Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

There's a very interesting influence of fasting on the autonomic nervous system.

What is the autonomic nervous system?

It's part of the nervous system that works on automatic.

And it does many things, but there's three divisions.

You have the sympathetic, which is butterfly.

You have the parasympathetic, which is the rest in digest.

And you also have something called the interic, which is part of the digestive system.

Now, I had a testing device when I was in practice that measured the autonomic nervous system.

It was a technology called heart rate variability.

And you may be able to get your own unit that's fairly affordable.

I'll put a link down below for various options for that.

It's a good way to measure how much sympathetic nervous system you have

and how much parasympathetic nervous system you have.

And you can do your own research to see how fasting can influence as part of the nervous system.

But there's some interesting studies I'll put some links down below that show a significant improvement

in your parasympathetic nervous system, as well as significant suppression of your sympathetic nervous system.

In other words, it activates the parasympathetic, the ability to rest in help you digest food,

as well as recover at the same time, lowering your stress response, your flight or flight mechanism.

Now, if we look at the opposite situation, a diabetic, right?

...