Intermittent Fasting Patterns for Different Situations
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about intermittent fasting and intermittent fasting patterns for different situations.
1. Growth hormone
This is an anti-aging hormone that helps burn fat and preserve muscle. Fasting, exercise, and sleep can spike growth hormone.
• Increases at 12+ hrs.
2. Autophagy
This is a condition where your body is recycling damaged proteins and clearing out microbes.
• Increases at 18+ hrs.
3. Inflammation
You can really see a drop in inflammation when you do OMAD (one meal a day). This also applies to sickness and speeding up the recovery process.
• A drop in inflammation may happen at 23+ hrs.
4. Cancer
With cancer, consider doing OMAD with periodic prolonged fasting. This helps lower glucose and glutamine. Also, when you do eat, consume a lot of cruciferous vegetables.
• These effects may happen after 23+ hrs.
5. Stem cell
This is a cell that hasn’t turned into anything yet. When you do a periodic fast for 72 hours, you’re going to stimulate some stem cells. This can help build new tissue.
• These effects may happen after 72+ hrs.
6. Stubborn weight
If you have a really stubborn weight situation, consider doing OMAD every other day. Make sure you’re getting your nutrients.
• For stubborn weight, try eating one meal every 48 hours.
7. Diabetes
This is a problem with excess sugar. With diabetes, you can really help the blood sugar situation with fasting. The problem is that you must check your blood sugars routinely, and talk to your doctor about adjusting your medications. Check with your doctor and fast gradually.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | 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 |
| 0:49.4 | situations. All right, let's start at the top, growth hormone. Growth hormone is the anti-aging hormone. It helps |
| 0:56.1 | burn fat. It helps preserve muscle. And when you're doing fasting, it starts to increase at 12 hours. |
| 1:02.5 | Now, if you continue to do fasting, it's going to keep going up and plateau right around 24 hours. |
| 1:08.4 | But fasting can really spike growth hormone in a big way. Exercise will also |
| 1:13.8 | increase growth hormone, and sleeping will increase growth hormone. So when you talk about growth hormone, |
| 1:19.8 | most people think anti-aging. So fasting has a great influence to increase growth hormone. But it |
| 1:26.4 | starts at 12 hours, and if you continue to fast, it'll increase from there. But it starts at 12 hours and if you continue to fast, |
| 1:28.9 | it'll increase from there. Number two, autophagy. Atopathy is a condition where your body is |
| 1:34.9 | recycling damaged proteins and it's clearing out microbes, pathogens. So look at it like a garbage |
| 1:43.3 | dispose. The body is getting rid of non-functional |
| 1:45.6 | proteins that it doesn't need and it's becoming very efficient and optimizing things and turning |
| 1:51.2 | all the damage protein into new amino acids. And the spike with autophagy starts around 18 hours of fasting. |
| 1:59.0 | So that still gives you like a six-hour eating window, which is |
| 2:02.0 | pretty easy to do for most people. So it's going to recycle damage protein. It's going to kill |
| 2:08.6 | microbes. So it's going to make you look younger. It's going to help break down something called |
| 2:14.7 | amyloid placking, which is in the brain. It's another tissue. Patients who have Alzheimer's usually have amyloid placking, which is in the brain. It's another tissue. |
| 2:18.2 | Patients who have Alzheimer's usually have amyloid placking. So it disrupts the communication |
| 2:23.8 | between neurons. Also in the liver, it can help break down unwanted protein, as in cirrhosis |
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