Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

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

Doctor Eric Burg.

So, today we're going to talk about what type of nutrients you should take when you do a fast.

Now, when you're doing intermittent fasting on a daily basis, it's less important than when you're doing prolonged fasting,

48, 72 hours, or even much longer.

What you have to realize is that most people going into a fast are already deficient of some nutrient.

So, fasting basically exaggerates that deficiency.

What we're trying to avoid when we're doing a fast is to avoid certain nutritional deficiencies that create symptoms like dizziness,

fainting, fatigue, a rash that's developed, some muscle cramp, leg cramp, some palpitation in your heart or a heart arrhythmia, or feeling cold.

Now, this is a topic that has a lot of different variables.

You have a person's overall diet before they started fast.

They might have been on a diet with high nutrient dense foods for years, or maybe they're a diabetic, or pre-diabetic, where they have instant resistance.

And then if there's certain goals that you have, let's say for example, you have an autoimmune disease, you have a lot of inflammation in the body,

or let's say you're trying to improve your immune system to fight off some cancer, having these nutrients in your body while you're doing fasting, I think is a really good idea.

Of course, this goes against the true definition of fast, where you're basically eating nothing, taking nothing, except you're drinking water.

But if you're consuming nutrients and or herbs, there's not going to be very many calories involved.

So it's not going to necessarily bump you out of ketosis, it's not going to affect the benefits of fasting too much,

and not just by preventing nutrient deficiency, but providing nutrients that enhance the antioxidant networks in your body.

Your body makes antioxidants, and you can also get them from your diet.

Those nutrients can enhance your own body's antioxidant network.

This definitely applies to someone who has inflammation, or even they're trying to handle cancer because you're getting a tremendous amount of free radical damage,

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