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Let's talk about the three worst fasting trends.

Alright, fasting is the health trend to journal doubt.

And that's why there's a lot of misinformation out there about this ancient health practice.

And a cornerstone of almost every religion to achieve enlightenment.

Everyone is talking about it, but not everyone knows the dangerous side effects if you don't fast correctly.

Now don't get me wrong. Fasting is one of the keys to longevity and vitality.

But you need to know how to do it properly in order to reap the maximum benefits.

So today I'm going to address the top three fasting trends to avoid at all costs and what you can do instead.

Alright, number one, cutting your window of eating too drastically.

Now if you read any of my books, my favorite way to fast is intermittent fasting or time controlled eating.

Now that basically says that we're going to shorten the period of time during the day that we consume our food.

That's intermittent fasting. Time controlled eating means we shorten that window preferably down to about six to eight hours a day.

Now as I talk about a lot and unlocking the keto code, unfortunately, if you're eating used to eating 12 to 16 hours every day,

and the average American believe it or not eats 16 hours a day, literally from the minute they get up to the minute they go to bed.

And as I show in my last two books, most of us are insulin resistant and metabolically inflexible.

That means when you stop eating normally, you should be able to instead of using glucose as a fuel sugar, use free fatty acids fat as a fuel.

But the vast majority of us can't do that. And when we stop eating within a few hours, our glucose stores fall dramatically.

That can be compensated by using fat as a fuel, but most of us can't use fat as a fuel.

So we crash, we get headache, we get grouchy, we get dizzy, we get worse.

And that's why so many people fail at time restricted eating.

Now as I talk about in my last few books, what I want you to do if you want to do this is gradually decrease the amount of time that you eat your food.

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