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00:00I'm going to share several critical things about prolonged fasting that you need to know.

00:06Fasting is very simple, okay? It shouldn't be that hard. Some people overthink it,

00:12and those things that are really simple are usually extremely powerful, and that's what

00:17fasting is. I mean, it's actually mind-blowing to think that the absence of food, just not eating,

00:22can create so many powerful effects. And if you haven't tried it, you should definitely try it.

00:28In order to understand the benefits of fasting, you want to compare it to another subject, and usually

00:36a subject that would be the opposite, okay? And that would be snacking, okay? If you look at what

00:43snacking does to the human body, it is absolutely positively devastating. In fact, I think out of

00:49all the things that you can do that create a negative influence on your body, snacking is at

00:55the top of the list because of what it does to insulin. It's a chronic increase in elevation

01:02of insulin, which then leads to just a million other problems. I mean, when you think about it,

01:08I guess I'll just pull this up right here real quick. I don't think you can ever heal the body

01:15with eating frequent meals, okay? We have this idea that you have to heal the body with food,

01:21right? Like food is nourishing. Actually, it might be nourishing, but to really heal,

01:26you're better off not eating. This idea that breakfast is the most important meal is a total

01:33lie. And I used to promote it before I learned otherwise. What about promoting like bedtime snacks

01:39for kids, right? Or after school snacks, or this advice that you should never miss a meal, right?

01:44Which I have no idea who started that. Well, actually I do. It's the snack food industry that

01:51started that. And for some reason, this snacking food industry just doesn't like me for some reason.

01:57I don't know why it is. So if we look at snacking, snacking actually makes you more hungry because

02:02you're eating a small amount of calories and you're stimulating insulin, and that lowers your blood sugar

02:08about an hour and a half later. So you're going to stimulate hunger, not stimulate your metabolism,

02:14okay? You're going to stimulate hunger when you snack, and it's going to promote more hunger,

02:21okay? And you're never ever going to fix hypoglycemia by eating these snacks because it just

02:30keeps that hypoglycemic low blood sugar thing going on and on and on. In fact, it actually

02:37slows your metabolism, or shall I say, slows your ability to lose weight because you develop insulin

02:42resistance because you have this constant increase of insulin. And also, it's going to promote a need

02:48for a nap, okay? Right after you eat, you're going to feel like you need a nap. And you may find that

02:53eating does reduce moodiness and grouchiness, but soon after, about an hour later, when your blood

02:59sugars are dropped, you're going to revert back to this moodiness. Now, in history, a lot of great

03:06thinkers have commented on fasting and had something to say about fasting. Hippocrates said, to eat when

03:14you are sick is to fuel your illness. Fascinating, right? And then we have the ancient Greek philosophers,

03:23right? The great thinkers. Pythagoras. Pythagoras required fasting of his students, okay? So they can

03:31think more clearly. Plato, Aristotle were advocates of fasting. Ben Franklin said, the best of all medicine

03:39is rest and fasting. Mark Twain said, a little starvation can really do more for the average

03:47sick person than the best medicine and the best doctors. And another very interesting point about

03:55your fat, okay? Your adipose tissue. Where did it come from? Why did we develop this fat tissue that you hate

04:03so much? Well, we developed it from scarcity of food, okay? Food scarcity. And what this fat really is, it's an

04:12efficient way of surviving. It's a way to make your energy very efficient. And when some people express that they

04:19have a damaged or slow or ruined metabolism, what they really have is an efficient metabolism, because

04:26now the body can go with just a little bit of food for long periods of time, and that fat is retained.

04:32So fat is all about prolonging fuel. It's all about helping you survive when there's no food. So therein

04:41lies the secret to losing fat, okay? Can you do it by adding more food, by eating something? No. You want to

04:49mimic why we developed it in the first place. We want to mimic starvation, but not really starvation.

04:56I want to actually kind of clarify what I mean by mimic, okay? The difference between fasting and

05:02starvation really has to do with one thing, control. Who's in control? When you're fasting, you're in

05:08control. When you're starving, you're usually being controlled by the environment because there's no food.

05:14So if we were going to mimic starvation, we're really being in control because we could eat if

05:19we want, right? And so the secret to getting rid of your fat really is just to do prolonged fasting,

05:26okay? The power of prolonged fasting is just remarkable for your health. So let's go through

05:31the seven critical things that you need to know, okay? The first thing I want to mention is that

05:37when you do fasting, you really only want to drink water. You can have tea, you can have some coffee,

05:45but you definitely want to take supplements. And the reason is because nowadays people are so

05:51deficient in nutrients. So even though when you go through fasting, your body adapts and becomes very

05:57efficient at holding nutrients and the requirement of nutrients is a lot less, you could still have

06:04certain deficiencies of both trace minerals, especially, and other things like electrolytes

06:10and even the B vitamins. So I recommend taking your supplements. And the two main categories of

06:18supplements I would recommend are the electrolytes and the B vitamins. But of course, if you can also do

06:24some other ones like vitamin D, vitamin C, that would be important. What you don't want to do

06:31is you don't want to do like branch chain amino acids. You don't want to have little snacks.

