Fasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas

today's talk is very controversial okay you're not gonna get a cardiologist talking about not eating and fasting so this is the unusual but this is breaking ground because we always looking for new ways to treat all diseases treating diseases for illness nature has to book something in there people got better people got ill people got better some people of course died but there must be mechanisms built into the body that make you better and what I'm trying to do here is to tap into nature to see if there's anything in fasting first I heard about it going through medical school as a fasting can't be fasting can't work fasting obviously does nothing people don't eat because they didn't have food the faster because the priests told him not to fast they were fasting because they had seven children and food for only five but the more I studied it and looking at the biochemistry being a scientist I got to substantiate a lot of the things that I say and if I'm going to look at the mechanisms I can't just come up with them I got a look at the biochemistry behind it so what I've done here is I've made a summary pretty much and I have no slice today because I was in surgery right now until late afternoon and never got a chance to finish off my slides but I promise you all that just like the last two ones this is being recorded and we'll put the slides in later on maybe in the next week and then we'll put it up as a proper slide presentation with the lecture in the background so it'll be just like the previous ones I hope you all enjoyed the previous two that are already on YouTube so so with fasting if we look back in history we've been fasting all along and Socrates was asked why he fasted and he fasted for mental clarity so do you get mental clarity when you fast well he certainly did and yet the prevailing wisdom is that when you're fast oh I'm gonna get sleepy I'm gonna get tired I need energy and eat this energy bars there's those little drinks energy drinks and when you drink that you're supposed to get energy and it's not true when you go and take a candy or an energy bar you suddenly feel great that's because you're a junkie you just got your high you just took a shot that boosted your your brains dopamine levels and you went to the reward center and that's what you felt better because you are a sugar junkie that's why you felt good because biochemically there's no parameter that is measured in that patient to say that yep he's lacking energy and now he took this shot whatever it was with it's those energy shots or an energy bar and now he feels great so something's changed none this has been shown in animals in human beings clearly there's no biochemical change going on none whatsoever it's all in here it's mental so what happens is that when you issue the junkie whenever you eat sugar or simple carbohydrates and you get that high it goes to the dopamine center in the brain produces all that dope in citywards Center and you get addicted to it and then you need it and then you feel better when you take it so when you are fasting also you're feeling tired and fatigued and it's there are reasons for that but taking another shot of sugar or taking another candy is not the solution it's nothing to do with that it's the reward center and eventually after a few days you will come out of that habit just like you take an alcoholic and stick him in a room they can't drink anymore after a few days you won't crave anymore it's your craving it's your craving so one thing is a biochemical craving the second thing is your Pavlovian reflexes where it's 12 o'clock you got to go down to the doctors lounge you gotta eat are you hungry no I'm not hungry but I gotta eat it's time to eat it's evening I have to eat I'm not hungry but I have to eat so a lot of our behavior is incongruent of physiology our brain has interfered our mind has interfered with our body and we stopped listening to our body why did we stop listening to the body because you were told to stop listening to your body by who were you told the press the media people around you maybe your parents maybe your friends and you gotta eat five times a day five times a day maybe six times a day you gotta eat this knowledge is totally false you don't have to eat six times a day you don't need to have that calorie input all the time this is not right Oh breakfast is the best the most important meal of today it's not it's not the most nutritious meal of the day is the meal that you have that's it end of story but if you want to create a special breakfast meal you're gonna develop a cereal and you're gonna say this is special breakfast food almost sounds like dog food right create this food for the dogs now you got a special food for breakfast you don't need a special breakfast food especially one that's full of calories and sugar and is totally processed completely so so really they've been a lot of myths about this so going back in history men only so first of all I wanna tell that you are all very old all of you extremely old and how old are you really well you know about two and a half million years old yes that's pretty old and about twelve thousand years ago you changed and you started going into agriculture so until then you are a Paleolithic being when you eat mostly meat some vegetables that you found and drank lots of water and when you are Paleolithic being none of you are such fantastic hunters that you could hunt and eat and kill every three hours so for all those years millions of years right you generated a genetics that genetics is what you still have found because it was evolved over two and a half million years so in the last twelve thousand years you became more intelligent and started agriculture so now your food changed so when you into agriculture did your genetics keep up with your two and a half million years of genetic change hardly because it takes another two and a half million years to develop a new genetic package you did not change genetically as your diet change but you continued to be an agricultural society because the population grew and was hard and harder so agriculture is easy and easier and then in the last 200 years you change your diet again now you are industrialized and now you start eating processed foods vegetables seed oils I told you about that before in a previous lecture totally processed you need mass some factories to produce vegetable seed oils it is so processed and yet now we consume that like it's going out of style all of you consume vegetable seed oils whether you like it or not because it's in all processed foods and yet that food if you look at your entire evolution as 24 hours that food only came to you in the last 10 milliseconds how do you expect your body to respond genetically and hormonal e to that food that you only just introduced to your genetics so before you put anything new in your mouth you got to decide that is this in keeping with my genetics so really this is very thought-provoking even agricultural products it's very thought-provoking agricultural products are fine but what did we do with them in the year 1880 we invented the steel mill and we made the flour and when we made flour we changed the glycemic index of the food completely completely and that was a study that I talked to you about before so we've changed as we've moved along so our diets have completely changed the Paleolithic being 8 maybe once a day and he ate during the day time by the way because if we try to eat at night time where the caucus is outside the hyenas or some other animal will want to share that with you probably make you their meal as well that night then you have to crawl into your cage I mean into your cave you gotta crawl into your cave and stay there and don't come out to drink water either but nobody take the bottled water with us to bed so our body is made to fast and is made to feast and I will convince you tonight that you should be fasting and feasting as well because if there was no food around and if your sugar just went down down down down down your energy down went downtown that we'll be dead in 24 hours because you're going to your cam and you'll just crawl in and you just gonna get terrible because Nature doesn't give you any way to come back or there's been no food for 24 hours I'm just gonna crawl here I have no energy I have no nothing I'm just gonna crawl and die but no that does not happen to you fasting doesn't kill people and in fact I asked you to fast all the time and I asked you to come for a stress test you don't come on the stresses and die so so this we are used to fasting and we do it and when you're sick you fast don't you when you have the flu you don't eat when your pets are sick didn't eat you don't see your dog running and eating his food and his sake he stays in the corner and he does not eat there's a wisdom in that and that wisdom is the physiology the physiology of the body is saying that he knows you know eating is dangerous eating takes up a lot of energy eating takes up if you put in about a hundred calories of food into your body it takes about 60 to 70 calories of your body to digest that food and then you get a little excess so eating is an energy consuming activity but most of us don't think of it I read you just in that all that eating is gonna go right in and do me all that good a lot of energy that goes into it eating is dangerous it's true eating is dangerous so once in a while when you donate Nature has put into you a biochemistry so let's let's just dive right into that biochemistry a little bit so the first thing that's gonna happen is that you stop eating in