Ep. 142: Alan Goldhamer, D.C. - Is Water Fasting for You?
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We’ve created a society that makes everything so simple.
With the push of a button, we can have highly-processed food, entertainment, and all of the excess we can handle (and even some we can’t). This has led to unprecedented levels of disease, despair, and death.
We are caught in the pleasure trap.
But there is good news. We DO have the power to override these temptations and allow our bodies to heal.
In November 1984, Dr. Alan Goldhamer opened the True North Health Center. They create a health-promoting environment through an SOS-Free Diet (that’s salt, oil, and sugar) and water-only fasting.
As you can imagine, this monitored approach to healing was once seen as complete quackery. Today? Because of the data, peer-reviewed studies, and astonishing results, fasting, and fasting-mimicking diets are now considered mainstream.
Today, Dr. Goldhamer explains how and why it really is healthy to give your body a chance to rest, reboot, and break some of those physiological addictive behaviors that are keeping us sick.
Episode Timestamps
00:00-06:45 Introduction to Dr. Alan Goldhamer, founder of True North Health Center
09:00 What exactly is intermittent fasting?
12:15 Origins of True North and Dr. Goldhamer's friendship with Dr. Doug Lisle
19:15 Emerging data showing benefits of fasting in healthy people as disease prevention
19:56 What is an SOS-Free diet?
23:10 93% of our food is WHAT???
24:00 What is the pleasure trap, and why were we born to seek pleasure?
29:24 What is The Law of Satiation and how does it affect our eating habits?
36:15 Promising research of fasting implications on tumor growth
37:10 Is there a special type of water consumed when fasting?
37:56 Unique physiological effects of water-only fasting
40:48 The Motivational Triad and how The Pleasure Trap still holds up today
44:30 Why it's vital to rest when fasting
48:00 Dr. Goldhamer's opinion on keto and paleo diets
50:35 What really motivates people to make a change?
53:00 How do you keep people on plan and remain compliant?
58:00 Recommended supplements from Dr. Goldhamer
1:00:48 Organic vs. Conventional foods?
1:03:04 Does Dr. Goldhamer fast?
1:05:18 Fasting impacts on Autoimmune disease
Episode Resources
True North Health Center Website
True North Health Foundation - Advancing knowledge and awareness of therapeutic water-only fasting
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | SOS is the international symbol of danger. |
| 0:03.4 | It also stands for the chemicals that people add to food that make them fat, sick and miserable. |
| 0:08.2 | Those chemicals are salt, oil and sugar. |
| 0:10.5 | So, salt and sugar are not actually food. |
| 0:13.8 | They're byproducts of processed food production. |
| 0:17.4 | So, when you add those chemicals to the food, it stimulates dopamine and the brain, |
| 0:21.0 | like we talked about in the pleasure trap. |
| 0:22.6 | That induces a response we know of as pleasure. |
| 0:25.5 | So, the more dopamine, the more pleasure, |
| 0:27.9 | and the more chemicals, the more dopamine. |
| 0:30.5 | And so, it's a drug-like effect. |
| 0:33.1 | And that's why we have the problem with dietary excess and metabolic syndrome |
| 0:36.9 | and why people are dying for cancer and heart disease and diabetes. |
| 0:40.2 | And for that matter, COVID-19. |
| 0:42.2 | The fact is that dietary excess is responsible for a immune suppression that leads to a whole host of diseases that people are suffering from. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm Rick Bousselston and welcome to the Plan Strong podcast. |
| 0:54.4 | The mission at Plan Strong is to further the advancement of all things within the plant-based movement. |
| 1:01.2 | We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based living |
| 1:05.5 | and envision a world that universally understands, promotes and prescribes plants as a solution |
| 1:12.6 | to empowering your health, enhancing your performance, restoring the environment, |
| 1:18.2 | and becoming better guardians to the animals we share this planet with. |
| 1:22.2 | We welcome you wherever you are on your Plan Strong journey. |
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