Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits

Nutrition 0:03 0
“fasting is an effective and efficient way of reversing and normalizing blood pressure now the problem is you can't fast forever you have to feed so you also have to learn to eat a health promoting diet in order to sustain those results”

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Disease prevention 1:08 0
“cardiovascular disease high blood pressure, diabetes type two, autoimmune diseases where the immune system itself is attacking the body the rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, ankylosing spondylitis, the psoriasis, the eczema these conditions where it's your own body that's kind of working against you and also certain types of cancer like lymphoma”

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Nutrition 2:18 0
“keep eating the same way keep living the same lifestyle keep lacking sleep being stressed eat all the processed foods and you'll be on these drugs for the rest”

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Sleep 2:18 0
“keep eating the same way keep living the same lifestyle keep lacking sleep being stressed eat all the processed foods and you'll be on these drugs for the rest”

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Stress management 2:18 0
“keep eating the same way keep living the same lifestyle keep lacking sleep being stressed eat all the processed foods and you'll be on these drugs for the rest”

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Nutrition 5:28 0
“one of the biggest thing that fasting does it's an efficient way of undoing the consequences of dietary excess so people spend a long time accumulating the consequence of dietary excess and they can very rapidly reverse many of them consequences”

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Disease prevention 5:51 0
“we did a study with 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure and 174 people were able to lower their pressure enough to eliminate the need for medications”

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Nutrition 6:10 0
“really fasting is an effective and efficient way of reversing and normalizing blood pressure”

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Nutrition 6:18 0
“you also have to learn to eat a health promoting diet in order to sustain those results”

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Nutrition 6:57 0
“we recommend a period of 16 hours a day of fasting, eight hours a day of feeding”

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Nutrition 7:28 0
“so that you aren't necessarily eating three or four hours before you go to sleep May improve your sleep quality and improve digestion May improve your muscle to Fat ratios over time and may induce changes that are beneficial”

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Nutrition 8:17 0
“the kidneys and liver are main detoxifying organs in the body and particularly the kidneys if kidney function I isn't at least at some minimal level in our Clinic we use creatinine levels of 2.0 as an arbitrary marker if the kidney function isn't adequate then the rapid detoxification that occurs during fasting where the body mobilizes and eliminates both endogenous and has exogenous toxins into the bloodstream and then are processed by the kidneys if the kidneys function is inadequate you could overload the kidney function and create problems”

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Nutrition 11:39 0
“we add chemicals to our food specifically to induce dopamine stimulation in our brain those those chemicals are salt oil and sugar these are not Foods they're food byproducts they're hyper-concentrated food biparts are essentially chemicals we're putting in the food that stimulate more dopamine”

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Metabolic health 12:06 0
“the consequence of hyper stimulating our brain with dopamine means we overeat and we become obese and that's why two-thirds of people are overweight is because they fold their brain with chemicals they put in their feed it works in rats it works within mice it works in humans”

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Nutrition 13:03 0
“oils are all highly processed fractionated foods with nine calories per gram and eliminates the satiety feedback so if we're talking about trying to lose or maintain Optimum weight oils would have a disadvantage compared to eating your fat from Whole Food”

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Body weight 14:19 0
“weight loss is about a pound a day now that pound of a day of water only average weight loss is a pound now some of that's water right some of it's protein some of its fiber some of it's glycogen and some of it's fat and of that fat some of its adipose tissue of its visceral fat”

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Body weight 16:18 0
“what happens after fasting so you lose 10 pounds you might regain five pounds, you're going to grain about two pounds of glycogen because you have sugar stores in your muscles that'll be depleted within a couple days of fasting”

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Body weight 16:53 0
“weight comes off, weight comes back on, but the weight that comes back on is glycogen, water, fiber, and protein not bad fat continues to drop”

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Body weight 17:39 0
“it's not weight per se that's the threat, it's excess fat”

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Nutrition 17:53 0
“if you sit around in the couch and eat greasy fatty slimy dead decaying flesh and highly processed foods and put on a lot of fat particularly visceral fat gain that same 20 pounds that might be a problem”