the first 12 hours your body's gonna say hmm no food coming out it's gonna wipe up all the glycogen that is in your liver and in your muscles that's a normal process it's going to use glycogen so your sugar level or your glucose levels will be maintained what about protein you got plenty protein in your body what about vitamins you got at least a month's worth of vitamins in your body what about energy how much fat do I have do you know that I have in effect in my body to last me at least 40 days so I have plenty energy in me I have about 50,000 calories stored inside me which can be used but I need to unlock those calories in the form of fat so you eat you store in the form of fat and that fat should be utilized now so for the first 12 hours I'm not going to use the fact I'm going to use up my glycogen stores how am I gonna feel I'm gonna feel okay unless I'm a junkie then I'm gonna want to eat you know that's junk enos because your sugar will never drop I'm gonna say that again your sugar will never drop you can fast for seven days your blood sugar will come down but you will not become hypoglycemic and have an attack unless you're on insulin or you're taking diabetes medications so how does the body keep the sugar but I told you that in the first 12 hours you get glycogen after 12 hours what happens you get gluconeogenesis that means new glucose is being made gluconeogenesis whereas that glucose come from that comes into the bloodstream where does it come from comes from protein but it's not the protein in the muscles protein is always being turned over in your body but this time the protein that's normally gonna turn over turns into blue so your glucose level is maintained for another 12 hours or so during this next 12 hours as a small increase in ketosis so let me explain ketosis to you where does that come from so what happens is that the body senses that you have very little food coming in and I'm going to explain to you how that happens how does the body know that there's no food it's not just the sugar I will explain this juice not sugar so what happens is that now the fats in your body say okay we are here utilize us the only way fat can come into utilization is the insulin levels must drop so the insulin levels are now low because you're not eating when your insulin level is high you store energy when your insulin levels are low you pull energy out of the fats so now through the hormonal action of you know hormone sensitive lipase and the action of LPL what happens at fat stores open up because your insulin level is low so the fats start being devoured the fat gets converted to triglycerides and fatty acids the fatty acids flood the bloodstream you can utilize fatty acids so they go to your liver and in the liver your fatty acids get converted to ketones there's two ketones beta-hydroxybutyrate acid and acetone acetic acid these two ketones now go up ketones can be utilized by the body and this is the great breakthrough that I want to tell you that ketones can be utilized by every cell of your body including your brain you are told that the brain is an obligate glucose utilizer can only utilize glucose it's absolutely wrong there was a study done in Britain where what they did is that they brought the blood sugar down to 30 but they pump full of ketones and we were all sitting and talking and having fun and not a sweat the only one that was sweating was the doctors the blood sugar you should be having convulsion is the brain can utilize ketones after a seven-day fast 70 per-- 70% of the energy utilization of the brain is through ketones and the brain likes it and there's even studies to show that when the brain utilizes the ketones it actually is a cleaner burn it burns more cleanly so what happens if there's a slow increase in the ketones which actually starts around 18 hours and gradually goes up up up up up up so by 24 hours you have some ketones maybe 10 15 % of your entire energy source is now gonna be ketones how are you gonna feel with ketones just fine no problem you feel you feel okay because ketones are giving you all the energy that you need then let's say another 12 hours go by so you know at the 35 hours let's say now the ketones go even higher and higher and higher and by 3 days you're Peter mills are really beginning to get even better and even higher so by the fifth day of fasting you will have a lot of Tito's now you can measure your ketones in your urine so you get a little dipstick and you can buy this by the way it only costs a few dollars and you just test your urine to see when you become ketogenic and you can test it now if you've been on a low-carb diet low sugar diet you will go into ketogenesis earlier than somebody who eats a lot of sugar because it's got a whole bunch of glycogen in his liver because you got to remember go through the glycogen first before you start burning ketones so someone who's on a very low carb diet he's going to kill us in Genesis much faster so he's the ketones and the kiddos will keep getting utilized the fats will keep burning soon are you doing the right arithmetic that okay fine I've used up my current accounts I'm going to my deposit account now and I'm drawing money from my deposit account now what what prevents us all from utilizing my deposit account its insulin because I told you instant holds the key to opening up the fence doors so you want to utilize your fat stores you have to drop your insulin levels now how am I gonna drop your fill your insulin is right now there's only one way for me to drop your insulin levels and that's to put you on a fascinating program so now you choose which fasting program you want to be on do you want to do alternative a fasting do you want to do 18 hour fast do you want to do a three day fast I mean how do you want to do this and that's something we'll talk about and see what can but what am I saying here what's the trigger here which is which is a hormone in the body that's the elephant in the room it's insulin just like my last talk I told you about do you see how it's all coming together the fats the sugar the weight the fasting it's all insulin it's all about insulin you don't so somebody who's taking insulin show me somebody who takes incident every day and oh yeah I can lose weight just like that they can't lose weight they cannot I've done it I've given insulin for 25 years to my patients and I yelled at them and nothing happens so long as the insulin levels are high they cannot lose weight and let me tell you something else the mortality is also higher now them to attack two diabetics okay not type 1 diabetics type 1 diabetics are used in deficient and they need the insulin replacement but type 2 diabetics already have a high insulin level and they have insulin resistance so the instant is already high and now you're giving them more insulin and that is only gonna hurt the patient even more but you're a 1 C would look better and your glucose will be lower but show me the data that your survival is gonna be paralyzed show me that you're gonna get less sales Imus show me that you're gonna get less inflammation in your body coronary artery disease rates it's all about the insulin guys is all about the insulin so you got to in a chronic said nobody in the hospital and you're having DK or some other medical problems that you having surgery and you're getting on steroids and your sugar levels are high I'll give you an insulin but that's a temporary thing to bring it down because I want your sugar levels to be ideal while I'm doing surgery on you because high sugar levels mean poor recovery so I want your ideal sugar levels but that's a different story I am talking about people who have high insulin levels because of insulin resistance and you cannot give them more insulin so you must get your insulin level down I don't have a drug to give you to bring your insulin level down but fasting will bring your instant level down because if you don't eat you're not going to make insulin now what's gonna happen is that as your instant level drops and it's nice and low your body will become sensitive to the insulin just like when any level goes down with them system it when there's too much of it your receptors down regulates I'm not going to respond to this so after you eat in a normal state you produce a lot of incident let's say now that you've been down for a good period of time let's say I'm gonna give an example 24 hours your insulin levels have been low now you eat that next meal you're only gonna make this much insulin you can make a much less amount of insulin so your body is gonna deal with that meal differently then had you eaten in a fed state so eating after a fast is metabolized totally different than eating in an fed state it's much more forgiving to you and what's going to happen is that you produce less and less insulin even in the next few days after your fasted one day look at the rewards I'm telling you about you ought to diet at least one day where you don't eat anything because it will give you a sustained benefit for days because the instant sensitivity is going to be improved so what happens here is that insulin stays nice and low your body becomes more sensitive to the insulin produces less insulin so you you're not locking the fat stores in keep burning fat which is what you want to do so here's a reason to fast if you're overweight do you want to get rid of the fat fine this is the way to do it well why don't you just do caloric restriction so still eat five times a day but it's more amounts you cannot do that you lose a little bit but you lose much more muscle and you lose some fat you will feel miserable your metabolic rate will