How to do intermittent fasting for health. There's always a good way to do
something and a not-so-good way to do something I'm gonna tell you what you
need to know am Doctor Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to
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there's this huge trend it's a movement of intermittent fasting low carb
ketogenesis and so forth so a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon and
for every video out there with good information there's 10 videos with just
opinions and people tried something and they said oh it works for me therefore
it must be healthy so we're going to talk about the healthy way to do this we
have so many people who are obese and we know that that's not very healthy so we
just assume that the weight is the cause of the unhealthiness and therefore if
you lose weight you will get healthier and it doesn't work like that it's not
that simple there's lots and lots of ways to lose weight in a very unhealthy
way there are lots and lots of skinny people who are very very unhealthy
skinny people get diabetes skinny people get high blood pressure skinny people
get cancer so we can't just jump to that conclusion what we want to understand is
that the weight is not the cause it's the result of an unhealthy lifestyle
right those opposed to intermittent fasting they typically say things like
oh well breakfast is the most important meal of the day you have to get started
with a good bowl of cereal to get your blood sugar up they say that you should
eat small but frequent meals to make sure that your blood sugar stays up that
if you're if you don't eat often enough your blood sugar is going to drop well
all of these things are only true if you have taught your body to rely on carbo-
hydrates if you've taught your body to rely on frequent meals and on high
carbohydrate so that you create a blood sugar rollercoaster because then every
time it goes up it must come down every time it goes down you've got to fill it
back up so it's this is the quick swings that are creating the problems and then
of course it seems like a good idea to top off the blood sugar frequently we
have the same physiology we share the physiology with our ancestors our DNA is
the same they never had these things so whatever our ancestors developed and
adapted to that's what's still normal for us and they never had six meals a
day or three meals a day they had food when they found it they never had
breakfast unless there might be some leftovers occasionally and their blood
sugar was level because they didn't have any carbohydrates or not a significant
amount of carbohydrates they had no grains they had no abundance of
processed things and starchy things the proponents of the intermittent fasting
they say oh this is the best thing since sliced bread it's amazing I've tried
everything to lose weight and now the weights coming off I can eat anything I
want and there's so many channels out there with videos where they tell you oh
look I'm eating anything I want I'm eating garbage I'm eating you don't have
to give up the food you love and look the weights coming off well that is not
proof of health and a lot of these people doing it are in their 20s and 30s
so they haven't had a chance to break down their bodies yet they haven't had a
chance to degenerate to where this becomes a problem and they're saying
that this is a way for fast weight loss well I'd like you to get over the idea
once and for all that there is a fast way to do something it's like trying to
grow an oak quickly it's like yelling at the grass or pulling on the grass to
make it grow faster nature a certain pace and if it took you a
certain amount of time to degenerate or create a certain problem or create a
certain toxicity or deficiency it's gonna take a while to turn it around the
body has to rebuild the body has to regenerate and do it the right way so
please get over the idea of a quick fix if you'd like long lasting results you
have to create a long lasting solution there is no fad or trend or diet that
you can jump on and get off and get any lasting results not possible
so both be opposed and the proponents they have a certain point but they're
not looking at health and they're missing the big picture of what is our
physiology designed to do so the opposed people they're they're missing what our
physiology is designed for and the proponents they are missing what health
is and how the world has changed how our food has changed more in the last 50
years than it has in the previous 50 thousand when we talk about health you
have to look at what health is health is not the absence of symptoms health is
when every cell when every organ is functioning optimally when it has the
resources to do the job it's supposed to do to think to focus to produce energy
to digest food to move to not have pain to regulate blood pressure and hormones
and to send signals and to maintain and and keep up with everything and make
sure that the next generation of cells next generation of organs because they
constantly wear out and are we are being rebuilt that the next generation is as
healthy and has the same work capacity as the previous that's what health is
when we have a good health reserve and we main
that has very little to do with symptoms because symptoms happen many many years
after we have started on that slippery slope
after we've started to burn our candle in both ends so to speak so cells
produce all the work they perform all the work in the body and they are
interfered with by toxins so if you think you can eat anything and you're
eating a bunch of pesticides and you're eating preservatives and you're eating
sugar that is a huge stress because it unbalances your entire hormone system
then you're missing the point nutrients those are what the body needs
to maintain to rebuild those cells processed foods don't have nutrients the
