Check Out What Happened When I Fasted for 21 Hours: Dr. Berg's Intermittent Fasting Experiment
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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I want to tell you what happened when I increased my fasting to 21 hours.
Normally I eat around 12-1 and 6-7. I get about 18 hours of fasting with a six-hour eating window. For my intermittent fasting experiment, I had my first meal at 3 and my last meal at 6. That's just a three-hour eating window, which gives me 21 hours of fasting. This may not seem like much, but it made a significant difference in my cognitive function.
The intermittent fasting benefits I experienced after 21 hours:
• Improved memory
• More focus
• Better learning
• Better at locating things
• More creativity
• Better mood
• Increased productivity
• More organized
• More decisive
Here's what happens. You increase something called BDNF. This is a protein that helps you grow neurons and slow aging.
More health benefits of intermittent fasting:
• Increases ketones
• Increases autophagy
• Improves synapses
You may already be doing this intermittent fasting pattern, or you may be doing OMAD (one meal a day). But, if you're at 18 hours or less, I challenge you to start trying 21 hours of fasting. Try it for three days, and then evaluate your cognitive function.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hey guys I want to tell you what happened when I increase my fasting to 21 hours. It's quite interesting. I did an experiment on myself. Now normally I eat around 12 or maybe 1 and 6 and 7 so I get about 18 hours of fasting with a six hour eating window and |
| 1:05.9 | normally I do videos like the one I'm doing now between 12 o'clock and two or |
| 1:10.8 | three so the experiment that I did in myself is simply eat when I got back from filming. |
| 1:16.7 | So my first meal was at three and the second meal was at six. |
| 1:23.1 | So that's just a three hour eating window. |
| 1:25.4 | That gives me 21 hours of fasting compared to 18. |
| 1:30.3 | It doesn't seem like much, but it made a significant difference in my cognitive function. |
| 1:37.0 | I noticed when I was on this pattern, there was definitely more editing, |
| 1:43.2 | so in this pattern right here, fasting for 21 hours, |
| 1:46.5 | rarely did I make any mistakes. |
| 1:48.6 | It was quite remarkable. |
| 1:49.9 | So there are improvements in memory for sure, more focused, better learning. |
| 1:55.3 | I can, in the mornings I'm always studying something, I can digest and assimilate things |
| 1:59.7 | much better. |
| 2:00.9 | I can locate things, I remember where I put things. A more creative. Way better mood. |
| 2:07.0 | Less grouchiness and less irritableness. Not that I'm ever grouchy or irritable. |
| 2:11.0 | Okay, seven, increase productivity, I mentioned that already, I'm just getting a lot more done, more organized because of the focus and more decisive. So I really don't need any study to convince me. All I needed to do was do |
| 2:26.4 | my own experiment and see for myself. But if you actually look at the research, this is what happens. You actually increase something called |
| 2:34.0 | B, D, and F. stands for a brain-derived neurotrophic factor. This is a protein that |
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