Dr. Mindy here and today we are gonna talk about dry fasting so if
you've been following me on Facebook you know that I'm a huge fan of fasting and
we do a five-day fast in my resetter tribe if you are not a part of my resetter tribe
you want to be in there just put resetter in the comments I'll invite you in
but here's why I love fasting is that your body is a miracle your body
knows how to heal the thing is that we were never taught strategies on how
to tap into this healing so in my resetter tribe we do a lot of different
types of fasting we do intermittent fasting we do fast mimicking we do
water fasting so we do dinner - dinner fasting but there is a new fast
that is emerging and gaining a lot of attention and it's called dry fasting
and let me tell you before you wonder like you know as you put those two words
together like what is dry what is fasting mean before you start to like
click off of this video let me kind of walk through what we know about dry
fasting and why it could possibly be the quickest way for you to heal your body
so for starters dry fasting it's just like you like it sounds you're not doing
any food or any water for a given period of time
now as that sounds crazy I want you to stop and think about this for a moment
there are a lot of religions that are are very skilled at dry fasting so for
example the Muslim religion on Ramadan they do from Sun up to Sun down
they do no food and no water and they've been doing that for centuries during
this holy time so other religions do the same thing fasting is pretty much built
into almost every religion for cleansing reasons for discipline reasons for
spiritual reasons so fasting is more safe it's
easier than you've been probably led to believe I think with dry fasting what I
hear from a lot of people is don't you get thirsty isn't it unsafe how long can
you go without water so as I started to look at the research I launched into
a dry fast experiment for myself so I dry fast for the last four Mondays
I've been dry fasting anywhere from 12 to 24 hours with dry fasting I'm
gonna go through the benefits here in a moment that you want to go for a shorter
period of time which is pretty cool because you're getting the same benefits
as a water fast but you're getting it on a dry in a shorter period of time not
removing water from the equation so the first thing to know is that it's for a
shorter period of time and that it can actually have a deeper effect so for
these past four Mondays I've been experimenting with it first Monday I
woke up in the morning at glass of water and a little bit of coffee and then I
didn't do any food or water until the next morning the last thing that went
into my mouth was at 6 a.m. I didn't do anything until 6 a.m. the next day
I have a good friend who does a lot of fasting she did a lunch - lunch
dry fast she ate and drank up until lunch
then starting at lunch she didn't do any water or food until lunch the next day
so it's a 24-hour period no food no water
so first Monday not that hard it's pretty easy second Monday had a really
busy Monday a lot of things going on and I only made it about 12 hours until I
felt like oh my god I got it I got it I got a drink I got to eat there was like
an innate feeling inside of me so I listened to my body and I started to eat
third Monday 24 hours no problem today's my fourth Monday and I'm gonna go 12
hours today was just a decision I made so with dry fasting you go for a
shorter period of time now let me tell you what happens in this short period of
time so you guys that are insulin resistant dry fasting could possibly
be the best way to kick yourself out of insulin resistance so when you remove
water from the equation the body starts to go searching for areas where there is
water and there's water in your fat cells so it's gonna start to metabolize
that fat so that you can get that water that's why dry fasting is so cool for
insulin resistance so I would say number one reason to do it is to kick yourself
out of an insulin resistance state second thing those of
you that are patients of mine or resetters and you've been obsessing on
your blood sugar level because it will kick you out of this insulin resistance
state it's it's a really proven path for lowering blood sugar so anybody
pre-diabetic any of any of you that are really trying working really hard to
lower blood sugar dry fasting can be great
second thing a lot of you ketogenic lifestyle people if you've been
following the ketogenic lifestyle and all of a sudden you go and you meandor
into your doctor's office and your LDLs are through the roof your total
cholesterol is through the roof guess what dry fasting has been known to
balance out cholesterol levels so better than water fasting better than any other
type of fasting so if your cholesterol is high you've tried everything look at
doing a 12 to 24 hour water fast okay those of you in pain if you have chronic
issues so if you've watched any of my videos I talked a lot about how I healed
an Achilles tendon injury with a water fast well guess what with dry fasting
what we're seeing is that your inflammatory markers come down so your
body stops producing this chronic inflammation that's causing part of the
pain if you've gone into your doctor's office and your CRP levels are really
high guess what dry dasting is proven to bring those chronic CRP levels down so
for inflammation it's fantastic BDNF is like a growth factor for
your brain it allows your brain to grow new neurons it allows your brain to grow
new cells doesn't matter how old you are but BDNF is like fertilizer for the
Brain well guess what produces the most BDNF more than anything that we've seen
more than exercise there's a lot of studies on BDNF and exercise but
guess what DRI fasting gives you a surge of BDNF that will help you create new
neurons and help you create new cells and then the last piece and I've talked
about this a lot why so many of you whether you're aware of it or not our
intermittent fasting is for the what we call autophagy is where
when you remove food from the equation your body is so smart just like it
goes to search for fat cells for water when you remove food and water from the
equation it will slowly take the toxins inside the cells and your body will live
off of those toxins and your body will self regenerate you are born in a
miracle your body knows what it needs to do to heal you just have to tap into
some of these ancient healing strategies like dry fasting so dry fasting I'm a
huge fan I'm doing it every Monday some version of it for my own self if you
want more information on it going to put resetter I'll invite you over we'll
get you into my group so you can see some of the people who are dry fasting
over there now how do you go about it if you're hearing me for the first time and
this sounds really exciting I do not recommend you jump into a dry fast
I think you should start with intermittent fasting and still do the fast training
but a lot of you guys are expert fasters you've been following my work for a
while you've been doing the fast with me it may be time to jump into a dry fast
my recommendation is anywhere from 12 to 24 hours if you're gonna do a 24 hour
dry fast and really recommend you get coached and the name of the game would
dry fasting is if you get five hours into it three hours into it and you feel
horrible you are dying of thirst you got to stop the fast so this is not a fast
that you push on through this is a fast you listen to your body okay but dry
fasting super cool I'm putting a blog post out on it if you want to receive my
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comment section I want to hear from you this
cutting-edge this is new a lot of people are branching out to try it I want to
hear your experience of with it okay hope that helps have an awesome day