Key Nutrients and Herbs for Fasting

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so today we’re going to talk about what type of nutrients you should take when you do a fast now when you’re doing intermittent fasting on a daily basis it’s less important than when you’re doing prolonged fasting like 48 72 hours or even much longer what you have to realize is that most people going into a fast are already deficient of some nutrient so fasting basically exaggerates that deficiency what we’re trying to avoid when we’re doing a fast is to avoid certain nutritional deficiencies that create symptoms like dizziness fainting fatigue a rash that’s developed some muscle cramp leg cramp some palpitation in your heart or a heart arrhythmia or feeling cold now this is a topic that has a lot of different variables you have a person’s overall diet before they started a fast they might have been on a diet with high nutrient dense foods for years or maybe they’re a diabetic or pre-diabetic where they have insulin resistance and then if there’s certain goals that you have let’s say for example you have an autoimmune disease you have a lot of inflammation in the body or let’s say you’re trying to improve your immune system to fight off some cancer having these nutrients in your body while you’re doing fasting i think is a really good idea of course this goes against the true definition of a fast where you’re basically eating nothing taking nothing except you’re drinking water but if you’re consuming nutrients and or herbs there’s not going to be very many calories involved so it’s not going to necessarily bump you out of ketosis it’s not going to affect the benefits of fasting too much and not just by preventing a nutrient deficiency but providing nutrients that enhance the antioxidant networks in your body your body makes antioxidants and you can also get them from your diet those nutrients can enhance your own body’s antioxidant network this definitely applies to if someone has inflammation or even they’re trying to handle cancer because you’re getting a tremendous amount of free radical damage and we know fasting already will help that but if we compound that with certain nutrients i think we can actually even have a bigger impact as a very minimum if you’re doing fasting number one and number two i think our requirements taking electrolytes especially a good amount of potassium magnesium sodium and chloride this is salt and then you have the b vitamins you can get these through nutritional yeast which will not provide very many calories but can provide a natural source of the b vitamins you don’t want to do the synthetic versions and then the longer you fast the more you’re going to need additional nutrients especially trace minerals and especially zinc selenium and iodine because you don’t have a mechanism in your body that you can store zinc for probably more than about a couple days since a lot of people are already deficient in zinc selenium and iodine doing a fast will really make them deficient so trace minerals are also very very important and then you have vitamin d now normally we do store vitamin d for a period of time it’s a fat soluble vitamin but most people are deficient in vitamin d going into a fast this would be a really important one to get as a supplement or get it from the sun if you took cod liver oil you would get not only vitamin d you would also get vitamin a at the same time as well as dha and epa which are omega-3 fatty acids so that’s why i like cod liver oil and then we have vitamin c you have usually about two weeks of vitamin c reserve in your body so it really depends on what you eat when you eat to whether you have enough vitamin c in your reserve you also have vitamin e you have k2 that are also very important but these two categories right here are a must and then these are also important if you’re going longer and longer now there are two nutrients that you probably don’t need when you’re doing a fast number one is iron most people especially men have way too much iron it could eventually lead to cirrhosis or scar tissue of your liver and you can have fatigue arthritis and the list goes on and on so i definitely do not recommend taking any type of iron supplements calcium is another mineral that i think a lot of people have too much of but it could be other factors too like they don’t have enough k2 to transport the calcium and these are two minerals that usually most people have too much of so we don’t want to supplement them there’s another thing i want to talk about which i already mentioned but i want to elaborate on it and that’s taking herbal supplements or certain food concentrates when you’re doing a fast for the antioxidant benefits and a lot of the phytonutrients which are not essential but they’re an extra thing that gives some really amazing added benefits to your health number one if you have diabetes or some autoimmune disease or whatever those can target the free radical damage and minimize the collateral damage from those free radicals they can bring down inflammation there’s so many benefits including anti-cancer benefits so we have green tea and there’s other types of tea that will create some similar effects as well garlic and capsules will give you some real strong anti-viral and anti-cancer effects and then you have the wheatgrass juice powder which is a super concentrated amount of chlorophyll carotenoids a lot of other nutrients and then of course you have turmeric which you can get in a powder or a supplement there’s a lot of different things you can take these are four real good ones but when you’re fasting why not do things that will compound your results and give you more benefits alright guys so if you haven’t seen my video on all the side effects to fasting and the remedies i put that video up right here check it out