The Connection Between Fasting & Chronic Inflammation Explained! – Dr.Berg

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so today we’re going to talk about using fasting to rid chronic inflammation now inflammation has a couple purposes one it’s there to repair injury so you sprain an ankle inflammation comes in there to help bring all sorts of immune cells to help repair the action and also to bring in scar tissue as a part of the healing process then you have a defense mechanism against infection so you have certain microbes bacteria yeast Candida nano bacteria which are various very small microbes mycoplasma which is a kind of a microbe without a cell wall it uses information to help contain these microbes let’s seeyou the sinus allergy where your immune system is generating this mucus to help contain the pollen or dust or grass particles which your body is considering a threat to these it’s survival and then you have food allergies right where people are allergic to all these different foods and in this video I’m not going to get into why you created the algae in the first place the fact is that if you have food allergy every time you eat it you’re creating inflammation over and over and over so all this inflammation generates scar tissue in the lungs in the joints and the liver because you can go from hepatitis which is inflammation liver to cirrhosis and the also get scar tissue from actual plaquing in the arteries from some type of inflammatory condition in your vascular system now when you go from acute inflammation to chronic inflammation this is where it’s inappropriate okay chronic inflammation does you no good it has no long-term survival benefit in fact if you take autoimmune conditions for example you have your own body attacking itself and you have all this collateral damage that’s going on so people are forced to take prednisone and steroids because cortisol suppresses an over-reactive immune system and this is why people take prednisone for example for all these allergy reactions and autoimmune conditions and skin conditions which are inflammatory and people take these because the adrenal glands are wore out no longer can you make this adrenal hormone anymore so your adrenal glands are exhausted so you have to bypassed the body and give it the steroids directly the longer you have inflammation in your body the more insulin resistance you get as well so there’s a huge connection between inflammation and insulin resistance okay which is a pre-diabetic situation and also cancer spreads into areas of inflammation or old injury which is very interesting okay so now that you got that what can we do about it well fasting fasting is the most powerful thing you can do to turn off chronic inflammation now if you injure yourself and you have normal inflammation fasting is not going to get rid of the normal inflammation fasting turns off certain genes related to inflammation so picture this you have your genetics which is like the hardware which doesn’t really change but you also have the software that controls the expression of certain genes and the term for that is epigenetics which means above genetics it’s the software that causes the expression of these genes and that relates to your environment your food your nutrition your stress level exercise when you eat when you don’t eat but fasting turns off the genes that causes inflammation now if you have an autoimmune condition there’s a couple things you can do to turn that off number one you can fast okay or number two you can get pregnant so apparently pregnancy also turns off the same gene so you have a couple choices you can either stay pregnant keep having kids each year after year or you can do fasting now you can also take vitamin D because vitamin D acts like cortisol in the body which is an anti-inflammatory but fasting done correctly which I always recommend doing intermittent fasting and then gradually working into longer fast and then doing periodic prolonged fasting especially if you have autoimmune conditions because it’s the inflammation that creates all the damage and if you can get rid of the inflammation problem solved fasting also bolsters and increases your antioxidant Network your body actually makes antioxidants so fasting will increase this to repair the damage from the inflammation also if you’re fasting and you don’t have as much inflammation your dreams don’t have to work so hard so your adrenal glands can start to recover fasting is very therapeutic for the adrenal glands plus when you get rid of this hyper immune response your histamines go down your energy goes up but if you have any chronic inflammation in your body you need to learn more about it and try it it will work if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos