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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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Today, we’re going to talk about the benefits of fasting. Many people describe feelings of euphoria and bliss after a 3-day fast. Fasting is often done for spiritual or mental benefits, and it’s the only way to achieve deep cleaning in the body. Extended fasting is also a great way to exercise willpower.
One of the most significant risk factors for cancer is age, due to the cumulative damage to your cells. Cancer tends to grow into areas of inflammation and low oxygen, and fasting is one of the most potent ways to reduce inflammation. Cancer can not live on the ketones that come from fasting. Ketones support your brain and even activate genes that extend your life. Extended fasting may prevent cancer, so aim for a monthly 72-hour fast.
Fasting significantly lowers insulin. Your body can not grow a tumor when insulin is low. To further reduce cancer risk, increase oxygen by going for long walks while fasting. Exercise significantly increases oxygen. Growth hormone also increases while you’re fasting, which helps you burn fat and preserve muscle.
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0:00.0 | What would happen if you stopped eating for 72 hours, three days, out of all the things you can do for your health, |
0:05.8 | prolonged fasting is at the very top of your list. The feeling you're going to get from it is almost |
0:11.3 | euphoric, a state of bliss. A lot of people do it to increase their spirituality and their mental state. |
0:17.1 | Prolong fasting is the only way to achieve deep cleaning, turning junk in your body to new |
0:24.2 | cells. The other thing that I really like about prolonged fasting is that you're using fasting |
0:29.1 | for exercising willpower. Willpower is the ability to remain in control of your body. I mean, |
0:36.4 | think about an average person, their whole life, they're not |
0:39.6 | in the driver's seed with their food. When you actually say no to your body and you really start |
0:43.8 | fasting, despite the smell of food, despite all the visual foods, your ability to say no gives |
0:50.9 | you incredible power. This makes it easy to strengthen this willpower and stick with it a little |
0:57.1 | bit longer than you normally would. Let's shift gears to cancer for a second. Just think about the |
1:02.1 | biggest risk factor for cancer. It's age. As you get older, your risk for cancer goes up. Why? Because of |
1:08.7 | the accumulated damage in your cells. Plus, as you age, you get more |
1:12.5 | inflammation. You get less oxygen. Cancer tends to grow into areas of inflammation and low oxygen. |
1:19.6 | Fasting is the most potent thing to reduce inflammation. There is some data to show that cancer |
1:25.4 | cells can live on sugar, certain amino acids, as well as ketones, |
1:29.7 | but not the ketones that come from fasting. Ketons are not just about an alternative fuel. |
1:34.9 | They help your brain. Your brain prefers them. Ketones activate genes that extend your life. |
1:41.4 | If you do regular prolonged fasting, I really believe that you can |
1:45.3 | totally prevent getting cancer. This is why I recommend doing a 72-hour fast every single month. |
1:51.6 | Prolong fasting will also take insulin and really bring that way down. If we can keep that |
1:56.3 | hormone low, your body can't grow a tumor. It's in a recycling, cleaning, cleansing mode. If we |
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