Refeeding Dangers After Prolonged Fasting - Dr.Berg On Refeeding Syndrome

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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk about refeeding dangers after prolonged fasting okay so let’s say you do a fast for 48 72 hours a week or longer and then you have your first meal if you’re deficient going into this fast and you pig out and you have this huge meal you could risk the danger to your heart and to your overall electrolytes and you can actually faint you can pass out you can have even more serious side effects because what happens is that you’ve got your insulin levels so low by doing fasting that you’re going to eat and you’re going to spike your insulin it’s going to go way out okay you’re going to get this huge shift in electrolytes which are electrically charged minerals like potassium magnesium phosphates things like that you’re gonna have this huge shift inside the cell because insulin acts acts as a key to allow these minerals to go inside the cell the problem is you’re going to create a severe deficiency of these minerals in the blood in the plasma okay so you’re gonna get all sorts hyponatremia that’s low potassium in the blood because all these minerals have shifted inside the cell thus the intracellular shift so in the body you have this balance of minerals in the blood and inside the cell so we get a lot more minerals that go inside the cell and a lot less minerals that go inside the blood and then we get all these problems in the body so what you should do as your first meal is eat something very small like maybe a half of avocado maybe a little bit of broth with soup with sea salt maybe a little bit of egg and then wait a little bit and then have a little salad wait a little bit have a little bit more so you gradually put the food in your body that way you decrease the risk of any problems to the heart you know or any other parts of your body it’s also important to build up to these prolonged fasting periods so with a lot of nutrients in the body and and also let your body tell you when to do a prolonged fast so let’s say you’re gonna go for a period of time and you’re like just really you’re weak okay end off you know just eat a meal don’t keep going because you have to build up to a prolonged fast and you don’t want to just jump in and risk any type of problem so anyway I just wanted to create this video in this very important point and so when you refeed go real slow thanks for watching hey guys I want to introduce you to my new doctor Berg app it’s right here it’s I’m really excited about it you need to download it it’s free has a lot of great data has all my videos it’s updated on a regular basis I also have the audio version of the videos audio episodes I also have a mini course that you can take I also have a button for new content so you can really know of all the recent content that I’m downloading and I also have something called PDF resources which gives you additional cool little one-page PDF documents on all sorts of health things so download it check it out and tell me what you think about it and don’t forget to give me a review it’s dr. Berg app