Let's talk about the 14 things you can consume to make fasting much easier.

You realize that when you do fasting, anything that you're consuming other than water is going to break your fast to some degree, but these are the items that will have a very, very minor effect on your ability to get right back in the fasting, and when we're talking about fasting, we're talking about lowering your ketosis, we're talking about raising insulin, that type of thing, and obviously the biggest thing that will break your fast is

refined carbohydrates or sugar, high carbohydrate diet. Protein also has the ability to break your fast because protein can stimulate insulin, and a good portion of protein actually turns in the fuel in your body, and this is why if you're doing fasting, and then let's say you work out and you take some branch chain amino acids right before the workout, during your fast, you will break your fast, because that would stimulate

glucose or collagen or bone broth. Those will actually increase insulin. Now, the two things that don't seem to have that much effect on insulin are fats and fiber. Fiber has a zero effect on insulin, so when you're consuming leafy greens, for example, that are very high in fiber, low in sugar, that will have a very minimal effect on insulin.

And the other side of that, anything that you eat in general of any significance, if it has a certain quantity of calories, can stimulate insulin to a certain degree. So that being said, let's just go through the things that you could consume that will have a minimal effect on your ability to stay in ketosis and do your fast.

Number one, MCT oil. This is very, very good, especially when you're starting out, especially in the morning, maybe to put in your coffee, because MCT oil will turn into ketones very, very fast, and then your brain can run on the ketones, your heart can run on the ketones, you can use these ketones as energy, and MCT oil will allow you to go longer without getting hungry.

So that would be number one. Number two, coffee. Coffee does not have a lot of calories, and it doesn't seem to break the fast very much. So coffee would be okay, as long as you don't put sugar in it. Now, if you add an alternative sweetener, maybe a little, a retortal or stevia or a monk fruit, that would be totally fine.

But let's say, for example, you want to add whole cream. So a little bit of whole cream will have a very minor effect, and I wouldn't worry about it too much. So coffee can help you fast longer. It can reduce hunger. Number three, exogenous ketones.

Another name for this would be ketone salts. So let's say, for example, you're fasting and you feel tired or you have brain fog.

You can basically just take ketones and they go into your blood, and then your brain will pick it up because if the brain has a choice between glucose or ketones, it'll always pick ketones.

But if your body has not adapted yet, and you haven't generated the ketones, you can end up with low blood sugar and you might feel kind of funky and tired.

But if you provide the ketones for the brain, it will suck them up and use them for brain energy. So this could help you feel better while you're fasting, especially with brain fatigue or lethargy.

Number four, tea. Drinking tea can greatly help you go longer when you fast, especially with the vital nutrients in the herbs that make up the tea.

Number five, electrolytes. By taking certain minerals and realize there's hardly any calories in here, unless you're getting the wrong type of electrolytes that has glucose in it, which we never recommend.

But the minerals, the trace minerals and electrolytes will actually help your blood sugars and help your energy of your muscles, and it just makes it easier to do fasting.

Number six, probiotics. Probiotics are healthy bacteria that can help stabilize blood sugars.

All right. Number seven, B vitamins. B vitamins will help insulin resistance. It will give you energy.

So these B vitamins are needed at the cellular level, especially when you're doing fasting or ketosis.

All right, apple cider vinegar has a great effect on your blood sugars, and it can allow you to go a lot longer without eating.

Now, if you're doing kombucha tea, a lot of times they have a bit too much sugar in that product. So you want to read the labels.

If you find one with two grams, that might be okay, but even two grams could be too much for some people.

So it really depends on your metabolism, but I will say that generally speaking, this is lower amounts of sugar than other types of tea.

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