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We gotta stop seeing obesity as just a aesthetic inconvenience,

but actually a major health threat.

If you have 20 pounds of fat in your body, you have probably 2 pounds of excess visceral fat and that visceral fat acts like a tumor and so it's not surprising to find out it responds very much like other types of tubers do to fast.

If you go to a medical doctor they're're going to tell you, take these drugs.

They will have side effects, chronic fatigue, impotence, premature death.

But that's the best you can do, and we promise you if you take the drugs exactly like

they're prescribed, you'll never get well.

You'll be on these medications forever.

Nobody ever gets better.

It's because nobody's dealing with the actual cause of disease.

Well, you know, we've got some data now, which is really exciting, on a study we did with our colleagues from the Mayo Clinic, which was in treating high blood pressure with fasting. We enrolled 29 patients with hypertensive problems.

The Underwood fasting in all 29 experienced significant reductions

in blood pressure.

In fact, 28 out of the 29 were completely medication-free

at six-week follow-up.

One was on half-dose medication. The body's

ability to heal itself is absolutely fascinating and the time you get to see it

best is in fasting. When it comes to water-only fasting, what makes this such a powerful tool for weight loss

and beyond?

Well, you know, one of the great benefits of water-only fasting is it preferentially mobilizes something called visceral fat.

And visceral fat is the type of fat that tends to accumulate around your belly and your organs,

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