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hey what's going on my name is sky i'm the founder of schuyfit where we help men optimize
their biology to burn fat build muscle and get in the best shape of their life and we
do this without all the annoying stuff without the counting calories without the restrictive dieting
and saying no to foods and without spending a ridiculous amount of time at the gym and what's
cool is we actually use the strategy of fasting which is what we're going to talk about today
now to pre-frame this i have been a fan of fasting for a while and i am continuously
researching and studying about it and every single week it feels like i find out something new about
fasting that blows my mind but of course just like anything else in order to see some of the
effects we're going to talk about today you have to be doing it right you know i approach
fasting with the wise man's mindset which is the wise man knows that the wise man knows nothing
and so while i'm continuously researching i do understand that there are ways to do
fasting very wrong and there are ways to crush it and to kind of do it in a very smooth way
so if you're interested in learning how to fast go to the link in the description of this video we
have a free training there that's going to walk you through the process of fasting and how you
can use it to see incredible fat loss results with that being said let's get into the video
so the first portion of fasting is going to be the physical benefits now number one here
is a reduction in acne now to me fasting is an awesome way to clear out toxins which we'll
talk about in a little bit but there's actually studies that found a strong relationship between
a fasting type diet and acne in human adults and young subjects and in fact during the period of
caloric restriction sebum levels was found to be reduced by 40 percent which influenced the
degree of acne severity now sebum is an oily waxy substance and it's produced by your body sebaceous
glands and so you know growing up thankfully i never experienced really bad acne but i knew a
bunch of people who did and to be able to look at the source of this acne being diet and understand
that fasting is going to allow to push that out it's just one massive benefit right it's probably
not the reason that you should start fasting but it may be a nice touch if you do have acne
benefit number two here is fat loss now if we look at this from a very logical standpoint if you're
fasting and fat loss is all about calories in versus calories out fasting is going to reduce the
amount of calories in and it's actually going to benefit the amount of calories out as well and so
there's been a large compilation of intermittent fasting long-term fasts and its impact on weight
loss and a compilation of 27 fasting trials found weight loss of 0.8 percent to 13 of baseline
weight with no serious adverse events and then 12 studies comparing intermittent fasting to calorie
restriction found equivalent results now that's a lot because if you're 250 pounds that's anywhere
from 20 to 32.5 pounds which is incredible reason number three i love fasting is that it controls
blood sugar now if you are a type 2 diabetic fasting is just going to be one of a couple
different resources that are going to be really really powerful with helping maintain your blood
sugar and so i personally worked with a couple who were both diabetic type 2 and through implementing
fasting they were actually able to drop their a1c from i believe it was above six down to below four
which is a really really incredible leap and so the research shows that short-term daily fasting
may be a safe tolerable dietary intervention in type 2 diabetic patients that may improve key
outcomes including body weight fasting glucose and postprandial variability so if you think
about diabetes coming from a standpoint of just a wacky blood sugar and really getting hit hard
when you do consume food if you don't consume food your body is going to have the chance to regulate
that blood sugar and regulate that insulin which is going to be awesome reason number four i love
fastening is it decreases inflammation now there's kind of three in one separate things here so
inflammation is very prevalent in heart disease it's very prevalent in cancer and it's very
prevalent in diabetes as well as well as a lot of other things that this contributes to and so
what most of my clients experience when they first start to implement fasting is they drop a lot of
weight very quickly and while a lot of them are like yes this is body fat even though it kind of
looks like it too because you'll see a very distinct physical change very quickly a lot of the
times the weight they're losing is inflammation you know we live in a world where our diets are
very widely comprised of foods that create inflammation and a lot of us when we implement
this fasting it gives our body a chance to detox and to get rid of some of this inflammation so the
study shows fasting improves inflammatory diseases without compromising antimicrobial immunity
so another win here reason number five i love fasting is because of the detoxification and cell
repair now i alluded to this when i was talking about acne is if your body doesn't have to work
on digesting food there's a good chance that the energy that it would normally use for that can go
to other areas such as pushing out toxins which we would call detoxification there's also a term
called autophagy where when you reach a certain length of a fast if you do it the right way your
body starts to kill these old cells and recycle them to create new more healthy cells and if we
go to the research of course we love what we see we conclude that both fasting and cr have a role
in the up regulation of autophagy the evident overwhelmingly suggesting that autophagy is
induced in a wide variety of tissues and organs in response to food deprivation and we love to see
it right we're living in a society where cleaning products healthcare products food air pretty much
everything surrounding us is comprised of toxins and so being able to give our body a chance to
push this stuff out is going to be a massive win on our journey to health reason number six i love
fasting is the incredible impact it has on your hormones and specifically here we're going to talk
about growth hormone now growth hormone is one of those hormones that we want more of it helps
with testosterone it helps with muscle performance helps with metabolism with aging and what studies
have found is that three three-day fast if done correctly can raise growth hormone by 300 percent
