Why do a 5-Day Juice Fast/Cleanse (with fasting expert Tim Altman)

so what you'll find is your immune system will be much more robust you're much less likely to get crook you'll recover better between training because at a cellular level you're functioning better mentally you'll be sharper definitely in that case sleep cycles are always better when you when your system is clean so you're basically cleaning your body out it said that out we take about 3% about daily energy spent on digestion and so when you have a rest from that for a while you it's like your body it's like a it's like a service in tune of your car you know all right had some serious trying to find a park rage and buy time here in South Melbourne just parked a car late for an appointment and really essentially what I want to do is bring you along on a little visit I've decided to do a five-day fast now initially I was planning on doing a water fast but I've spoken with an expert his name's Tim I'm about to introduce you to him and he's suggesting you get the same benefits out of doing a juice fast so it looks like that's what I'm gonna do we never chat with him now about it the reason why I'm going to do it is one a five-day fast apparently is very good for cleansing your whole body your mind get yourself laser sharp focus a lot of my subscribers will know that I'm planning on a big block of training to win an A grade criterium but in addition it's very very good for strengthening your immune system now in the past when I've done these big blocks of training but kids got a busy lifestyle got a job when you start training really hard your immune system really starts to lower and you're susceptible to catching something now if I catch something me and I'm out of action for a week two or three whilst training to try and achieve this goal that could be a major hindrance so going through this process of getting clarity in my body strengthening my immune system could be instrumental to helping me achieve this goal so we're gonna go over chat with Tim now and he's going to walk me through the process of what this five-day juice fast looks like [Music] so tell us a little bit about who you are and how you got into fasting yeah well I was I got into a many many years ago back in the mid 90s I was a like yourself I was I don't know if you called the word forward an athlete I was a paddler so I paddled by Groton life-saving and then paddled kayaks and I was training in the late eighties early nineties I was training full-time with the I to national team selection and Olympic selection and what have you and I started I got crook and first hit me to around 88 the winter of 88 and then it started to get sort of but went away and then it started to get progressively work worse over a period of time and I got what I understand now what was what I dealt with was what we would call chronic fatigue syndrome now but in those days they really didn't know us much about it and I've been sent to our dean doctors you know because I was in various and haisa stuff like that I'd been said all sorts of doctors and they'd all say well there's nothing wrong because nothing was coming up and then got that bad in the end I've went up north thinking that would make a difference and it got that bad in the end and I I kept trying to train through and that just kept pushing they're sort of pushing it and it was not working very well until I surrendered and stopped training and came back to Melbourne and so one or think you know warm weather might make it better but it didn't and came back to Melbourne and didn't all corden exercise I got to the point in the end where I was working because I had a mortgage and and I just I'd get dizzy I'd walk ever walk up straight like a dizzy and I was always tired and I was always crook so I understand now I had chronic fatigue syndrome the doctors couldn't help I was lucky to get a doctor who in the end said I know what you're dealing with and I can't help you just go up to rest and hopefully it'll get better in it I didn't and then I was lucky to stumble into a a Russian courtesy of an old coach a Russian doctor who was brought out to Australia on a scientific exchange with the via the CSIRO who he's a research biochemist and a doctor of medicine in Russia and he'd researched all sorts of natural medicine techniques and medicine techniques and Russia and then B he was a practicing as a a practitioner of Medicine in Russia and he made a decision at one stage to walk away from using any pharmaceuticals and his treatments and only used natural medicines and natural medicine techniques and he then came to Australia and this is scientific exchange and stayed here any practices now as a I guess a natural medicine practitioner and he's very well known for chronic illness and his name's dr. Saul tunnel he works downstairs here okay so he works a lot with the chronic illnesses yeah and I'm with me here um I went and saw him and fasting was part of the treatment not initially I had to he work be built me up into it but it was the last part of that treatment and the treatment involved a lot of other things like herbs that I prepared each day and what I understand is blood cleansing right over bath and I have to increase the temperature of the bath while I was in it and then get out and wrap myself up and in a heated room and sweat basic was 45 minutes like college sauna therapy and then and then I did a fast for two weeks or 16 days so I was that was a water as much water as I wanted and a couple of small juices a day and pretty much that was he yeah and well the first five days were tough because well I've never seen I'd never heard of it I guess but I never really it was really not was not very certainly not except in the Western world now like it started to become a lot more popular in those days people when I tell people is what I was had been told to do they were like this ridiculous it's dangerous and I the first five days were tough partly cuz part of it was fear and I got till that day ten and I've started to feel better than I ever felt in my life and after right and I know I actually said I want to keep going and he said none of