Can Teens Do Fasting? - Dr. Berg on Intermittent Fasting

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okay so add another question is it okay for a teen to do fasting okay let’s cover this and sometimes you hear some negative things about it like oh my gosh no you don’t want to you don’t want to deprive teenagers of carbohydrates because you know this reason or that reason that is totally not true like you really want to keep your teens consuming a lot of carbohydrates so we can keep excessive amounts of insulin up there’s so much harm that happens when you raise your insulin way above normal it’s very unhealthy so anytime someone says something negative or as a naysayer ask them about the dangers of insulin why aren’t they focusing on that so this is what I would recommend to start out with any teen you know you start off with just skipping the breakfast usually when you ask a teen are you hungry when you wake up for breakfast a lot of times they’ll say no well then don’t eat go as long as you can work up to it gradually to the point where you just skip the whole breakfast and then you have other people say well now our breakfast is the most important meal of the day and you have to eat it and I’m like who ever told you that well okay guilty I’ve actually was in my first book but I found that that was not a good idea so you do want to skip the breakfast this is not the most important meal of the day so if you had your team consume food at 12:00 and then at 6:00 that would give them an 18 hour fasting period that would be huge that would give them so many benefits cognitive function elevation of mood if they have anxiety or depression it’ll bring them right up they’ll lose weight their acne will go away I wish I would have known about this when I was a teenager I had really bad acne I didn’t know what to do I just thought that I just need to scrub the skin harder with soap that advice didn’t work but you want to make sure you do it healthily you don’t want to just do fasting you want to do healthy keto with fasting you don’t want to just eat junk food you want to do lots of greens to provide the nutrients huge salads realize that you’re not starving your team you would have to really have them do it a longer period of time and not give them any nutrients so that’s not happening then the next question is will it stunt their growth well I have a question out of anything that you could possibly do what is the Act or thing that you can do that will increase the most growth hormone yes it’s fasting so fasting will spike growth hormone more than any other activity including exercise you can stimulate growth hormone by 1300 percent in women and up to 2,000 percent in men I mean growth hormone actually helps you grow as a team it’s good for weight loss as well so you want to provide the nutrients from the healthy Kido so they have everything they need and we’re not reducing the calories okay so you want to make sure that your teen has all enough healthy foods we’re not depriving them of calories and we’re just depriving them of the frequency of eating that’s all we’re doing we’re just having them eat less frequent The Hunger goes away the cravings go away they feel better they’re sharper mentally in school if you load them with the carbs they’re going to be tired through the day they’re going to want to take naps they’re going to be kind of doping off and falling asleep in school like a lot of kids do okay so electrolytes are important B vitamins are important sea salt these are the three things are a must for any team in fact anyone that’s doing fasting so there you have it there’s the summary and even if your child’s not trying to lose weight I think it’s a really good idea to do this for other benefits mainly for brain function and for health reasons thanks for watching if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos