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 you definitely want to use fasting if you have pain, especially chronic pain.

I did another video on the topic of fasting with chronic inflammation and I will put the

link down below.

But the influence you can create when you do fasting for chronic pain is huge.

This data was taken from several sources, I'll put the links down below.

One was doing a seven day fast, which is considered a pro long fast, but you can also achieve

these benefits from doing intermittent fasting on a regular basis.

How would the avoidance of food actually help your pain?

Well, you're going to basically generate ketones.

Those are alternative fuel source that have antioxidant properties.

They have anti-pain properties.

They also protect the neuron.

That's why it's really good for dementia and Parkinson's in Alzheimer's, but it's also

good for peripheral neuropathies where you have tingling or nerve pain in your hands or

your feet from the damage that is created from diabetes or other things.

Number two, fasting can release and help you recycle a lot of serotonin.

A serotonin is typically involved in your mood, it will bring you up, it will give you

the sense of well-being, it also helps you sleep, but it has another important function in

reducing neuropathic pain, which is basically pain from nerve damage.

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