Getting healthy can be incredibly confusing. There are so many opinions out there, so many
different strategies you find on the Internet, half the doctors can't even agree with each
other. And then most of the strategies you find don't even work.
Water fasting is straightforward and simple. Let's see how water fasting can work for you.
But before we get started, I'm Dr. Zyrowski, and I'm here to transform your health naturally
because true health only comes naturally.
I have, literally, done dozens of fasts over the past ten years. Now, I learned about this
methodology from a professor of mine back in school when I was getting my doctorate.
He actually owned a fasting clinic and he'd have these patients come in, and they would
fast for 10, 20, 30-plus days, drinking nothing but water.
And the thing that was incredible is that the results were astounding. People who had
every type of health concern you could think of, nobody has been able to help them, and
then, bam, they get well on these extended fasts.
Now, this truly intrigued me so what it led me to do is, first of all, go back and start
studying some of the roots, and start studying some of the pioneers of fasting.
There are guys like Herbert Shelton. There are guys like Paul Bragg. These are the guys
who have paved the way and made it possible for us to have the research that we have today
around fasting; and also even consider using water fasting in modern day health care.
Now the concept of fasting is where you're abstaining from everything but water, and
then in some cases the item you're fasting with. Now, what I mean by that is that fasting
has changed a lot over the years.
Back in the day, many people were doing juice fasts. This is essentially where you would
juice fresh veggies, and fresh fruits, and you would drink that over a three to four-day
period.
Now, that's not really something people do too much anymore. And then after that, what
became really popular is a bone broth fast. That's where you make this big, old vat of
bone broth, and you drink that over three to four-day period.
And that's actually when I was introduced to fasting, I would do a bone broth fast on
a regular basis. Here's how I would do it.
I would make this big, old pot of bone broth, and then I would intend on drinking that for
three to four days. But there was a little bit of a twist and a little bit of a problem
that I ran into every single time. First of all, it was super annoying carrying around
thermoses of bone broth when I was in college.
And the other thing is that about a day and a half into the fast I literally couldn't
stand the sight, the smell, or the taste of bone broth, it just was repulsive to me.
So inevitably, every one of my bone broth fasts turned into a water fast and that, kind
of, leads us to where we're at today, where people aren't really doing bone broth fasts
as much, mostly sticking to water fasts. Because they're simple, they're easy, they're streamlined,
and they offer great healing benefits.
Now as I mentioned earlier, getting healthy can be a little bit daunting. I mean think
about it, what kind of workout should I be doing? What kind of food should I be eating?
How many calories am I supposed to consume?
I mean the list goes on and on and this is why water fasting is so amazing. You can literally
take a step back from all of that, you can take a step back, and just focus on the things
that are important in life, and allow your body to heal during that time.
Because a lot of us are going and getting all stuck in those processes, and really getting
confused, and trying things online, and buying things online that are leaving us broken,
and frustrated. And the truth is water fasting is incredibly research proven.
As a matter of fact, I have some research here that I want to take a look at because
it's so powerful, and some people think that this might be like somehow woo-woo stuff but
at the end of the day, we've got really good research to prove it.
This is by the New England Journal of Medicine, and it's called the Effects of Intermittent
Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease. What this research part points out is that intermittent
fasting and water fasting has a robust disease-modifying ability on the body and it actually helps
with a wide range of chronic conditions.
Let's talk about a couple of them. It says, "Obesity," it talks about diabetes, insulin
resistance. I mean how many people are suffering from these things?
Cardiovascular disease, one of the number one things that kills people prematurely.
Cancers, right, neurodegenerative disorders, and brain diseases, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
– I mean it runs in my family. So these things are so powerful.
It goes on to say even further, that doing things like intermittent fasting and water
fasting flips a metabolic switch. It makes you actually stop burning sugar for energy
start burning fat and ketones for energy, which has many benefits as well.
It goes on to say that it bolsters mental performance and also physical performance.
And then from there, it helps your body become disease resistant. How powerful is that? And
you wonder why people love water fasting.
And speaking on the topic of simplicity, one of the things that we know about improving
our health is that we want to have lots of lean muscle and we also want to have little
amounts of fat on our body. And so most people in order to accomplish this goal, what do
they do?
They go to the gym, work endless hours, right, and they also start eating lots of small meals.
They're hungry all of the time, they don't feel as well. Well, they do all that in order
to achieve lean muscle and burn body fat.
One of the things that water fasting does for you is that it is muscle sparing and fat
burning. Okay. So, essentially what that means is that you're actually going to preserve
lean muscle and you're going to actually burn fat off your body for energy, which is incredibly
powerful.
That's exactly what we need if we want to be healthy. Here is another reason people
really love water fasting, and that is because it's a killer of the number one contributor
to bad health. And that is, it crushes bad habits.
Okay we've all been there. We've all experienced it; we know what it's like. First we have
one soda a week and then that one soda a week turns into one soda a day. And then we have
a little bowl of ice cream at night, that turns into a bigger bowl of ice cream at night,
that turns into a quart of ice cream at night.
And then we look back over a month period, and you're like, "How did this happen? How
did I end up in this place?" Right and that's when we go, and we have to hit the reset button.
And we do that by doing a good water fast.
Okay now, here's the thing, is that it works so incredibly well. Before the fast you couldn't
live without the ice cream, after the fast you're in a position where you're completely
with a bowl of steamed vegetables because it just crushed those bad habits.
It works like magic every time. With all that said, now it's time to kickstart your three-day
water fast and I'm going to show you exactly how to do it by watching this video right
here:
A really good idea to make sure that you're not really pushing your body hard, it's a
time for your body to rest a little bit, a time for your body to restore.
And when you are fasting, you don't want to be pushing your body to the limits, and hitting
hard exercises, and working long hours. That's not what you want to be doing.