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Nutrition 23:26 0
“well nobody knows but it could be that it's setting up the metabolism right it's setting up the metabolism to be enough you know like we were discussing earlier right so if it's affecting the way you burn fat if it's affecting the way your insulin functions Etc et cetera eventually you could be more prone to you know insulin resistance diabetes cardiovascular disease Etc you don't need very much and also the heart right so it could be that the Ketone bodies this continuous high level so when you fast these Ketone bodies this is what the word ketogenesis comes from this break these byproducts of fat are going up in the bloodstream right and and uh and also fatty acids right the fat is themselves and these can can alter the way your heart works and the way your your brain works”

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Nutrition 24:31 1
“so it's okay if you're doing like um a week-long fast or a three-day fast to obviously skip the food or have less food during breakfast but you're saying skipping breakfast on a consistent basis has proven that's not a good thing yeah I mean obviously nobody nobody did an experiment where they said oh let's randomized that 10 000 people and you skip breakfast and you don't and let's wait 30 years right they cannot be done but it's epidemiological studies so you know you look at the the databases and you say the breakfast Keepers you know are they doing better or worse than the number of fast Keepers and they're doing consistently worse”

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Nutrition 27:57 0
“what we see now clinically is that when you do let's say five days of a fasting making diet or it could even be water only fasting uh you unlock that you seem to unlock that mode where and this is why the doctor that I was telling you about you see even you see even even using the longevity diet but it's still not quite losing that insulin resistance until it does the fasting making that that changes and you clearly see the slope of of the the glucose levels curve”

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Nutrition 28:34 0
“the fasting mimicking diet is around like three to five hundred calories a day type of thing is that right or no the first image that uh is uh the one for regular people is 1100 calories and day one and then it goes 800 calories a day two three four five”

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Nutrition 31:02 0
“so if you go to a place it is effective it is a fact if you're in a specialized clinic in your house but watch out though right because again as we were saying earlier um the devil is in detail and if you go long enough right especially if you're extreme and long then the body goes into another response which is Thrifty mode so the body mode so it stops burning”

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Body weight 33:31 0
“store it as glycogen which is sugar or it can store it as body fat but that's the point so you eat lunch or dinner there's way more calories in that meal then you can use right at that point so you want to store that so when you don't eat which is any time you don't eat it's called fasting so when you fast that means your insulin is going to drop and that's the signal for your body to now start pulling those calories out of storage right and that's the reason you don't die in your sleep every single night is because we have the ability to hold some of those calories in storage.”

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Metabolic health 34:00 0
“in the FED State insulin goes up you're storing calories or body fat and the fasted State you're not eating your insulin's dropping and you're using calories you're one or the other you can't do both at the same time.”

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Body weight 34:48 0
“the only way that you can actually use the body fat is to let the insulin fall and not eat.”

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Nutrition 39:05 0
“again people say say you have to eat breakfast you have to eat but there's actually nothing magical about breakfast if you don't eat breakfast what's going to happen well my body which is now burning fat because I've had eight hours of sleep it's gone into sort of fat burning mode because that's the storage form of calories or it's burning sugar um it's just gonna keep doing it right there's nothing wrong with it”

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Nutrition 39:26 0
“so a lot of times I try and confine myself to sort of an eating window of sort of six to eight hours and then once in a while when I get very busy I will do a 24 hour fast which is a one meal a day and then every so often I'll do a longer fast”

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Social connection 39:39 0
“the longer fasts are actually not as bad as you might think but they really disrupt your schedule sort of socially it's it's a tough one because a lot of our socialization happens at meals so I often have dinner with my family for example and doing those longer fasts is really really disruptive to that sort of thing”

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Nutrition 42:27 0
“if you want to lose weight you can do very well of course with a sort of standard 70s style sort of 8 AM to 6 PM which in a 14 hour fast every single night remember they're doing eight four 12 to 14 hours say every single night without even thinking about it like that's a secret because they don't even think about that that's just a period of time that they're not eating right”

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Metabolic health 44:44 0
“everybody thinks that fasting is like the worst thing you could do when you actually look at the science of what happens during fasting is actually one of the best things you can do for yourself from both a mental standpoint and a physiologic standpoint”

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Metabolic health 47:09 0
“metabolic rate is the amount of energy that your body uses in a day the number of calories you burn in a day and this is what we see if you simply cut calories”

