Dr. Mindy here and I wanted to address today the length of fasting and how do you know how long
you should go, what kind of benefit you're getting, and what the proper length is
for you so I tell my patients this all the time that when you go too fast you really have to ask
yourself what are you trying to accomplish what is it that you want to do with fasting
so every fast has a little different purpose and over the next couple weeks I'll be going
through the different fasts and the way that I like to fast and the way I recommend different
fasts for patients but today I really want to talk specifically about timing and what we're
seeing on research because the really cool part about fasting is that there's so much science
fasting is backed by so much science and there are all the different studies are pointing
at different things like some studies point at the fasting will create autophagy and some studies
point at fasting will improve growth hormone and some studies are showing that fasting is producing
stem cells so how do you know which one you should be doing so let me kind of show you something that
I put in my Resetter group today and I found it this morning I thought it was a really good chart
when you go to eat let's say you eat a very high carb meal your body at that moment is going to
decide if it needs to store fat or if it's going to burn fat so when you first start to eat if you
eat a really high carb meal most likely your body is going to use part of that meal for energy and
it's gonna sock away part of that food for another day which is what we call a fat tissue but the
longer you go away from that meal so you're now 2 4 6 8 10 hours away from that meal your blood
Sugar's starting to come down if you eat again you'll reset this whole process and use your body
will start to store fat again and it's frustrating I get it I hear a lot of you guys that are like
I'm not eating that much but my body just keeps storing more and more fat I'm eating less and less
and I'm still gaining more weight and what you have to do if you want to start to
access things like autophagy if you want to start getting to the stored fat is you have to get past
this 13 hour point once you get past 13 hours of fasting now your body's going from bat storage
to fat burning so it's at this point that there's like a switch that happens so I'm a visual learner
so I map this out for my patients so they could see this that about 13 hours growth hormone spikes
now growth hormone is the hormone that slows the aging process, it burns fat it starts to kick in
around 13 hours of no food okay then at about 16 hours is when we start to hit the autophagy sweet
spot and autophagy is where the cells in the absence of food will start to eat the toxins these
both of these have an anti-aging effect so between 16 hours and about 24 hours you're getting maximum
growth hormone, maximum autophagy this is the spot that most of you are going to want to stay at on
a daily basis so a lot of my patients will end up doing fast where they're fast they just eat dinner
most of the time now it's important to do diet variation and we'll talk about that on another
video but from 13 hours to 16 hours it's all growth-hormone from 16 hours to 24 hours you've
now kicked in autophagy and if you stay in that fast longer what starts to happen is your body
starts to go no food is coming I better go find the food that I stored a long time ago and it
will start to find those stores of fat that you've accumulated over the years this is why so many of
you are losing weight so Carol if you're watching this my dear friend from chiropractic school just
messaged me last night that she's lost 43 pounds since August by just applying fasting principles
like this which is awesome Cindy I know you've lost close to sixty pounds from last year applying
these principles so the amount of weight that people are dropping by not doing the continual
eat every 10, 12 hours or every two hours by going these longer periods 24 to 36 hours without food
what it forces your body to do is go and find that stored fat so if you just want to get some growth
hormone, you just want to build some muscle, you want to slow the aging process, you want to start
burning fat, do it just fast this amount just go in the 13 hour range if you want to tap into
autophagy and start to do some self detoxification then you won't you're going to want to go to 16
hours you could even go up to 24 but if you're serious about losing weight and you really want
to get to access those stores of fat you're gonna have to go more than 24 hours you're gonna have
to start to go 36 and in this range there is some belief that stem cells kick in we know based off
of science that it's the fast mimicking that kicks in the stem cells and three
to five days of water fast it's about the third day of a water fast that the stem cells kick in
so that gives you the range of what are you trying to do if you're trying to lose weight you want to
slowly work towards these longer fasts if you're trying to just if you're happy with your weight
you're just trying to slow down the aging process you can stay right in here you can stay in the in
the 13 then 20, 24-hour range now this isn't every day but it's most days okay so let me know if that
makes sense it's a powerful concept that I really want people to understand I get this question so
much from my patients and a lot of my Resetter so let me know if that makes sense if you have any
questions on it please post them in the comments and I'll make sure that I answer them personally
if you want in my Resetter group and you want to participate in the fast we're doing an autophagy
fast right now which is hitting this sweet spot right in here if you want in there just put Resetters
and I'll invite you into my Resetter group but fasting is truly miraculous your body is amazing
and when you take food out of the equation so many things heal this is why so many people are
running towards fasting it's difficult at first it's meant to be difficult at first but as you
start to do it more and more and more you will you just will be blown away at how miraculous your
body is and how great you can feel so if you've lost weight with fasting please put how much
you've lost in there so that others can see what the potential is so as always I hope that helps