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Conventional medicine
didn't really play
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much of a role in my
healing and in the end,
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actually what healed me, how
I healed myself was through
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a combination of eating
really high quality foods
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and the combination of not eating at all.
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We're looking for the quick fix.
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We're looking for that magic
bullet and this is probably
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as close to an easy,
simple, free magic bullet
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that ever existed.
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I got more mobility
change in two days
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of water fasting than I did
in three weeks of therapy
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and my therapist, last Thursday,
my fourth day into it,
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he says, "What are you doing?"
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The advice we give to cut a few calories
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is a complete failure.
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If you compare a population
of people who never dieted
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to a population of people who diet,
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the dieters end up
weighing significantly more
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than the non-dieters
five or 10 years later.
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So we need to find new solutions.
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When someone does fasting,
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it's very different than when
someone simply cuts calories.
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So when you fast,
you can look at studies
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and you will see that
the basal metabolic rate
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does not go down nearly as much
as the calorie restriction.
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There's always a sweet
spot for everything.
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If you fast for too long, we will say,
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if you got out more than say even 10 days,
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your metabolism will slow and
that's what happens to people
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if they try to cut calories
for a very long period of time.
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Their metabolism slows and
when you start re-feeding,
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you will regain the weight
and regain it very quickly.
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There's a difference in fat.
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The fat that you carry around the waist
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is much more dangerous for you.
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This study was just published last year.
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So if you look at truncal
fat mass calorie restriction
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versus alternate daily fasting,
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fasting was six times
better at getting rid
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of the dangerous fat.
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My plan is to do a seven day fast.
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In nine days, I've lost 18 pounds.
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I went seven days and
I've lost 20 pounds.
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I thought no way could I go this far
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and not be hungry.
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Lots of people noticed
the past couple days
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how thin that I look already.
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I'm on day 21 of my 21 day fast
and I've lost 33 pounds.
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Your mind is more clear.
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You're actually gonna be more alert,
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you're gonna have more
energy and more time.
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We've been skiing for three
hours and I haven't eaten
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for six days and I feel plenty energized.
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I feel like I'm almost on
vacation by not eating.
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The ancient Greek mathematician,
Pythagoras, in fact,
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he required his students
to fast before they came
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into the classroom otherwise he thought
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they wouldn't be smart
enough to figure out
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what he was doing.
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So my mind feels as
good as it's ever felt.
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When you look at fasting,
it's gonna give you
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the ability to do all those
things at a higher level
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than you've ever done them before.
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A lot of people ask me,
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"How do you stay so fit at 44 years old?"
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And I quite simply look
'em in the eye and I say,
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fast before fitness is the ticket.
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You're activating your body,
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the sympathetic nervous
system, noradrenaline,
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and growth hormone all
go up during a fast.
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You actually can workout
harder than you've ever done.
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I've always worked
out on an empty stomach
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in a fasted state.
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The challenges about
fasting is that there's
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a lot of misinformation out there
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and there are several different types.
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Whether you are talking
about an overnight fast
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or you're talking about a 24 hour fast
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or you're talking about a
five day or 10 day or 20 day,
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people and journalists
and everybody likes to use
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the same word, right?
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And this is very confusing
because each turns on
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a completely different process.
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This is happening now
in practices like mine
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all over the country and in the world,
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people learning and hopefully
will all communicate
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and one of the beauties
of a film like this
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is that it will bring
attention to the whole concept
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of fasting 'cause so many
people know nothing about it.
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For the last 50 years,
we've told people,
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eat six meals a day.
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Eat the minute that you get up,
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within 30 minutes of getting
up and make sure you eat
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a bedtime snack so you don't get hungry.
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The problem is when you start
eating the minute you get up
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and don't stop eating until
the minute you go to bed,
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you're constantly telling your body
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to store food energy, right?
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And you can either, only either
store it or burn it, right?
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You can't do both at once.
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And even now, many personal
trainers and nutritionists
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will tell, try to eat something
in every two to three hours
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you are awake and if we
are awake for 18 hours,
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then that's a long period of eating.
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The whole problem is
eating all the time.
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So the very word itself, breakfast,
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is the meal that breaks
your fast and it's actually
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a very interesting word
because what it means
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is that fasting is a
part of everyday life.
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It's something you need
to do every single day
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because it's the flip side of eating.
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It's just the B side of eating.
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There's nothing scary about fasting.
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So if you fast for 12
hours and eat for 12 hours
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or eat for 10 hours and fast
for 14 hours, for example,
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you'll stay in balance and guess what?
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That's what they did in 1960's America.
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You can look back at surveys
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and the average number of meals, 1977,
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is three meals a day, right?
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So I grew up in the 1970's.
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Breakfast, lunch, dinner, nothing else.
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Snacks?
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No.
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Guess what?
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They're eating white bread.
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There's no whole wheat pastas, right?
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They're eating Oreo cookies.
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They're eating ice cream but
there's very little obesity.
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Now you go to 2005 and the
survey, the survey,
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which is a large American
survey of a lot of things
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including dietary habits,
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says that we're eating six times a day.