go down and your body resets itself and you'll gain all that weight right back again because that's not natural because when you are a Paleolithic me you didn't just go and never let the carcass and say okay I'll come back here and eat five times a night you don't do that it's just totally unnatural to do that and the body's physiology is in keeping with that so the biochemist just telling me the same thing that you are you not supposed to do that so you're supposed to eat eat when the food is available which is usually once a day now let's say what other benefit am I gonna get besides the insulin and utilizing the fact well the body says that okay this poor person hasn't had a kill today so he's calling to his cage well I got to get him out of there can I get him out by decreasing his metabolic rate no I increase his metabolic rate how do I do that after a fast or during that fast especially after 18 hours your epinephrine levels increase your adrenaline levels go up your cortisol levels go up your metabolic rate goes up you start feeling better more bushy-tailed bright-eyed because you're looking for your next kill because if you walk out there with your eyes how droopy you're gonna see the kill the deal will roll walk right by you and you won't have any energy to chase it but now you full up you pumped up your metabolic rate is high you more alert you awake and you will get you killed there's another thing that happens when you're fast you produce a stuff called B brain-derived neurotropic factor so what happens is that the body starts producing a hormone that goes to your brain and tells your brain switch on and you actually make new brain cells you actually make new brain cells show me a drug that's gonna make new brain cells so in a fasting situation make new brain cells because nature wants to teach you that the cell you got into the situation learn from it remember it and now get out and get another kill see it makes you better it makes your brain better what else does a fasting do growth hormone so do you know how much growth hormone costs a small point one injection is about $400 point one point one is four hundred dollars it's so expensive right but did you know that if you're fast just a one and a half to two days there's a two day fast in the study a two day fast produced a two thousand percent increase in your growth hormone production in a man and 1300 in a woman so it is the best way to boost your growth hormone level now why would I want growth hormone because growth hormone is the hormone that keeps you young it's a growth hormone that makes your skin matter that replaces the dead parts better and you muscles grow so your muscles actually grow so you do you do 10 reps you're gonna put on more muscle than if your growth hormone is low growth hormone is low you could be pumping iron all day long and you'll just get 80 muscles but you will not grow muscles to grow muscles you need growth alone you want to stay younger you growth hormone now there is a condition called adult growth hormone deficiency and of course children have it too and they have short stature and slow growth etc and in adults is a similar one and it manifests itself as an elderly person who is just his muscles are all wasted he's got no energy he's got a blank in his in his eye all the time he's just can't think and he's very weak he's just sitting around you met his growth hormone level it's very low you gave him some growth hormone he feels not better but the problem with exogenously Moniz has no side effects so that's why right now it's not approved by the FDA for me to give people growth hormone but the best way to give yourself growth hormone is to do one fast do one fats and your growth hormones will go up what else happens when you're fasting so growth home and I told you about 20 24 to 48 hours if you really want to get the full benefit of growth hormone now there's a condition called etapa G I'm gonna explain to a toughie G is a tompa G starts actually at about 18 hours and then gradually increases and it's maximum at 3 days it sounds terrible it's not fair but you know what even if I get some etapa G after 24 hours I'll be very very very happy by phone a maximized merit RPG I'll go for a three day fast so let me explain what a Tophet is a tapa G the Nobel Prize winner got it you got or two years ago the price on the top of G so what happens in the topic is that when you are nutrient deficient like this the body senses that there's no nutrients coming in and there's a thin thing called M tall M 2 levels go really really low this is a a protein kinase in the body and it goes really really low and that turns on a toffee G what turns off Futaba G is M 2 levels are high what causes M 2 levels to go high is eating mostly proteins so let's come back again to a top of you so what a tapa G does is that it takes your cells and the cell has a lipoprotein membrane around it and there's all the intracellular organelles in it but in the course of time those cells the intracellular organelles some of them become redundant there's protein lying around this whenever this work there's gonna be garbage so there are old intracellular organelles and some proteinaceous materials that are just lying on in the cytoplasm so the body says I need energy recycle I need to recycle so the first thing it does the cell stays alive and it takes those intracellular organelles breaks them down packages them into the lysosome and digests it breaks it down into its pieces so whether it's the sarcoplasmic reticulum or other intracellular organelles breaks them all down and exports it out of the cell once it's exported from the cell into the bloodstream the bloodstream says aha I've got some new building blocks now and the body he utilizes that okay so the body now starts utilizing your interest cellular organelles so you're recycling yourself so your cell is doesn't die it goes into a state of recycling and you recycle your mitochondria as well so mitochondria lots because there's a lot of oxidative stress going on in the mitochondria so what happens is that it that cell is now going to be deplete of its old non-functional parts and then when you do it guess what we get to be repaired first all those organelles so you basically rejuvenate yourselves now if you're constantly eating you will not rejuvenate those cells and the biochemistry is so beautiful that these cells now are functioning better the younger and they are going to last the more resilient also to disease I'll come to that in a minute so a tapa G makes yourselves better younger restoration it's like it's like a reset switch so how do this organized redo themselves well they reboot themselves because when you then eat because you've had a tapa G a signal goes from those cells to the bone marrow to say hey listen I used up my intracellular organelles when you get new ones new supplies send them to me so the bone marrow when you eat makes stem cells have you ever stem cells now cost you million dollars just go out and get some now cost you a whole lot of money and it won't work because when you inject stem cells from the outside the residence rates are wrong because they didn't get the message of where to go to it's all artificial so it doesn't know so the brain look I injected brain stem cells in the heart and pages about cutting functions I was here doing the study upstairs and what was the residence rate residence it is how many of the stem cells actually ended up in the muscle where I wanted it to stay and repair the heart less than 0.1% did the ejection prices go up no change in ejection fraction so injecting stem cells from the outside does nothing for you it was good to study with brain stem cells and it still is for the reason that you need to harness nature's way of giving your stem cells you want to stem cell transplant right now you're gonna fast it's the fastest way to increase your stem cells so these stem cells come out of the bone marrow it's called refeeding reward and they go into the into the organs and replenish cells that have died and change the machinery in those cells as well so there's a whole rejuvenation process you are a younger better more resilient person than you were before and this is all been documented over and over again but there's no industry that's gonna support me because there's no financial gain if you get better and younger and live longer because there's no one there to make money out of no one makes money when you fast they lose money so boost your growth hormone boosts your butt boost your stem cells this has been well-documented not only in humans in animals still well documented over and over again it's just that nobody's ever heard of it anyone thinks that all fasting is just fasting a starvation is no good but there's so much science behind this so the next benefit of course is stem cell mobilization that occurs and to get the maximum benefit of that you can't just do you know overnight fast no you really need to fast because for the bone marrow to say I'm gonna come in and replace you got to really have reached that point of replacement so you can't you can't speed it up either so the question is can I do a three day fast of course I can do a three day fast you got to prepare yourself mentally you got to prepare yourself physically for the environment make sure that you know you you know you you you with your best friends an environment and you got to have water so that you don't get dehydrated so you can do it all of us can do it so you can fast for different reasons so when would I want a toffee gee I would want to talk with you one just to live longer number two let me tell you something