them we're shutting you down at two weeks and so I'm then the reintroduction of a food program was probably about four weeks and so he's very very thorough on how you reintroduce food so the program is you know it was amazingly thorough and I look at now the Western fuss that I've seen and his programs are more thorough they also you involved enemas basically the idea there was to clean the other end as well as you know if you stop supply at this end you've got to clean the other end otherwise you know if you're going to be thorough about it a lot of people are spooked by that initially but once you do it that's actually it's no faster it's nothing your self-administer it's nothing so I did all of that and I felt better than I'd ever felt in my life not only was I do I feel better but I felt better clarity better my mental focus was amazing so I thought mine was like a laser it was amazing how long have you been now coaching people through fasting holiness I may be twenty years Wow yeah okay and Fran for somebody like me I don't have chronic 50:47 situation I'm looking to set a foundation yep in order to take my training to the next level through fasting what are some of things I can expect to achieve well you know the same principles apply when treating chronic illness you're trying to take them out of that but the same principles apply when you're getting a person who's apparently normal health which I wouldn't most what we accept as normal helpful I wouldn't call ideal but what we're looking to do it's the same process but we're taking you exploring optimal and most people don't touch on that very much what you'll expect in terms of results from experience will be once again better energy levels give them the training program you want to you're going to go through and you're going to push a product I particularly when you're combining work family life and training solidly you live on the edge immune system was anyone trains pretty solidly knows that you've got to be you know you go look after yourself because you can get cooked so what you'll find is your immune system will be much more robust you're much less likely to get crook you'll recover bed between training because the cellular level you're functioning better mentally you'll be sharper definitely that case sleep cycles are always better when you when your system is clean so you're basically cleaning your body out it said that out we take about three percent of our daily energy spent on digestion and so when you have a rest from that for a while you it's like your body it's like a it's like a service in Tunisia car you know the car functions better that's what we're doing we just don't do that to our bodies as much yeah so when I first contacted you I was talking about a water fast five they were fast but you said actually we would recommend that and you get the same physiological benefits out of a juice fast you just briefly explain that Oh depending on the situation or depends for where you're at there's no there's no there's not necessarily added benefit for you if you're a person coming to me with really chronic illness then we might get okay we need a deeper level of cleanse but that's you know what you do within the scope of that fast is also a lot more restricted child water fast yeah you know you it's a lot harder like every time I've done a fast a two-week fast and the first part I did was a fast with a couple of juices a day like what you're going to do I was able to while what I was doing forward then was I was able to work through it you know it wasn't physical work so I was able to continue working and I've done five or six extended fast since and I've able to being able to work right through I've been able to do mild exercise right through no going for a run no doing weights no high-intensity stuff but a good walk each day we just did some tests yeah so you wanna just walk us through why we did those tests okay and in the process that I'm going to go through high level unconscious at your rugged a write a proper detail program for me just my level what's going to what I'm going to be doing over the next five days and then that sort of reintroduction process yep so in the lead up we do it I'm monitor with bioimpedance testing which is technology that comes from hospitals it's used in hospitals with Pediatrics and with patient people a patient to a Edwyn long term and it measures changes in their body composition but we can also get measurements for sale a health level of toxicity or inflammation in your system efficiency that cells produce energy and there's a theoretical measure for biological age which is always an interesting one so I use this testing a lot for weight loss but we also use it in detox programs and cleanse programs like fasting if it was a person because I know you've got a history in sport then I I'm not if it was a person who came to me off the street now and they're not really active then I would also do things like blood testing and I might send him to the doctor for four bloods prior but a lot of time if they're sick they'd come to me I've got a lot of that anyway but in your case I haven't done all of that because you would have fallen over in your training anyway in a sense that that would have tripped you up if it was a problem so we're using the by impedance it's it just gives really good information and it gives you an idea of what's going on with your body and the sort of when you start to clean out and when a we find when your extracellular water levels drop which I'll go into later there that corresponds with the time you start to feel really good so I've monitored people and extended fast and watch the changes in their body and there seems to be a pattern whereby yeah when they're when the level of toxicity reduces from the test there is correspondent then you feel good and that for some person might be right a start on a thousand four and go right through and other people might feel like charge for a fair while or for a few days and then feel good so everyone's different and so that's what the testing it's um we use it in clinic yeah I've got really effective it's good objective measurement yeah