What’s Up with Water Fasting? – Dr. Alan Goldhamer with Dave Asprey : 780

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Education, Fat, Wellness, Diet, Brain, Self-improvement, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Hacking, Meditation, Nutrition, Science, Biohacking, Fasting

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m joined by Dr. Alan Goldhamer, one of the world’s leading experts on medically supervised, water-only fasting. He’s supervised the fasting and care of more than 20,000 patients at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, since he founded it in 1984.

His mission is to expand evidence-based knowledge of how medically supervised, water-only fasting and diet impact human health; train clinicians in the use of these interventions; and share findings with researchers and the public.

“We know using this protocol, this process can be done safely,” he says. “We’ve actually published a fasting safety study–the first fasting safety study that's been published in a peer-reviewed journal–that involved tracking all the patients for five years, and all of the symptoms, and classifying them according to the CTCAE criteria, the adverse events criteria on hundreds of patients.”

A few things you may not know about water fasting:

Your Body Self-Cleans: “The body does a really good job of regulating and recycling and restoring electrolyte balance during water-only fasting,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “And as soon as you start supplementing, then it puts increased load on other nutrients, it gets complicated, and there's no good long term safety criteria using supplemented fasting.”

Your Gut Heals: “What we see clinically is that these patients with microbial imbalances tend to improve dramatically,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “We do really well in treating conditions ranging from ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, to the dysbiosis and chronic constipation, and more.”

Your Inflammation Decreases: “There's a powerful anti-inflammatory effect to fasting,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “All the acute phase reactive proteins, high sensitivity CRP, fibrinogen, pepsinogen, whatever you want to measure, tends to consistent and predictably go down during fasting. So the gut leakage appears to be able to heal.”

Our discussion covers research behind water fasting, what health conditions it may benefit and what happens during a water fast. We also get into a lot more information about health.

“There's a lot in common between whether it's intermittent fasting changes, water fasting changes, exercise, and all of these attempts to reduce dietary excess,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “All of them are essentially trying to reduce inflammation, get rid of gut leakage, and give the body a chance to heal itself from the consequences of a highly processed food diet, whether it's processed animal foods or processed plant-based foods.”

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2:10.0	You're listening to bullet proof radio with Dave asprey on today's show we're going to talk with Dr Alan Goldhammer who's one of the world's leading experts on medically supervised water only fasting and if you have read fastest way or you've at least ordered fast this way.
2:28.0	You know that I'm open to water only fasting but I don't think it's the only way to fast so I'm like hey let's bring in a guy who knows more about water only fasting probably than anyone else alive.
2:38.0	Dr Goldhammer supervised the fasting and care for more than 20,000 patients at true North health center in Santa Rosa California which he founded in 1984 so we're looking at nearly 30 years of experience looking at longer term water only fast there's a lot to learn in today's episode.
2:57.0	And this is one of the largest facilities in the world that does longer term water only fasting and they train medical professionals in therapeutic fasting so we're going to talk about water fasting when you might want to do that and when you might want to do other kinds of fasting.
3:13.0	Alan welcome to the show.
3:15.0	Thank you for having me.
3:18.0	I'm actually really excited to have you on because the chance to learn from people who've done something for more than a couple decades is very unusual because there aren't that many people out there who've done anything consistently for that so I consider you to be you know one of the the big figures in fasting who's just consistently done this so you develop mastery over time and over experience especially clinical experience.
3:45.0	So this is an interview I've been looking forward to for a very long time so thanks for just putting the time it to become a master.
3:53.0	Well it's my pleasure you know I remember when I was about 16 years old I met a doctor who just happened to be doing fasting supervision as part of his work and he told me that he had the best job in the whole world because the patients did all the work.
4:09.0	The body did all the healing and all you had to do is take credit for the good results and I thought hey that's the job for me.
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