06:38No, you don't want to do that. And there are some programs that promote that, but I don't recommend

06:44that because what you're going to do is you're going to inhibit this very powerful thing that gives you

06:49huge benefits, okay? Called autophagy. What is that? That is a condition. It's not a thing,

06:56it's a condition in your body that basically recycles old damaged proteins, okay? So fasting is the most

07:05potent trigger to autophagy. And so autophagy is kind of like self-cleaning. It's cleaning up

07:12the old dead proteins. It's cleaning up pathogens in the body. It's stimulating all sorts of genes for

07:19long-term survival and longevity. It helps to clean up damaged mitochondria, which is directly

07:28behind the root cause of cancer. So this is why prolonged fasting is the best solution to cancer.

07:37And if you have not seen my videos on two amazing success stories with cancer, like stage four cancer,

07:46I'm going to put those down below, but it's very powerful. So autophagy is a condition where you're

07:53recycling like damaged protein. I'm talking about like amyloid plaquing that's involved in Alzheimer's,

08:00talking about the damaged protein involved in chronic disease, like in your eyes, like from diabetes,

08:07from chronic inflammation. And by the way, when you'd start doing prolonged fasting,

08:12you can just erase any inflammation in the body. And it's amazing for autoimmune type conditions as

08:21well. So we're recycling damaged proteins, not just your muscles, but proteins involved in the enzymes,

08:29all the different metabolic pathways, the things that are damaged, it cleans all that up.

08:33So just make sure you do your water, a couple other things like tea and coffee and your supplements,

08:39but nothing else. Okay. The other thing I want to bring up is the amount of water. I would recommend

08:46at least two and a half liters of water. Now there are dry fasts and that's a whole different thing,

08:53but for most of you watching, I don't recommend you do that, do a water fast. So you're basically

08:58drinking a good amount of water. What's interesting about doing a fast, your body will make its own water

09:05out of fat, but that's for another video. I just recommend you drink enough water. And the reason

09:11I recommend you drink water is when you start fasting, boy, you just dump your glycogen, okay?

09:17Your stored sugar and you're burning up the sugar first. And then with that is the release of a lot

09:25of fluids because you have a tremendous amount of water that's tied in with this stored blood sugar

09:32in your muscles and your, in your liver. So you're going to get rid of a good amount of fluid

09:37initially. And with that becomes a loss of electrolytes. So you want to put back in those

09:43electrolytes. Probably the biggest risk of doing these fast, okay, is when you're doing them without

09:51electrolytes, because you can create a lot of problems with your heart. You can, you can faint.

09:58You can even have heart attacks. Why? Because you're, you're basically depriving your body of

10:04key electrolytes and realize that sodium chloride is also part of electrolytes. Okay. So you need

10:12salt and other electrolytes. If you feel weakness in your muscles, that is an indication that you need

10:20more salt. Okay. And of course I'm talking about sea salt and electrolytes. I'm also talking about

10:28potassium, magnesium, calcium, things like that. Now let's go into number three, refeeding. This is

10:37when you start to eat again. Now I'm not talking about intermittent fasting right now. I'm talking

10:43about prolonged fasting. When you're fasting 48, 72 hours, you're fasting five days, you're fasting,

10:50you know, 14 days, 21 days, 30 days, whatever. And you could do a five day or even a 21 day fast

10:59several times to the year and just keep your health at a whole new level. The, some of the problems with

11:08fasting that I want to bring up is like, you don't want to do fasting when you're pregnant, when you're

11:12lactating. Um, you don't want to do fasting if you have anorexia. However, if you have stage four

11:20cancer or cancer in general, um, personally, I would do prolonged fasting immediately. So if you're

11:28doing a prolonged fast, all right, um, what do you eat coming off the fast? Well, you want to do, um,

11:36something healthy of course, uh, but you don't want to do a big meal. Okay. And you especially do not

11:41want to do something with refined carbs and sugar. And the reason is because you're going to create a

11:46huge shift of potassium. Okay. Um, out of the cell and 98% of all your potassium should be inside that

11:55cell. And so in order to store sugar, you need potassium. So you're going to just suck out this

12:02potassium too fast. And you're going to end up with a severe, um, imbalance, uh, of potassium in the

12:12blood inside the cell. There's going to be this huge imbalance and that can create some dangers. So

12:17do not do, you know, just regular foods or refined carbs. When you come off this prolonged fast, instead

12:25do a little bit of salad, maybe a little egg, uh, just a little bit of something and then wait for a

12:31little bit, do a little avocado and gradually kind of come out of this. Okay. You do not want to do a

12:40big meal, um, like I did. And that was a really good demonstration of what not to do because I just

12:46pigged out, ate all this food, ate this huge meal. And oh my goodness, did I end up with a serious,

12:55uh, digestive problem, tired. And I'm like, okay, I will never do that again. In fact, I need to,

13:01I have other people learn from my mistakes. All right. If you're doing a prolonged fast and I'm

13:08saying probably 72 hours or longer, realize that all these ketones are going to make you pretty acid.