if you do a seven-day water fast the studies done in Boston at the University showed that your lifetime probability of getting cancer is reduced by more than 70% some studies even higher because the cells that are gonna die off in this date of the fast of the real cancer cells because your cancer cells look you don't do a PET scan on you I'm gonna give you a radioactive materials of glucose in it oh excuse me the glucose is really low and the insulin level is very low so the nutrients that the cancer cells want are not there cancer cells do die off so let's talk about cancer for a second so the studies have been done and if you fast a person only for 36 hours that's it and then give them chemotherapy in that state they're gonna tolerate the chemotherapy better they're gonna have less side effects from the chemotherapy it's gonna be death of cancer cells and your normal cells are more resilient now and you're gonna get less death of your normal cells you see what I'm saying so what happens when you're fasting your normal cells become more resilient so you give the chemo only the week guys die which is the cancer cells because you've strengthened through this fasting process your normal cells so I wanted to do this protocol upstairs Ian's in the bone marrow unit where we do a lot of chemotherapy on these patients but no nobody said okay going to this project they said we'll be inhumane to tell our patients to fast before we give them chemotherapy so what we do we feed them then we get nauseated then they vomit so we give them so friend and then we then they were still down there so then TPN on them because we've all been indoctrinated that we have to feed feet feet feet feet I'm just telling you all right now if any of you get on my currently in fashion you get admitted to the hospital I'm making your NPO I'll put any fluids on you I'll give you a make you NPO so even if you do farm at you're not gonna aspirate you know how much aspiration is here in the hospital over here in pneumonia and all that from aspirin is terrible because I'm forced feeding you in a sense wait a second your body is not hungry don't eat but know the trace get bored too you have to eat you don't have to if there's a reason why you have anorexia when you're sick pay attention to your body your body's telling you don't eat then don't need you won't die you might die from eating so cancer I predict that in the next five to ten years is going to be major cancer treatments associated with adjunct of fasting and that's coming definitely it's on its way what else can be useful autoimmune diseases this numerous studies to show that you have inflammatory bowel disease rheumatoid arthritis lupus any of these conditions and you get a flare-up of it fast for three days it's the most potent thing you can do as an anti-inflammatory because first and foremost your bowels are totally quiet there's no energy being used for digestion your body's energy resources will be utilized to repair yourself a lot of autoimmune diseases start from your gut as well gives you a gut a chance to heal so that you get less leaky gut syndrome so that that fast actually heals it gives it to your gut a chance to heal as well autoimmune diseases get better then what about diabetes diabetes definitely gets better because I just told you the insulin resistance gets better so that gets better what about the Alzheimer's oh yeah you know poor granny we can't pull the tray away from her but sometimes the best thing you could actually do give you lots of liquids and don't feed granny for three days if she's got dementia social services will be after you it could be anybody not just a granny but don't beat her for three days just give a lots of water I promise you neurologically she'll start waking up the fog will go away the confusion will get better you can't get better and it should get better and there's no humming trying because you won't die in three days so today water fast so what I mean by the water fast three day water fast that means you can only drink water for three days so drink lots of water now why do you need to think so much water because all the reactions occur in water and secondly you appear lock when you're fasting I'm not drinking that much I'm not eating and how come I'm peeing so much it's because when your insulin levels go down insulin holds onto water now there's no more insulin so that water gets diarist out of your body so you will notice that you pee a lot so you need to drink more when you're fasting there's number one now what what electrolytes well electrolytes will be conserved by your kidneys if kidneys are very good at holding on to LED lights so there's plenty LED lights in the body 0:35 sodium if I don't take in sodium the last molecule of sodium will be reabsorbed by my tipping's not a single molecule will be in my urine that's how good it is so kidneys will take care of everything the kidneys will not allow you to lose sodium or potassium now if you're ready starting out with a half empty plate yeah you may get some depletion but you can get that tested and on refeeding you I'll give you some clues on how to improve that when you refill yourself but it's unusual to get electrolyte imbalance but if you do get it take a pinch of salt in the water and you'll find that your cramps get better and your dizziness gets better and your headaches get better so these are complaints a lot of patients have their all you know it's fasting but mine after fifteen hours I had a bad headache we're going three more water with a little bit of salt in it and put Himalayan salt because that also has some magnesium and other things in it and you'll feel a lot better dizziness is usually due to low blood pressure because your blood pressure comes down so you get dizzy when you're fasting it's not because your Sugar's down it's because your blood pressure's low drink water and cramps some patient gets cramps put the salt again and also in the evening put yourself in a tub of of epsom salts or you can get some magnesium and there's there's a liquid magnesium you can just put on your skin you can spray it and they'll give you magnesium and that's what it's all about so give yourself salt so magnesium you'll start feeling better patients said oh I get so hungry well hunger comes and goes there's a ghrelin increase in decrease according to the circadian cicle so all you have to do is pay attention yes I'm hungry alright drink some water expand your stomach and you'll feel better half an hour later the hungers gone keep your mind busy get going do something have your chores get get them done your hunger will go away patients don't continue to be hungry all day long it just doesn't happen if they are craving is again like I told you they'd be Pavlovian reflex or they've become a junkie so hunger comes hunger goes most patients find the second day the hardest and then from the third day onward they actually feel good and the third and fourth day of fasting fourth day they feel phenomenal on the fifth day they they want to go running you want to go to the gym they feel wonderful so you got to get over that hump if you really want to do that tap over fast you have to know that I'm gonna face a problem on the second day is gonna be hardest third fourth fifth day after better so who should do the wrong fast and who should just do intermittent fasting so first and foremost if you just want to be healthy it wants a day at the most twice a day in a six to our window period so that's called time restricted feeding so if you just want general maintenance you want to lose a little bit of weight you want to stay healthy you don't want to become a diabetic you don't want diseases of modern man then start eating less frequently start learning how to eat once a day or twice a day in a six-hour window period so if you're gonna have lunch at 1 o'clock you should have dinner at 6 or 7 o'clock and that's it no snacking in between because every snack will increase your insulin levels and it breaks your fast and your ketogenesis as well so on a daily basis it will give you a little bit of a toffee g will give you a little bit of ketosis and you'll burn fat you your body will learn how to take food in when you eating and then burn the glycogen and then for about 4 hours or so it will pull out some from the fat so it took this a nice cycle there then once a week you can extend that further by just skipping the evening meal also so instead of a 24-hour fast it becomes a 36-hour fast once a week that will give you a huge boost in your immunity you'll find you won't get the flu [Music] immunity will get better because your immunise i'ts are now new because your stem cells have kicked in 36 hours is a magic number and it's doable to tell everybody to do a three-day fast it's kind of tough for a 5 day fast but people have done this some of my patients have done 7-day fasts you're some people with whom I communicate with my iPhone all the time 14-day fasts but they're doing it because they absolutely diseases so they have a lot of chronic disease that they want to get rid of and they do it and they're doing it don't read a lot they'll do a 7 day fast every six months that's it you don't have to know the rest of the time they doing time restricted feeding because they have these chronic diseases of Alzheimer's or diabetes or they get I've had two cancers already or they want to just lose a lot of weight and they want to get rid of that high insulin level so eating in a time restricted period that's good for all of us I think that our life revolves around eating too much and we've been we've been bamboozled by by industry and by just all sorts of