The Best Pattern of Intermittent Fasting
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about what is the best pattern of intermittent fasting. There is a lot of different patterns you could follow including the daily, every other day fasting, 1 to 2 times a week or just let the body adapt. The problem with doing every other day and 1 to 2x a week fasting pattern they always have this severe hunger, brain fog, and sleep problems because they haven’t given their body the chance to adapt. The key to this is to stay consistent. The goal of Intermittent Fasting is to help heal insulin resistance, lower insulin, and help our bodies reset. He also talks about how to choose the right daily pattern based on your body.
Different Intermittent Fasting Patterns
• Daily Pattern:
o 16 Hour of Fast – 8 Window of Eating: If your metabolism is fast and you are younger.
o 18 Hour of Fast – 6 Window of Eating:
o 20 Hour of Fast – 4 Window of Eating: The older you are, the slower the metabolism, the longer you have to fast.
• Every Other Day Fasting
• 1-2x Week – Fasting on the Weekend. (Have to give the body a chance to adapt)
• Let Body Adapt
Problem with Every Other Day Fasting and 1 to 2x a Week Fasting Pattern:
• Severe hunger
• Brain fog
• Sleep problems
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I had a question recently presented to me. They wanted to know what's the best pattern of intimate of fasting. |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm going to give you my opinion on that, okay? So there's a lot of different patterns you can follow. |
| 0:54.2 | You can do it daily. |
| 0:55.5 | And within that daily pattern, you can have like an eight hour window of eating |
| 0:59.9 | and a 16 hour fast, a six hour window of eating, and a 18 hour fast, and then a 4 hour window of |
| 1:08.3 | eating. |
| 1:09.3 | Let's say you ate at 1 and then at 4, and then you had 20 hours of fasting, okay? |
| 1:15.0 | And then you have every other day fasting and then you're fasting on the weekends or |
| 1:20.3 | maybe once or twice a week and maybe you're doing a whole 24-hour fast, okay? |
| 1:25.0 | So there's a lot of different things that you can do. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, here's the problem with these two right here, |
| 1:30.0 | every other day or once or twice a week. So I've gotten a lot of feedback from many people |
| 1:36.3 | that do it every other day or a couple times a week and they nearly always have severe hunger, brain fog, sleep problems. |
| 1:45.0 | And that is because they haven't given their body a chance to adapt. |
| 1:49.0 | So I'm going to recommend you stay consistent, because why wouldn't you want to do some form of fasting on a regular |
| 1:55.6 | basis okay I'm talking about every day so let's talk about what specific pattern that you would |
| 2:00.9 | want to do on a daily basis. |
| 2:02.5 | So there's a lot of benefits to fasting, |
| 2:04.0 | but the goal would be to help heal insulin resistance, |
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