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So, again, look at my son's schedule -
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breakfast, mid-morning snack,
lunch, after school snack,
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dinner, hey, he's playing soccer,
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there's snack between
the halves of soccer,
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six times a day, every single day.
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So he's giving his body
instructions to store fat
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every minute of that waking
day and then we wonder
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why is he gaining weight?
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Well, there's no mystery.
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You're eating all the time.
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We would never even
consider starting to cook
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until 7:30 and we'd usually eat around 8.
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We might get home and eat
at eight or nine o'clock
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and have a big meal at
eight or nine o'clock.
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And it was a grazing after
dinner that was going on.
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It's a length of time
that you let your body
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kind of burn that food that you've taken.
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That's basically it.
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You're giving your body time to digest it.
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If you have them continue
their same type of food intake
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and about the same number of calories
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but you shrink that eating time down,
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they will lose weight and
they'll feel satisfied
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and they won't feel miserable
because we didn't put them
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on a 1,600 calorie diet.
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I've not necessarily eaten well.
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I've been overweight,
sometimes up to 200 pounds.
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Like everybody else, I've
gained a pound or two a year
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since I was 30.
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About three years ago,
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I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
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My A1C was over 14 and I
had no idea that it was
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out of control the way that it was.
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I knew that I'd probably had
it based on the symptoms.
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So I just tried to control
it with diet, medication,
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but in the end, it just
wasn't working for me,
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what I was doing so I decided
it was time to switch doctors,
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got a recommendation to
Dr. Julie and it kinda,
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she rocked my world.
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First came upon that
study, Dr. Panda's study,
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it was very easy to understand.
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It's so elegantly done
that someone who's not
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in high level research
could understand this paper.
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Big gnarly study with a lot of detail,
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tons of charts and graphs, big words,
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I'm back and worth with Wikipedia,
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took like four hours to
get through that study.
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They embrace the information
because it's something new
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and it is a void in most
people's knowledge base
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in terms of nutrition and
diet and it does sort of
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dispel this myth that you
need to eat before bedtime
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or you need to have protein before bedtime
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to build muscle mass.
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So on the flight back to the west coast,
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I read it again for 4 hours.
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It was on that flight that
I said, I gotta try this.
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So the simple experiment
that we did was we took
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exactly identical set of mice...
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One group was eating ad libitum.
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So they got to eat their
food throughout the day
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whenever they wanted to eat it and there,
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both these groups are
on a super size me diet,
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like that guy from that movie.
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I started with a high fat
diet because there are 11,000
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research papers published so
far where animals or humans
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are given this fatty
food and this fatty food
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causes different diseases
starting from diabetes, obesity,
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liver damage, cancer, and IBD,
inflammatory bowel disease,
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et cetera.
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The lean mouse, without a doubt,
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became obese, gained weight.
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The lean mouse that was on
the time restricted regime
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actually stayed lean and that's really
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what caught my attention.
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So even though they eat
the same amount of calories,
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at the end, the time
restricted mice are lean
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compared to the ad lib fed mice.
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And they could stay progressively fitter
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and all they had to do
was change when they eat,
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not what they eat.
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Your body needs a daily
fasting period and that
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eating erratically and kind
of eating all over the day
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takes away from our body's natural rhythm
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to say this is when we
eat, this is when we rest,
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and it's hitting a manual override button.
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We work with a circadian rhythm.
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Our bodies are on a clock basically
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which is aligned with the 24
hour rotation of the earth.
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The circadian rhythm
and turning on and off
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of more than 10,000 genes is
the largest regulatory network
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that we know that exists in human.
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Circadian rhythms in
the liver, the pancreas,
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and the fat cells get
tremendously disrupted
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when you eat late at night or when you eat
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for more than 12 hours during the day.
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So if the liver clock
tracks when we eat,
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then forget about light/dark,
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what we have to be more
careful about is when we eat
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and when we fast.
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And we have to stay in beat with earth
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in order to be healthy.
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So we really should stop
eating by 7 P.M. at the latest
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because their pancreas goes to sleep.
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Just before you wake up,
somewhere around 4 A.M.,
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growth hormone, adrenaline and so on,
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all get pumped up.
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You're basically activating
yourself for the day.
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So for all those people who say
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you have to get up and eat
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because you're not gonna have energy,
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like your body has already prepared you
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for everything you're gonna do.
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You don't need to do it again.
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And so during the day,
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we need to be able to go out
and hunt and get our food
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and do all those kinds of good things
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so we need access to energy.
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We need to be able to
metabolize energy quickly
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and we need to be able to make
sugar as quickly as possible
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and we also need to be able
to oxidize fats for energy.
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So at night, we can't
absorb the fat and the salt
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and the sugar.
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Your body just takes it and shoves it
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right into a fat store.
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In the evening once
we get ready for bed,
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our body switches to another
mode and the circadian rhythms
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for processing energy go down
and the circadian rhythms
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that help with the repair of
the body, finding cancer cells,
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renewing all of the bodily systems kick in
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and those are the
strongest during the night,
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immune system function, et cetera.
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If you eat during the night,
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you disrupt all of those
mechanisms and so not only
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are you predisposing yourself
to diabetes and obesity
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and hypertension,
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but you're also predisposing yourself
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to a pro-inflammatory
condition throughout the body
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which makes it easier
for cancer to take hold.