13:14It's not a bad thing. It's just that if you're doing apple cider vinegar and you're adding that,

13:19you're going to add some more acidity and that can throw off your pH. And you may find that your,

13:24your pulse rate, it's like a very loud pounding pulse rate in your ear. That's going to make it

13:30difficult to sleep because your pH is off and your breathing might be affected too. Like,

13:36like air hunger, like can't get enough air. So don't, just don't do the apple cider vinegar.

13:40If you're doing a fast longer than 72 hours, you may want to do some baking soda, just a little bit,

13:47like a, an eighth of a teaspoon in some water and drink that. Especially if you start having a buildup

13:53of a, like a gout symptom from the uric acid that goes up. Uric acid is one of the most powerful

13:59antioxidants in your blood. And it's a normal thing, but some people that are predisposed to gout

14:03might have a flare up, especially when they are doing this initially. Okay. But normally it's not

14:09a situation. And number five, do the healthy version of the ketogenic diet. Don't just go back

14:15to regular foods because first of all, the carbs are going to kind of nullify some of the benefits that

14:20you had. Okay. Because this, this whole goal of doing fasting is to get rid of the bad effects

14:26of a high carb diet and a junk food diet. So why would you want to go back to that? So

14:31I would highly recommend combining healthy keto with the intermittent fasting. Okay. Number six,

14:38Don phenomenon. What is that? That has to do with your blood sugars going up. Okay. Maybe between five

14:46in the morning to eight, like all of a sudden your blood sugars go up and like you didn't eat any sugar.

14:51Where's that sugar coming from? Well, your liver is making sugar. Okay. There's a problem with insulin

14:57resistance, which is still occurring because it takes quite a while to get rid of that condition.

15:03It could take months, even up to a year or a little bit longer to fully get rid of that. If you have

15:09the Don phenomenon, all that means is that you have insulin resistance. Okay. And I wouldn't worry

15:16about it too much. However, if it concerns you, I would go for a long walk and just burn off that

15:22sugar. It's not coming from your diet. Okay. It's just your liver is making the sugar. And that's a

15:27big difference between consuming sugar. All right. It's, you're not going to have a problem. And also

15:34that problem is going to go away with time versus some people might think, Oh, fasting is bad because

15:40it raised my sugar. So I'm going to stop doing that. That would be a mistake. And so a couple of

15:45little things that you can do, you can probably take berberine or other things like cinnamon to help

15:51reduce insulin resistance. Okay. All right. Number seven, knowing when to break your fast.

15:59Now, should you just dive right into a prolonged fast? Well, you know what? You could, you could,

16:05are you going to feel great? Maybe not, especially if you haven't fasted, you're going to have to go

16:09through a period of time where your body adapts. And so it might take you several days before you start

16:14feeling good. Um, so a lot of people do this gradually and they kind of ease into it after

16:21doing, you know, weeks of intermittent fasting. So you could just cold Turkey, just jump right in

16:27and do prolonged fasting. Okay. However, when you start fasting, what you're really doing is you're

16:32switching from the glucose fuel to the fat fuel. Okay. And then also the body then has to make new

16:39enzymes for ketones. Okay. So your body actually is running on fatty acids as well as ketones,

16:46especially for your brain. Your brain can't run on fatty acids. It runs on ketones. So just think

16:52about this. You're not going to feel really good in your head when you start doing fasting simply

16:58because it takes a while to develop ketones. So in the meantime, what you could do is take MCT oil,

17:05or you can take ketone supplements and get rid of those symptoms. However, um, you may not feel

17:11good mentally, um, at first, but then you start adapting and your appetite goes away and you feel

17:19good. That's a really good indication that you've adapted. Okay. So if you're doing this gradual,

17:25okay, there's always going to be a transition phase where you're going to have to go through

17:29something that's going to be uncomfortable, but just realize, push through that. Like you might

17:34have hunger pains. You might feel, um, a little bit kind of off, but then if you push through that,

17:43that will go away because your body has, is forced to adapt to this new method of burning fuel.

17:51There's no other shortcuts other than just pushing through that sometimes. So at some point going from

17:57intermittent fasting to prolonged fasting, you're going to have to go through a little bit of this

18:02transition. It's normal. It's not abnormal. Um, I'm just letting you know before you go through it so

18:10you can not be freaked out about it. But when I say don't eat, if you're not hungry, eat when you're

18:16hungry. Um, I'm mainly talking about doing intermittent fasting, but when we get into prolonged fasting,

18:22should you eat when you're hungry? Uh, no, actually we're going to just push through that

18:27to the other side. Okay. So that's kind of a little bit of a, a little point I want to bring up now,

18:33since we're on the topic of fasting, I think it'd be very important for you to learn a little bit more

18:37about how to speed up the process. And that would be how to make insulin more sensitive. So you should

18:44watch this video right here.

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