Lifesaving Potential of Fasting | Dr. Alan Goldhamer
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Fasting is a powerful tool in fighting multiple diseases.
Dr. Alan Goldhamer explains how the body is often able to overcome chronic health challenges by detoxifying during the fasting process. Dr. Goldhamer is the author of Can Fasting Save Your Life? and co-founder of the TrueNorth Health Center.
He has helped more than 25,000 individuals.
In This Episode
- Diseases most effectively treated by fasting
- Does visceral fat act like a tumor?
- Are salt, oil, and sugar real food?
- Becoming addicted to food and breaking the addiction with fasting
- And more!
Dr. Goldhamer joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast for an unforgettable episode.
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Dr. Alan Goldhamer
Could Fasting Save Your Life Book: https://bit.ly/FastingBook
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. It's not surprising that fasting turns out to be most effective in conditions associated with dietary excess because fasting it turns out preferentially mobilizes visceral fat and so when |
| 0:16.1 | people fast they get rid of the visceral fat when they get rid of the visceral fat they |
| 0:19.4 | get rid of the inflammatory markers and these diseases like heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and cancer can be managed. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:44.0 | High to the exam roomies listening in Colorado Springs, Colorado, |
| 0:48.0 | Honolulu, Hawaii, and Hamburg, Germany. |
| 0:52.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:56.8 | This is episode 53 of season 7, number 552 overall. |
| 1:03.0 | And we have a first-time guest with us on the show today. |
| 1:06.4 | He is a gentleman who has helped over 25,000 people improve and even reverse these chronic diseases that have been |
| 1:16.2 | dragging them down for years and he's doing this at True North Health Center a |
| 1:22.3 | facility that focuses on fasting as a jumpstart to get |
| 1:26.8 | your health back on track. |
| 1:29.8 | Dr. Alan Goldhammer is with us. |
| 1:33.0 | And the question we are asking is simple. |
| 1:35.9 | Could fasting save your life? |
| 1:39.5 | That is the title of his new book |
| 1:41.6 | and the focus of the exam room today. So here's what we're getting into. |
| 1:46.0 | Diseases that are most effectively treated by fasting and whether visceral fat actually acts like a tumor in the body |
| 1:55.0 | and whether salt, oil, and sugar are considered real food in his eyes |
| 2:00.0 | and then becoming addicted to food and breaking that addiction with fasting. |
| 2:06.8 | And oh by the way that is just the first few minutes of the interview. |
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