oftentimes when we turn on autophagy the intelligence looks around and it goes
okay there is a lot of mess in the cell this cell could turn into a cancer cell this cell could be
highly dysfunctional for this body I'm gonna kill it
Dr. Mindy here and on this video we are going to dive into some of the unpleasant symptoms you
guys are experiencing when you fast so if you're new to my channel I just want to say welcome
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okay let's talk about the unpleasant side of fasting so I spend a lot of time on this channel
talking about the good side of fasting and as you guys know I'm a huge fan of fasting but there
are some unpleasant things that appear when you start fasting and I want you to understand them
and the and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through the most common unpleasant findings
that we see i'm going to talk about why it's happening and then i'm going to talk about
what you can do for them and there's a lot of detail in this video so take notes if you need to
but I don't want you to ever look at an unpleasant finding or an unpleasant symptom and make a
decision that fasting is not for you because fasting was how your body was designed to burn
energy it has another fuel source that it wants to tap into and when it moves to this fuel source you
often get these weird side effects so just hang with me as I go through this video I want to make
sure that you troubleshoot those side effects okay here we go here are some of the biggies skin rash
let me know again in the comments let me know if this happens to you skin rash headaches diarrhea
or constipation and fatigue those tend to be the biggest things that we are seeing if I missed one
put it in the comments and again we'll make sure to do a video on it but why would your body give
you these symptoms as you start to fast and this is the part that is so important for us all to
understand you have two fuel sources I've talked about this a lot you have the sugar burner fuel
source and you have the fat-burning fuel source and your body is meant to go in and out of these
two fuel sources but if you've never fasted before you've been working on your diet maybe you've
tried to lose weight with diets you've only been accessing this one fuel source your sugar burner
fuel source and so when you come to fasting you start to click over into the fat-burning mode we
also, the technical term for this is called the ketogenic energy system and when you click over
into the system there are several things that are happening one it is what we call a hormetic stress
it means that the body is now under a little bit of stress and it has to repair itself so repair
sometimes looks like a rash sometimes feels like fatigue sometimes means diarrhea or constipation
these are all signs that the body is repairing itself think about like when you get an infection
like you get a cold, you get a fever you can get rashes your body goes into this hyper
active accelerated healing state the challenge we have is we've been taught to villainize those
symptoms but those symptoms are a sign the body is starting to repair so the first thing is don't
label it bad understand that your body is making this switch that your body is making ketones
and you are healing at a faster rate than you've ever healed before the other thing is there's so
there's so much cool research coming out on this I'm bringing it to you guys because I'm so fired
up about it, there's a lot of evidence showing us that the gut microbiome is one of the biggest
areas that will repair with fasting and in your gut you've got good bacteria and bad bacteria
and as you fast you start to grow the good and you start to kill the bad and so there
is oftentimes a die-off that will happen when you start to fast more that can lead to constipation
diarrhea rashes by the way and we'll talk about it in more detail here rashes are off in the gut
trying to push the bad stuff out so there may be a hormetic stress the healing power went up maybe
that you are getting a die off in the gut that could be possible or the last thing that could be
happening especially as you go into these longer fasts is something called apoptosis so apoptosis
is cell death so whenever we go 17 hours or longer with our fasting we start to stimulate something
called autophagy and autophagy is like turning on the cell's intelligence and the cell will repair
itself oftentimes when we turn on autophagy we also, the intelligence looks around and it goes
okay there is a lot of mess in the cell this cell could turn into a cancer cell this cell could be
highly dysfunctional for this body I'm going to kill it and when it kills it all the toxins
inside that cell can be spilled out into your bloodstream and it can lead to brain fog it can
lead to fatigue so again another great thing but we've been taught to villainize symptoms we don't
ever talk about the upside of symptoms well this would be an upside of the symptom your body's
killing that cell so it doesn't go rogue and become a cancer cell and yet now you're left with