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Body weight 49:43 0
“too much body fat then what happens is that there's so much there why wouldn't you use it because it's a fuel source that's all it is”

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Metabolic health 49:56 0
“if you're eating all the time you can never use your body fat because your insulin is high you're using food then you get hungry so you eat some more”

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Metabolic health 50:39 0
“they did a study for example where they took people and fasted them for four days and measured how many calories they're using they also measure their VO2”

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Mental health 52:18 0
“your concentration is actually much higher when you don't eat”

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Cognitive stimulation 53:39 0
“this is simply the mental Clarity of starvation so it was incredible it's like it was so widespread everybody was starving and they'd see these incredible Feats that nobody else in the world could do”

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Nutrition 54:59 0
“so if you know that it's a wave right you just have to let the sort of wave pass over you yeah but I often tell people you will get hungry okay don't don't pretend that you're not because you will what you got to do is prepare for it and say okay well if you get hungry then you either there's several things one stay busy you know keep doing stuff don't just think about how hungry you are”

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Nutrition 55:52 0
“the other strategy is to get something like green tea or coffee that you can drink by the time you finish in you know a big cup of green tea the hunger will have passed”

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Nutrition 56:09 0
“what's even more interesting actually is if you look at multiple day studies where they fast people for three four five days the gorillan Peaks and then after about two days it starts going down so by you know day two day three as you get to day four day five the hunger almost completely disappears”

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Nutrition 57:39 0
“you get yourself a supportive Community you know you figure out something that you really love to do that keeps you active during that time and and that's how you get through it right and and while you do that of course your body uses up the body fats you're going to lose weight it's going to use up the blood sugar which is going to keep you from becoming diabetic and it's insulin is going to fall which is going to reduce your risk of cancer in the long term as well as those other conditions obesity and type 2 diabetes which puts you at such high risk of cancer in the first place”

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Nutrition 1:00:28 0
“I just so happened to lose seven and a half pounds it was burning a lot of excess fat um but I just felt better I felt more confident I felt like oh I could do something challenging which gave me more strength in my mind it was a spiritual experience in a lot of ways.”

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Nutrition 1:00:55 0
“the point about being healthier is one of these things that people think it's super unhealthy for you it's actually one of the healthiest things you can do as long as you're again not underweight and you're doing it safely right you're not on a bunch of medications that need adjustment.”

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Nutrition 1:01:11 0
“there's this whole uh recent scientific sort of Revolution into this process called autophagy which has been you know very very topical people have been going crazy on it because in 2016 one of the Nobel prizes in medicine was awarded to one of the early researchers and what it showed is that when you fast uh and you turn down these nutrient sensors then your body actually starts to activate a process called autophagy an autophagy is where your body breaks down these sort of subcellular organelles and just gets rid of them right it breaks it down and recycles them.”

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Nutrition 1:02:52 0
“one of the things that activates during uh fasting is actually growth hormone so if you'll fast for 24 hours your growth hormone level is like four times what it is when you're eating.”

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Nutrition 1:05:41 0
“day it's really hard so fasting may be a better way to go which is something they figured out sort of Ages ago because if you look back that's how people thought of fasting that people called it a cleanse, a detoxification, Reawakening spiritual purification that kind of thing right there's this whole sense of rebirth and something super healthy for you which got turned in the 80s into something really bad for you right it's strange how how things work but without any sort of scientific evidence and as we become as a nation more overweight it becomes even more important and and that's just one of these sort of fascinating things so you know it's not like something I just made up it's like literally the oldest dietary intervention in the books right I'm just rediscovering this and trying to tell people hey there's a lot of good medical science that tells you this is actually something that is applicable to what we're seeing today in our health care and you can do something like you don't need your doctor you don't need your dietitian you can do something about it right now for no money right and…”

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Nutrition 1:08:51 0
“you're drinking this horrible horrible tasting stuff and they're spitting it out they couldn't take it it's like oh this the whole thing is so sad because it's like if you knew you could simply take nothing at all and be far healthier and save yourself a lot of money it's it's a sad sad sort of State of Affairs that we get into”

