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Summary of Transcript:
The video discusses intermittent fasting and recommends fasting for 12-16 hours daily to prevent obesity, induce metabolic changes, and avoid eating for the wrong reasons. Exercise before eating during a fast may help mobilize fat and prevent total body fat. Modified feeding regimes with reduced caloric density, such as plant-based diets, may also facilitate weight loss. The recommended plant-based foods are whole, unprocessed fruits and vegetables, starchy vegetables, appropriate amounts of fruit, and low sugar, high fiber fruits like berries and melons. Hybridized high sugar fruits should be avoided.
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Dr. Alan Goldhamer, an expert on medically supervised water-only fasting, states that all types of fasting, including intermittent fasting, can reduce inflammation, heal the gut, and allow the body to heal. Goldhamer has supervised the fasting and care of more than 20,000 patients at TrueNorth Health Center in California. Water fasting may benefit those with microbial imbalances, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysbiosis, and chronic constipation. The anti-inflammatory effect of fasting can lead to decreased inflammation and the reversal of gut leakage. The body can self-clean and regulate electrolyte balance during water-only fasting, making supplementation unnecessary. Despite the differences between various fasting techniques, they all aim to reduce inflammation and heal the body from the effects of a highly processed food diet.
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Understanding the Benefits of Water Fasting with Dr. Alan Goldhamer
If you’re someone who is interested in health, wellness, and alternative treatments, you might have heard of water fasting – the practice of abstaining from all food and drink except water. While this technique has been around for centuries, it has recently gained popularity as people seek natural ways to cleanse their bodies and heal from various ailments. In this Bulletproof Radio episode, host Dave Asprey interviews Dr. Alan Goldhamer, an expert in medically supervised, water-only fasting.
The Safety and Effectiveness of Water Fasting
According to Dr. Goldhamer, his years of experience at TrueNorth Health Center have proven that water fasting can be done safely and effectively. The center has even published the first fasting safety study in a peer-reviewed journal, tracking hundreds of patients over a five-year period. A key benefit of water fasting is that it allows the body to self-regulate and cleanse itself without putting undue stress on other nutrients.
Other Benefits of Water Fasting
But that’s not all – Dr. Goldhamer explains that water fasting can also help heal gut imbalances and reduce inflammation. Patients with conditions ranging from Crohn’s disease to chronic constipation have seen dramatic improvements after undergoing water fasting for supervised periods. Furthermore, studies have shown that various inflammatory markers decrease during water fasting, indicating that gut leakage can be healed.
Overall, the goal of water fasting, according to Dr. Goldhamer, is to reduce inflammation, get rid of gut leakage, and provide the body with a chance to heal itself from a highly processed food diet. While there are other ways to reduce inflammation, such as intermittent fasting and exercise, water fasting remains a powerful option for those who are interested in exploring natural treatments.
In Conclusion
If you’re interested in learning more about the safety and effectiveness of water fasting, be sure to check out this episode of Bulletproof Radio. And if you’ve already tried water fasting and have seen benefits, share your experience with others to help spread the word about this ancient practice.
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All types of fasting, from long-term water to intermittent, can reduce inflammation, get rid of gut leakage, and give the body a chance to heal.
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m joined by Dr. Alan Goldhamer, one of the world’s leading experts on medically supervised, water-only fasting. He’s supervised the fasting and care of more than 20,000 patients at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, since he founded it in 1984.
His mission is to expand evidence-based knowledge of how medically supervised, water-only fasting and diet impact human health; train clinicians in the use of these interventions; and share findings with researchers and the public.
“We know using this protocol, this process can be done safely,” he says. “We’ve actually published a fasting safety study–the first fasting safety study that’s been published in a peer-reviewed journal–that involved tracking all the patients for five years, and all of the symptoms, and classifying them according to the CTCAE criteria, the adverse events criteria on hundreds of patients.”
A few things you may not know about water fasting:
Your Body Self-Cleans: “The body does a really good job of regulating and recycling and restoring electrolyte balance during water-only fasting,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “And as soon as you start supplementing, then it puts increased load on other nutrients, it gets complicated, and there’s no good long term safety criteria using supplemented fasting.”
Your Gut Heals: “What we see clinically is that these patients with microbial imbalances tend to improve dramatically,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “We do really well in treating conditions ranging from ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, to the dysbiosis and chronic constipation, and more.”
Your Inflammation Decreases: “There’s a powerful anti-inflammatory effect to fasting,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “All the acute phase reactive proteins, high sensitivity CRP, fibrinogen, pepsinogen, whatever you want to measure, tends to consistent and predictably go down during fasting. So the gut leakage appears to be able to heal.”
Our discussion covers research behind water fasting, what health conditions it may benefit and what happens during a water fast. We also get into a lot more information about health.
“There’s a lot in common between whether it’s intermittent fasting changes, water fasting changes, exercise, and all of these attempts to reduce dietary excess,” Dr. Goldhamer says. “All of them are essentially trying to reduce inflammation, get rid of gut leakage, and give the body a chance to heal itself from the consequences of a highly processed food diet, whether it’s processed animal foods or processed plant-based foods.”
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