and a seven day fast can raise growth hormone by 1250 now that is mind-blowing to me all right if
we're looking at a lot of people out there who suffer from low testosterone who suffer from low
energy low metabolism having that massive spike of growth hormone is going to be an
awesome awesome opportunity to just reset the body potentially build more muscle if done right
and just feel better in general reason number seven i love fasting is the longevity aspect
so if we look at this our body's gonna expend a certain amount of energy to digest food eventually
that energy is gonna pile on it's gonna tax the heart and potentially cause us to die younger
whereas on the reverse end if we're not consuming food and our body has more energy in reserve
we now have the ability to potentially live longer which is a huge plus and so the research backs it
up the mean lifespan of the eod group which is the every other day so eat fast eat fast represented
an 83 increase over that of the al group and so basically what that means is they lived 83 longer
fasting every other day now this was an animal study but i absolutely believe that this was true
for humans too 100 and so as research comes out we're going to find this to be true but the animal
studies are starting to back it up reason number eight i love fasting is better sleep so there's
a couple key components here of why this is true if we look at this from a very logical standpoint
if you're asleep and your body has to digest food more of that energy is going to go into
digestion than it is recovering and so if you are fasting you're most likely not eating closer to
bed which is allowing your body to repair so the studies show that subjective sleep rating showed
a fasting induced increase in global quality of sleep daytime concentration vigor and emotional
balance so we're going a little bit further than sleep there which is totally okay with me and
then what we've also found is that if you fast correctly and you break your fast at breakfast
it actually allows your circadian rhythm to adjust so if you're traveling across the world to a
different time zone and say it's 12 pm by you when it's 12 am there if you wait to have breakfast
until it's say 7 8 a.m over in that country your body's actually going to be doing a better
job at adjusting that circadian rhythm to have more energy during the day and to sleep better
at night reason nine i love fasting is improved immune health now there's a lot of studies coming
out about this but what the research is showing is that fasting for at least three days so an
extended fast allows the body to start producing new white blood cells which rejuvenates the immune
system to fight infections that's massive for me i mean we're all about immune health especially with
everything going on in the world but a three-day fast for immune health sounds fantastic and reason
number 10 and the final physical reason of why i love fasting is improved gut health now i can make
a video on gut health and i'm sure i will so make sure you tap that subscribe button if you haven't
already but the gut is interconnected with pretty much everything in our lives it's interconnected
with our mental health our physical health metabolism hormones mood so so so much more and
so the research is showing is that fasting also increased microbial richness which is a number of
different species in the microbiome and diversity which is how diverse and evenly spread out species
are and to increase levels of the beneficial scfa short chain fatty acid butyrate which is great for
gut health in general it's one of the things in grass-fed butter so what we'll find today
as a society is because a lot of these artificial sweeteners because a lot of the more starchy foods
the high carbs a lot of people have very damaged gut health and so fasting is a great way to
improve that gut health without buying all these expensive supplements so that's the physical side
of things let's just briefly talk about the mental sides um so number one this one kind of logical so
fasting is going to allow you to have more self-control around food right if you've
eaten three meals a day for 20 years or 40 years or however long if you implement a 24
or even less right 16 18 24 potentially longer 36 48 hour fast and you do that consistently and
successfully you're just going to teach your body and your mind that you don't have to eat every
time you're hungry right while you can make this simple and you're not going to be starving the
whole duration of 36 or 48 hours you still will experience some sort of hunger especially while
your body's adapting so being able to just say no and teach yourself that you don't have to eat
every time you're hungry is going to be a massive advantage that's going to transfer it over to
other parts of your life the second mental reason i love fasting is that it boosts your mood you
know i have a client lance who he tried his first 24-hour fast first time ever and he said he felt
incredible and the clarity he had was unbelievable and so there's been studies done there was a total
of 31 subjects in this particular study and they found that significant decreases in tension anger
confusion and total mood disturbance and improvements in vigor were observed in the fasting
group controlled compared to the control group that sounds like it's a win to me you know fasting
is going to improve your mood most people think you'll be grumpy but again if you do it right it's
the opposite and then mental reason number three i love fasting is it also boosts your brain function
so studies found that fasting improves cognition stalls age-related cognitive decline usually
slows neuro degeneration reduces brain damage and enhances functional recovery after stroke
and mitigates the pathological and clinical features of epilepsy and multiple sclerosis
in animal models now in a world where a lot of people have been consuming things that are low
fat and not getting the essential brain nutrients they need this is going to be an awesome advantage
aside from supplementation to make sure that your brain function and brain health is still
at an optimal level so those are my reasons man i could dive into so much just how good
i feel on fasting what it does for my fat loss for maintaining muscle for really everything in
my life but of course as with everything else it has to be done right so if you are interested in
learning more about fasting check the link in the description of this video for that free training
we're going to walk you through it in there and then if we have an opportunity to work together
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sleep deep and be grateful for this moment i'll see in the next video