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The Cabral Concept

3561: Are You Taking Intermittent Fasting Too Far? (The Hidden Risks of Over Fasting) (WW)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Fasting can be one of the most powerful healing tools on the planet...
 
 
But only when it's done correctly.
 
 
On today's show, I share how fasting can help reduce inflammation, boost longevity, and promote cellular repair, but also how taking it too far can backfire on your health.
 
 
You'll discover how chronic under-eating and extended fasting can slow your metabolism, disrupt hormones, and create unnecessary stress on the body.
 
 
So join me on today's Cabral Concept 3561 to learn how to personalize your fasting plan, avoid common pitfalls, and use fasting as a tool for healing—not harm.
 
 
Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cabral concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen Cabral,

0:05.8

shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a life

0:10.9

full of energy and passion with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you healthy and

0:16.7

engaged. Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.

0:22.0

Fasting could be one of the most powerful healing tools on the planet, but only when it's

0:28.6

used correctly. Now, you may already be familiar with intermittent fasting or even longer fast.

0:34.2

I have a show that details what fast you should do on a daily basis,

0:37.8

that we call that intermittent fasting, somewhere between 12 and 16 hours, stopping after dinner,

0:42.4

and then 12 hours to 16 hours later, you begin to eat. Then we have a weekly fast, and again,

0:48.9

I'm going to recap all of this on a previous show, so I'll link that up here for you today at

0:54.3

Stevencabral.com slash 3552. But our weekly fast will just be a little bit longer,

1:00.2

quarterly, a little bit longer than that. And then annually, we can do an even longer one

1:03.6

should we choose to. But today isn't about the specific fast you choose. It's about the length

1:09.8

of the fast and how often you do it. Because for most of us,

1:16.4

intermittent fasting is the closest thing that we can get to right now to the Fountain of Youth.

1:22.1

Intermittent fasting allows us to wipe out a lot of those inflammatory senescent cells, also called zombie cells.

1:29.5

These are the things that grow and multiply as we age.

1:33.0

They create a lot of inflammation and a lot of the wrinkles, the fine lines, the age spots,

1:38.5

and the lower energy in our body.

1:40.5

But Interband fasting helps to wipe those out.

1:42.9

Also helps to support our natural anti-cancer-based

1:46.3

environment in our body. Plus, intermittent fasting gives our body a time to rest, where more food

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