72-Hour Fasting Benefits on the Immune System
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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What are the benefits of intermittent fasting on your immune system? This is what you need to know.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:12.0 | Doctor Eric Burg. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's talk about the amazing effects of fasting on your immune system. |
| 0:19.0 | The benefits are amazing, especially if you could do a 72-hour fast. |
| 0:24.0 | Now, with most people, you have to work up to it. |
| 0:27.0 | But even if you could do a 48-hour fast, that's going to be huge. |
| 0:31.0 | But definitely work up to a 72-hour fast and do that periodically. |
| 0:35.0 | Maybe once a month, maybe once every two months. |
| 0:39.0 | But the benefits of fasting for 72 hours have more to do with literally growing a new immune system. |
| 0:46.0 | Here's some benefits. |
| 0:48.0 | Number one, it'll boost your white blood cells. |
| 0:50.0 | But that includes the macrophages and the neutrophils, which are phagocytes. |
| 0:55.0 | So they clean up debris. |
| 0:57.0 | They also kill off viruses and bacteria using different chemicals. |
| 1:01.0 | And they basically go around and eat different pathogens. |
| 1:05.0 | And then we have the enhancement of the tea cells. |
| 1:09.0 | But especially the tea regulatory cell. |
| 1:12.0 | Another name for the tea reg cell is the tea suppressor cell, |
| 1:16.0 | because it suppresses an overactive immune system. |
| 1:20.0 | As in a cytokine storm, as in a situation we have way too much inflammation |
| 1:26.0 | that's causing a lot of collateral damage. |
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