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Nutrition 1:11:30 0
“if you follow any type of a diet there's always a natural limit so say here you want to lose weight and so you say I'm going to do a keto diet or a paleo diet or a vegetarian diet so you do a vegetarian diet and you lose you know a few pounds but not as much as you want well you can't go more vegetarian than vegetarian right exactly so what else are you gonna do there's nowhere else you or you can't go more keto or you can't go more paleo whereas there's no actual upper limit to what you can do in terms of fasting and it's powerful because you're eating zero which means that it is by definition for weight loss the most powerful diet there is like absolutely you cannot lose more than if you put any calories in your body no matter what diet you're on you're not going to lose as much as if you had zero calories”

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Nutrition 1:14:05 0
“it's really talking to people about anti-inflammatory nutrition unfortunately most of the foods that proliferate in the processed food industry are highly inflammatory and I'm talking about like gluten and dairy I always get you know the side eye from people like no not dairy sometimes in certain instances sometimes grains process sugars alcohol alcohol is a big one”

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Nutrition 1:16:35 0
“I love sugar but I know it's not good for me it doesn't do good things to my body so I try to have days where I don't have any and then I have some and I'm like okay I'm just gonna enjoy this but I know this is not benefiting me this is not giving me any nutritional value it's not helping my brain my digestion my heart none of that.”

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Nutrition 1:17:35 0
“I would imagine that processed sugars are in are really in almost everything and so I think that is a greater issue.”

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Nutrition 1:18:34 0
“I usually have kind of a graduated perspective like first you stop snacking like it really is that simple so if someone is you know really starting from a place where they've been eating a standard American diet they're not physically active I'm like we need to teach you to stop snacking because I promise you're not going to get hungry in between because we're going to teach you how to balance your Macros so you're going to have more protein with your meal so that you can get from breakfast to lunch and lunch to dinner and you're going to eventually get to a position where you can go from dinner to breakfast.”

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Metabolic health 1:21:24 0
“it could take four six eight weeks for that to happen depending on how metabolically flexible someone is”

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Sleep 1:22:43 0
“I really focus in on sleep”

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Nutrition 1:22:45 0
“I eat a lot of protein”

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Nutrition 1:22:50 0
“I carb cycle and that's worked really well for me”

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Nutrition 1:22:51 0
“I don't drink alcohol”

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Nutrition 1:23:10 0
“my advice in life is dark chocolate”

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Disease prevention 1:23:54 0
“I put an autoimmune disease into remission when I went gluten-free”

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Nutrition 1:26:06 0
“then my husband yeah the teenage days when I had eight Dr Peppers a day in the summer and you know just ice cream all night yeah and they're impervious like my 17 year old six feet tall and the six-pack and yeah always ridiculous plays football and you can't eat anything you want that's crazy”

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Nutrition 1:26:28 0
“I fast most days so it could be 14 it could be 18 hours.”

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Nutrition 1:27:12 0
“when you break your fast protein and healthy fats or protein and carbs it's never carbs naked you know use the term you know naked carbs meaning you don't just sit down any bowl of chips you want to have a steak or a piece of chicken or a piece of fish or some egg and you could have some carbs with that correct but eat the meat or the protein first.”

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Nutrition 1:28:10 0
“the worst foods to eat after you fast oh um I I would say you know just sitting down and eating a bunch of processed carbs like don't sit down and have a bowl of ice cream you know you're going to spike your blood sugar all right spike your insulin I would say the processed carbs um you know if you sat down and had some rice and had some chicken I mean that would be fine but I would say you know most of the processed foods because your appetite and satiety cues are not going to be clicked in”

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Exercise 1:31:56 0
“do something active especially outside because of course then you're taking yourself away so going out for a walk or a run is great because exercise like it does two things first of all you can schedule it second of all when you're actually exercising you'll almost never be hungry right like think about the last time you play tennis or basketball or soccer you're so fully into the game you're not thinking boy I'm really hungry like almost never like like I almost you know you almost can't do it right like you you know you've you've done plenty of stuff you never think in the middle of a Game Boy I could really use a burger right you're thinking how am I gonna score right or whatever you're doing right so putting a pickup game of whatever you like to play right does does wonders because you know the hunger is going to go away you're taking the time where you are you know you're in the past you would have taken something so lunch hour for example you're taking that time and three when you make a plan to play the game of tennis with your friend…”

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Social connection 1:34:17 0
“doing things together in a supportive group that's that's important like it's it's the way we get things done we're humans we're social beings”

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Environment 1:35:16 0
“I don't think obesity or weight gain is about lack of willpower. I think it's the change in sort of the Norms that is the eating norms and the environment which is less in the Socialist food has led to that.”