nonsense out there and there's a growing community that understands this so I just want to give you a little bit of chemistry on our tically with some chemistry so how does the body know that you didn't eat because all of you think oh it's chicken my sugar will go down that's how my body knew that I don't need right nice and Molly do do that your body knows what you ate how did it know what you ate how much protein how much fat how much sugar it's very complicated but one of the things is your nad which is you're one of those little molecules inside yourselves and it looks at the ratio of nad to NADH and that is determined a lot by how much fat metabolism is going on in yourself which occurs in the mitochondria and how much glycolysis is occurring in your cytosol long and short of it you don't need to know all that all you need to know is your body knows what you ate so when you are in a fasting state they mobilize a bunch of enzymes or proteins called the sirt1 molecules si R T - 1 molecules they go out in your body in a fasting state and in that state it binds to a sitar groove know what's so important about that so when the Sun is up it binds with acetyl groups on your histones which are on your DNA so you all know this is just follow me on this because this is really it's exciting because if you know the knowledge behind this to get excited about it and you'll want to do it so you hope your your your DNA you have your full set of you name of which you only express a fraction less than 1% all the rest of your DNA is all covered up with the histones histones are like a spring that's over your DNA and doesn't expose it so what the search does it binds to their star groups and it untwist histones in certain parts of your DNA so that that part of the DNA can start making proteins so it's called expression your genetic expression changes because now you're making new proteins so you see how your diet affects which genes are now going to be expressed and those genes make proteins and that's how they carry out the effect in your body so the third one actually activates a gene called the Fox oh three gene and this Fox oh three gene activates many other genes and this is what those genes do is very exciting it activates all the antioxidant genes in your body naturally naturally so you don't need to go buy vitamin C and vitamin E and all these things and yeah so what activates Fox o3 also turmeric does then you think turmeric is a antioxidant it is but through the mechanism it turns on a certain gene in itself it has no antioxidant properties why why am i doing vitamin 3 d3 levels on everybody in my office because one of this the most important vitamin involved with gene expression is vitamin D if you vitamin D deficient your gene expression is handicapped so when things happen to you or when you're not eating or when you get sick your body is genetic material cannot reveal itself in a normal way that you're supposed to do just wanna say about vitamin D you handicap in yourself in your own ability to repair your body because your vitamin D deficient and I can tell you right now ninety you I knew in this room a vitamin D deficient 90% of your vitamins did I can I can tell you that for sure that's a all of you have to get your vitamin D levels done and you need to be taking vitamin d3 if you are low and you didn't be sitting in the Sun for 10 minutes every day you gotta do this you cannot guess what your vitamin D level is you need to check it so vitamin D is involved in over 300 different reactions and most of them got to do a genetic expression heck I want to know that because I want to express my scenes to the best of their ability and make them responsive to everything that's going on so the Fox Oh 3 gene is very important antioxidant gene then the next gene is DNA repair so it activates my DNA repair mechanisms because my DNA is bombarded every day by radiation by toxins by by food also and my DNA crumbles every day that's why I get old so that's no good so it makes you younger so Fox o3 prepares your DNA makes your telomeres less short so they stay nice and long and you know that telomeres are very important right because the longer they are the longer you gonna live apoptosis apoptosis is cell programmed death of the cells so it controls that clearance of senescence cells that's a pop that's a etapa G getting rid of all cells because you don't all cells hanging on in your system so old cells get cleared away as well then protein structure and maintenance this is LC mers disease what is the awesomest exam as the brain cells don't work pretty good why don't they work very good because there's a proteinaceous material that is built up inside it and that kind of hurts the mechanisms of your brain cells that's amyloid amyloid deposition this is involved with that too and then stem cell mobilization brain-derived neurotropic factor all these things I already mentioned they all through the Fox all three mechanism you want to get good Fox oh three you need to have vitamin D in your system and you need to be e the right food and the right food means no processed foods everything that was there two and a half million years ago vegetables some fruit about our talk about fruits overrated so what happens is that at the end of the summer and fall the fruit is bearing there and you supposed to eat the fruit with all that fructose to get you through winter but winter never comes so you keep eating throughout the year so and you keep getting in the way so fruits are good for you but you so see it one food today that's it and choose the most colorful fruits again and mix it up a little bit but please don't donate five six foods a day I mean let's just this is crazy and eat fruit that have a low glycemic index high glycemic index fruits are watermelon all the melons that you have all the stuff that they give you when you order fruit plate in the in the restaurant that's all that bad stuff all over there the kiwi fruit in it is bad the grapes are bad bananas are 50/50 but the best things are apples peaches plums apricots those are very healthy for you right because a lot of fiber and also low glycemic index so there you go pears pears are very good so now what other agent helps you to express your cert one better it's oh maybe three now you know why I'm so anal about omega-3 levels they need weight so again I can promise you not ninety five ninety percent I think ninety-five percent of you in this room are probably by omega-3 deficient now it's not may not be an absolute deficiency but the ratio of your omega-3 to omega-6 is off it should be ideally one to one but I bet you most of you about 20 to 1 because omega-6 is found in all the vegetable seed oils so what happens is that this ratio is because what happens at 3 & 6 compete for the same substrate so you can be taking picture of fine but if you're also using vegetable oil you just dip it defeated the purpose so Omega 3 also lengthens your telomeres as that's vitamin D C simple measures simple things what else lengthens your TR telomeres and helps with your with with your DNA is meditation meditation actually has been shown to increase your telomeres and lack of sleep shortens them and melatonin I'll say something about melatonin melatonin prevents cancer but it also turns on Fox o3 so if you're not getting melatonin and you're not getting sleep at night you're not getting rejuvenation now you know the mechanism of why you get so old because you're only sleeping three hours a night or four hours a night or worse still you doing night shift or and all those things and therefore your sleep is totally dysfunctional but very very important okay so now you know that the body actually is very intelligent what you eat immediately starts changing your genetic expression did you ever think about that I never thought about that until I did all this research and started researching all this about five six years ago by diet I always thought that I just changed my hormones by my memory cholecystokinin my insulin what my genetic expression changes with every meal that I ate yes it does it's very empowering to know that don't forget it and pass it on so when you eat proteins you produce a stuff called insulin-like growth factor-1 now this is a warning tour of you okay too much protein will produce too much igf-1 insulin-like growth factor-1 that turns on mTOR I mentioned them too earlier on and these are protein kinases and what this does it stimulates your ribosomal production to make more protein which is good so when you eat protein you make more muscles that's fine but you also have cell proliferation and what that does it increases your risk of cancers now there's absolutely no doubt that a high-protein diet increases the risk of cancer I think that data is unequivocal it's been shown in animals and also in some human studies now the mTOR also decreases @rg so if you are on a high-protein diet and you think that you're getting a tapa gee you've just turned it off because of M tall because I mentioned that earlier on in my talk it turns off M tall so how much protein should you have well not a lot how much is not a lot well you're not growing you're not lactating you've all passed puberty you know what bodybuilders 0.35 per pound that's it grams per pound so every 150 so 50 grams of protein that's all I need and I'm going to get enough of that in my regular diet taking protein powder not a good idea not a good idea cut it out we did it we all did it I did it for a while you will notice the sugar levels go up their stability your instant production as well and it's got a lot of glucose in it and it will cause eye gf1 levels to go up and