a week of deprivation probably going to be okay a month of deprivation not going to mess
your metabolism up especially if you have a lot of weight to lose but month after month after
month your metabolism will slow down and your body will become less efficient at burning fat
Dr. Mindy here and on this video I am going to address the most common question on fasting
which is won't slow down my metabolism? so many people have asked us that so in this video
i'm going to show you how you can use fasting to speed up your metabolism and ways in which you can
actually use fasting not that you'd want to but there's ways that you can use fasting that will
slow down your metabolism so we want you to avoid those ways welcome by the way if you are new to
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okay intermittent fasting, fasting in general doesn't it slow your metabolism down
I mean didn't we learn that you got to eat six meals a day to speed your metabolism up
this doesn't make sense that if I don't eat that my metabolism speeds up so I want to start
off by giving you an analogy that I think really helps you understand what fasting does and I say
this to my academy members all the time if you and i were in a in a cabin in the woods and winter
was coming and they delivered a whole bunch of firewood and they said you're set for winter you
have a wood-burning stove inside the cabin to keep you warm you got a huge pile of firewood out there
burn away you're going to be fine to stay warm all winter no problem we would probably look out the
window and be like yeah let's get it's cold in here let's get some firewood in and we'd start
filling that stove and burning the wood over and over and over again and we would do it with
freedom and not care about it and then one day we look out there it's a long winter it's still
very cold and the pile has gotten very small what would happen is we would intellectually say huh we
better slow down the burning of this wood or we're going to completely run out and then we won't have
any heat inside the cabin this is what's happening to your body so when you guys come to fasting you
have all this stored sugar that you stored years ago so when you go into these fasted states your
body becomes very very efficient at burning all that stored sugar and you start dropping weight
and you're like this is amazing oh my god fasting is incredible I'm gonna keep fasting and so you
fast more and so many I mean we see it here on my channel all the time so many of you guys do one
meal a day where you're like and you know with fasting the hardest part is we don't get hungry
so it's easy to go 24 hours without eating so you get in in this sort of mentality of fasting's
better than food and you start to shorten your window for eating and the longer you do that if
you do not vary your fats if you don't have some feast days eventually your metabolism is gonna do
what we would do in the cabin when the wood pile went low your metabolism is gonna go wait a second
there's not a lot of food coming here so I better make sure that I slow down my metabolism so that
I don't run out of stored sugar that's literally what it's thinking so there's a couple of tricks
to make sure that that doesn't happen first trick vary your fasts some days you go 15 hours some
days you go 24 some days you do a 48 hour some days you don't fast so you're you're fooling
your body it never really knows it would be like us some days we're having one log in the stove
other days we have three logs in the stove so instead of always demanding that your body go
after the stored glucose you're surprising it a little bit by varying it that will really help
your metabolism second thing that I want to tell you is that when you eat eat so there's a lot of
research out there and a lot of critics on fasting who are looking at the science that says
calorie restriction causes this problem calorie restriction causes that problem women and hormones
this is a common thing I'm hearing about women and hormones women shouldn't fast because calorie
restriction is no good for a woman's hormonal health okay fasting is not calorie restriction
you have a time when you eat and you have a time when you fast so if you are at the weight you want
to be at or if you want to gain weight per se or you don't want to get stuck with your weight loss
efforts make sure that you're not staying in that low calorie low keto low carb state day after day
with your fast that is the fastest way to slow the metabolism down is to be in these longer
fasts every day and then be in restriction when you eat so this is why we talk about how do you
use food to build hormones how do you use food to do some protein loading there is a feast famine
cycling I'm trying to teach you guys here so this really the tip there is to make sure when you eat
you eat and that you're not in deprivation day after day a week of deprivation probably going
to be okay a month of deprivation not going to mess your metabolism up especially if you have
a lot of weight to lose but month after month after month your metabolism will slow
down and your body will become less efficient at burning fat so we don't want that to happen so the
the key to metabolism and this is really I want to like sum up this concept is if you don't want your
metabolism to slow down you want to vary your fast and when you eat you want to make sure you don't
stay in deprivation all the time I'm not saying low keto bad i'm not saying carnivore is bad
I'm just saying don't be in deprivation make sure you're varying fast make sure you're leaning into
some feast days don't fast other days that in and out of a fasting lifestyle is what really gets you
lean gets you strong and gets you healthy again so there you go that's the skinny on what happens
with fasting and your metabolism as always if this helps let me know we do have a new reset coming up
it's called the forever young reset forever immune we mix some things up it's forever immune and i've
taken all the principles of all of our resets last year our immune building principles our fat
burning principles are anti-aging principles and i've put it together in a 19 day program we'd love
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let's do this because this will be fun if you've had great results with fasting losing weight or
building muscle let us know in the comments we are a community here on youtube so we want to
hear from you and what results you've gotten with these principles so as always I hope that helps