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Nutrition 1:36:51 0
“you have to realize the foods are made to be tempting like nobody's trying to make their foods not appetizing”

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Nutrition 1:37:21 0
“it feels good to eat and consume it takes away some of the pain it takes away some of the emotional challenges that people face”

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Nutrition 1:38:39 0
“trying to cut out sugary drinks, cut out some of the snacking because remember back in you know not that long ago it was all about giving snacks”

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Nutrition 1:40:05 0
“make sure you're eating something good before you go in where there's a lot of stuff that's bad right because if you're full you're going to be less tempted”

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Nutrition 1:42:35 0
“you just have to look back at what we did in the 70s and you'll get your blueprint for what you're supposed to be doing three snacks unprocessed Foods cut the sugar and make sure you have a period of time at night where you're going to use those calories that you took in during the day”

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Nutrition 1:43:01 0
“we have to learn about the foods that feed these pathogens and we have to learn how to remove these pathogens, kill them off, we have to learn how to remove toxic heavy metals out of our system and we have to learn how to use Foods as medicine to do it”

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Nutrition 1:43:44 0
“the number one thing is eggs don't eat eggs because the pathogens, the virus, the shingles virus feeds off of eggs”

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Nutrition 1:46:40 0
“the next food we should never eat dairy products all Dairy feeds five goat's milk sheep's milk whatever it just it feeds the bugs”

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Nutrition 1:48:04 0
“nobody knows what's going on or causing all of that so then you know hey wait a minute but there was a paid for study saying that it's really good for me and my doctor recommended them because it's a great protein Source let me just eat them and then try to do my keto diet with eggs let me try to do this diet maybe stay away from gluten but in the end and have total respect for everybody that's trying to experiment and you know you'll see it on YouTube too you'll see like a few years ago people being like okay I'm doing this and then all of a sudden they're getting sick like it's showcasing now because we have a documented record we've never had before with people with symptoms it's showcasing things now like on social media we're seeing it now where someone's like okay I'm loving my eggs I'm doing it for like you know a year or whatever and then a year later you know they're getting eczema and psoriasis and they don't know why it's like things are we're seeing it now when we never even could see it before because you…”

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Nutrition 1:49:06 0
“okay so we got no eggs no Dairy what else okay those are those these are the two these are the basics these are the two big ones you eliminate that you should be yeah and gluten is your third basic that's your third those three so anything that tastes good eliminate whether you want to stay animal protein whether you want to be vegan TV in the plant-based that's what you get rid of whether you're gluten dairy eggs yeah yeah exactly but you're saying meat is okay or plant-based is okay and or what's the ideal well meat here's what experience that you should be I'm a big supporter plant-based huge supporter okay the spirit of compassion a big supporter absolutely okay plant-based when I mean total big supporter okay but I'm not I'm not anti the Animal product crowd and what they're doing because I'm not against meat either and I think it gets the plant Pro the plant uh based people mad at me that are that love me they're like wait a minute he's not against him how come he's not against him how come he's not fighting for staying away from you know animal…”

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Substances 1:53:35 0
“it's a miracle medicine really yeah because it's an herbal medicine and has power that people don't know about just like so many other foods have power but this one particularly it has a sodium cluster salt so something called sodium cluster salts that's a pathogen killer that's different than Salt it's different than sea salt or anything else”

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Nutrition 1:54:11 0
“celery juice binds onto it binds on to byproduct that people have in their body so toxins from pathogens it binds onto it and pulls it out of their body”

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Nutrition 1:54:32 0
“get the heavy metal detox the medical medium heavy metal detox smoothie in you so you can remove the metals”

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Nutrition 1:57:34 0
“if you're eating Whole Foods there's only so much you can eat you hit pellet fatigue faster it's far more satiating you just eat more appropriately”

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Nutrition 1:58:45 0
“don't eat while distracted in other words when you eat don't be on your phone, don't watch TV just sit down and eat your meal.”