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If you're trying to repair a highway,
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you have to stop the traffic.
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So similarly our body cannot repair itself
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if we continue to eat.
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The body makes less insulin
so for the same sugar load
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that you would give
yourself during the day
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that would not cause your blood
sugar to rise significantly,
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for that same sugar load after
about seven or eight o'clock
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at night will cause a significant
rise in your blood sugar
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mimicking the effects of diabetes.
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It was a study that came
out in a neurology journal
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that found if you were
giving artificial nutrition
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in the hospital,
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that patients did better
if you didn't give it
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around the clock.
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They gave the nutrition
in a shortened time frame,
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they're connecting the
person back to the day cycle,
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they have a better outcome.
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Just having weighed myself this morning,
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two months now have
gone by and I've dropped
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somewhere in the neighborhood of 29 pounds
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just with Dr. Julie.
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It wasn't hard to do because it was just
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a small habit change that
I had to ask them to make.
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All they had to do was
apply this shortening
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their total time of eating during the day.
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Hi, Nina!
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Hi, Dr. Julie.
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How are you?
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Good to see you.
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Good, how are you?
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Good!
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Thanks for coming today.
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So we're gonna go over your
blood test, is that right?
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And you had them drawn already.
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Perfect.
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So when I have people come
in and they'll tell me,
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"Well, my parents
have high blood pressure.
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"So that's probably why I have it."
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It's not always a genetically
inherited problem.
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It's possibly a lifestyle
inherited problem
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because we carry with
us the type of habits
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that our parents brought us up to have
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and if late night eating
and indulging slightly
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on the weekends was
something that we saw them do
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or that we were allowed to do growing up,
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we're gonna carry that habit with us.
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And that first night was a struggle.
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I remember getting off
my plane down in Burbank
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and getting ready to take
an hour and a half drive
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to Santa Barbara and thinking okay,
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where am I gonna stop to get
something sweet for the road
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and I went wait, it's past six o'clock.
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And I
found that the first week
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was very uncomfortable.
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I mean, I went to bed with
hunger pains and that's all
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I could do to stay on this time
restricted eating time frame
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was to go to bed early so
that I wouldn't feel hungry.
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And Dr. Julie
had given me the advice
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that the first two weeks
were going to be very hard.
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After about a week,
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those hunger pains completely went away.
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And she was right
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but I was glad she shared that
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because it prepared me.
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And then after that, it was no cravings.
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So it was really strange
but cravings for food
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later in the evening just went away.
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Your liver tests look fantastic.
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In fact, they were lower
than they were before
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the previous time.
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Okay, I'm glad.
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Yeah.
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So your fatty liver is
completely reversed.
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You have totally normal liver enzymes.
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Okay.
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And you did it purely
by just lifestyle changes.
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Within a couple of months,
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you can have a reversal of fatty liver.
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You can start seeing blood sugar changes
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in less than two months.
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I mean, it's like better than medicine!
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Debra has a new patient to me.
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But my concern is that
I've been told I should take
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blood pressure medicine to
control my blood pressure.
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Her one fear was being on
a blood pressure medicine
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for the rest of her life.
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Yeah, I think it had gotten
in the 150's and 160's.
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And her blood pressure was running
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in the hypertensive range so
she was running over 140's.
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Just didn't like the side effects.
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I was falling asleep at the wheel.
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And she was given the
recommendation of trying
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to just restrict her eating
time to about 11 or 12 hours
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and two weeks later she came in
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and her blood pressure was
normal, 120's to 130's systolic.
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My blood pressure read, I
don't know if you have it there,
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it was 126 over...
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Over 70.
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Yes, it hasn't been that for awhile.
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It was beautiful!
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And she came in again a few weeks later,
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and her blood pressure was normal again.
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It's like your daily medicine.
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These medical conditions,
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we should be thinking about
them as really symptoms, right?
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I mean, it's really
not a medical condition
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because it's totally reversible.
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You noticed a sleep
improvement with adopting
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this lifestyle change over
some of the other things
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you had tried before.
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And a much sounder sleep.
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Yeah.
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That's interesting 'cause I
hear people bring that up to me.
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Potentially, she's not a
hypertensive patient any longer.
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I located Dr. Julie Wei-Shatzel
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and I said I really, really
need to get this weight
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under control.
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It's out of control.
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She said,
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"Would you be interested I
participating in a study?"
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Trying to do now is expand the study.
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The original study was done
in 150 adults in San Diego.
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We are now running a worldwide study.
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We have almost 9,000 users.
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She explained to me about
the circadian clock app.
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Now with the launch of
this app, My Circadian Clock,
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we have close to 10,000
people who have downloaded.
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And I downloaded his app.
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And so I went through the
process of taking pictures
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of the food that I ate
everyday and then also
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making sure that I fasted
for a minimum of 12 hours
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each night with dinner
being at six o'clock.
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First two weeks we ask
you to log everything
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you currently do and then at
the end of those two weeks,
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you get a summary of
everything that you've done.