nutrients such as fiber and minerals and vitamin complex --is the way they occur
in nature not in a synthetic little pill essential fatty acids essential amino
acids all of those things occur in whole real food from nature but they are being
destroyed and depleted and nuked out of existence when we eat processed foods so
sure you can lose weight doing this but you cannot maintain health unless you do
it the right way so absolutely intermittent fasting is healthy it's one
of the best things that you can do to reverse insulin resistance when you
every time that you eat if you eat small frequent meals every time that you eat
you have an insulin response and you're building up your insulin resistance
you're telling your body with every meal time to store some things time to store
something because that's what insulin is it's a storage hormone so one of the
primary benefits of intermittent fasting is that you help with insulin resistance
and that is the most important factor in obesity and weight gain but it is not
the only factor in health it is a huge factor in health but it's
not the only factor because we also have toxicity and deficiency insulin
resistance wreaks havoc with your physiology on so many levels and the
proponents when they find out that they can eat anything that they can do these
things and the way comes off they are addressing insulin resistance but that
is not the same thing as health so what I would encourage you to do is to start
skipping breakfast or even before that actually start reducing carbs so that
you don't have this crazy blood sugar rollercoaster and then once you're on a
lower carb diet now you're gonna have less violent swings of blood sugar now
you're not gonna suffer much if you skip a meal here and there and what I would
suggest is start skipping breakfast and then you take your coffee or your tea or
whatever beverage you like in the morning and you add a little bit of fat
to it so I put I have coffee in the morning I put coconut cream I put a
little bit of butter and I put some MCT oil some medium chain triglyceride oil
it's it's an oil made from coconut basically but it has certain lengths of
fatty acids that are especially beneficial to support you so if you do
that you will probably find that you don't miss breakfast at all and the
longer you go the more your body gets used to that the easier it gets to not
just look for the next meal not to have that craving for the next meal so often
times I'll have my coffee in the morning and then sometimes I'll have lunch at
1:00 or 2:00 and sometimes I don't I'll just go straight through to dinner five
or six o'clock I'll have a big meal and that is all I need to eat but you don't
necessarily want to try to force yourself into doing this but let it
happen you start stabilizing your blood sugar
by lowering your carb then you start eating more Whole Foods and then you go
into skipping breakfast make yourself a drink with some fats and bulletproof
coffee and then you'll find that your body adapts it gets easier and easier if
you want to eat twice a day eat twice a day if you want to eat three times a day
do that but stay away from the processed foods and over time you'll probably want
to eat less and less often so once you start skipping that that breakfast and
even though you're getting some calories with the coffee the bulletproof coffee
you're getting some some energy from that fat that has virtually zero blood
sugar impact it has no insulin impact so it's like you're still fasting because
you're not upsetting your blood sugar your body doesn't really change anything
and then you let's say that you skip breakfast and you have lunch at 12
o'clock then however late you have your dinner let's say six o'clock now you had
two meals in that day that's a six hour feeding window means you're fasting for
18 hours so if you can get to that point then you're already doing pretty well
with intermittent fasting some people they take it a little further and they
start pushing the lunch later or the dinner earlier and then eventually just
go to to one meal but do it when it's when your body feels that it's right
so start these changes gradually and then just listen to your body but your
body won't tell you the truth if you keep doing these things if you keep
eating processed foods if you keep eating junk if you keep eating small
meals and lots and lots of carbs and sugar now your body is never gonna tell
you the right thing it's never gonna give you the right messages because
you're tricking it with chemicals you're tricking it with things that upset
hormone balance your your making it unable to give you the right the right
clues to remember that there is no fast way to health sure you can lose some
weight quickly but that's not health and if you want to get healthy then you have
to get your cells and your organs healthy you have to provide them some
nutrients and you have to stop putting toxins in you're going to take some bad
out put some good in and stay with nature that is the key whenever humans
have tried to change things or an alter things I have yet to find an example
where there is a man-made food or chemical that is good for us leave me a
comment let me know if you have found a man-made chemical that is healthy but I
I have not seen any evidence of that I've never seen anything come across my
path so I would strongly recommend intermittent fasting but don't do it as
a way of losing weight yes it will do that but just learn how to get healthy
and the way to get healthy is to eat whole food take a whole food supplement
take some fish oil do things naturally and then you fit that into the idea of
intermittent fasting so keep all this in mind and if you enjoy this sort of
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way of doing it or not as always thanks for listening