and then the third question to ask yourself especially when it comes to the longer
fasts is are you trying to just step back and allow the intelligence of your body to do its job
and this is really where the deep autophagy comes in, this is where apoptosis comes in, this is where
all those healing mechanisms that you're wanting with fasting can kick in
Dr Mindy here and on this video I'm going to answer your question which is can I take my
supplements in my fasting window can I take my medication in my fasting window
so many of you asked me this so I wanted to put a whole video together so that you have the answer
and you can find what's specifically right for you if you're new to my channel welcome I am a woman
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okay there's three things that I want to address in this video about the supplement and medication
in your fasting window question are you ready okay first I'm gonna start with medications and here's
what you have to know about medications as you approach fasting I don't want you
to change anything that your doctor has has prescribed for you so if your doctor says
you need to take your medication in the morning and you need to take it with
food then let's make that your eating window and let's have you do more fasting in the afternoon
if you're on a medication that actually needs to be taken on an empty stomach great then you can
put that in your fasting window but the thing to know is you do not want to alter your medication
based off of this new excitement to create a fasting lifestyle you want to bring your
doctor into the conversation you want to work with your doctor to find the right path for you
this is why we have so much science in all my videos is so that you can even
send your doctor here so they can learn about fasting and then together you're working to
figure out what's right for you so don't change anything that your doctor prescribed you to do
just let's build the lifestyle around that now before I move off of medication I want to point
out that there is some evidence that and this was a study done on thyroid medication that you
will when you take thyroid medication on an empty stomach it makes your cells more sensitive to the
the thyroid hormones that are in the medication so remember that if all of a sudden you take thyroid
medication in the fasting window you may have a different response to that medication than if
you took it when you were eating so we want to be really careful if all of a sudden we switch over
you may actually absorb the medication in a deeper way than when you're eating so always
be mindful of that okay second thing supplements now this is an interesting one here's my general
rule on supplements first if you can take it in an eating in on an empty stomach your supplements
awesome I would just do it in your fasting window now um I can't take b vitamins in a fasted state i
get kind of nauseous so I can do other supplements in a fasted state but I can't do b vitamins
so what I do is I put it in my I always take b vitamins in my eating window so you got to
find out if you can even stomach the vitamin the supplement in that fasting window second thing if
you can move your supplements to the eating window I think in general that's just a great strategy to
avoid nausea a lot of supplements like vitamin d are done better when you take them with fats
so you might if it's easy to put them in the eating window great go ahead and do it
and then the third question to ask yourself especially when it comes to the longer fasts
is are you trying to just step back and allow the intelligence of your body to do its job
now this is really important because especially when we go into the longer fasts
we often are saying to our body like you're not going to get food for the next 48 hours
so I'm going to let this wisdom that's inside every cell figure out what needs to be done and
this is really where the deep autophagy comes in this is where apoptosis comes in this is where all
those healing mechanisms that you're wanting with fasting can kick in so the longer you fast the
more you may want to leave that those supplements out of the picture because you're trying to tap
into the intelligence so just something to think about when you approach the longer fast
so that leads me to the third thing that I want to tell you which is your fasting length when you
go to look at your supplements specifically you want to look at your fasting length if you are
fasting less than 24 hours supplements are great in the fasting window if you're fasting between 24
and 48 hours I would say supplements are optional maybe you don't take supplements those two days
maybe you just let the intelligence do its job and the third one is if you're fasting over 48 hours
no supplements because now you're really into a deep fast where there's deep healing processes
going on and we don't want to mess with that we want to honor what the body is doing to heal you
so shorter fast supplements can be great medium length fast it's optional long fast absolutely not
so there you go there's some guidelines for you so that you can apply that to your life so that's
that's the the skinny on supplements and medications hopefully now you have a good
foundation of what you need to do medications let's work with your doctor supplements let's
time them around whether we can stomach them in an eating window or a fasting window and can you skip
them maybe you skip them longer fasts we don't do supplements at all with the medications in the
longer fasts go ahead and keep taking them again i don't want to change anything that your doctor
has you on with those medications which is why we really want to involve your doctor in this fasting
journey that you're on okay last thing you guys have asked me how do you pick good supplements
so I'm super picky about the supplements that I use on myself my family my patients I have a real
high standard for making sure that supplements are free of toxins and that they're effective
so all the supplements that I have vetted are on my web page you just go to drmindypells.com go to
the store you can see all my favorite supplements there second thing I want to let you know
is that we got a black friday holiday gift guide coming out of all my favorite products so that's
coming to you so all you got to do is put in the comments gift guide and my my team will send you
the link to that and I want to make sure that you understand that minerals are the number
one nutrient that your body is missing when you fast so in all of your fasting time and as you're
building more of your fasting lifestyle I want to make sure you're adding in minerals you can put
them into your fasting window it's called LMNT is our favorite minerals I also have done a
great video called minerals and fasting that my team will link here that you can go check out so
minerals are like this weird little anomaly that we need to make sure that you're adding
into your fasting window on a regular basis so that you keep your sodium magnesium and potassium
balance in check and a lot of you have told us how helpful element has been for you to be able to
fast appropriately so there you go that's what you should do with your medications and supplements