Hello Health Champions. Today I want to talk about fasting
and apple cider vinegar. Can you do them together and
is it a good idea? Coming right up!
Hey I'm Dr Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete
and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really
works make sure you subscribe and hit that
notification bell so you don't miss anything the reason people are looking
into lifestyle changes more so in recent years is that
our degenerative diseases are through the roof we spend more money
on so-called health care than we've ever had but we keep getting sicker and
sicker and sicker so things like obesity which isn't
necessarily a disease in itself but it's related to a lot of other
processes then we have type 2 diabetes we have hypertension
cardiovascular disease arthritis stroke and then we have
neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimer's and parkinson's and what do
all these have in common it's that they are related
to insulin and insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome and what makes it
so important to be aware of this and to understand these mechanisms is
that this affects 90 to 95
of us in the western world today and usually at this point someone gives me
the excellent argument that well you can't live forever you have to die
of something so even if you avoid all these things what good is that going
to do you but that's really missing the point because it's
not about whether you die from something it is
the way in which you die the goal is quality of life and the goal is to live
for a really long time and to die for a very short time when you have
these conditions and which again the majority of people
do then you typically spend the last 20 to
30 years of your life dying and suffering what
then does apple cider vinegar and intermittent fasting have to do with
that long list of conditions well all of those conditions pretty much
comes down to two dominant factors and that's
insulin resistance and toxicity and insulin resistance drives most of that
and what they have found is that apple cider vinegar
there's some mechanisms that help reverse that
so in recent studies they found that if you take a bunch of people that are
insulin resistant and obese and type 2 diabetic and you
just give them one to two tablespoons of apple cider
vinegar per day and you don't change anything else then
you're gonna lower their insulin levels you're gonna make
them more insulin sensitive you're gonna reduce their belly fat
you're going to lower their blood pressure and you're going to
lower their cholesterol among other things so this is so closely
tied into the mechanisms of everything that we saw on that
previous page and the good news is apple cider vinegar
does not break the fast it has no calories
it has no impact on blood sugar other than
it helps lower it through these mechanisms then what about
fasting well there's some more mechanisms with fasting you're going to
get all of the benefits all of the
mechanisms that you get from apple cider vinegar
are already included but then you get some additional benefits
and the main one is going to be increase in human growth hormone that anytime you
fast human growth hormone is going to start
climbing after 12 hours it's already significantly elevated and after
three days i think it's up to about fivefold and after seven days
it kind of plateaus and stays at a high level another hormone that increases
is brain derived neurotrophic factor which is like nutrition it's like
fertilizer miracle grow for the brain and this is
important whether you're going to learn something
new or whether you're going to repair some damage so if you're a student or if
you just want to be mentally sharp then these two hormones is what allows
you to make new connections and incorporate new
knowledge if you have a concussion then these two
hormones in conjunction with autophagy
is the best way there is to start cleaning up and healing and repairing
that concussion an autophagy is a mechanism that kicks
in when we don't eat when you stop putting
new nutrition and resources into the body
then your body has to get much better at using the resources that are already
there so it up regulates the recycling team
and it starts going out looking for debris old dead cells red
blood cells tissue that's just kind of sitting
around like loose skin but also immunity goes up
because some of those leftovers some of those
resources the protein that it's trying to recycle
is virus and bacteria yeast and fungus so you're up regulating your immunity as
well and if you go long enough you're also
going to increase stem cell production which is associated
with longevity and really sort of
foundational repair if you want to go back and repair a tissue and kind of
bring it to a younger age at an earlier point in
time that's what stem cells can do so let's
talk about how to approach this that in research they very often
in placebo control double-blind research they often try to just change one
variable that's how they know how that variable relates to the
findings if they change two variables they don't
know and that's fine with research but
i'm not a big fan of doing this when it comes to your health when you are trying
to take care of yourself because you are an organism you are
biology and you are influenced by thousands of different factors so the
more that you can understand all or as many as possible of those
factors and start living a life that sort of
lines up with how your body wants it the healthier you can be and the more
profound changes you can make in your life so
rather than just changing one thing i would suggest you
change and do as much as you can and then you want to learn about as many of
these factors as you can and you keep learning and you don't have
to be perfect in the beginning but you take little baby steps
and you do that consistently and you get better and better
so let's start with fasting i think that's a great
foundation i think that's a building block that we should have
as a base and let's say that fasting gives you
x amount of benefit well why would you stop
there if there are other things that you can do so let's say that you add low
carb low carb makes it easier to fast it
keeps the insulin down once you start fasting you get into your
fat burning and your autophagy much much faster so if you add that
now there's a multiplication effect then there's more things you can add
meditation to reduce emotional stress and cortisol
you can improve your healing ability you can
allocate resources to where they need to go in the body
you can exercise to add some more benefit and then
apple cider vinegar would be like icing on the cake and of course i'm not
talking about an actual cake i'm not suggesting that these are actual numbers
they're just examples i threw in there to give you an
idea that there is a multiplication effect
that when you do more than one thing then the
benefits add together and why is apple cider
vinegar such a good idea because typically
you get out of something in proportion what
you put into something so all of these the fasting low carb meditation and
exercise their commitments they're going to
require you to restructure your life a little bit you're going to have to make
commitments you're gonna follow through you're gonna change some things
but apple cider vinegar it's just so simple it is cheap it's easy you measure
out a tablespoon you mix it up with some stuff and drink it
and if you could get any benefit from something that simple then why
wouldn't you do that if you enjoyed this video make sure you
also check out that one thank you so much for watching i'll see
you next time