What is the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)? – Dr. Berg

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I had another question from someone that wanted to know what do I think about the fasting mimicking diet okay so this is a diet that was developed by a guy by the name of Valter Longo okay and he has the patent on this program and basically you consume 800 calories for five days okay I have a certain diet and then you go back to your regular eating the rest of the month and then you do this each month for three months okay so you’re going to lose weight you’re going to have positive changes so the macros are 90 percent protein 44 percent fat and 47 percent carbs okay that’s way too high okay then we have this this meal pack you have this box of these powdered things and you’re going to mix them with water you have vegetable soup you have energy drinks energy bars chips snacks tea and you get supplements okay it’s $249 so I was able to find some of the ingredients there’s a couple things that I really don’t like in the minestrone and quinoa soup first of all has 5 grams of sugar and it contains rice flour and potato flakes it’s very high glycemic and then the elbahr Coco Crisp bar 3 grams of sugar it has inulin which produces a lot of gas brown rice sugar brown rice syrup rice dextran and grape juice okay yeah now the supplement is all synthetics and it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of natural anything and then supplement here’s what I have a problem with okay number one it’s way overpriced okay if you were just to replace this with really healthy ingredients it would be a lot better and a lot cheaper number two it contains sugar and low quality foods that stimulate insulin why would we want to even add those in there I have no idea number three it’s a low calorie diet it’s not fasting it’s a fasting mimicking program but it’s really not fasting so it’s really a low calorie diet and it’s very painful to do the people that are doing this are really suffering through it and the reason is because they don’t go through a nice gradual adaptation process they just cram you right in there and you really never adapt and because you’re eating less calories you’re going to lose weight and you’re gonna probably have some other benefits too but you’re not going to feel real good a much better way to do this would be to gradually go into keto and then combine in a minute fasting and slowly get your body to adapt to fat and then when you’re adapted to fat your hunger goes way down cravings go way down you have mental clarity and it’s not painful it’s very pleasurable but the thing that I really don’t like about this program is it just does not teach you healthy lifestyle changes okay you eat this food go back to your regular eating for a whole month and then you eat this diet for five days and you go back and you do that three times so what do you do after that so despite you losing some weight and having some benefits I think it’ll be much better if you get on the healthy ketosis and in a minute fasting more on a consistent basis and get educated so you can do this long-term and really be healthy thanks for watching so we’ve been getting a lot of success stories but I don’t have your success story yet so click the link down below and upload you before and after I want to actually hear about your success story I want to see your before-and-afters and every week we do featured success stories so click the link down below and share your success