it increases protein synthesis risk of cancer and decreases etapa G now I just do that a tappa G is so important and here this thing turns it off don't do protein bars for goodness sake you don't need it and nature doesn't give you protein on its own it gives it to you in the form of me you want some protein going to eat the meat you want some protein going eat the chicken or the fish and make sure it's nice and lean and not fit on corn because then you'll get too much omega-6 as well so there you go now they say so insulin and growth instant like Pro 30 is just like growth hormone so there's a group of people out there in Equador and they they have the wrong syndrome which is a gene mutation I gotta tell you about this what that means is that they the growth hormone receptor has a mutation so it doesn't work very well so these people are very short the real short little stubby as well but they live to be a hundred hundred ten and they have no cancer and no high blood pressure and it's all to do with that growth hormone receptor mutation that is why we say that listen if you want that type of physiology you need to cut down on the amount of protein you know it's overrated because you go to restaurant and you order your salad and what's the first question protein no I don't need any protein in my salad thank you but they'll always ask you for that it's over at night I'm not saying that you shouldn't add some grilled chicken to your salad or something you can do that but take it in the context of how much protein you're eating during the day and please don't supplement even more unless you have illness unless you have GI problems and you can't always eat and you're wasting away and your teeth are really bad and I'm you sick you might need some protein most of us don't need it 99% of us don't need it so in those patients they have very low insulin levels very low instant like growth factor levels and there you go so you have less diabetes less can say in those patients so different diets turn these genes on and off when you eat sugar you turn on a gene called Ras - PKA it's crazy so this is a protein kinase as well and what does that do again it turns off etapa G increases the production of your insulin and basically makes you more inflammatory because it turns off all those things so you become inflammatory sugar causes inflammation in the body fructose causes insulin resistance in the liver I went over that with you or before so sugar is very very bad for you sugar is a poison sugar is not natural sugar was never found in nature it's a totally processed food it's processed it's as processed food as all the other processed foods that we eat it's just as but but people think should is just its natural sugar you know it's sugar well it's not sugar it's process is totally process is no such thing as sugar it's totally processed so if you don't want cancer heart disease diabetes deserve the joint disease inflammatory conditions of the bowels then don't get old don't get oh now why did I say that because there's a lot of truth to what I'm going to say here okay so all these conditions are conditions that occur in aging if you can slow down aging you won't get those conditions so what is the best way to stay young your genetic material and for you to constantly stay young but I told you already how to do that fasting keep your weight down eat the right foods your genetic material stay young you stay younger you're not going to get those five conditions if you get prematurely old and by your way we're getting old fast it's 30 rolls and 9 and 20 year olds coming into my office then they're already 50 years old because of the lifestyle what they eating their lifestyle their sleep patterns their stress patterns so don't get all so everything that I'm saying is also anti-aging so now does that mean I'm an anti-aging doctor I am but there's a lot of other people out there also doing anti-aging but I'm a different anti-aging kind of doctor I do more naturally and I know the science behind it so I'm not gonna tell you to go and you know take the special cream and put it on you and eat the special concoction because how natural is all that just how natural is that I mean if you want to be natural then you don't walk away from from one of those providers with a bag load of drugs and creams and and other things I mean how natural is that I have nothing to sell you I got nothing I have a vitamin D in my office I got vitamin k2 by the way you all should be on vitamin k2 as well what is vitamin k2 and k2 takes the calcium takes it out of the over all of your tissues and puts it back into the bone weights below so how come you got vitamin k2 deficiency because your we're on that low-fat diet right so it's absorbed through fat you don't have fat you're not good absorb vitamin K you don't have fat you know car buyers absorve item indeed how do you think you are became vitamin D deficient because we went on the slow fat craze no factors low fat that so it compounded your nutritional deficiency when you went on a high carb diet which is what the government told us to do because what we did we went on a low-fat diet and substitute it all with carbs you also became nutritionally a desert because you didn't get all the good things look when you eat natural fats in natural ways let's say you had a piece of fish you eat meat or eating vegetables it comes with everything in it so your adek will get absorbed with the natural fat you need it you need it and that's how it's gonna get absorb because that's how it was two and a half million years ago who are you to try to change this in the last millisecond of your life in your evolution okay so let's talk about that how many generations well before you because that was look that that will be an eye-opener for you I have it written down here somewhere in my notes how many generations have gone by is it's a real eye-opener oh man whether I write it oh yeah oh yeah he goes so in the two and a half million years there were a hundred thousand generations and each generation improves on these genetic materials 100,000 generations and then they produced the Homo Sapien how many generations were in the agricultural time since the Agricultural thing happened only six hundred generations so six hundred generations have been eating there the benefits of the agricultural revolution and what about the Industrial Revolution which changed it even more because remember much of the agricultural was okay actually because the grains were kind of whole but in the industrial revolution how many generations have gone by only ten only ten you have no chance of survival because your genetic material has another chance to even just sort of in ten generations so you drastically change the way you live you drastically change your diet and you expect ten generations to drastically change your genetic material now if you're lucky and you procreate wisely there may be another thousand generations from now your kids will adapt to this new diet but right now you stand a chance you see what I'm saying keep stay on this diet stay on this lifestyle and after another thousand maybe two thousand three thousand generations the new human being will have adapted to today's food you won't stand a chance so there you go all right so do how much more time do I have I have a little bit more time so I want to give you a few more a few more hints so they hit on on on fasting and and things to say about fasting so I already talked about the biochemical changes and I told you how so the first thing you need to do if your honor anyone wants to start a fasting program is to cut down on your carbohydrates you cannot jump into a fasting program with a regular diet you have to first be carb conditioned you need to cut down on unknown processed foods no processed foods nothing unnatural anything that's refined no sugar no drinks except for water and tea and coffee and by the way when you're fasting you can have tea and coffee and all that but without the milk or cream you can add a little bit of coconut if you want coconut oil that is or m/c tol because that was that will give you some satisfaction and take away your hunger for a while so that's very important I want to say oh yes I want to say this refeeding syndrome so let's say you one of you did decide to do a three day or four day fast I warn you that when you start eating again you may have a problem because what'll happen is that if you have phosphate deficient because you are nutritionally already eating the standard American diet the set dial then you don't have enough phosphate in your body and your bones are the biggest storage of phosphate and most of us have osteopenia how come you have so much just opinion this 3000 women that come to my office er a vast opinion how come it's terrible living in Florida all of us to fear it's terrible so obviously when she does her refeeding she's gonna get phosphate deficiency because what happens all of a sudden stem cells going if they need building blocks and one of the building blocks is phosphate to replace the cells that have died and so if you get faster so you get tremendous muscle weakness and muscle aching and that's from phosphate deficiency and that can happen so when that happens you need to go and get some bone so all of you should know how to make some room broth if you've made it Indians have been doing it for years but you know just put some bones in there and how to cook the bone broth you should know how to make one now if you're rich then you can make it out of vegetables too but it's very very helpful and even doing a fast if you absolutely have to do anything you can have