but there's also a microbiome component that needs to be addressed
and that fasting can be a solution to make changes in the microbiome that will help
you bring your blood pressure down you don't have to have a fecal transplant to do this
you've got to just know that fasting is making changes to the microbiome
Dr. Mindy here and on this video I'm coming back to the science for you
guys and I'm so excited to share a new study just came out April 29th of 2021
and it's on blood pressure and fasting and I think what you're going to find amazing about this study
is that there is an impact on your blood pressure when you fast but it might not be the impact that
you're thinking so if you're new to my channel I just want to say welcome I am a woman on a
mission to teach people how to fast and how to use fasting as a healing modality I want
to get a million people here to this channel this year so that we can start to teach you
what it means to tap into this incredible intelligence inside your body and nothing will
teach you that as well as learning how to build a fasting lifestyle so welcome and again those
of you that share this video out so grateful for you and I just love being on this journey with you
okay let's dive into this so here's the study it was from Baylor College of Medicine
it was done in April 2021 and what they did is they asked themselves two questions
so the first question was are there other things that cause high blood pressure that we
may not be evaluating and looking at that needs to be addressed and then the second question
was and if there are other factors in high blood pressure other than just diet
could intermittent fasting and different fasting strategies
bring down blood pressure so those were like the two big things they looked at so the first thing
is they acknowledged and I'm going to quote the study here because their verbiage is just spot-on
they acknowledge that there is emerging evidence that is suggesting that a disruption
in your gut microbiome also known as gut dysbiosis can have an adverse effect on your blood pressure
so they dove in and they started to look at okay we used to think it was salt that caused
high blood pressure we used to think there's also some incredible emergence of information and this
has actually been out for a while that sugar can increase blood pressure but what is the pot what
are the possibilities that it's a shift in your the microbiome that's causing blood pressure to go up
so before they even looked at fasting what they looked at were studies of fecal transplants
where they take and this was all done on mice where they take mice that had high
blood pressure and my and a mouse that had low blood blood pressure and they took the feces
I know it sounds gross but this is science is how you do it they took the feces of the mouse
with low blood pressure and they put it into the mouse with high blood pressure and what they found
was that the blood pressure in the in the high blood pressure mouse went down when they got the
fecal transplant from the low blood pressure mouse so they went oh my gosh there's something in our
microbiome that controls blood pressure so that was encouraging on to itself and should excite
you about taking amazing care of your gut bacteria but then they went to the second version of this
which was and the question they asked I love the way they stated this is can you manipulate the
microbiome to bring blood pressure down so here's what they did they had two groups of
mice all the mice by the way had random blood pressures that they were looking at but they took
two groups and they said okay this group no food restrictions and then the second group
is going to do the every other day diet now if you're not familiar with the every other
day diet this is another form of intermittent fasting where you eat whatever you want one day
and then one day you you fast the whole day and then the next day you eat whatever you want and
then you fast so they had these two groups one had no food restriction the other fasted every
other day after nine weeks the group that fasted every other day lowered their blood pressures the
blood pressure went down so they were they were encouraged they were like okay this is great
this type of fasting is potentially having effect on the microbiome and that is what's bringing the
blood pressure down so they're now connecting two dots but then they did a third thing that is
incredibly impressive they took the feces from the mice that fasted every other day and had
a positive effect on their blood pressure so the blood pressure came down they took that fecal
transplant and put it into mice with high blood pressure and they found sure enough once again
that not only the fasting changed the microbiome but when you put it into a high blood pressure
mouse that that mouse's blood pressure would go down so really cool what does this all mean
for you it means that if you have high blood pressure that yes there's a dietary component
to it that needs to be addressed but there's also a microbiome component that needs to be addressed
and that fasting can be a solution to make changes in the microbiome that will help you
bring your blood pressure down you don't have to have a fecal transplant to do this
you've got to just know that fasting is making changes to the microbiome well what fast do
we know that research is shown to have the biggest effect on the microbiome as a 24 hour fast
well that's what they did here they did a 24 fast basically or a version of intermittent fasting
to make a change in the gut bacteria when they made that change in the gut bacteria they saw a
positive response to the blood pressure and so now they've got another tool knowing not only
is your blood pressure dramatically affected by your microbiome but you can use fasting to
change the microbiome so you can bring the blood pressure down make sense let me know if that sits
with you guys because I want you to understand the science and then I want you to understand the
application where my brain goes with this is one step further what they're not only proving here
is not just that you're gonna bring down blood pressure using fasting but they're proving that
fasting is changing the microbiome well we live in a day in time where there are antibiotics
everything everywhere antibiotics in our food antibiotics in our hand sanitizers
you know we're eating meat with antibiotics so our poor gut bacteria has been destroyed and it
is causing a lot of different problems so yes we now know it's causing high blood pressure we also
know it causes you to gain weight and we know that it reduces neurotransmitters that keep you healthy
and happy and now because of this study we are starting to get more evidence that intermittent
fasting 24 hour fasting these building a fasting lifestyle will absolutely change your microbiome
and will have a dramatic effect on your overall health not just blood pressure so I love this
study I'm so excited to share it with you let me know if you have been fasting and you've
seen your blood pressure come down please put it in the comments so our community can see it
if this is new to you if you've never even really kind of grasped the microbiome and
you've never even thought of fasting and how it connects to the microbiome join me in my reset
academy this is what I'm teaching to my academy members the science is there now the job your job
is the application of it and if we can look at fasting as a solution for not only making changes
in the gut but helping people get off some of the medications that they're chronically on like high
blood pressure medication if that is right for you then we can start to see dramatic shifts in
people's health so really excited about this study let me know your experience with fasting and blood
pressure let me know if this information blew your mind and if you want to go deeper with it join me
in my academy just put academy in the comments and my team will send you a link as always
you're more powerful than you've been taught and studies like this hopefully reinforce that