Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

I'm going to talk about why I don't recommend doing a water fast or a dry fast.

Now what is a water fast?

It's a fast where you're not consuming any food, you're only drinking water, you're

not drinking coffee, you're not taking supplements, nothing.

Now dry fast is you're not even drinking water and I don't recommend that either.

But why wouldn't I recommend a water fast?

Well probably I would recommend it years ago, maybe 30 years ago, but not nowadays, why?

Because so many people have nutritional deficiencies.

The food that we eat is so mineral deficient and vitamin deficient.

Our bodies do not have the mineral reserves to go a long period of time without food.

And I'm talking about like even 48 or 72 hours or even longer, I've had many reports

of people passing out just with a 48 hour fast because they didn't have electrolytes.

And so if you have deficiencies going into a fast, especially just a water fast, without

taking any supplements, especially certain minerals, you can have various symptoms.

You can feel weak, you can feel sick, you can have digestive problems, you can feel faint.

So what I recommend when you're fasting is to take supplements, vitamins, minerals,

trace minerals, omega-3 fatty acids.

But you're something else that you can do that will help you replenish some of these

minerals.

And that would be consuming a vegetable broth that you actually make at your home.

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