Intermittent Fasting
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Hey everybody, today’s subject is intermittent fasting. It’s all the rage. We hear about it. We see it in magazines. It’s all over online. It’s one of the most researched topics when you Google search. Why? Why is intermittent fasting such a big deal? Well, first of all, I can tell you from experience with thousands of patients that I put through intermittent fasting regimens, it is the real deal. It works. There are profound benefits with intermittent fasting.
I probably need to define that for those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about. By saying intermittent fasting, we’re talking about eating your food only in a window of time each day. Preferably, for the benefits that I’ve seen that are best, we want to go at least 16 hours where you are not eating any food (just drinking water), and then you would condense all of your eating into an eight hour window. Maybe it’s going to be something from 12:00 PM until 8:00 PM in the evening. Personally, I like that window to be tighter, though. I’ve seen much greater benefits whenever we squeeze that window down to six hours, preferably even four hours. Then, even one or two days a week, for people that are struggling, get to the point that you can go for 24 hours since your last meal. You basically would fast for an entire day with nothing but water.
It might sound daunting to you and if you’ve got blood sugar issues. You may not be able to start at those windows. You may have to be only able to do 12 hours of fasting. I don’t know. We’re not telling you to push past your point of discomfort. If you’re feeling shaky, if you’re feeling nauseous, first of all, that’s a problem and you need to deal with it because that is probably at the heart of what you’re dealing with health-wise. I won’t get into that right here, but you’ve got to be able to spread that out. That’s a healthy metabolism. That’s a healthy individual. If you’re not that person, that’s an indication of just how sick you are. Start working on that. Start trying to spread that out. Man, what happens when we’re not consuming foods the way the typical American is consuming three, four, five, six meals. They never get a break. Their digestion never gets a break. They’re just constantly pushing food through a body.
So much of our energy reserves (30–40% it’s estimated) is in the digestion and assimilation of food. If you can give your gut a break, what happens is cleansing can begin to take place. You can begin to enter into what’s called autophagy, where your body will preferentially start utilizing damaged tissues, get rid of them, and burning them up. There’s just a ton of health benefits that can start with this process of intermittent fasting. You always want to make sure when you’re intermittent fasting, though, too, that when you are eating, you’re eating a healthy diet. You can’t be intermittent fasting, then run to a fast food restaurant, and start wolfing down all kind of bad food.
You want to make sure that you’re getting rid of sugar. You want to add healthy fats, and get rid of bad fats. You want lots of vegetables in your diet, and I would say moderate amount of fruits. Fruit-wise, I concentrate on berries, apples, and things like that, for people with health problems because unfortunately even fruit, healthy fruit that God gave us, if you have a sugar sensitivity can cause problems in certain people because it’s higher in sugar. Go easy on the fruit. Especially if you’re trying to recover from certain issues. Definitely get rid of the breads, the biscuits, the bagels, the pastas, the rices, and things like that for a period of time because they, too, will break down quickly into sugar in the body. If you’re sugar sensitive, it’s going to keep you a carb addict. I won’t get into that whole thing right now. You understand what a good healthy diet is.
If you don’t, go back and watch some of my videos or read some older blog posts. We describe it in detail. I hope that helps you with intermittent fasting. By the way, you want to do it at least three days a week. I recommend five to seven days a week with my patients. That’s where we’ve seen the best results. Give that a try, guys. I think you’ll see, when you abstain from food, it’ll start to make a difference in your life, in your health.
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Take care, guys. God bless.
