Why I Don't Recommend the 5:2 Method of Intermittent Fasting

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this podcast, I explain why you should NOT do the 5:2 intermittent fasting program. 5:2 means for 5 days, you are eating regularly with no restrictions to what you eat, and for 2 days, you lowered your calories by 75%. First of all, the 5:2 diet is not even intermittent fasting because you are just lowering your calories.

Here are two reasons why this is not recommended:

1. You are not going to adapt to a full state of ketosis.

2. No standard of what to eat.

Recommendation:

Do intermittent fasting every single day and do it correctly – start with 16:8 daily, then if you are comfortable with the ratio, start shortening the eating window a little bit to notice better results.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. they'll be able to help you.
0:13.4	Call 540991557.
0:17.4	That's 540299-1557.
0:21.0	That's 54099-155.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.
0:29.0	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:34.0	Dr Eric Berg.
0:36.5	So in this video I want to explain why you should not do the 5-2
0:42.4	in a minute fasting program. Okay, so let me explain first what that is.
0:48.4	For five days you're pretty much just doing regular eating. There's no restrictions of what you eat or when you eat, okay?
0:56.9	Then two days out of the week, you're lowering your calories by 75%.
1:02.1	So if you normally consume 2,000 calories per day, you're only consuming 500 calories.
1:08.3	Okay? And these two days could be on the weekend, they could be anytime during the week.
1:13.0	So first of all, the 5-2 diet is not even in a minute fasting
1:17.0	because you're eating, you're just lowering your calories.
1:20.0	So I don't recommend it because of two reasons.
1:23.4	Number one, you're not going to adapt to a full state of ketosis.
1:27.5	Why?
1:28.1	Because they're not really talking about what you're eating here, right?
1:31.1	And you're not doing it correctly.
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