Why Fasting Is MORE Important than Diet

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you know boy my viewpoint and intermittent fasting has gone from all the way over here to all the way over here at one time when someone mentioned fasting I’m like what is that going to do fasting it’s not going to help you and then when I started looking into it I’m like wow fasting is the most important thing you can do for your health out of all the things and I’m going to talk about why that is I mean if you look at fasting from a scale of what can a person do to create more health it’s right at the top of the list it’s more important than what you eat it’s more important than exercise I mean when you think about the survival mechanism in our bodies right we have developed some serious biochemistry relating to preventing dying from starvation preventing uh being frozen to death also preventing being eaten by lions by running away so we have this fasting we have cold therapy we have exercise that tends to mimic how our bodies develop these survival mechanisms so when you do fasting you directly trigger all these amazing survival genes and this involves pretty much every part of your body every part of your body starts to improve I mean if you compare the environment that we used to be in which is not frequent eating to the environment now which is grazing all day long you can see the problem I mean today is the day after Christmas okay now yesterday there was food available all day long and it wasn’t unhealthy food but it was just a lot of food and I grazed pretty much all day long and I can tell you I don’t feel very good I don’t feel good when I eat in a constant way so when you start fasting you know the first thing you do is you give up your snacks and then the second thing you do is you tend to let that breakfast go away you go as long as you can until you can get to that first meal which is roughly maybe at lunchtime and then you wait until dinner and then you eat and then you don’t snack and yes you can have coffee you can have tea you can drink liquids just make sure it’s not like juice or sodas or anything sweet or anything of any calories now typically everyone fasts when they’re sleeping right uh why would you want to mess up the whole fasting by eating breakfast many people are not hungry in the morning unless they eat a little something and then they’ll be hungry an hour and a half so eating does cause you to be hungry but if you don’t give into that and you start fasting you start to to repair your pancreas the pancreas has taken a beating from all this frequent eating all the carbohydrates so the little cells that regulate insulin called the beta cells are really the cell that gets hammered the most when we eat a lot of carbs and we eat very frequently and so it’s pumping out all this insulin all the time and rarely does anyone actually test the insulin they look at the blood sugar and basically 10 to 20 30 years your blood sugar could be normal but in the background you have this massive insulin Spike okay but you don’t really test that over time your body starts developing something called insulin resistance insulin resistance is a situation where the receptors are going to protect you against this excess amount of insulin and carbohydrate it’s a protective survival mechanism so even though you’re eating a lot of carbs everything looks normal unless you check this insulin situation and then over time when this pancreas gets exhausted it can no longer compensate so your insulin production starts going down and Insulin keeps the blood sugar lower so now we don’t have that control so now the blood sugar has no choice but to start going up so we start getting pre-diabetes and then diabetes which is a high level of sugar in the blood because we now have so much insulin resistance and your beta cells in the pancreas are so tired they just can’t work anymore well guess what fasting starts to repair and protect the the beta cell the beta cell starts to heal and Insulin starts to become more sensitive so you have less insulin resistance which is going to help everything so because you’re not eating so darn frequently your digestive system finally has a chance to relax in between eating I mean most people are eating so frequently just think about how much work that digestive system has to work but when you do them fasting finally the system has a chance to not work so hard you will also have an anti-depressant effect your mood is going to be elevated so roughly I’m talking about a pattern of eating that is a 18-hour window of fasting so the first meal might be at 12 the second meal might be at six there’s also a large amount of people who also go to one meal a day now this is not necessarily just to focus on reducing calories but it is very difficult to consume the same calories from three meals to one meal what you’re actually doing too is you’re not slowing your metabolism you are correcting a slowed metabolism which really at the heart of that is insulin resistance okay so now that you’re at one meal a day what’s going to happen next is your inflammation is going to go way down all of these inflammatory conditions start to be improved your body actually makes antioxidants it’s called endogenous from within uh production of antioxidants so when you fast your body starts making more antioxidants to help counter the oxidative stress you see if you think about oxidative stress all the things that you know from radiation pollution junk Foods it all produces a lot of free radical damage well if you have enough antioxidants you can counter that and the microbes in your digestion which has a huge influence over your immune system start to thrive and you get more microbes so your microbes do better when you don’t feed them so often and having this Diversified microbiome you get all sorts of improvements definitely in the cognitive function there’s something called a brain derived neurotrophic factor that would be like Miracle Grow for your brain now and then a lot of people add um prolonged fasting okay here and there and that produces even bigger benefits in prolong fasting like let’s say you fast for two days you’re going to strengthen autophagy mitophagy is the recycling of old damaged proteins viruses pathogens in your cell your body cleans those up and recycles them into healthy tissue which is pretty wild and even in the guts of your cells you have these mitochondria which is the key for energy production for so many uh things that are related to disease you can actually start to repair and clean out the damaged mitochondria which also can trigger cancer and getting rid rid of those and build new mitochondria so the term for that is called mitochondrial biogenesis and then some people fast longer for like 72 hours and when you start doing that you really start to strengthen this uh stimulation of stem cells especially for your immune system so a lot of people do prolonged fasting to get rid of cancer in fact it is one of the best things you can do so in this video I just wanted to touch on the real reason why you should be doing fasting and the amazing benef benefits there’s a lot of details on how to do it um for that information you should watch this video right here