The Truth about Water Fasting w/ Dr. Alan Goldhamer | #257

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on Heal Thy Self, we dive deep into the world of water fasting under expert guidance from Dr. Alan Goldhamer, founder of the TrueNorth Health Center. Over his 35+ year career, Dr. Goldhamer has supervised over 20,000 fasting patients and authored studies validating water fasting's transformative benefits. Separate fad diets from this medical protocol as we define what proper, supervised water-only fasting entails. Learn when fasting is contraindicated and how to navigate the critical transition phase your brain and body undergo. Dr. Goldhamer shares surprising yet research-backed results around reversing chronic conditions like hypertension, autoimmune issues like psoriasis, and more through extended therapeutic fasts. Explore fasting's ability to "reset" unhealthy eating patterns and reduce cravings for processed foods. Dive into the physiological differences men and women experience while fasting. Our guest illuminates potential risks and beneficial tweaks for female patients attempting this level of prolonged fasting. Unpack the common misconceptions and hyperbolic fears around fasting that often deter people from experiencing its healing powers. Walk away understanding this ancient practice's true value in our modern disease care model. Show Notes: - What is a medically supervised water-only fast? - Transitioning challenges your brain/body undergo while fasting - Fasting's impacts on chronic conditions like hypertension - Using fasting to reverse psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases - How fasting resets your tastebuds and reduces processed food cravings - Differences in fasting experience for men vs women - Overcoming common fasting fears and misconceptions - Who qualifies as an ideal fasting candidate === Birch Click here https://birchliving.com/healthyself to get 25% off your Birch mattress plus two free pillows. AquaTru Go to https://aquatru.com and use code DRG for 20% off all products. Momentous Visit https://livemomentous.com and use code DRG for 15%. Puori Click here https://puori.com/drg and use code DRG for 20% off the already discounted subscription prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the chemicals that you can put in the bird and the rat and the mouse chow is the same chemicals that they're putting in him in chow.
0:07.0	And that's what's making people fat.
0:10.0	We're fooling the society mechanisms of people's brains into systematically overeating.
0:16.4	And the chemicals that we put into the channel are SOS, salt, oil, and sugar. Salt, oil, and sugar are not food. They're hyper-concentrated
0:26.2	food byproducts that are put into the food to stimulate the brain neurochemistry, to stimulate
0:30.0	more dopamine, which is the chemical associated with pleasure.
0:34.3	So when you eat those foods with those chemicals, it...
0:36.8	All right, everyone.
0:43.0	What a pleasure it is when I talk about fasting because all of you are always flooding the
0:49.0	DMs on how much should I fast, how often should I do it, what about men versus women, what about if I have this issue and I don't
0:55.9	listen.
0:56.9	We're going to clear it up today.
0:58.2	We're going to clear it up today because I have, I mean I have, the best of the best when it comes to fasting, talking about the fasting science,
1:06.8	this guy has been at it since I was born. 1984, he is the OG of fasting for real for real.
1:14.0	Dr. Alan Goldhammer is one of the world's leading experts
1:19.0	on medically supervised water-only fasting
1:22.0	as a treatment for sickness, chronic diseases, right?
1:25.0	For you to get in your optimum health to feel good in your body and since I was born,
1:30.0	this guy has been the director of True North Health Center and Santa Rosa, California.
1:34.0	Since then, he has been helping and supervising fasting for more than 20,000 people.
1:39.0	Okay, so I'm talking, we have a robust amount of evidence, and I'm going to ask him the real
1:43.7	questions on here he is the author of the health promoting cookbook and co-author of
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