hey this is dr. berry in this video
which I'm gonna try to keep short I'm
gonna take a little bit deeper dive into
what you can drink when you're fasting
so if you're trying to intermittently
fast time restricts your eating window
or do the longer fast I'm going to talk
about the fluids that you can drink and
not meaningfully break your fast now if
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first of all I need to know what is your
goal for fasting if your goal is to ramp
up auto Fujii and if you don't know what
that is I've got a video on that on
otology on this channel and then also on
my facebook page Oh
topic G is the process by which your
body Auto digests older tissues older
cells that aren't working as well as
they should be and making new cells out
of that material it's a very powerful
thing that can help tighten your skin it
can help you even digest and break down
early cancers and get rid of them
Altaf which is very powerful you need to
look in that into that if you don't
already know about it but if your goal
is to ramp up on top of G as high as you
can
you need to water fast you need to drink
water only and you need to take your
minerals or which is another name for
salt and the most common ones you're
gonna need are sodium chloride magnesium
and potassium right and so if that's
your goal is to maximize on top of G you
need to water fast and that's it now if
your goal is to keep your insulin level
very very low and you're in inflammation
level very low then you can do the other
things that I'm going to talk about in
this video you will still get some of
the autopsy benefits by using these
other fluids maybe not as much as you
would get with water okay so let's talk
about that first of all is water that is
the number one liquid to fast with
the whole point of fasting in the modern
sense is to keep your insulin level very
low keep your inflammation very low to
maximize otology but also since we're
modern humans and we're not living out
in the woods we will also want to not
suffer right we want to mimic fasting
but not have the suffering that comes
along with starving yourself and so by
using salt and by using a little bit of
fat you can mimic the fasting benefits
you're not gonna get a hundred percent
of them but you're gonna get a lot of
them by doing it the way I'm going to
explain to you below and so you can fast
with water no one has a problem with
that no one questions that you can put
salt in the water and for me when I'm
fasting salt helps to curb my hunger
greatly okay you can also put one or two
drops of lemon juice or lime juice I
don't think any of the experts would
argue that that would meaningfully raise
your insulin level and break your fast
if you put the juice from an entire
lemon yes that's probably gonna break
your fast but one or two drops to knock
the water flavor off the water some
people hate the taste of water I hate
some water but you have to do that now
somebody asked me the other day how come
we have to put all these minerals in our
water or in our food the magnesium the
potassium the sodium I mean our
ancestors didn't do that well you have
to remember they used to eat much more
fatty meat than we usually do and
there's tons of minerals in the meat
right but they also used to drink water
from we're not from the tap the only
minerals minerals that our water
currently has in it in the United States
is chlorine and fluoride and those
aren't really very helpful minerals our
ancestors used to drink spring water
they used to drink creek water river
water lake water mud puddle water and
all those sources of water still are
very rich in the minerals but these days
are good isn't used to that kind of
water and so I promise you'll pay with
disaster pants and maybe a more serious
infection if you try to do that it's
better to just add the minerals back
into the water that used to be there
naturally
now the next liquid you can fast with
absolutely is
all tea and I say that because you can't
go by Lipton tea in the bottle and
expect that to be good for you it's not
you want to make your own tea whether
it's you can have hot tea you can have
iced tea you can have green tea black
tea all those are great for fasting they
actually have things in them that will
increase your metabolic rate help you
burn off the energy faster but you can
put a little spoonful of butter in your
hot tea you can put a drop or two of
lemon or lime you can add salt to your
tea all of those things will help you
fast will help keep your insulin level
low so you can move towards your health
goals whether that's weight-loss or
otherwise right the next liquid is
coffee almost no one disagrees that you
can fast with coffee black coffee is
obviously the best or black coffee with
a little salt in it but if you're hungry
and you're suffering and you're
miserable you can add a teaspoon of
butter or ghee or MCT oil to your coffee
adding more coffees more fat to your
coffees not magic
you just want just enough fat so you're
not suffering you're not hungry right so
you can continue with your day you can
do the job you have to do and not have
hunger pains distracting you okay so my
current morning Kido coffee is very
strong Sumatra coffee with a teaspoon of
butter and a big pinch of salt and I've
worked great here at the berry clinic
doing that I see lots of patients every
day I'm here and I don't get tired I'm
not starving my stomach's not growling
but my insulin level stays very low so