some bone broth during a fast okay bone broth because it's got alot glycine in it and it's got phosphate it's got a lot of minerals in it and that will really help even the magnesium so it'll help you overcome some of your problems to learn about bone broth and don't buy ready-made bone broth make it yourself by the way there's lots of recipes now on the low-carb diet out what kind of breakfast lunch a donate whatever you want to cook is available bone broth how to make it my favorite book that I use is Jason funds book right Jason Fong fu ng he's the is the nephrologist up in Canada and he sees all this really heavy-duty diabetics and he is it as amazing world but you see he's learned all these tricks to make success so the potassium can for magnesium can fall and phosphate so refeeding just be careful use bone broth during that time I already mentioned all the side effects which I okay coffee tea I mentioned the tea and black tea but medicines yes when you are when you're doing fasting it depends which medicine now if you're taking diabetes medications and I'm telling you or if you're taking diabetes medications they will cause a drop in your sugar level and it could be a dangerous dropping available especially incident should not be take them and glad you're right click beside those agents should not be taken but don't do that without your physician knowing you've got to involve your physician if your diabetic patient your physician is nobody if you're finishing doesn't want to know about it and doesn't approve of you being fasting though maybe you need to find another one you see because and I look it's not bad I look physicians are great but we taught to treat illness get sick and I don't know what to do with you but you want to stay healthy heck I don't know that's the problem we have so it's not that they don't want to help you it's just that they don't know they've never been there to handle that kind of situation I'll tell you what I do with my patients ok I stop the insulin right there normally insulin and I stop glad to ride or any other agent that drops the blood sugar except for metformin I keep them on their phone and then I tell them to measure the blood sugars and for three days or two days they may have high blood sugar but that's not going to hurt them that's not going to hurt them so if you look at what hurts you the most it's a high insulin level that hurts you more if your glucose level is a little bit high okay that'd make like ate some of your proteins but it's temporary it's not going to hurt you in the long term but insulin will hurt you so that's her gone and for most of them after their fasted they feel a lot better and they they can come off insulin they should be able to come off in some but you can you know the trouble with physicians is and myself included we're so busy then ideally I'd like to see you going on a fast and then I'll see you today because we discussed it I'd like to see you again in a couple of days at least now if I'm going to stop your instant I might want you to take a blood sugar every day every day at least four times and report to my office call the office tell the nurse my sugar is doing this that that and have a very close follow-up on that trouble is that our system is so broken that most physicians can't do that really if they try to do that they'll go broke because there's no reimbursement for any of this stuff it's really terrible but that's what I'm saying keep click find a physician that you can at least talk with frequently when see frequently if you can't want to come off diabetes occasions now all the other medications blood pressure medication you should take everything else but you measure your blood pressure you gotta take things into your own hands because nobody is gonna do it except you you must take control of your life we have become a society where we go to the doctor and say fix me no you got to do it yourself you must take your blood sugars every day get your ketone sticks over there get your blood pressure machines start taking your blood pressures if your preparation starts going below 100 you call the DA tales of our prep it's just little Justin it'll be our base attack oh no stop the base attack good fine done and that's what happens actually so it's hard to predict who's going to talk the profession who's not but generally speaking you gotta be very vigilant and you need a doctor that you can quickly approach or a walk-in clinic that you can walk into that's why I have of my walking clinic right people can walk in and yeah the matter that might have to wait back please they're gonna be seen and if I'm tied up at least my practitioners will take care of the patients so your blood pressure will drop because you become volume depleted or because of of your physiology changing the physiology is changing them so your blood pressure is dropping so yeah you can come off look high blood pressure sugar high triglycerides and low HDL are all part of metabolic syndrome this makes metabolic syndrome better your your blood pressure will come down yes sugar will come down your tract this edge will come down and your HDL will go up I told you all before that the lipid abnormalities that you see very few of them are primary lipid abnormalities the rest are all reflections of your glucose metabolism that has gone haywire so the most important things to look for on your lipid panel is not your LDL it's your triglycerides and HDL and the ratio of HDL to triglycerides if it's off you have a sugar problem even though your sugar is good or your hemoglobin a1c is good if your triglycerides are high and your HDL low and the ratio is great than two you probably have like insulin levels and that needs to be determined and the treatment of high insulin levels today is faster changing your diet and doing intimate now what do I do six months download pigeon comes to me says oh I've lost all this weight look I feel great now I'm down on my medications I'm hardly taking anything now I will repeat his insulin if they are good I'll say you know what things are much better now you don't have to be so crazy about your diet anymore but automatically most of them still do time to stick to feeding because they love it they feel so good doing it so there if you go back to eating five days five times a day you know so you know so very important that we did this I wanted to mention something else - yes so the you know studies are very hard in humans but I wanted to show you one study that was done in monkeys about fasting so they took the monkeys the rhesus monkeys which would be very closely related to them they deserve more respect I think rhesus monkeys so they took the experimental group gave them 30 percent less calories the standard teaching for for weight loss 30 percent less calories right so 30 percent less calories and the control group they gave them milk protein corn oil sugar and unlimited feeding times pretty much like an American diet that is the control group and then what they did is they looked at the outcome at five years in these deceased monkeys there was 20% those who had restricted calories the 30% rested to terrorists they lived 26% more than the control group 50% less cardiovascular disease and greater than 90 percent no diabetes just by cutting calories down our food is so full of calories the more calories you eat the more disease you're gonna get this absolutely know that so now the NIH they don't want to be outdone so they did a study they also did 30% caloric restriction but in the control group now watch what they did in the control group they gave them plant proteins no animal protein except for little bit of fish 5% fat only so we gave them some fat 4% sugar in their diet and they will only fed twice a day and what did they find what do you think detected that did those monkeys do better than the 30% caloric restriction or do you think it was as good as the caloric restriction they do better yeah so so again it's your diet so just simply cutting down on 30% calories is not the way to go it's no longer calories in calories out it's how your body reacts to the calories and what calories go in it's your hormonal response how you respond hormonal e and how you respond to your genetic expression so be careful what goes past the tongue because that's going to determine your future and you know I always like questions and answers so I'm going to stop right there but today's main message is if you want to do a serious fast talk to somebody who knows a lot about fasting do it with somebody talk to your doctor if you own diabetes medications of blood medications if you want to simply replicate the Paleolithic way eat once a day or twice a day only do it in a time restricted fashion all of you can do it all of it you don't need medical permission to do that the only time I'm telling you to seek my help is if you know three day five day or seven day water fast or even more water fast all right and there's a lot of books that you all can read especially Jason thumb's book and and if there any other questions by the way as I said before this talk I'll put my slides in there and then post it on to YouTube Galen foundation wants to continue doing stuff like this so my next one I'm gonna talk about all sorts of things including sleep over the whole topic on sleep they're not being who improve your sleep this so I want to do that but you know Galen needs help as usual so any help you can give Galen foundation is really it's a pepper 1/3 C and if you know people who would like to help this type of organization ask them to help us out as well of course they can come to our talks and our websites as well

