Dramatically Spike BRAINPOWER with an 18 Hour Fast

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you know it just never ceases to amaze me how much improvement you can create to your brain doing fasting but there is a sweet spot uh you’re going to have to fast for at least 18 hours and so you’ll have an eating window of six hours and a fasting span of 18 hours to really see some major improvements in your brain so it’s not hard you just skip breakfast first meal is at 12 second meal is at six or it could be first meal eleven in the morning second meal at five or first meal at one o’clock and the second meal at seven and that means no snacking during your fasting you can eat during your eating window but i would recommend just having two meals one at lunch one at dinner and if that’s a problem if you’re still hungry definitely add more fat at the end of the meal whether it’s a big handful of nuts pecans or or macadamia nuts or some other types of fat now one of the reasons i’m doing this video is simply because there’s so much bad information of what to eat when you get off the fast if you have any problem with your brain dementia add seizures parkinson’s alzheimer’s so let’s just dive right in here now you have ketones right the benefits of ketones for your brain and there’s other benefits i want to talk about but ketones in general are very very therapeutic to your brain sometimes you’ll hear this argument that the brain only is can live on sugar or glucose and ketosis is dangerous that is completely absolutely positively not true your brain prefers ketones if given the choice between a ketone or a glucose molecule as fuel the brain will choose the ketones over glucose there are three ways to make ketones you can make ketones by going the ketogenic diet by reducing your carbs and eating more fat and so some of the fat you eat will be turning in the ketones if you keep your carbs low another way to produce ketones is just fasting now you’re not going to eat anything so your body will go after your fat reserve and turn your own fat into ketones the benefit of doing fasting compared to the ketogenic diet is that you’re going to produce a lot more ketones you’ll get deeper into ketosis and you’ll have a lot of other additional benefits that extend beyond ketones you’ll have certain genes that will be expressed just merely from the fact of not eating and creating that mild stress on the body which then compensates and produces all these magical wonderful things to your brain our bodies our brains have evolved from not eating starvation so we have all sorts of genes that help us survive when we don’t have food i mean think about way back before we had the oil can eat buffets i mean there are days that we didn’t eat and if there wasn’t food available we would die so what happens is our brain becomes smarter it becomes more focused it improves when we don’t eat so then we can find food to eat and a lot of people will never discover this unless they try fasting and then they’ll find out wow i feel so much better your mood your cognitive function improves and then they’re hooked so our brains are majorly benefited by ketones by gene expression from doing fasting and when you exercise you will generate ketones as well and another major benefit of fasting is that you are reducing glucose in the diet and that alone greatly reduces the destruction the oxidation of what glucose does to your neurons in your brain into your nerve cells not to mention a lot of other tissues and so the reality is that a lot of people have actual damage to their brains from a high carb diet from the chronic exposure to glucose because what glucose does to your neurons is it destroys your neurons and then your neurons can no longer absorb glucose so they can’t get fuel and the fact that the person never goes on a ketogenic diet or or doesn’t lower their carbs starves them even more because if you don’t lower your carbs you’re dependent on the glucose which you can’t absorb and so the cells can’t get energy or atp so it’s really the lack of the fuel that the neurons need that destroy the brain so when you switch over your fuel source the neuron finally can get fuel and ketones bypass this damage and feed the neurons directly also the support cells it’s called the glial cells one specifically being an astrocyte helps feed the neuron so if you never do fasting never do the ketogenic diet unfortunately these cells have a very difficult time getting fuel thus all the complications uh that come with diabetes to the nervous system to your brain you have diabetic induced dementia you have diabetic neuropathy that that’s damage to the nerve cells because what happens is all this glucose destroys the the capillaries the blood flow to the nerves and so the first nerves that show a problem are the nerves on the bottom of your feet that’s why you get peripheral neuropathy like numbness burning on your feet and then your hands and then it destroys the capillaries to the eyes which happen to feed the retina which is a nerve it’s an extension of the brain that’s the term diabetic retinopathy and then there’s one more thing i want to mention there’s a part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system okay and when you have diabetes which is a high sugar situation or condition you could develop something called diabetic autonomic neuropathy and that’s quite interesting because a lot of people don’t talk about it but i’m going to go through the different conditions that this can manifest as okay number one a high pulse rate okay because the autonomic nervous system controls the the heart okay you can also have exercise intolerance because you can’t adapt to it because the autonomic nervous system is all about helping the body adapt to stress and exercises and stress you also have another condition called orthostatic hypotension that’s a condition where you stand up and you you get dizzy or you could even pass out a severe condition of that is called pots and so one of the remedies at least a temporary remedy is benfotamine which is a vitamin b1 because b1 greatly improves the complications of diabetes uh insulin resistance and problems with insulin in general but ultimately if you have orthostatic hypotension you need to get off the carbs for sure and then we have another condition called gastroparesis which is a condition of that affects the autonomic nervous system to the point where everything moves very very slowly through your digestive tract okay that comes from destruction of the autonomic nervous system another condition would be constipation because if the nerves that go to the smooth muscle of your colon are not working you’re not going to be able to digest and everything is going to be very sluggish and you have another condition called esophageal disc motility which is a fancy term for you you get regurgitation up into your esophagus from the stomach or heartburn acid reflux that type of thing you can also have chest pain or a feeling that food is stuck in your throat and you might have difficulty swallowing all those conditions can stem from a problem with your autonomic nervous system because of the way the blood sugars have affected that part of the nervous system but you don’t necessarily have to be a diabetic to have those conditions because you could literally be a pre-diabetic or you could have severe insulin resistance and have some of those symptoms as well the reason i’m bringing that up because if you have similar symptoms you need to change your diet but let’s just kind of go through some of the amazing effects of fasting on your brain number one it slows down the age-related brain decline and brain-related diseases like alzheimer’s parkinson’s things like that so fasting slows down the aging brain and it helps to reverse damage to the brain from these other chronic conditions fasting also allows the brain cells to finally get th