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It's kind of shocking to
see how much you forget
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and when you look back and
have the hard evidence,
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it's really helpful.
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Using that app is really, to me,
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much more useful than
using something like Fitbit
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because you're going to
maximize your circadian rhythm
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and all of your organs
run on circadian rhythm.
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I think one of the exciting
things that we've seen
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is that people are pretty
able to adapt to this style.
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If you say, you can still
have that piece of cake
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but you just can't eat it after 6 P.M.,
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people are a lot more open to that
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and they'll adjust when
they eat their types of food
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and say, okay, you know what?
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I can have it in the morning.
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Within about eight months
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of about a 12 hour
fasting window everyday,
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I found that my triglycerides had gotten
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well below any number I had
been able to achieve previously
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and I also found that
my A1C had also fallen
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to the lowest point it had been in years.
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I realized so much benefit so fast.
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In the first 90 days, I lost 11 pounds
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and in 180 days, I lost 16 pounds.
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I'm trim anyway.
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I was 153 pounds when I started.
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As I got through that, I wrapped
myself around the mantra of
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don't change what you eat,
just change when you eat.
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So I actually might've
started eating worse
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and so I could've
confounded the study a little bit
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by eating worse because
I felt like I could eat
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whatever I wanted and I
was getting good results.
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I wasn't dieting.
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So after that study, I met with Satchin
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and I asked him about that
and he kind of chuckled
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and laughed and said, "No, Bill,
don't eat whatever you want
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"but do control when you eat."
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My blood pressure was elevated.
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I was on medication
for high blood pressure
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as well as for cholesterol.
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The past year, since using
time restricted feeding,
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I have actually, I've lost 20 pounds,
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my blood pressure is excellent
and I'm no longer taking
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a statin drug.
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Implementing time
restricted feeding is an easy
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first step to take.
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It has no cost, it has no side effects,
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and it feels so much better
than taking medication.
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In 2004, I decided to
take a personal challenge
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and I was gonna try a triathlon.
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I tried a half Ironman.
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So that's a 50 mile bike
ride, a 1.6 mile swim,
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and it was a 12.1 mile run.
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My performance has degraded over the years
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to where I'm doing just sprint triathlons.
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That's 1/4 of that half Ironman.
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You would've thought that
I would've progressed
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to actually doing the full Ironman.
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So I haven't.
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Well, it turns out that
I have a cardio condition
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where my heart beats super
rapidly and irregularly
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00:21:00,459 --> 00:21:02,359
but what'll happen is,
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it'll beat at 250 to 300 beats a minute
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and it's like a boat
cavitating a propeller,
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it doesn't bite and so there's
no blood pumping through
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my heart and I get all
lightheaded and I might pass out.
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It can happen anywhere
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and so I've progressively
been doing shorter and shorter
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distance triathlons.
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At the end of the study,
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it was allowing me to
run longer and harder,
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to ride farther and
faster and to swim longer
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and more smoothly and so I
felt like this next triathlon,
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I'll see how I do and I
went ahead and I signed up
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for the Olympic, that's
a double sprint triathlon
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and so the interesting short of it is,
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no cardiac problems, completed
the Olympic triathlon.
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If you can just implement
that first portion of it,
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then the rest of the healthy
changes will come along.
487
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When you put the mice on the treadmill,
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very well like you would
do for a human treadmill,
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they run much longer when they are on
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time restricted feeding
than the ad lib fed control,
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suggesting that there is
some cardiovascular benefits
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to time restricted feeding.
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I'm up in the morning,
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I feel like I'm alert quicker
than I have been previously.
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I would say that obesity
is probably the single major
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largest challenge in America these days
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in terms of overall health
and chronic disease.
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The category of people
who are very obese
499
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and they're not necessarily
consuming significantly
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more calories.
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Oftentimes, these people
have some difficulty
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sleeping through the night
and so if they're getting up
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later in the evening or
early in the morning,
504
00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,329
they'll just go and have a snack.
505
00:22:44,330 --> 00:22:46,259
They'll have something to
eat or something to drink.
506
00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:49,181
That actually increases
their total eating time
507
00:22:49,182 --> 00:22:51,420
to much greater than 15 hours.
508
00:22:52,370 --> 00:22:54,399
In fact, they may be
eating 20 hours a day.
509
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,199
Flying back on the plane,
I'm reading the study,
510
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,907
I'm starting to understand
what's going on.
511
00:22:57,908 --> 00:23:01,238
There was a third group of mice
that was really interesting.
512
00:23:01,239 --> 00:23:03,879
They had a control
group that was five days
513
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,841
on the time restricted feeding
regime and two days off
514
00:23:06,842 --> 00:23:09,229
and so the idea is that might mirror
515
00:23:09,230 --> 00:23:12,320
our five day working schedule
and our two day off schedule.
516
00:23:12,321 --> 00:23:16,059
So I wanted to try
whether you could party
517
00:23:16,060 --> 00:23:17,010
on the weekend.
