Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today we're going to talk about the worst type of fasting that you could do.

There's actually two different patterns that we're going to touch on.

The first one is the alternate day fasting.

You fast for one day and the next day you pretty much eat whatever you want.

And there's also a modified version of that on the day that you're fasting.

You're actually consuming about 500 calories.

Then you have what's called the five and two where you're eating whatever you want for five days.

And then for two days you're going to fast.

But this program also allows you to have about 500 calories in the days that you're fasting.

So it's not a true fast.

Now the question is why are these two patterns of fasting bad and not recommended?

Well, it's because of this.

It takes three to seven days for you to get into ketosis.

I mean, like really get into it where you're about 80 to 90% burning ketones.

And doing it one day is just not enough time to get into ketosis.

With this one, you're pretty much eating whatever you want for five days.

And then two days out of the week you're doing fasting.

And of course, if you're doing 500 calories, you're not really fasting.

You're just doing a low-calorie diet.

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