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Keywords: Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, Fasting, intermitant fasting, Insulin resistance, Galen Foundation, Pradip Jamnadas, Glucose intolerance, diabetes, low carb, low carb diet, ketosis, ketone, keto

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Length: 80min 58sec (4858 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2019

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[u/LandlordPapi18]

Literally just saw this and joined the sub because of it a few days ago

[u/Azsu]

I just need a kbbq every 3 days or so and I'm good

[u/thesleepingdog]

Wow. I'm only part way through, but I've used fasting as a tool for weight control and mental clarity for many years, and I'm learning a lot from this video! Excellent!

Would recommend!

[u/mrchong2you]

He's a terrific source of information. Highly recommend following him, listen to all of his posts

[u/AvsWon33]

I discovered this about 2 weeks ago, and have literally watched it 3 or 4 times. I've been fasting for over a year and when you get people asking about it it's hard sometimes to explain autophagy in a way that doesn't sound too good to be true and like it's all made up.

He does an awesome job of combining results of studies with explanations of the benefits (and WHY/HOW those benefits happen). Dr. Fung's lecture at a Crossfit deal used to be my go-to video when people asked for more info re: fasting. This is my new video. (though Dr. Fung's books are still an incredible resource--they're just not as quick for those with short attention spans).

[u/fryrat]

I know this guy personally. He talks like this all the time. Very informational and takes his time to explain.

[u/mohishunder]

But what if I want the special cream??

[u/AL-JA]

Its a very interesting lecture. One thing I am not sure about was when he was talking about electrolyte intake. He seems to suggest that you only need a minimal amount of salt intake during a fast. Other videos suggest alot more. Any first hand experience with taking on electrolytes during a fast?