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In this video, we're talking about how to break a fast. Now, as you may know, I talk
about fasting a lot in my different YouTube videos, also in my blog articles on my
website. So, if you want information on that, be sure to check out my other
resources available. Now, the reason I love fasting so much is because it's a
very powerful tool in order to help heal the body. It's a very powerful tool to
act as a reset. It acts as a reset for the nervous system and for the gut, it
helps heal the gut, helps cleanse the body. So, it's a really powerful tool.
One of the things that's almost just as important as the fast itself, is
actually breaking the fast, coming out of the fast and doing it correctly. Now, when
we are in that fasted state, we're gonna have decreased enzyme production in our
gut. We're also going to have the gut lining heal - it's going to be healing
itself during that process. So, essentially, what will happen too is the
the gut lining coming off that fast will be a little bit more
vulnerable so we want to make sure that we transition from that state
of fasting to eating and we do it in a gentle way that supports our overall
health. So first, let's talk about intermittent fasting. Intermittent
fasting is when we eat our meals within an eight-hour period fast
for 16. Many variations of it but that's kind of the general. Now, when we come off
an intermittent fast I recommend having a nice salad for your first meal. Many
people will come off of an intermittent fast and they'll slam
themselves with carbs or unhealthy food just because they feel that
they're just really hungry at that point but it's important to kind of tread
lightly. So first of all, a nice, good, hearty chicken salad is a great
way to do that. So, coming from an intermittent fast, use some salads, use
some greens to transition. It's not as important to really focus in on that
transition stage from intermittent fasting to eating as it is when it comes
to multiple day fasting, but it's still important to make sure that you're doing
it correctly and not causing more heartache for your body. So, on intermittent
fasting, your first meal have a nice, green, hearty salad, a nice, good chicken
salad with a nice light dressing and your body will thank you. Now, when it
comes to multiple day fasting, this is where it gets a little bit more
important. Actually, it gets a lot more important because when we're in that
multiple day fasted state, it's really when we have that decreased enzyme
production, that gut healing occurring, and we need to be very careful
and tread lightly transitioning from not eating to eating. Now, one of my favorite
ways to go from multiple day fasting - I'll do three day, four day
fasts on a regular basis and when I transition, one of my favorite ways
to do it is to use a bone broth soup. First of all, we have the bone broth
which is very gut healing, it's very high in glycine, and then we have the soup
that's loaded with vegetables and they're all more or less steamed and
softened so it's easy for me to digest. Now, that's one key - having vegetables
first of all, that are easy to digest. That can be through some steaming them
but also a great way is right in a nice bone broth soup. I also like to use a
homemade sauerkraut in order to make sure I'm getting good probiotics and
enzymes. Now, when you come off that fast, you're gonna want to tread lightly.
You're not gonna want to eat multiple bowls of soup or a ton of
probiotic-rich, homemade sauerkraut. You want to just go gentle into that.
The other way that I will have people come off a multiple day fast is I will have
individuals come and just simply eat steamed vegetables. So, if somebody's very
sensitive, maybe they have a whole bunch of food sensitivities, maybe somebody
even had a condition that they started fasting for in order to hope reverse it
through the process in the first place, then coming off the fast very gently is
even more important. So, when they come off the fast, I'll have people jump into
what's called the, "GAPS Diet", using just very simple vegetables, eat very simple
foods and then same thing applies. You're gonna want to steam those
vegetables so they're easy for your gut to break down but when you follow the
GAPS Diet - and you can look up the GAPS protocol online - it simply means that
you're going to introduce foods very slowly and introduce them one at a time,
almost as you would do when you start feeding a child for the first time. You
introduce foods very slowly so their immune system can kind
identify them and react as it needs to and then from there, as you
introduce them slowly, you can also know that you're not going to have a reaction
to it. If you notice that you're having a reaction you can actually back
off of that and then try again in a couple days. So, that's how I like to
come off of fasting. If you have any different questions for me, be sure to
drop them in the comment section below. Other than that, give the video a
thumbs up and check out my other videos on fasting. I have tons of great
resources on fasting on my website and on YouTube. Until next time folks,
make it a great day.