Dr. Mindy here and all this week is our fast training week and so I've put out a series
of videos for you on intermittent fasting we are going back to the basics so that you guys don't
miss a step and if you're new to fasting you're new to my channel I just want to say welcome
I love being on this journey with you guys I am here to give you the tools that you need to
make fasting an easier process for you and if you want that you want more information
just hit the subscribe and notification button I go live every Thursday for a Q&A so I'm here
to support you in any way I possibly can and as always you guys that send my videos out into the
world you share them with friends I just adore you, I'm grateful to be on this journey with you
and I can't wait to dive into this video because we get asked all the time who
shouldn't fast are you ready because there's some of you that shouldn't be doing this
okay intermittent fasting, is it good for everybody well there are three categories of people that
should not be intermittent fasting so let's start with the first one, the first one is if you are
pregnant okay and I'm gonna there's a little subset of this category if you are pregnant or
trying to get pregnant this is not the time to intermittent fast you need to focus more on things
you need to focus on fueling yourself but focus on foods that will improve your microbiome there are
two things that you'll hand down to your baby you're going to hand down your toxic load and
you're going to hand down your microbiome so you have the next nine months to focus
on your microbiome so really lean into more vegetables, more polyphenol, probiotic,
prebiotic foods I've done a lot of videos on that but now is the time to feed your microbiome to put
good products on your skin to minimize your toxic load but it's not the time to fast even
intermittent fasting in fact most of you when you're pregnant are going to discover after if
you don't have morning sickness that you want to eat and you might even do better when you eat so
please don't do intermittent fasting if you're pregnant okay second person those of you that
are breastfeeding actually I'll clump this under the first category if you're breastfeeding
I would make sure that you don't fast more than 17 hours so at 17 hours autophagy kicks in
and when autophagy kicks in your cells will start detoxing and re-mobilizing
chemicals like heavy metals BPA plastics endocrine disruptors you don't want those mobilized because
they will be mobilized and put into your breast milk and now they go into your baby so no 17
hours is the absolute limit if you are going to do a little bit of fasting while you're nursing
then 13 hours is about the most I would recommend so the first category is women who are pregnant
trying to get pregnant or nursing a baby let's not fast let's focus more on your microbiome
okay the second category is those of you that are adrenal fatigued now I'm gonna put a little
asterisks on this one because it doesn't mean that you completely avoid fasting but you need to be
slow and methodical about how you fast go watch I did two videos on a dream how to fast around
a deen adrenal fatigue so and I'm sure my team will put links to those videos here on this video
but I'll tell you the basics of what you need to know if you're adrenal fatigued is that you
got to be slow about your approach so you might start by pushing back your breakfast a half hour
and then you do that for a couple of weeks and then you push your breakfast back two hours or
an hour and you do that for a couple weeks and then an hour and a half and then two hours
and before you know it maybe five six months into fasting you're now able to go 13 to 15. it
doesn't mean you shouldn't fast it just means you should be slow and methodical if you are adrenal
fatigued and again I have videos on that okay the third one okay the third one we gotta have
a serious conversation with some of you and that is if you have been fasting and you stop getting
a result or you get a very adverse result like your hair is falling out or your heart is racing
you are fasting too much remember we have these two energy systems we have the sugar and the fat
burner so what I'm finding is happening to so many of you is you get so excited about this energy
system you just want to do it all the time but you were not meant to be a fat burner 24/7. you were
meant to go in and out of sugar and fat burning that is how you were metabolically designed
so if you're gaining weight now if you're getting chronic pain issues if your hair
is falling out if you're not getting the result you used to get when you first came to fasting
guess what you're gonna need to stop fasting for at least a week or two, step
out of fasting and go try breakfast again I recently did this and yes it's scary it's a moment
of like oh my god how do I do breakfast I don't even remember but I did that for a week and when
I went back into my fasting habits it was so much easier so remember you're built for flexibility
you're not built to be a fat burner all the time so if you don't like the result you're getting
you but you used to get a great result with fasting it's time to put a pause on intermittent
fasting for a couple weeks and then go back in so there you go there are the three categories
of people that need to focus on step on at least doing fasting different or stepping out of fasting
remember that one of my favorite concepts is something called N of 1 which is we need
to all make sure we are individualizing these our fasting lifestyle our food our exercise at we are
our own experiment here just because your partner can fast like a crazy man or just because you used
to get results doesn't mean that you should keep doing the same thing over and over and over again
variation is key and making sure that you're finding your variation is the most important
part of this whole equation now as always if you guys need more help this is what we're doing
in the academy, we've got a great community of people over there that are supporting each other
I'm over there we have Q&A calls we have workouts we do every Saturday we are taking these concepts
off of youtube and putting them on a platform where you can start to truly thrive with your
fasting lifestyle so if you need that that level of detail please come join us over there and as
always I love being on this journey with you and never ever ever give up you were born in a miracle