518
00:23:17,011 --> 00:23:19,629
So I had one group of mice that were only
519
00:23:19,630 --> 00:23:22,159
on time restricted feeding
during the weekdays
520
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,480
but then they would have full
access, so 24 hours access,
521
00:23:26,357 --> 00:23:28,459
to foods during the
weekends so we called this
522
00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:32,189
the 5T2A regime for five days
on time restricted feeding
523
00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:35,318
and two days of ad lib
starting on Friday night.
524
00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:38,599
Good news is there's no
difference between being
525
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,619
seven days on time restricted
feeding or only five days
526
00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:44,499
on time restricted
feeding at least in mice.
527
00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,369
So if you're mice, you
can party on the weekend.
528
00:23:47,370 --> 00:23:49,259
All of healthcare
should be embracing this.
529
00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:50,809
We should be using this.
530
00:23:50,810 --> 00:23:53,159
We're really not
telling people what to eat,
531
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:54,840
we're telling people when to eat.
532
00:23:54,841 --> 00:23:57,869
I think that this could
give us an excellent way
533
00:23:57,870 --> 00:24:01,379
to initiate a long-term
and effective treatment
534
00:24:01,380 --> 00:24:02,270
for obesity.
535
00:24:02,271 --> 00:24:04,789
Even if you eat healthy
foods after 7 P.M.,
536
00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:07,174
you actually push your body,
you push your pancreas,
537
00:24:07,175 --> 00:24:11,189
your beta cells, and you
actually become more inclined
538
00:24:11,190 --> 00:24:13,419
to develop pre-Diabetes and Diabetes.
539
00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:16,218
When we compared the
high fat diet fed animals
540
00:24:16,219 --> 00:24:19,219
and the ones that were on
time restricted feeding,
541
00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:20,469
there was a massive difference.
542
00:24:20,470 --> 00:24:22,779
Basically the ones on
time restricted feeding,
543
00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:26,019
they don't have this Type
2 Diabetes problem anymore.
544
00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:27,849
From what I've seen,
545
00:24:27,850 --> 00:24:30,174
when someone adopts
time restricted feeding,
546
00:24:30,175 --> 00:24:32,389
that's all they need to do.
547
00:24:32,390 --> 00:24:34,460
That's all they need to
do to completely reverse
548
00:24:34,461 --> 00:24:36,089
this hyperglycemia,
549
00:24:36,090 --> 00:24:39,566
to completely take them out
of this pre-Diabetic state.
550
00:24:39,567 --> 00:24:44,479
I had one woman who was running
pre-Diabetic for two years.
551
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,389
We had her follow time restricted
feeding for a few weeks
552
00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:49,968
and her blood sugar came back normal,
553
00:24:49,969 --> 00:24:51,427
absolutely normal.
554
00:24:51,428 --> 00:24:54,409
We tested her again a few months later
555
00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,399
and her blood sugar was again normal
556
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,546
as well as her hemoglobin
A1C and that hemoglobin A1C
557
00:24:58,547 --> 00:25:02,642
is a marker for your blood
sugar over the past three months
558
00:25:02,643 --> 00:25:06,519
and so for her, the burden
of developing Diabetes
559
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,729
was completely lifted.
560
00:25:07,730 --> 00:25:08,730
She didn't have to worry
561
00:25:08,731 --> 00:25:11,929
about that disease entity anymore at all.
562
00:25:11,930 --> 00:25:14,009
Diabetes is completely off the chart.
563
00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:16,289
Metabolic syndrome is off the chart.
564
00:25:16,290 --> 00:25:18,447
We can't solve that
with drug interventions
565
00:25:18,448 --> 00:25:23,039
but a cultural change where
we learn to eat in that window
566
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,378
where we were at before,
567
00:25:24,379 --> 00:25:26,359
that seems kind of doable.
568
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,459
It's the kind of thing
that a group could start,
569
00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:30,209
you could teach children in school,
570
00:25:30,210 --> 00:25:33,498
we could observe that at
home, we could walk the talk
571
00:25:33,499 --> 00:25:36,509
and that might make such a big difference
572
00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:39,719
on a national scale that it
actually moves the needle.
573
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,979
If physicians are more
involved in helping people
574
00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:43,330
make this lifestyle change,
575
00:25:44,241 --> 00:25:46,379
I think it will be an
overall cost savings for the,
576
00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:48,959
just medicine in general
because we're going
577
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,059
to be spending less on medication.
578
00:25:51,060 --> 00:25:53,279
We're going to be
spending less on disease.
579
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,369
You know, that super size me guy should do
580
00:25:55,370 --> 00:25:57,349
his whole routine again,
581
00:25:57,350 --> 00:26:00,339
he should do his whole eating
that super size me diet
582
00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:01,940
but under a shorter time frame
583
00:26:02,853 --> 00:26:07,369
and I wonder if he'd have
all those health effects.
584
00:26:12,778 --> 00:26:15,159
What we're doing here
is really reversing
585
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,229
all of Type 2 Diabetes
and all it's downstream
586
00:26:18,230 --> 00:26:20,569
complications with fasting.
587
00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:23,861
I've worked with Jason
for 17 years in nephrology
588
00:26:23,862 --> 00:26:27,679
and we were just watching our patients die
589
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,399
from Diabetes essentially,
590
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,797
watching them get more and more obese,
591
00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:34,656
watching their blood sugars
get worse and worse and worse,
592
00:26:34,657 --> 00:26:37,603
their medications go through the roof.
