Dr. Mindy here and on this video we are talking about a fast
it's an advanced fast called dry fasting but specifically I want to talk to you
guys about what they're we're seeing in the research that dry fasting can help with skin
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okay dry fasting and skin let's just just because I don't know if you've watched the
other dry fast videos this is fast training week and we are practicing dry fasting Ramadan style
which means you can drink a cup of coffee and some water in the morning before the sun comes out
up and then you're not eating or drinking for at least 12 hours and then you're gonna break
your fast when the sun goes down and you're gonna do a ketobiotic meal if you're like
I don't know what I'm what you're talking about just put companion guide in the notes
and my team will send you a free guide to explain this fast trading week what I want to do on this
video is I really want to dive into some cool research on skin now everything I'm going to
say about skin health right now doesn't mean that the other style of fasting doesn't do this
one thing that's really interesting when I dove into the fasting research is we just have a lot of
research on dry fasting because of Ramadan because it's been done for so many years on so many people
for such a length of time that we have some cool things that we can glean from knowing what happens
when you take food and water out of the equation so here's a couple of interesting intriguing ideas
there are two ways that dry fasting helps the skin so first is that it brings inflammation down
so you know when you wake up in the morning and you're like oh my gosh I feel puffy well that's
inflammation and what research shows is that dry fasting reduces pro-infect inflammatory cytokines
remember the cytokines we've been talking about with the pandemic and the cytokine storm
well one of the things we know about a cytokine storm is there can be a low-level cytokine
storm going on all the time and that could be contributing to poor skin health it could be
making you feel puffy it could be changing the color of your skin you know some people
I've noticed when they dry fast get a little bit brighter skin and that can be because of
this reduction in cytokine storm super cool and that was with 30 days of dry of Ramadan fasting
the second thing it does is that it promotes wound healing and it slows down premature aging
what I had to literally you guys I had to like read this a couple of times because I was like
why does dry fasting do that over other fats because that's I can't find that research on
other fats but I the inflammation we know all fats help with so stay tuned because I'm explaining
why dry fasting does that but they are finding for like open wounds, dry fasting is great those of you
that are trying to slow down aging skin this could be a really good option so let's start off with
this idea what destroys your skin so there are a lot of different things that will make your skin
look worse than it needs to look so i'm going to just ramble off some of them pathogens so bacteria
that gets on the skin this is why what they say don't touch your face so sometimes we get
bacteria on our skin UV light we know this the sun can damage it pollution if you live in an area
that's highly polluted that's going to be clogging up pores that's a known fact oxidative stress so
this happens more from the inside out so if you're eating a poor diet you'll see it in your skin
I can tell in my patients all the time they can walk in the front door of my clinic
and I can look at them and know if they're fasting especially the dry fasters we can see really
clearly there's like a healthy glow and even like a hydration to the skin which fascinates me
but when you're eating unhealthy I used to be able to see this in my teenagers I knew what they were
eating based off of what their skin looked like so if your skin's looking poor it's possible
that dry fasting is going to be the way to turn that skin around quickly and then the last thing
that destroys your skin is poor gut health if i could take your your gut and i could flip it open
it would look like your skin if you want to know what the inside of your gut looks like
right now if you have good gut health go look in the mirror because you're outside your skin
and your gut are a reflection of each other okay so this is what we know destroys skin health
now here's what's really cool about your skin hopefully, you all know that when we're dealing
with all types of fasts, you are tapping into a self-healing self-repairing mechanism of your
cells well guess what your skin is self-healing self-repairing we know this because if you cut
yourself you don't have to think about anything the intelligence in your body will go in there
and just repair it well when you look even deeper your skin does a lot check this out
your skin has a whole immune system in it so it has an innate immune system and an adaptive immune
system this is why we don't want to be lathering antibacterial soap all over our skin because it
destroys that immune system remember your skin has an immune system so what you put on your
skin will either support that immune system or it will destroy it my favorite by the way and this is
in the companion guide I'll say it right here one of my favorite lotions is called derma colonizer
which is a probiotic lotion you can put on your skin if you've been masking up a lot put it
around where that mask is so that you bring those microbes back because they're important for this
immune system so that's the first thing second thing your skin has a tremendous amount of omega-6
receptors so this is important because if we're eating a bad diet like a bad fat like fast food
what's happening is that you are actually clogging those omega-6 receptors up with inflammatory fats
but if you switch over to something like Andreas seed oils which I'm always a fan of
and you put good omega-6s in what ends up happening is that you bring the health of those
receptor sites back you make your skin more breathable and what's really cool about that is
that we've had a lot of evidence of people adding in these good omega sixes like through Andreas seed
oils and they don't get they don't sunburn they notice acne goes away again all of this is in the
companion guide if you want the links to that and then the last thing your skin does before
I go into the dry fasting is that your skin will make estrogen and testosterone it makes hormones
so we need our skin to be healthy in order for us to be have our immune system strong for our
omega-3,6,9 balance and also so that we can make more hormones how cool is that don't just think of
your skin as beauty it's actually got to function now what this study said and I'm going to link it
in here because it was really interesting it was an observational study and it was done on Ramadan
and what they found was over a 30-day period of dry fasting that that added stress of no water
accelerated the healing response of your skin so if you just listen to everything I just said about
what makes your skin healthy and you're like oh man I haven't been doing it right my lifestyle
isn't in conjunction with good skin health you can undo it through this Ramadan fasting style fasting
because skin changes can take a little while this would be one that I would do over a 30-day period
again this was observational I don't have I can't tell you 10 people 200 people this was looking at
several studies on Ramadan the other thing that we know is that it'll speed up the healing
wound healing now this is interesting and slow down aging what I think happens is
that because you fasting stimulates this innate intelligence of your body and you have a specific
intelligence on your skin when you take food and water out of the equation you're going to
see that that added stress puts the body into a healing reaction and will start to repair skin
faster than some of the other fats although I'm sure you guys really notice a lot of different
that fasting has improved your skin so last thought on this okay well how would you use this
and I just want to point out that I see this if you and I were sitting across from each other
and a consultation I see this as if you want to improve your skin health let's throw it into the
fasting variation I like what we're doing this week for fast training week we're doing five days
of dry fasting, I like that you could have coffee and water in the morning before the sun comes up
and then no food or water during the day and then you break your fast when the sun
goes down and then you do your ketobiotic so I like that as an option so throw it into the mix
if you've got yourself some skin stuff you're trying to overcome and I'll leave the links to the
study down here because it was a big observational study okay last thing if you want to know how to
vary your fast we are about to do our November fat burning reset where I take you through a 15
day experience so just put November fat burner in the comments and my team will send you a link and
you can join my community and we i'll guide you through that super cool experience
and if you want more information on dry fasting go back to the video I did before
this about brain health and you will see that there's a whole series of dry fast videos here
really cool for mixing into your lifestyle not meant to be done all the time so as always
I hope that helps and those of you that have a great story about dry fasting and skin
put it in the notes I put it in the comments I want my community to learn from it hope that helps