In this video you'll discover does fasting actually fight off viruses.
One the top questions you've all been asking me
over the past couple weeks; is can you actually use fasting in
order to help fight viruses? Now I know what's at the top of your mind. Can you use fasting
to fight the coronavirus and the truth is that wasn't something that I was well-versed
on. Simply because you know over the past several years of talking about intermittent
fasting it wasn't how we were going to use intermittent fasting or any fasting for that
matter to fight viruses. Especially the coronavirus but just how we could use it to benefit our
health in other ways. So I had to dig into the research quite a bit. Now the other thing
is that there is no coronavirus fasting research out there because this whole thing didn't
exist many months ago. So here's what we had to do. We had to basically dive into the research,
put a lot of practical thought to it, draw some conclusions and then of course I'm going
to share that information with you. At the end of this video I basically share with you
how I would proceed with using fasting in order to boost my health during this time
and fight viruses. So stick around to the end but before we get started I'm Dr. Zyrowski
and welcome to the channel. If you're new to the channel it's a pleasure to have you
here. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell and I'm gonna help you excel your health
and your life. Let's go ahead and dive in here. Now when we talk about fasting one of
the major benefits we're gonna get is Autology I know you've heard this before. You're familiar
with the topic of autophagy at this point. Now autophagy is basically when you're going
and breaking down damaged old cells that aren't working properly and you're replacing them
with good healthy ones. Now the benefits that fasting offers when it comes to autophagy
is going to help recycle damaged immune cells. Through this process you're going to get those
healthy new immune cells and it's gonna boost your immune health. Now the other thing that
I've been talking about quite a bit recently is your immune system is amazing. It's an
antifungal. It's an antibacterial and it's an antiviral. So by boosting your immune system
is going to help you take action steps and actually prevent sickness and illness and
infections in your future. So here's the thing is that I'm all about taking the natural steps
in order to boost your health. I mean if you've heard anything I've been talking about over
the past couple of weeks. I've been talking about how you use a diet; specifically a ketogenic
diet in order to boost your health during this time. How to do proper supplementation
and what I'll do is I'll put a lot of complementary topics to this in the description. I'll put
links to a lot of complementary videos. Okay check those out if you want to know just safeguard
your body and make your immune system bulletproof during this time. So autophagy is going to
use those old parts to make new ones and boost your immune health which is pretty important.
Next here is gonna be beta hydroxybutyrate. Okay now this is something that is a byproduct
of burning fat on your body. So basically what happens is when you're fasting you switch
from a sugar burner to a fat burner. As you start to burn fat you get fat oxidation and
a byproduct of that is BHB beta hydroxybutyrate. Now this beta hydroxybutyrate is pretty cool
because what it does is it blocks inflammation which is going to be one benefit here. That
inflammation is gonna help keep just the nasty inflammation that you can get from a viral
attack. That storm of inflammation is gonna help keep it down. Keep you a little bit healthier
during this time but also the beta hydroxybutyrate has been shown to help boost your immune function.
Once again we're boosting that immune function in order to go in and make sure that we don't
get these illnesses, these illnesses that so many people are getting during this time.
So beta hydroxybutyrate is also a byproduct of fasting because you're gonna get yourself
into the state of ketosis and therefore you know fasting has that benefit. Okay once again
there's no coronavirus fasting information out there however we know that fasting does
certain biochemical processes in the body. Physiological processes and these different
processes are researched. So once again I drew a little bit of a conclusion here but
that's still okay. Next we're gonna talk about heart health because one of the things that
we know is that when you have any type of virus influenza, if you have the coronavirus,
having particular conditions can be very devastating and even lead to death. So heart disease is
one of the major ones we've been talking about. Now the good news is fasting can actually
help you with heart health problems because heart disease is the biggest risk factor.
We want to pay particular attention to it. Fasting can actually help balance your cholesterol,
decrease blood pressure, hypertension and also help promote heart-healthy cells through
the process of autophagy. You break down some of those old broken-down heart cells and you
replace them with good healthy new ones and so basically we can improve our heart health
through fasting. This is one way once again we're kind of bridging this gap here because
there is no specific research. So if we can improve our heart health and some of these
conditions that are leading to a higher potential of really negative results from the coronavirus.