593
00:26:37,604 --> 00:26:40,809
They're on like two or
three pages of medications
594
00:26:40,810 --> 00:26:42,440
and every time we saw a patient,
595
00:26:43,462 --> 00:26:44,638
they were on more and more drugs.
596
00:26:44,639 --> 00:26:46,152
And I was basically holding their hand
597
00:26:46,153 --> 00:26:47,819
as they had their heart attacks,
598
00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:50,619
as they went on dialysis, as
they developed kidney failures
599
00:26:50,620 --> 00:26:51,453
and strokes.
600
00:26:51,454 --> 00:26:53,669
That's how we got into
this in the first place.
601
00:26:53,670 --> 00:26:55,759
It was really disheartening
to watch people die
602
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,271
before our eyes.
603
00:26:57,272 --> 00:27:00,312
So one day, I was talking to a friend
604
00:27:00,313 --> 00:27:03,113
and she was talking about doing a cleanse
605
00:27:03,114 --> 00:27:07,259
and I realized that really
what she's talking about
606
00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:10,271
is a fast and I thought, wow,
that's a really stupid idea
607
00:27:10,272 --> 00:27:13,569
but then I thought for a second, okay,
608
00:27:13,570 --> 00:27:15,759
well this was my initial
reaction and most people
609
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,189
have that same sort of
eye-rolling reaction
610
00:27:18,190 --> 00:27:20,110
to the word fasting and I thought,
611
00:27:20,111 --> 00:27:22,891
okay, but I'm a physician.
612
00:27:22,892 --> 00:27:27,892
What exactly is it that's
so bad about the fasting?
613
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:30,419
Because she actually had
pretty decent results.
614
00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:31,965
She always says she feels better,
615
00:27:31,966 --> 00:27:34,419
she doesn't feel hungry
and I thought okay, well,
616
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,300
that's very interesting.
617
00:27:35,301 --> 00:27:37,099
So then I started to look at the fasting
618
00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:38,200
and I thought why not?
619
00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:41,619
Like why not have people fast?
620
00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:46,620
I mean, what honestly is
more obvious than fasting?
621
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,459
If you don't eat, your
blood sugars will come down,
622
00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:52,534
and you no longer need
your diabetic medications.
623
00:27:52,535 --> 00:27:53,805
Hey, that's great.
624
00:27:53,806 --> 00:27:56,595
If you don't eat, you will lose weight.
625
00:27:56,596 --> 00:27:57,762
Hey, that's great.
626
00:27:57,763 --> 00:27:59,739
Where's the downside?
627
00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:04,229
Ann's hemoglobin
A1C was so high that the lab
628
00:28:04,230 --> 00:28:05,489
couldn't detect it.
629
00:28:05,490 --> 00:28:07,999
Groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous and Weight Watchers,
630
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,609
they're all group based sessions.
631
00:28:09,610 --> 00:28:12,599
So Ann, can you
tell us about your first fast?
632
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,549
They're not individually
counseling sessions
633
00:28:14,550 --> 00:28:17,337
because you're losing a very important
634
00:28:17,338 --> 00:28:20,770
support structure there.
635
00:28:20,771 --> 00:28:24,059
Yes, Dr. Fung said seven or 14 days.
636
00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:26,029
So that's one of the
lessons we've learned
637
00:28:26,030 --> 00:28:29,569
and we've gone to these
kind of group sessions.
638
00:28:29,570 --> 00:28:30,403
In the beginning,
639
00:28:30,404 --> 00:28:33,236
it's a pain in the butt to get over that,
640
00:28:33,237 --> 00:28:37,749
the first two day hump
and then after that,
641
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:39,319
it's really easy.
642
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,099
It seems really easy like I
can't believe I'm not eating
643
00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:45,069
so I stopped at 10 days.
644
00:28:45,070 --> 00:28:46,959
Since then you haven't touched insulin.
645
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:47,960
You haven't needed to.
646
00:28:47,961 --> 00:28:50,569
No, if I went Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
647
00:28:50,570 --> 00:28:52,597
but then you're going
through those hunger pains.
648
00:28:52,598 --> 00:28:55,779
You know, like where
your stomach's growling,
649
00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:56,980
you feel like you could,
650
00:28:57,979 --> 00:28:59,309
ravenous like you could eat a horse, yeah.
651
00:28:59,310 --> 00:29:01,079
What reading
did you get this morning?
652
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,669
I got down to 6.4 in the morning.
653
00:29:03,670 --> 00:29:04,610
Nice!
654
00:29:04,611 --> 00:29:07,724
So I started intermittent
fasting about five years ago.
655
00:29:07,725 --> 00:29:11,899
Within six months I had
reversed my hemoglobin A1C
656
00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:13,502
from 6.4% to 4.6%.
657
00:29:13,503 --> 00:29:17,710
I was diagnosed with fatty
liver disease when I was 12.
658
00:29:17,711 --> 00:29:21,100
In six months, no more
fatty liver infiltration.
