7 Ways to Stimulate Your Stem Cells

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A stem cell is a reserve cell that can become any cell you need. Stem cell research has shown positive results for people with fibrosis of the heart, liver fibrosis, and damaged brain cells. Stem cells can also be beneficial for the following:

•Stimulating new cartilage in the joints

•Autoimmune conditions

•Rejuvenating skin cells

•Cancer

Here's how to keep your stem cell population at the highest level.

1. Fasting

Prolonged fasting can boost stem cells naturally. If you can fast for 72 hours, you can boost stem cell production primarily for the gastrointestinal tract, brain, and immune system.

2. Exercise

Intense exercise is the best way to boost stem cells for your muscles and brain. Exercise also stimulates BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which allows you to make new nerve and brain cells.

3. Deep sleep

Sleep increases melatonin, which stimulates stem cell regeneration in your brain. Sleep also increases immune and cardiovascular stem cells.

4. Green tea

Green tea contains the phytonutrient EGCG, which has potent anti-inflammatory properties and can increase stem cells for your brain and liver.

5. Omega-3 fatty acids

Decreasing inflammation can boost stem cell production. Omega-3 fatty acids are anti-inflammatory and can increase stem cells for your bones, cartilage, brain, and skin.

6. Vitamin D

Vitamin D and the sun help maintain blood stem cells that are involved with the immune system. Vitamin D increases new immune cells, prevents the exhaustion of stem cells, and can even increase longevity.

7. Cold therapy

The cold stimulates brown fat stem cells, which support muscle repair and the mitochondria, decrease inflammation, and increase blood flow.

Barriers to stem cell production include:

•Inflammation

•Stress

•Lack of sleep

•Junk food

•Alcohol

•Smoking

•Pollution

Our normal cells have at least 50 genes that help cope with dehydration. Cancer cells have none of these genes. This is why dry fasting may be destructive to cancer cells.

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to show you seven ways to stimulate your stem cells without having to go to a clinic
0:06.0	and go through any surgical procedure or spend thousands and thousands of dollars. A stem cell is kind of like
0:11.9	this reserve cell that can pretty much change into anything that you need. They're using it now to
0:17.2	regenerate fibrosis, which then allows the heart muscle function to improve by 30%.
0:22.8	They can do the same thing with liver fibrosis and damage brain cells. They're getting great
0:28.5	results stimulating new cartilage in your joint. Some people are using it for autoimmune diseases
0:34.5	like MS. And also to help rejuvenate skin cells to actually make the skin
0:38.6	young again. There's also stem cells for cancer. It's very important to understand how to keep that
0:45.5	stem cell population at the highest level. Let's start with number one. Fasting, specifically
0:50.5	prolonged fasting. If you can fast for 72 hours, which is three days,
0:56.6	you can in a major way boost certain stem cells, primarily for the gastrointestinal tract
1:02.4	for your brain and your immune system. When you're fasting, you're not eating anything.
1:07.0	You're just drinking water. And you're basically clearing everything out of your digestive system.
1:11.6	And because there's no food available for the cells, they actually start surviving better.
1:17.4	And those stem cells start to repair damage within your digestive tract. And the other thing that's
1:23.0	going on when you're fasting, your body is taking damaged tissue, recycling, and turning that into new
1:30.2	tissue. Intermina fasting is important too. Of course, it's not going to be as potent as fasting longer.
1:35.9	Number two, exercise. Exercise stimulates stem cells for your muscles and your brain. This is exercise where it's more intense. It's more difficult.
1:48.1	You're using your full body in a functional way to create a lot of effort or intensity.
1:53.4	And the most potent stimulus of the stem cell when you exercise is intensity. If you can do an intense
1:58.7	exercise, short duration, the more stem cell you're going to
2:02.5	stimulate. When you exercise, you're also going to stimulate something called B-D-N-F. Brain-D-N-F. Brain-D-Rive
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