Let's discuss the best way to balance your hormones.

This method is pretty expensive, I don't know if you're going to be able to afford it.

It's actually free, because you are fasting and you're actually saving money while you're doing this.

But believe it or not, fasting is probably one of the best things you can do for your endocrine system, all the different hormones, as well as a lot of other systems, including your autonomic nervous system, which I will cover in another video.

Now, when they did the research with fasting, sometimes they used alternative day fasting, where you're pretty much eating what you want one day, and then you're not eating anything the next day, right?

I don't like that at all, because you never really get into any type of adaptation. So it's probably pretty painful and hard to do, because you never get rid of your appetite.

And then you have the five and two, which I also don't like, where if it is a week, you're eating what you want, and then two days a week, probably on a Saturday and Sunday, you're doing 500 calories.

Again, you're not going to be able to adapt into fat burning too well, and you're probably going to suffer through those two days.

Okay, then you have time restricted eating, which is intermittent fasting, where you have a certain window where you eat, and then you don't eat for another window.

So it could be, for example, 18 hours of fasting and six hour eating window, or maybe 20 hours of fasting in a four hour eating window.

So I'm going to cover all the main hormones, but this right here, this hormone right here, this is where you're going to see most of the benefits, okay, insulin, insulin reduction, insulin sensitivity, all that is improved when you do fasting.

And if we look at the magnitude or the influence of reducing insulin on your entire body, as far as health goes, I mean, it's just off the charts, as far as benefits, you decrease inflammation.

Well, guess what that's going to do to your thyroid, which by the way, 90% of all thyroid problems when we're dealing with autoimmune is Hashimoto's, and you're going to have a lot of inflammation.

So just by reducing inflammation, you automatically improve the thyroid gland, okay, diabetes, this is involving a gland called the pancreas, right, as part of the endocrine system.

And then you have insulin resistance, which is behind so many problems, including developing a fatty liver and gaining weight and metabolic syndrome, which includes high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

And like I said before, the autonomic nervous system, see, when you have high insulin and high glucose, your autonomic nervous system, which involves the flight or fight mechanism, the digestive system, the cardiovascular system, all of that is improved greatly when you normalize insulin.

One side effect from a diabetic is autonomic nervous system dysfunction, especially in the digestive system. And in many other systems, since the autonomic nervous system crosses over into a lot of different body systems.

Okay, let's, where do we start? Well, let's start with leptin, leptin decreases when you're fasting and leptin has everything to do with your appetite.

So your appetite is going to go down, it's going to make it really easy to fast when you have no appetite.

You hear rumors that fasting will negatively affect the thyroid, really? Well, how do you diagnose a hypothyroid condition or even a hyper thyroid condition?

By thyroid stimulating hormone, which is a pituitary hormone, okay? You don't diagnose it with T4, you diagnose it with this pituitary hormone.

And by the way, when you do fasting, there is no change with this thyroid stimulating hormone. There is a decrease in T3, which is the active form of thyroid hormone.

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