I'm able to burn the fat that I'm trying
to get to and I also have some autopsy
benefits from that although not as much
as I would have if I were just using
water right the next liquid you can fast
with without doubt is keator aid Nisha
and I did a video on YouTube and I'm
it'll pop up towards the end of this
video and you can watch that if you
don't know what cuter aid is or how to
make key rain but you want to leave the
sweetener out because we'll talk about
the sweet things here in a minute and
why they probably do meaningfully break
your fast but keator aid with no
sweetener is also a great liquid you can
sip on during your fast you're getting
all your minerals and you can act
make your key to raid a science
experiment we put a couple of drops of
iodine in ours and lots of different
minerals and even some ACV and we'll
talk about that which is apple cider
vinegar the next liquid you can fast
with is pickle juice which is basically
salty water right this is Nisha's
personal favourite she loves pickle
juice I'll catch her sometimes drinking
it out of the pickle jar out of the
fridge and I pretend to be upset by that
but I'm really not but you don't want
obviously to use the juice from sweet
pickles like bread-and-butter pickles or
some other pickle like that it needs to
have zero carbs zero sweeteners zero
sugar but pickle juice is fine in that
case now a couple of maybes that that
for some people it might work fine for
other people it won't work so fine is
heavy whipping cream a lot of people can
use that in the beginning but a lot of
people stall after a few months of using
heavy heavy whipping cream in their
coffee because it does have a small
amount of protein and it does have a
small amount of carbohydrates still in
it and both of those might meaningfully
elevate your insulin and break you fast
and so plus or minus on the heavy
whipping cream I know I know it's
delicious I know
trust me I used to put so much heavy
whipping cream in my coffee earlier in
my journey but now if I did that it
would definitely stole my progress and
start to make me gain weight and so
another thing is soft drinks you may
have seen keto in Canada Joanna's a
friend of mine she she can do her
fasting fine with diet coke works great
for her for other people it doesn't work
because of that sweet taste okay now let
me go ahead and tell you why any sweet
taste in your liquid might break your
fast and I think for some people this is
a bigger deal than for others there's
this thing in human beings and actually
in all mammals called the cephalic phase
insulin response when you have a sweet
taste in your mouth it automatically
raises your insulin level because think
about it fifty thousand years ago if our
ancestors had something sweet tasting in
their mouth
there were carbs coming down the pike
and so our body always trying to keep
the blood sugar as low as it can because
that's the healthiest state for humans
would immediately bump up the insulin in
anticipation of the coming carbohydrate
and so even if you're using a good
sweetener like stevia monk fruit extract
erythritol xylitol some of those you may
still bump your insulin level a
meaningful amount and break your fast
with those and so my advice is if you're
stalled and you're not making the
progress you want to make you've got to
get the sweeteners all sweeteners out of
your fasting liquid obviously sugar
honey agave nectar they're gonna be
terrible you don't want to do those at
all but for some people even than
non-caloric sweeteners will still
meaningfully break your fast so keep
that in mind now let's talk about some
absolute knows that you do not want this
in your fasting liquid whichever liquid
you choose and that if number one is
bone broth now I am a huge proponent of
the health magic that real homemade bone
broth will give you but it will
absolutely break your fast it has amino
acids and proteins and other things that
will absolutely break your fast I'm
sorry you can't use that too fast with
if your goal is to keep your insulin
level very low okay another big no is
collagen powders a lot of people put
collagen powder in there they're fasting
liquid absolutely breaks your fast amino
acids you've known to break a fast
there's no ifs ands or buts about the
science behind this branched chain amino
acids obviously our amino acids but I
feel like I have to say this because the
the supplement marketing companies
really push branched chain amino acids
and they are maybe good for some people
if you're lifting at a competitive level
you might need those I don't think
normal people need those at all and you
definitely don't want them in your
fasting liquid if you're if weight loss
is one of your health improvement goals
any protein any carbohydrate any sweet
taste is going to probably break your
fast definitely the protein and carbs
will break your fast the sweet taste may
or may not depending on your individual
metabolism nut milks coconut milk almond
milk which I think probably play a part
in some people's ketogenic way of eating
don't need to be in your fasting liquid
they will break your fast and lastly
exogenous ketones I've got three videos
on this channel about exogenous ketones
of what I think about them they
definitely don't need to be in your fat
thing liquid now I want to know what's
your favorite liquid to fast with will
you put it down in the comments below
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