Dr. Mindy here and on this video we are going to talk about a whole new hormone so if you are new
to my channel welcome please subscribe and as always you guys if you love this information
send it out into the world the hormone I want to talk to you today is not insulin we tend
to think that insulin is the only hormone we need to manage in order to lose weight
on this video I'm going to talk about a whole other hormone your fat hormone and what fast
you can use to be able to kick yourself out of resistance to this hormone so stay tuned
let's talk about insulin for a minute and then I'm going to reveal the hormone okay let's start with
this idea insulin is your fat storage hormone insulin is the hormone that will start pushing
glucose and toxins and other hormones into your fat cells and will make you have create more
adipose tissue but the hormone that I want to talk about today is actually one that affects how you
burn that fat and it's called leptin it is your fat burning hormone so and they have found that
and I'll link the studies again that they have found that people who carry more adipose tissue
have more leptin it is the number one driver of whether your body will access fat for energy and
be able to burn fat so when we come to fasting what we're doing is we're really helping to
regulate insulin we don't want the body to store more fat but we can't take out of our site and
out of our picture this hormone leptin we need to tap into leptin to be able to get our body to burn
fat again for energy the thing I want you to know about leptin is just like all hormones leptin
isn't working on its own it lives in the fat cells and it communicates with the hypothalamus
in your brain and the when the hypothalamus knows that leptin is down there it will create a signal
that allows you to burn that fat for energy but just like you get insulin resistant you get leptin
resistant so there are three fasts that you can do that will help to start to kick you out of leptin
resistance so let's just dive into the research because the research is incredibly impressive on
fasting and leptin first study and first fast your 24 hour fast hopefully you guys know
I love the 24 hour fast it is one of my favorite not only for gut reset but off the study that I'm
going to talk about right now what they did is it was a study done on 14 obese women and 12 lean
women so it's a female study hallelujah we don't have a lot of those in fasting but you've got
26 women about half of them were obese half of them were lean and they put them on a 24-hour
fast and here's what they found they found some changes in leptin but they also found changes in
insulin so i want to make sure that you're clear on the changes that happened in just one 24-hour
fast so they saw not only did their bmi start to go down but their serum leptin went down in the
obese individuals that leptin went down by 20 in the lean individuals leptin went down by 62
so just in those two statistics, you could look at those and say well why did the lean people lose
leptin so much faster from a 24-hour fast than the obese people because there are parameters that
make you leptin resistant so as we move through this week we are doing fast training week this
week I am going to show you video by video what those parameters are what is making people leptin
resistant but I first want you to understand that if you want to bring your leptin levels down so
that your body can start to burn fat better you're going to need to tap into some 24-hour fasts okay
the other thing in this study by the way is they saw insulin go down by 23% in both obese
and lean women which I think was quite interesting okay second fast that is helpful to get your
body burning leptin again and using this hormone efficiently and it's any fast that will increase
BDNF and studies are showing that the higher the BDNF brain fertilizer the lower the
leptin levels so okay let's go back to what we know about fasting what is the number one fast
that increases bdnf i hope you guys know they've been following me for a while it is the dry fast
so these are the ramadan fast people who are going sun up to sun down without any food or
water for anywhere from 12 to 24 hours is what we recommend no more than 24 hours for dry fasting
and of course during ramadan they do it for 30 days but you want to get your BDNF levels up so
that your leptin levels can go down now I'm going throughout this week, I promise you there are
some really cool ways to get bdnf up other than just fasting but fast number two is the dry fast
and then the third fast that I recommend to be able to become leptin sensitive again is anything
that will stimulate autophagy so the study that we are seeing and this was a mouse study that people
who had a dysfunctional autophagy process in the cells specifically in the hypothalamus of the
brain became more leptin resistant so if you're hearing all of this and you're frustrated with
losing weight what i want you to know is there are three variations to fasting you're going to
lean into you're going to lean into the 24-hour fast you're going to lean into some 12-hour dry
fasting is where i would recommend you start and then you'll leave it into some autophagy fasting
those are going to be your leptin sensitive fast those are going to be the ones that are going to
go after your fat hormone so now you compare when you eat you can put that with certain foods and
as I go through this week I'm going to show you what foods will help you become leptin sensitive
will get you burning this fat hormone again and what foods you need to stay away from so if you
again if you're new to my channel please subscribe we will all week long I am bringing you leptin
and fasting and what we can do to unstick your weight and free the fat is what I'm calling it
we're doing free the fat fast training week which is geared towards getting you lasting
results using the principles of fasting for your weight challenges okay so there you go those are
the three fast and what i want to tell you is that if you are confused which I hope you're not but if
you are everything I'm giving you guys over this week around this fat hormone we have
put together in a companion guide so if you want the companion guide just put companion guide in
your comments and we will make sure that you get the companion guide and you can see it visually
everything that we're that I'm discussing this week for yourself but leptin it is the hormone
that we cannot forget we've got to think not just about the fact that we need to manage insulin but
if we want to lose weight we're going to have to manage leptin as well as always I hope that helps