The Proven Benefits of Prolonged Fasting: 7 Critical Things You Need to Know

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i’m going to share several critical things about prolonged fasting that you need to know fasting is very simple okay it shouldn’t be that hard some people overthink it and those things that are really simple are usually extremely powerful and that’s what fasting is i mean it’s actually mind-blowing to think that the absence of food just not eating can create so many powerful effects and if you haven’t tried it you should definitely try it in order to understand the benefits of fasting you want to compare it to another subject and usually a subject that would be the opposite okay and that would be snacking okay if you look at what snacking does to the human body it is absolutely positively devastating in fact i think out of all the things that you can do that create a negative influence on your body snacking is at the top of the list because of what it does to insulin it’s a chronic increase in elevation of insulin which then leads to just a million other problems i mean when you think about it i guess i’ll just pull this up right here real quick i don’t think you can ever heal the body with eating frequent meals okay we have this idea that you have to heal the body with food right like food is nourishing actually it might be nourishing but to really heal you’re better off not eating um this idea that breakfast is the most important meal is a total lie and i used to promote it before i learned otherwise what about promoting like bedtime snacks for kids right or after school snacks or this advice that you should never miss a meal right which i have no idea who started that well actually i do it’s the snack food industry that started that and for some reason this snacking food industry just doesn’t like me for some reason i don’t know why it is so if we look at snacking snacking actually makes you more hungry because you’re eating a small amount of calories and you’re stimulating insulin and that lowers your blood sugar about an hour and a half later so you’re going to stimulate hunger not stimulate your metabolism okay you’re going to stimulate hunger when you snack and it’s going to promote more hunger okay so and you’re never ever going to fix hypoglycemia by eating these snacks because it just it keeps that hypoglycemic low blood sugar thing going on and on and on in fact it actually slows your metabolism or shall i say slows your ability to lose weight because you develop insulin resistance because you have this constant increase of insulin and also it’s going to promote a need for a nap okay right after you eat you’re going to feel like you need a nap and you may find that eating does reduce moodiness and grouchiness but soon after about an hour later when your blood sugars are dropped you’re going to revert back to this moodiness now in history a lot of great thinkers have commented on fasting and had something to say about fasting hippocrates said to eat when you are sick is to fuel your illness fascinating right and then we have the ancient greek philosophers right the great thinkers pythagoras pythagoras required fasting of his students okay so they can think more clearly plato aristotle were advocates of fasting ben franklin said the best of all medicine is rest and fasting mark twain said a little starvation can really do more for the average sick person than the best medicine and the best doctors and another very interesting point about your fat okay your adipose tissue where did it come from why did we develop this fat tissue that you hate so much well we developed it from scarcity of food okay food scarcity and what this fat really is it’s a it’s an efficient way of surviving it’s a way to make your energy very efficient and when some people express that they have a damaged or slow or ruined metabolism what they really have is an efficient metabolism because now the body can go with just a little bit of food for long periods of time and that fat is retained so fat is all about prolonging fuel it’s all about helping you survive when there’s no food so therein lies the secret to losing fat okay can you do it by adding more food by eating something no you want to mimic why we developed it in the first place we want to mimic starvation but not really starvation i want to actually kind of clarify what i mean by a mimic okay the difference between fasting and starvation really has to do with one thing control who’s in control when you’re fasting you’re in control when you’re starving you’re usually being controlled by the environment because there’s no food so if we were going to mimic starvation we’re really being in control because we could eat if we want right and so the secret to getting rid of your fat really is just to do prolonged fasting okay the power of prolonged fasting is just remarkable for your health so let’s go through the seven critical things that you need to know okay the first thing i want to mention is that when you do fasting you really only want to drink water you can have tea you can have some coffee but you definitely want to take supplements and the reason is because nowadays people are so deficient in nutrients so even though when you go through fasting your body adapts and becomes very efficient at holding nutrients and the requirement of nutrients is a lot less you could still have certain deficiencies of both trace minerals especially and other things like electrolytes and even the b vitamins so i recommend taking your supplements and the two main categories of supplements i would recommend are the electrolytes and the b vitamins but of course if you can also do some other ones like vitamin d vitamin c that would be important what you don’t want to do is you don’t want to do like branch chain amino acids you don’t want to have little snacks no you don’t want to do that and there are some programs that promote that but i don’t recommend that because what you’re going to do is you’re going to inhibit this very powerful thing that gives you huge benefits okay called autophagy what is that that is a condition it’s not a thing it’s a condition in your body that basically recycles old damaged proteins okay so fasting is the most potent trigger to autophagy and so autophagy is kind of like self-cleaning it’s cleaning up the old dead proteins it’s cleaning up pathogens in the body it’s stimulating all sorts of genes for long-term survival and longevity it helps to clean up damaged mitochondria which is directly behind the root cause of cancer so this is why prolonged fasting is the best solution to cancer and if you have not seen my videos on two amazing success stories with cancer like stage four cancer i’m gonna put those down below but it’s very powerful so autophagy is a condition where you’re recycling like damaged protein i’m talking about amyloid plaquing that’s involved in alzheimer’s talking about the um the damaged protein involved in chronic disease like in your eyes like from diabetes from chronic inflammation and by the way when you start doing prolonged fasting you can just erase any inflammation in the body and it’s amazing for autoimmune type conditions as well so we’re recycling damaged proteins not just your muscles but proteins involved in the enzymes the all the different metabolic pathways the things that are damaged it cleans all that up so just make sure you do uh your water you know a couple other things like tea and coffee in your supplements but nothing else okay the other thing i want to bring up is the amount of water i would recommend at least two and a half liters of water now there are dry fast and that’s a whole different thing but for most of you watching i i don’t recommend you do that do a water fast so you’re basically drinking a good amount of water what’s interesting about doing a fast your body will make its own water out of