659
00:29:21,101 --> 00:29:23,946
Another thing that I was
diagnosed with when I was 14
660
00:29:23,947 --> 00:29:26,575
was polycystic ovarian syndrome
661
00:29:26,576 --> 00:29:29,950
and I would go to the
hospital all of the time
662
00:29:29,951 --> 00:29:32,994
from cysts rupturing and
it just being so painful.
663
00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:35,269
You couldn't bare it.
664
00:29:35,270 --> 00:29:39,263
About six months into fasting,
everything sort of regulated
665
00:29:39,264 --> 00:29:43,389
and when I saw another
specialist later on, my OB,
666
00:29:43,390 --> 00:29:45,889
and we started talking about
it and she said, Megan,
667
00:29:45,890 --> 00:29:48,343
when was the last time
you had a cyst rupture?
668
00:29:48,344 --> 00:29:50,124
And I said I don't know.
669
00:29:50,125 --> 00:29:53,149
I don't remember and I
said I know my periods
670
00:29:53,150 --> 00:29:57,939
are regular now and so she
sent me for an ultrasound
671
00:29:57,940 --> 00:29:59,649
and everything anatomically,
672
00:29:59,650 --> 00:30:02,309
there was no sign of
polycystic ovarian syndrome,
673
00:30:02,310 --> 00:30:04,764
none at all, which is pretty mind blowing,
674
00:30:04,765 --> 00:30:09,049
my progesterone hormones
and all my fertility stuff
675
00:30:09,050 --> 00:30:10,689
and it was fantastic.
676
00:30:10,690 --> 00:30:14,649
It was so much better than
it was when I was a teenager
677
00:30:14,650 --> 00:30:16,983
and my early 20's when
I had measured those.
678
00:30:16,984 --> 00:30:21,229
So fertility for me is not
really gonna be an issue anymore
679
00:30:21,230 --> 00:30:23,542
and I spent most of my life
thinking that I wouldn't
680
00:30:23,543 --> 00:30:25,499
be able to have babies.
681
00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:28,429
They actually saw me improve
so I think that's how we
682
00:30:28,430 --> 00:30:30,889
got some initial success
in how our program
683
00:30:30,890 --> 00:30:32,169
really started to snowball.
684
00:30:32,170 --> 00:30:34,559
People just didn't want
to die from Diabetes.
685
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,319
But I was walking with a
cane, I wasn't breathing well,
686
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,599
I was, I had put on 130
pounds with the insulin.
687
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,600
The patients come back to
me with incredible stories.
688
00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:50,004
I was talking 210
units of insulin a day.
689
00:30:50,005 --> 00:30:55,005
I did the 21 day fast and I
haven't had insulin since.
690
00:30:55,978 --> 00:31:00,509
I've lost close to 100 pounds.
691
00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:04,102
So everyday I come in,
almost every single day,
692
00:31:04,103 --> 00:31:09,103
I come in and I say, wow, Mr.
So And So or Mrs. So And So,
693
00:31:09,620 --> 00:31:12,599
look, your numbers are such to the point
694
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,275
that you are not classified as diabetic.
695
00:31:15,276 --> 00:31:16,580
That is amazing.
696
00:31:17,470 --> 00:31:19,819
It saved my life, is what it did.
697
00:31:19,820 --> 00:31:21,069
You're off the Coversyl too
698
00:31:21,070 --> 00:31:22,671
for your blood pressure.
699
00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:23,929
So you're off of everything.
700
00:31:23,930 --> 00:31:28,930
And around her waist she
has lost 27 centimeters.
701
00:31:31,250 --> 00:31:34,279
Sometimes people find
that when they fast,
702
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,910
that a lot of these cravings just stop.
703
00:31:40,369 --> 00:31:41,619
Energy is unbelievable.
704
00:31:42,590 --> 00:31:44,849
As I said, I was walking with a cane.
705
00:31:44,850 --> 00:31:46,449
Gotta treat everybody as individuals
706
00:31:46,450 --> 00:31:47,283
and that's what we do.
707
00:31:47,284 --> 00:31:49,029
So we see all different regiments.
708
00:31:49,030 --> 00:31:50,239
We use all different regiments.
709
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,791
I stop eating at about
seven in the evening
710
00:31:53,792 --> 00:31:58,792
and after that it will be
just liquids until dinner
711
00:31:59,650 --> 00:32:00,939
the next day.
712
00:32:00,940 --> 00:32:04,839
Avocado, slice it up with
two eggs and I will eat that
713
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,079
maybe about 10 o'clock in the morning.
714
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,869
I do not eat again until maybe three,
715
00:32:09,870 --> 00:32:11,250
four o'clock the next day.
716
00:32:12,140 --> 00:32:14,530
That is almost,
I don't even feel hungry.
717
00:32:14,531 --> 00:32:15,564
We can tailor it to people's needs.
718
00:32:15,565 --> 00:32:17,896
If you need it for weight loss,
719
00:32:17,897 --> 00:32:22,159
then I can give you something
that's gonna do weight loss
720
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,619
but you only wanna do it
for say overall wellbeing,
721
00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:29,099
mental clarity, well, I'll
give you something different.
722
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:30,869
Sometimes seven days.