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Nutrition 1:59:43 0
“eat the protein first over the vegetables everything just eat the protein first.”

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Exercise 2:01:51 0
“strength training is very effective”

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Metabolic health 2:04:03 0
“adaptation or slow down that tends to happen when we reduce calories to lose weight”

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Hormone balance 2:04:13 0
“the balancing of hormones that we're all kind of looking for like in men you see more testosterone, higher Androgen receptor density, more appropriate levels of cortisol, a balancing of estrogen progesterone in women, growth hormone tends to be more youthful”

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Exercise 2:04:55 0
“if you're going to pick just one form do strength training that's going to be the most effective one”

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Exercise 2:07:19 0
“strength training needs to be in order to reap the real benefits of strength training it has to be applied in a particular way otherwise it ends up becoming cardio with weights”

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Body weight 2:09:42 0
“for the most part where we store or lose body fat is determined by our genetics so A good rule of thumb is the first place that I store it is probably going to be the last place that I lose it.”

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Hormone balance 2:09:55 0
“hormonal changes can change the distribution of body fat on your body so if you see like women with very very high cortisol estrogen progesterone imbalances they'll start to notice more more belly fat than than they normally would men who is let's say testosterone is low estrogen levels may be too high they'll see more body fat level more body fat storage and maybe the upper body back of the arms maybe in the lower body.”

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Body weight 2:10:31 0
“how do I get rid of body fat well it's the same way that you get rid of any body fat you have to create an energy imbalance which to put it simply and again it's more complex in this but to put it simply you have to be able to burn more calories than you take in.”

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Exercise 2:10:57 0
“building muscle is a great way to make that formula work for you because if you don't what ends up happening is you cut calories you know you do tons and tons of cardio you cut calories you lose 15 pounds you're stuck okay I guess I got calories more and you lose muscle too.”

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Summary

Fasting and Nutrition: Insights and Practices

Fasting has been identified as a pivotal intervention for reversing and normalizing high blood pressure, requiring a supportive diet post-fasting to sustain benefits. Nutritional discourse points towards a cycle exacerbated by processed foods contributing negatively to chronic health problems and creating dietary patterns that increase dependence on medications.

Impacts of Diet on Health

Excessive intake of processed foods rich in salt, oil, and sugar is linked to dopamine overstimulation in the brain, encouraging overeating and potential obesity. Moreover, a dietary approach involving fasting, especially intermittent fasting with a cycle of 16-hour fasting and an 8-hour feeding window, is highlighted as beneficial in managing weight and improving metabolic health. The concept of eating patterns that exclude snacking and emphasize whole foods is promoted for sustained health benefits.

Challenges and Considerations in Prolonged Fasting

Fasting can trigger a ‘thrifty mode’ in the body, where energy conservation mechanisms override calorie burning. This highlights the necessity of medical oversight in fasting, particularly for individuals with compromised kidney function, as indicated by certain creatinine levels.

Historical and Societal Contexts

Fasting is recognized not only as a dietary tool but also as a spiritual and purification practice, historically viewed as beneficial contrary to some modern perceptions. It presents a cost-effective method of improving health without professional interventions.

Fasting’s Broader Implications

Fasting impacts several physiological processes: it prompts significant hormonal changes like increased growth hormone levels, enhances metabolic rate through autophagy, and leads to better insulin management. Social aspects, such as disruptions caused by non-conforming meal timings during extended fasting, are also considered.

Diet Recommendations and Health Strategies

Advisory points include avoiding high-caloric processed foods post-fasting, incorporating periodic prolonged fasting cycles, and optimizing nutrient timing by consuming proteins before other meal components to manage satiety effectively. Plant-based diets are emphasized over dairy and egg consumption due to their potential to aggravate certain health conditions.

Engagement in Physical Activity

Physical activities are encouraged alongside dietary management to fortify the benefits of fasting, emphasize muscle building over cardiovascular exercises, and utilize group dynamics in exercising to enhance commitment and results.