My Opinion on Fasting Ramadan
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between fasting during Ramadan, and it’s immune effects.
Ramadan lasts between 29 and 30 days. During Ramadan, you’re required to not eat or drink anything from just before sunrise to just after sunset. This is a dry fast, which means you’re not drinking any water.
What you eat before and after you fast is going to make or break your success. Having junk food or refined carbohydrates before and after your fast could inhibit some of the effects you could achieve from fasting. However, low-carb, keto-friendly foods may be much more beneficial to have during your meals. Ketones are even anti-microbial.
Benefits of fasting:
• Decreased cytokines
• Increased macrophages
• Increase the microbiome
• Increased resistance to stress
• Decrease in oxidative stress
• Increased autophagy and xenophagy
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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 we're going to talk about the relationship between fasting during |
| 0:47.2 | Ramadan and its immune effects. Ramadan lasts between 29 and 30 days and you're required not to drink or eat anything just before sunrise |
| 1:00.9 | to just after sunset. This is a dry fast, and what I mean by a dry fast is you're not drinking any water. |
| 1:08.7 | Now, before we get into the benefits, I do want to point out this one |
| 1:11.8 | very, very important point. If you look at some of the studies done on Ramadan, you're going to see |
| 1:18.0 | some mixed reviews. And I think the reason for that, because what you eat before and after you |
| 1:24.3 | fast is going to make or break your success. If you are eating a lot of junk food, |
| 1:31.9 | refined carbohydrates, that is going to greatly inhibit these amazing effects that you could achieve |
| 1:38.8 | if you added keto-friendly foods, low-carb, during the meals. I mean, think about it. Ketons in general |
| 1:47.6 | are antimicrobial. When you do fasting, you actually decrease what's called cytokines. |
| 1:54.6 | There are different types of cytokines, and satokines are chemical messages that communicate between |
| 2:00.7 | your immune cells. There are certain cytokines are chemical messages that communicate between your immune cells. |
| 2:02.2 | There are certain cytokines that cause inflammation, and those are the ones that we're talking about, |
| 2:07.5 | so it will decrease the trigger to inflammation. Also, it will stimulate something called macrophages. |
| 2:14.3 | A macrophage is a large cell that eats bacteria and microbes and viruses. This is like a |
| 2:22.2 | professional what's called a phagocyte, which not just is like a garbage disposal, but it is a |
| 2:28.2 | deadly killer and one of the first lines of defense for any type of invasion for microbes. The more you can stimulate |
| 2:35.6 | macrophages, the better the immune system. All right. Next thing is it will increase the microbiome. |
| 2:41.0 | What is the microbiome? That describes your friendly microbes in your body that help you. |
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