and then so the process that I'm going to go through these five days yeah what a high level what does that look like yeah yeah I know and I will say this if we're on camera now that most people freak about that but and that's but I actually think it's really really important and I know from the Russian research that's one of the that's very very important the idea behind it is that if you've as I mentioned for your your your stopping intake of food so your body is going to start eating your own stores and we don't want it to be then trying to access stores or save things lining like my bow for example you know so if I've got you might have a you know accumulate a bit of debris and that and so if we can clean you at both ends then you're going to function better and I have read and heard stuff where people who don't do that process might have diarrhea and stuff for a few days whereas you don't get that within a process because we're cleaning it going out it I think the thing with enemies is that particularly with blokes it's um it's more a mental thing once you've done it once you go home what was all the fuss about that was the first when I first got told it's like right first you're telling me I can't hate for two weeks now you're telling me I've got to do I've got to put this children and I was just like are you crazy yeah and then I went and did it was like it's nothing and I felt really clean yeah but you'll be careful how you do it say with fasting you've got to do it properly there's a lot of programs out there online that can be good but they can also be hit and miss and so we that's why we do it supervised yeah okay and day to day two juices a day similar program each day's you can have a couple of herbal teas a day and you can have as much water as you want similar program each day we lead in the night before so meal no later than 7:00 p.m. the day before and each day is pretty similar and then and then so that'll be five days for you and then we'll roll you out the other part that I think that needs work in a lot of programs I've seen you know from you know the West so to speak those programs is the reintroduction of food is as important as a fast if you rush that you can mess the whole process up for you in for example you can create a blood sugar level issue you know but introducing sugars too quickly but your gut you've given your gut a rest your stomach will shrink and it will become quite sensitive so reintroducing food slowly is really important everyone's in a hurry man when I finished it fast I want to get onto our MRI now you know no you go to take your time so we'll have it'll be a ten day reintroduction before you a what I would consider what you might consider eating normally before those first few days of coming out of the files yeah it's Ross you don't even show balls from that three days four days yeah so the first days of broth and you throw away the veggies and you're just having that the broth beginning you know two liters of broth a day so 220 200 mil ten times second days of juice same deal just having a lot more juice and then you go into a really dilute sort of priority type thing with and it's got a few other veggies and things like that and herbs to stimulate digestion and stimulate your power function and gut function again and how we're going to work together so this is this is my first session yeah you're gonna put a program together then I start the asked say like okay like next week had a way sort of work with each other yeah you we ought to start it by the time you need to see the program within a day or two it's the process that we do is you know obviously when you came in there are questions I will ask about your health and where you're at what your history particularly and then we work out a program it depends on the type of time of year what you know what comprises your juices then I'll give you a program and then it will include everything in your introduction to food everything you do at each you know there are certain times of the day as you do certain things and so we'll give you the whole program and that fits around your lifestyle and around me you're at and then you go away and work and so we'll catch up first session we'll catch up probably either during the fast or just before you finish the fast so probably day for to work through your reintroduction to food and if it can't be done in person we can do it online so that were that phase definitely be good to do a bioimpedance test there which will need to be in person then we'll do another test at the end of a week of reintroduction and then probably another one after you know we could do a test another week after that or you can make it a two or three weeks after that or cutler weeks after and just to see like last time I fasted I lost 10 kilos I was reasonably lean already a little bit to lose but I lost 10 kilos and all that it was about same amounts of water muscle and fat yeah so you know in losing that much muscle it took me I can I can base it up with my exercise like paddle with a squad on the river and it took me about two months take two months to three months after the fast to get back to being where I was before maybe a couple of months because I dropped muscle I was you know I dropped a bit of speed you know but it after a couple of months I was fine and my system was working so much better was was worth doing it for for a bit of short-term drop-in you know or not some nice performance and this is not something you do in them in a week leading up to a major intermittent fasting is a completely different subject because you're not going extended period you know going and I don't do any intermittent faster that's longer than 36 hours yeah so that's for cleansing and it's for our purposes but for a long a fast there it's probably the I would say the most thorough version of a detox you ever do without a doubt but it's or cleanse that you could do it's like giving your body a restart yeah but you just need to pick the time so when you're in base training for a cure [Music]

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Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 30 2018