Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today I want to talk about intermittent fasting, patterns, or protocols for different body

situations.

All right, let's start at the top, growth hormone. Growth hormone is the anti-aging hormone.

It helps burn fat. It helps preserve muscle. And when you're doing fasting, it starts to increase

at 12 hours. Now, if you continue to do fasting, it's going to keep going up and plateau right

around 24 hours. But fasting can really spike growth hormone in a big way. Exercise will

also increase growth hormone and sleeping will increase growth hormone. So when you talk about

growth hormone, most people think anti-aging. So fasting has a great influence to increase

growth hormone. But it starts at 12 hours. And if you continue to fast, it'll increase from

there. Number two, atophagy. Atophagy is a condition where your body is recycling damaged

proteins. And it's clearing out microbes, pathogens. So look at it like a garbage disposal. The body

is getting rid of non-functional proteins that it doesn't need. And it's becoming very efficient.

And optimizing things. And turning all the damaged protein into new amino acids. And the spike

with atophagy starts around 18 hours of fasting. So that still gives you like a six hour eating

window, which is pretty easy to do for most people. So it's going to recycle damaged protein.

Okay. It's going to kill microbes. So it's going to make you look younger. It's going to help

break down something called amyloid placking, which is in the brain. It's another tissue.

Patients who have Alzheimer's usually have amyloid placking. So it disrupts the communication

between neurons. Also in the liver, it can help break down unwanted protein as in cirrhosis or

fibrosis. So it's going to help break that down to some degree. And also atophagy will help get rid

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