first benefit I want to talk about is that fasting absolutely energizes
your metabolism. When you fast it allows your metabolism a chance to balance and
heal and re-energize but it also helps with burning fat because after you burn
through your sugar stores in your body you're gonna start your body's going to
start burning fat for energy and it's gonna help you just burn that fat off
while your fasting and then from there it's also going to help increase insulin
sensitivity for the future so that when you're not fasting your body can
actually store sugar much more efficiently and your metabolism works
better and you feel so much better. Fasting also does incredible things for
your brain it actually increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor which
is a chemical in the brain that actually protects us from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
and many of these these neurodegenerative diseases so when you
fast you're increasing your metabolism so far we covered and you're actually
boosting your brain. Now the third reason fasting is so beneficial is because it
gives you an opportunity to work on healing your intestinal tract your
intestinal tract works 24/7 all the time. Even at night it's still working
and so when you fast it gives this the intestines and the gut the chance to
rest to heal to remove balance out the bacteria within the gut it helps to heal
the digestive tract the gap junctions get all the toxins out and it
really does an amazing job. Now the fourth reason fasting is beneficial is
because it helps clear your skin up and help your skin look really vibrant. When
I first started fasting to help with my skin issues they cleared up almost
within the first 24 to 48 hours of fasting. So fasting also boosts your
immune system and that's number five. Now when they done some... they did some different
studies on rats and mice what they found is that the the mice that were put into
a fasted State on a regular basis they had less factors in their blood that
actually gave the indication that they were going to develop a disease is
related to a lot of oxidative stress and so when you fast it helps balance your
immune system reduce a lot of disease factors within your blood and also
reduce oxidative stress which is ultimately going to really reduce
inflammation in the body. Now the sixth benefit of fasting that I want to talk
about is longevity okay so in America the average lifespan is right around
somewhere I'd like to say 72 off the top of my head. Now there is areas in the
around the world where people are living to a hundred and ten years old you know
for instance like there's areas like in Japan where the Okinawans live until you
know the ripe old age these guys are a hundred plus years old and they're still
farming they're still going about their tribe and doing the duties that they
would normally do and so when we look at our genetic code it's estimated that
were as humans designed to live into about 120 years old. So there's a big
problem if we're only living to 75 on average in America and the truth is
that most people who are living to 75 aren't living a very high quality of
life right? So that's 75 on how many prescription medication 75 with how many
degenerative diseases at that time not only is quantity of life important but
quality of life is probably even more important to somebody. We talk about
fasting and longevity it's very important to put the two together and
realize that it's really necessary to have fasting in your life in order to
really support that longevity when they did a study with different mice what
they found is that they had two different groups okay the one group they
were allowed to just eat whenever they wanted the the mice could just graze all
day long. And then the other group they were required to fast two times a month
for a period of four days now what they found is that the group of mice that
they required to fast for four days twice a month
they actually outlived the group that was grazing all day by three months so
three months might not sound like it's that much however when you look at the
average lifespan of a mouse is right around two years so three months is
enormously significant. Another way that fasting really promotes longevity is by
boosting your human growth hormone. Now when you look at someone who's in a
fasted state or somebody who is fasted using intermittent fasting
there's test there studies done where there's been increases of human growth
hormone by thirteen hundred percent 2,000 percent now when you go in and you
start to increase human growth hormone by those kinds of levels it is allowing
your body to heal recover and reduce inflammation so those are all the things
that I wanted to discuss as far as fasting goes ok so we talked about the
different types of fasting my favorite type of fasting some of the benefits of
fasting and I will link below this video some some more information on it.
Benifits of fasting can't be ignored because it is literally a game-changer for so
many people who are trying it so if I was suffering from some sort of
condition I wouldn't do it fasting without support from physician if I'm
perfectly healthy person or somebody who's just suffering from some skin
irritation or something like that I would have no problem doing fasting
personally so I think if you start utilizing this in your life you'll be
really happy I would start with intermittent fasting because as I
mentioned it's just the easiest to go in and start doing on a regular basis.