What’s Up with Water Fasting? – Dr. Alan Goldhamer with Dave Asprey – #780

• Fasting will range from five to 40 days. We don’t fast people on very long fasts, over 40 days routinely  – 2:36
• There’s a very good rationale and reason for avoiding supplementation in long term water-only fasting. It actually dramatically improves the safety  – 4:03
• When you examine someone twice a day during a water fast, what do you look for?  – 8:56
• If a person’s had, for example, arthritis, and their joints swell, and they become inflamed, that’s usually a positive sign that the body’s generating an acute response, hopefully resolving a chronic condition  – 11:02
• We want to give the body a chance to mobilize, process and eliminate these toxic products.  – 13:34
• What’s the number one reason that people come to you for longer fasts?  – 14:23
• Insulin resistance means that people are making insulin, but it’s not being effectively used. And fasting has a powerful effect at resolving insulin resistance. In fact, it’s probably the most powerful tool we have at normalizing the body’s ability to use insulin.  – 17:40
• I personally recommend that everybody fast every day. And I suggest that they do it, depending on their goals from 12 to 16 hours.  – 19:40
• Added salts, added oils, and added sugars, from our perspective, have serious consequences.= 23:14
  
• People eating conventional diets will deteriorate in their sixth, seventh, eighth decades if they get that long. – 25:50
  
• You have five pounds of bacteria living in your intestinal tract, five pounds of living creatures, a trillion creatures eating, drinking and pooing inside you. So what you feed those bacteria affects what kind of bacteria you have, and how well they live. – 28:49
  
• We don’t add sugar to the diet, because you get all the carbohydrate you need from whole plant foods. And we don’t add oil to the diet  – 33:05
  
• Salad has 100 calories a pound. If you were going to try to live on salad, you’d need 20 pounds or more a day of salad. – 38:01
  
• Water fasting has merit and that what you eat before and after your fast makes a huge difference in how well the fast works  – 40:01
  
• We know that there’s things like insulin resistance related mechanisms with Adiponectin and ghrelin and other things that are profoundly increased during fasting. – 41:20
  
• Increased BDNF that’s protective against the nervous system. That goes up with exercise, it also goes up with fasting. – 42:02
  
• The same rats with the same cancer but you fast them, short periods, before, during, after fasting all the rats survived, dramatically enhances cancer free survival, because fasting makes the cancer cells more vulnerable, because they don’t do as well in a low glucose environment, a high ketone environment, and it helps protect the healthy cells from the consequences of the chemotherapy. – 43:27
  
• One of the important ways to get the most benefit of fasting is to do fasting in a restful state. And that’s where we talked about, we prefer especially long term fasting needs to be done in a controlled setting under direct supervision where there’s been a history exam, lab, proper monitoring. – 49:17
  
• What’s good for short term athletic performance, what’s good for even maximum athletic performance isn’t necessarily what’s good for long term sustained health. – 54:21
  
• If any of your viewers are interested in whether fasting might be relevant to them, we offer a free service. If they go to our website and complete the registration forms. Truenorthhealth.com- 56:04

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