a headache fatigue brain fog and you think it's a bad thing but it could actually be a good thing so
redefine how you look at those symptoms and know that there's a miraculous healing
effect that's happening okay so now what can you do for it so first thing I want to let you know is
don't give up redefine it it's your body's way of repairing now let's go into some of
the major ones skin rashes so anything on the skin especially as you're fasting is your body
pushing toxins out I'm going to show you some of my things that I feel like are free and easy to
do and then i'll show you some of my favorite products and you decide what's right for you
so if you are getting a skin rash couple great things to do Epsom salt bath Epsom salts will pull
toxins out of the skin put magnesium into the skin really great for helping the body get rid of these
second thing is a loofah you know those little scrub like spongy things that you can get at
your supermarket I would loofa under your arms I'd loose in your necks put it over wherever the skin
the body's trying to push the toxins out open that skin area up so the body can actually get toxins
out a lot of times we'll put toxic soap we'll put hand sanitizers on our skin and we push the toxins
in so if you get a rash let's open those pores and let the toxins come out I also my favorite product
for skin is called a Derma Colonizer you can find this on revelation health we'll put a link
in the notes Derma Colonizer and by the way if you go to revelation health you put my last
name and they give you a discount but this is it smells great it's got good bacteria
in it and you can rub it right on the top of the skin where there is a rash to help heal the rash
with positive probiotics so I love that as an option okay second symptom that we deal a lot
with or we hear a lot are headaches so what's a headache a sign of headaches are really a sign of
toxins that you those are toxins being pushed out so make sure you're sweating while you're fasting
so get increase that sweat is a great way to mobilize toxins out of you make sure you're
sleeping because remember at night when you sleep your brain shrinks and then your cerebral spinal
fluid can go up and start to detox the brain so get extra sleep I would encourage you to
drink more water so make sure you're hydrating so your kidneys can do a good job of getting
the toxins out and then my favorite product for getting rid of headaches while fasting is BIND
this is activated charcoal with magnesium in it so you could you can get this on revelation health
if you have activated charcoal by you you can also just get an activated charcoal so that's headaches
okay what about the gut diarrhea or constipation constipation is such a big issue I've got a whole
another video coming out on it uh on uh that will follow this video so make sure you watch that
but anytime you get bowel changes while you're fasting it is a sign that there
was something that needed repair in your gut so we call that gut dysbiosis and as you fast your gut
heals and as your gut is healing there's going to be the die-off of bad bacteria so make sure
that when you're eating you're eating your foods that are high in probiotic-rich foods prebiotic
and polyphenol foods I've done videos on that I'm sure my team will link those here for you
but make sure you're eating great food that supports those healthy microbiome when you do eat
also, some of you do really well with carnivore we we're seeing in our academy a lot of people do
very they can overcome a lot of gut dysbiosis by going carnivore for
for just a few days so I've done a lot of videos on carnivore fasting so you can go look at that
and it may be time you want to add a probiotic in again I'm going to do a whole video on
constipation and then the last one is fatigue so if you're exhausted while you're fasting
this is a sign that your mitochondria are not performing well and not during the fast it means
you have sick mitochondria, mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell they
create energy and when you start to switch over into this ketogenic energy system
it powers up those mitochondria and if you're fatigued it means those mitochondria aren't very
pat they need some support so keep fasting because ketones will heal the mitochondria make
sure you're eating the right oils when you do eat make sure that you are keeping your blood sugar
in a balanced place so no refined carbohydrates or sugars make sure you're not eating a lot of toxins
those the mitochondria will thank you and then my favorite product for powering up mitochondria
is called eNRG and this is incredible these are all the nutrients the cofactors the
CoQ10 that will power up your mitochondria and assist you in the process so there it's
a great mirror when you have these symptoms it knows where for you to work
fatigue means you got to work on your mitochondria headaches means you got to work on your toxic load
diarrhea constipation got to work on your gut skin got to work on your gut fasting is a mirror and if
you don't villainize it you can take your health to a whole other level as always, I hope that helps