If You Have a Brain, You Need to Fast
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Today, we’re going to talk about why you may want to fast to help promote a healthy brain. The brain loves ketones. When you don’t eat, your body is eating your own fat, converting it to ketones, and feeding your brain.
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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, what's over about keto or intermittent fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person, or just need to debug your program, |
| 0:09.0 | or you have a question about a product, call one of our keto consultants. |
| 0:12.2 | They'll be able to help you. |
| 0:13.2 | Call 540-299-1557. |
| 0:17.3 | That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:44.3 | If you have a brain, you definitely need to fast. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's talk about why. Your brain loves ketones and we don't eat. |
| 0:54.4 | Your body is actually eating your own fat and it's converting into ketones and |
| 0:57.7 | feeding your brain. If your brain has a choice between glucose in the blood or ketones in the |
| 1:04.4 | blood, which is a byproduct of fat, you will always go after the ketones over glucose. |
| 1:11.2 | There's a lot of magical things that happen to your brain when you start fasting, |
| 1:17.4 | especially when you do periodic long fasting. |
| 1:20.5 | You get neurogenesis. Now, what is that? That is the regrowing of neurons. |
| 1:25.7 | That's wild. You also get a spike in this protein, B, D, and F, |
| 1:31.3 | brain-derived, neurotrophic factor. That protein stimulates the regeneration of cells |
| 1:38.1 | in your hippocampus. That's the area where you have a relay between your database, |
| 1:43.2 | like your memory database, and also it's involved in learning and many other things. |
| 1:49.5 | Also, the regeneration of the cortex of the brain and the forebrain. |
| 1:55.9 | Only certain parts of your brain can be regenerated, and thank goodness we can regenerate |
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