when you go 48 hours without food it also up regulates antioxidants
and it specifically upregulates antioxidants that will slow down the aging process
to a long your blood sugar going up and down we're in it together
Dr. Mindy here and it's fast training week where we all as a community experiment with different
styles of fasting and this week we're gonna do the 48 hour fast so if you are new to my channel i
just want to say welcome i am a woman on a mission to get a million people fasting hopefully you will
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the notification bell and those of you that share these videos and you do fast training week with me
just love being on this journey with you okay here's the deal on fast training week I like to
take five days out of every month with our online community and just play with these principles
there's so many good principles to fasting and there's so many different ways to fast
if you're not familiar with my teachings I believe in six different length facts and for a variety of
reasons I've got a new book for women coming out at the end of 2022 called fast like a girl that
I will show these six length fasts and have the and show women how to time them for their hormones
so stay tuned for that it's actually on Amazon now you can pre-order it
but each one of these fast has magic to it and the 48-hour fast
it is one of the most magical and the easiest to attain so let's break down how you do the 48-hour
fast why you would do it and then I'm going to show you the rules for fast training week
so let's go high level here for a moment there are four different reasons I love the 48 hour fast
and these are all backed by science we will put the links in the notes so you science
hounds can go and find the information on it but here's the four main points to know
first 48 hours resets dopamine pathways this is what that looks like you have a happy
thought that comes through because dopamine is that molecule that gives you sort of that
elevated excited moment it's the molecule of more when you get something you like and then you are
like oh that felt really great now I want more of it that's dopamine and so it resets those pathways
when a happy thought comes across a neuronal pathway it has to jump to another neuron and carry
that happy thought it's a like a highway think of it like a joy highway going on in your brain
but because of toxins because of poor diet because of the dopamine saturation that we get
in our daily life this highway gets congested and it is the 48-hour fast that resets it so think of
it like you are in a traffic jam you are upset and all of a sudden a police officer comes in and like
takes the whole highway and may and moves all the traffic out of the way and now you can go down the
highway effortlessly there's a feeling of joy and excitement that you just did a work around this
this traffic jam it's the same thing when you go 48 hours it uh decongests the highway of dopamine
and all of a sudden the little things in life that may have not been bringing you joy will bring you
joy again I promise and those of you who have done 48-hour fast put it in the comments because I've
seen so many of you who have showed have told me that this really rebooted your joy levels
so that's the first thing second thing is it creates new dopamine what we call d2 receptor
sites so you go 48 hours and all of a sudden you create new receptor sites that are going to invite
dopamine into the neurons so you can experience joy this would be like again if we go back to the
traffic jam it would be like you all of a sudden getting new exits off this traffic jam into a more
free-flowing lane that would bring you joy and if you don't live in a traffic-filled area
you know how great it is when all of a sudden a traffic jam breaks free you definitely feel
joy same thing in the brain when we open up these receptor sites and we create new ones now when we
get a dopamine response whether it's from food or whether it's from an interaction with a person or
a ding on our phone we have more receptor sites to pull the dopamine into the neurons and to
experience joy so that's the second thing this 48 hour fast does okay third thing this is one of my
favorite what we see at 48 hours is that the krebs cycle which is the cycle within the mitochondria
that makes you energy when you go 48 hours without food it also up regulates antioxidants
and it specifically upregulates antioxidants that will slow down the aging process the way we've
seen this in our community is that up regulation of antioxidants makes you feel supercharged gives
you energy so now you're not only getting these dopamine pathways reset but you're getting a burst
of energy that also can make you happy and the last thing and again another reason this fast
works so well is because it up regulates human growth hormone by 500 percent okay human growth
hormone is the hormone that helps you burn fat so when we go into 48 hour fasts we are not only
creating more joy and more dopamine responses we're not only slowing down the aging process
but we are getting to a place where we can release hormones by a large amount 500 percent that's
going to help us burn fat and help us with weight loss resistance so those four things
alone make this one of my favorite fasts and if you are stuck in a rut you're stuck with your
uh with your weight loss you're stuck with your mental health this is the fast to throw at it now
this is fast training week so let me give you some rules on how we're going to play with this fast
and if you're new to fast training week and you don't know that we have a free companion guide
that explains everything so if you need more assistance just put companion guide
in your comments and my team will send you a link to get that free companion guide but here's what
here's the rules I'm going to go over really high level and make it quick it's in more detail in the
companion guide so fast training week is going to go June 13th through the 17th we go for five days
Monday on Tuesday you are going to do the fasting focus is 17 hours you are gonna food focus on
amino acids because you need amino acids to make dopamine which will give you that mental health
edge and that happiness edge so we can do that by you get you can choose one of two diets you
can choose carnivore only if you're not familiar with the carnivore diet it will be listed in the
companion guide or you can do a vegetarian diet if you're vegetarian but I want you to incorporate
some very specific foods they also are listed in the companion guide but they're foods like quinoa
hemp seeds chia seeds I put a list of several foods in there that I want you to incorporate in
so for monday and tuesday you're going 17 hours you're choosing the vegetarian amino diet that's
in the companion guide or carnivore diet those are your two food choices now on wednesday and
thursday we're fasting those are the days you're not eating so you're focused on looking at drinks
what drinks can you have you can have coffee you can have tea you can have mineral water and
of course you can have LMNT who sponsors our fast training week so it's a really really good
one for mental health what on Thursday night you're going to break your fast but you're
going to break it with broth if you eat meat do it with bone broth you can have as much as you want
if you're a vegetarian you're going to do it with a vegetable broth so you'll break it with broth
and then you can have fat that night you can have avocados keto cups nut butters any fat you want
but that's what you're gonna eat that night you're not eating any other food that's what you're gonna
start to warm up and break your fast with after 48 hours and I'm doing this because I want to
keep that dopamine response going into Friday and on Friday we're going into what I call my break
fast rules and that is you're gonna drink broth you're gonna eat a fat you're gonna lean into the
three peas polyphenol probiotic and prebiotic foods you're gonna look at steamed vegetables
after that and then we'll you move to meat if you eat meat or you'll move to beans at that point
if you're confused it's all in the companion guide I just want to give you a big overview
and on that day you fast as much as you want on Friday whatever feels natural but the goal
what I love about this fast training week is I'm hoping this will be a go-to resource for you all
when you're just stuck mentally stuck physically stuck this is the routine take five days
and unstick yourself doing this scenario so even though we're doing it for fast training week
you now have a resource to do it forever for life that's the goal of this kind of fast training week
so if you've had great success with uh fasting for mental health please tell your
story in the comments we are a community and if you're joining me for fast training week
let me know put in the comments because I'm watching and if you want the companion guide
just put companion guide and my team will send you a link as always I hope that helps