The Truth about Fasting: How It Works
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re going to examine the amazing benefits of fasting. Not only is fasting the most powerful thing you can do for weight loss, but it’s also an effective natural remedy for countless health conditions. Fasting addresses the deeper root causes of many health problems: insulin resistance and mitochondrial damage.
Intermittent fasting activates growth hormone and lowers insulin, allowing you to tap into your fat cells. If insulin is high, fat can not be utilized for energy.
One of the best indicators that intermittent fasting is working is that your appetite will go away. Fasting also offers cognitive benefits. It eliminates brain fog and improves focus, concentration, and memory. It also elevates your mood and improves the immune system.
Fasting is not starving! Your stored body fat provides energy while you’re not eating. The average person has over 100,000 calories of stored energy in their fat cells.
Prolonged fasting involves fasting for a couple of days or longer. Prolonged fasting helps generate stem cells for your immune system. It also puts your body into autophagy—a state where it cleans up old damaged cells, recycling them into new cells.
Fasting repairs your metabolism—it doesn’t slow it down. It also gives the digestive system a chance to reset, resulting in less bloating and less inflammation in the gut.
Follow these steps to start intermittent fasting:
1. Go on a low-carb diet and eliminate snacks
2. Gradually push back your breakfast until your first meal is around lunch-time
3. Establish an intermittent fasting routine that allows for at least 18 hours of fasting
Once you’ve established an intermittent fasting routine, periodic prolonged fasting can increase benefits.
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| 0:00.0 | You know when someone initially told me about fasting I really didn't think anything of it. I thought it was a fad |
| 0:05.1 | I'm like fasting what is that going to do you're just skipping meals it didn't make sense to me and |
| 0:10.7 | it kept coming up over and over and over again until I finally just took a look at it and once I really understood what it is, |
| 0:19.0 | it turns out that fasting, especially in a minute fasting, is the single best thing you could do for your health, |
| 0:27.0 | the most powerful thing you could do for weight loss. |
| 0:30.4 | It is the cure for so many problems including cancer and that is because it addresses |
| 0:37.0 | the deeper root cause of most health problems which is insulin resistance and mitochondrial damage. |
| 0:45.7 | So wherever you're at, I'm going to show you how to transition into this as slowly |
| 0:49.8 | and as fast as you want. |
| 0:51.2 | So what is this intermina fasting? It's not a diet, it's just a pattern of |
| 0:55.4 | eating and not eating. You're mimicking what your body was designed to do. Our bodies were not developed or designed to have food 24-7. And that leads to weight |
| 1:07.6 | gain, inflammation, and destruction of the brain cells and the immune system. So if we reverse this thing and just eat less frequent, |
| 1:15.2 | all sorts of magical things happen. At a deeper level, you're manipulating certain hormones. |
| 1:20.7 | You're lowering your insulin, which is going to help you to tap into your |
| 1:24.4 | fat cells. Anytime insulin is high, fat cannot be accessed. You must lower insulin to tap into your |
| 1:32.2 | fat cells. |
| 1:33.4 | And if you really understand this, it's pretty simple of how you should lose weight, right? |
| 1:37.4 | You want to adjust these hormones. |
| 1:39.3 | You want to keep insulin as low as possible. |
| 1:41.4 | And then the other hormone, growth hormone, we want to activate that. |
| 1:45.3 | It just so happens that growth hormone gets activated with fasting. And just so you know, one of the |
| 1:51.8 | best indicators to know that this is working is when your appetite goes away. |
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