Then that's a positive thing. Insulin resistance is another major one. Okay this is the second
highest risk factor if you get influenza; if you get the corona virus that is likely
to put you in a really bad spot. Specifically what the research shows is if you have corona
virus and you have heart disease or if you have diabetes it basically increases your
chances of needing a ventilator,needing to be hospitalized or even having fatal results
from the virus by 79 percent. So that's why these two conditions are a big deal and it's
important to understand that fasting can help with both of them. There's nothing that works
better than utilizing some intermittent fasting that drive down glucose, drive down insulin
levels and naturally reverse the problem with type 2 diabetes. So when you have high blood
sugar and you have high insulin levels essentially you damage proper immune function and you
also are going to have a pretty garbage diet. If you're someone who has type 2 diabetes
you have hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia then you got a pretty poor diet probably high in
sugar and high in carbohydrates. Those both are going to depress your immune system as
well. So using fasting you can really help bring those levels down and improve your immune
health. So insulin resistance is another major condition that fasting helps with and we want
to actually fix during this time so we can decrease our risk factors here. Next here
is fasting for recovery. This is where it kind of gets a little bit more interesting
and something that I want to pay particular attention to. So what studies show is that
what happens naturally is that when we are sick and we have a virus. We have a bacterial
infection and we have a lack of appetite. Okay through that lack of appetite what it
allows is for our body to focus on healing and so as our body is focusing on healing
and not digesting food and expending that energy. Essentially you're able to fight the
infection better. Okay so one study shows that lack of appetite is just a natural way
your body's intelligence shows you. This is basically what we have to do in order to survive.
Let's stop eating let's focus on healing. I mean that's why when people get sick a lot
of times they lose their appetite. They stay in bed, they get lots of rest. I mean when
my kids are sick it's surprising how long they'll go through a fast before they'll even
want to eat and we let them; we just basically as a parent follow their body's natural rhythm.
Now we also look at fasting as a natural evolutionary survival mechanism. This is something that's
interesting to us people who've grown up on a farm. Basically what I've found is that
with animals when they're sick guess what they don't eat. When humans are sick guess
what they don't feel like eating. It's a natural evolutionary survival mechanism. Now one of
the things if we look back through history is what happens when you know back when our
ancestors were foraging for food and had to go hunt and gather. Essentially if you're
sick the last thing you want to do is expend energy on hunting and gathering. So therefore
if you are using this as a natural survival mechanism you're able to not expend energy.
You're able to just rest, not eat during that time and as a result your body starts fighting
that infection and the research shows that this is a good way for this to happen. Okay
but let's take this a step further because it gets a little bit muddied here. Now the
thing that we found too is that in the research there's a piece of research called starving
a cold feed a fever. Okay basically what it was saying is that what they found when they
did this study is that when people are having bacterial infections they got great results
through fasting but when people had viral infections they didn't get as good of results.
Basically they're saying you want to make sure you starve that bacterial infection but
feed that viral infection. Simply because the body seemed to react better in those circumstances
but let's take a look at this study when they did a mouse study here's what they did. They
had these mice and they basically gave them viruses. So they gave them the influenza and
what happened is they took some of the mice and they allowed them to just eat whenever
they felt like it and they took other mice and they basically force-fed them. So when
they went in a force-fed the certain animals in the study basically they got really negative
results. They didn't get healthy as fast and they also even died in some cases. Now the
animals that they allowed to just feed whenever they wanted to they naturally fasted and they
didn't eat as much. So therefore what they found is that though they were eating they
just weren't eating as much and they were eating as they needed and as a result they
basically lived through the virus. Also had a but much higher survival rate and also came
out healthier at the other end of it. This got a little bit confusing right because we're
finding that low fasting kind of works but then fasting doesn't work. Well okay let's
go ahead and talk about how I would navigate this. Because I've had people telling me well
you know what Dr. Zyrowski I'm going into like a three-day water fast cuz I want a bulletproof
immune system. According to the research once again with what we have to work with that
may not be the best idea. So what fasting method would I use? I would use a 16:8 or
I would use one meal a day. I think this is the best way to go about it because basically
we want to make sure that we're feeding our body properly but we also want to use the
benefits that fasting has to offer. Ever since this is started I have been balancing between
one meal a day and sixteen and eight. 16:8 is going to be the best method for most people.
It's going to be the most comfortable method. Now first of all I would go and use natural
supplementation during my eating window in the purpose of doing this to help boost my
immune system. I would even use antiviral herbs. I did a really powerful video on that
so if you want to learn more about it I'll put a link to it right here. I'll also go
and put it in the description below if you want to finish this video. Now the other thing
is that there's food that you can have. Bone broth is a great one. Bone broth is going
to be good because it's gonna help boost our gut health. by boosting our gut health we
inadvertently boost our immune health because about 80% of our immune health is located
in our gut. I think having citrus fruits is going to be good because they're loaded with
vitamin C. Remember we want to eat these foods during our feeding window. Garlic is a great
good; antibacterial, antiviral. Spinach, ginger, broccoli is loaded with all kinds of nutrients
and then zinc is also very good for boosting the immune system. These are all great immune
boosting foods. Now when we think of the zinc we want to think of like red meat. We want
to think of shellfish. Those are great sources if you're not getting it from a supplement.
So go ahead and put in the description below the fasting method you're currently using.
Some of the best foods that you're eating in order to boost your immune health and then
of course go ahead and check out this video right here on a powerful amino acid that's
going to help improve lung function during the coronavirus.