723
00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:32,769
It depends, okay?
724
00:32:32,770 --> 00:32:34,659
When I feel that it's more comfortable,
725
00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:36,289
then I will take longer one.
726
00:32:36,290 --> 00:32:39,119
And the key rule and
especially for the elderly is
727
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,929
if you don't feel well, stop, let us know,
728
00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:45,939
let's re-evaluate.
729
00:32:45,940 --> 00:32:47,559
I have a dinner or lunch,
730
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,157
then you have to keep
36 or 24 hours fasting.
731
00:32:51,158 --> 00:32:53,620
That's what I prefer.
732
00:32:54,650 --> 00:32:59,650
But the financial benefits
are actually just mind blowing
733
00:33:00,490 --> 00:33:04,449
because think about it, you
have Type 2 Diabetes, obesity,
734
00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:06,768
you've got all kinds of costs.
735
00:33:06,769 --> 00:33:08,864
I had a new consult a
couple weeks ago and he said,
736
00:33:08,865 --> 00:33:12,360
"I watched my grandparents
follow the guidelines
737
00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:16,124
"and I watched them die.
738
00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:17,805
"I watched my parents
follow the guidelines
739
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,732
"and now I'm watching them
die and they're gonna be dead
740
00:33:20,733 --> 00:33:21,913
"20 years before my
grandparents and look at me now.
741
00:33:21,914 --> 00:33:24,889
"I'm Diabetic, I have fatty liver disease,
742
00:33:24,890 --> 00:33:28,769
"my eyesight's going to hell,
I don't want this to be me.
743
00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:32,579
"Clearly what they're doing
and the method of treatment
744
00:33:32,580 --> 00:33:34,613
"that these physicians are having,
745
00:33:34,614 --> 00:33:36,579
"had my grandparents follow
746
00:33:36,580 --> 00:33:39,579
"and are having my parents
follow don't work."
747
00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:42,232
You've got your medications,
you've got surgeries,
748
00:33:42,233 --> 00:33:46,359
you've got heart attacks,
very expensive, strokes,
749
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,193
hospitals.
750
00:33:47,194 --> 00:33:51,016
You've got stuff, you need
to pay for nursing care,
751
00:33:51,017 --> 00:33:53,204
you need to pay for nursing homes.
752
00:33:53,205 --> 00:33:57,179
So an incredible amount
of cost all built in
753
00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:59,549
to take care of these sick people.
754
00:33:59,550 --> 00:34:01,899
I watched my family
die from heart disease.
755
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,027
I watched my grandmother
die from Diabetes.
756
00:34:04,028 --> 00:34:07,486
I watched my mother suffer from Diabetes
757
00:34:07,487 --> 00:34:10,509
following the guidelines to a T.
758
00:34:10,510 --> 00:34:11,343
It doesn't work.
759
00:34:11,344 --> 00:34:14,885
Clearly something is broken
there and I think people more so
760
00:34:14,886 --> 00:34:18,146
than a lot of physicians
understand that science
761
00:34:18,147 --> 00:34:19,919
needs to evolve.
762
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,536
Well, what if you could
get rid of all that for free?
763
00:34:23,537 --> 00:34:25,289
For free.
764
00:34:25,290 --> 00:34:27,759
Like that's just unbelievable.
765
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,229
Then you'd have money to fight poverty
766
00:34:30,230 --> 00:34:33,482
and you'd have money for
education at the same time
767
00:34:33,483 --> 00:34:35,983
that everybody's healthier
than they've ever been
768
00:34:35,984 --> 00:34:40,171
and the crazy part is that
it doesn't require anything
769
00:34:40,172 --> 00:34:44,909
but the right knowledge which
has the potential to save
770
00:34:44,910 --> 00:34:47,209
like our entire nation's budget.
771
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:50,078
Having that diagnosis
of borderline Diabetes
772
00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:54,049
and being told by my
family doctor that 6.4%,
773
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,119
that was scary.
774
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,471
I've had cancer and the
diagnosis of Diabetes
775
00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:02,869
being delivered to me
was so much scarier to me
776
00:35:02,870 --> 00:35:05,519
than the cancer diagnosis
'cause at least with cancer
777
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,589
there's a shot.
778
00:35:06,590 --> 00:35:09,139
With Diabetes, it's a death sentence
779
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:13,119
and it's a long, painful, slow,
progressive death sentence.
780
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,553
People sometimes say the
three most influential people
781
00:35:16,554 --> 00:35:19,299
in the history of the world -
782
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:22,759
Jesus Christ, the prophet
Mohammad, and Buddha -
783
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,612
probably only agreed on one thing
784
00:35:24,613 --> 00:35:27,240
and that was the power of fasting.
785
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,979
Fasting is an essential
part of our Christian faith.
786
00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:46,819
Christ taught it by his own example.
787
00:35:46,820 --> 00:35:50,149
He also commanded his disciples to fast.
788
00:35:50,150 --> 00:35:52,219
When they were trying
to help other people out
789
00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:54,249
and they weren't so successful, he said,
790
00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:57,450
these problems are only
resolved by fasting and prayer.
791
00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:01,039
The scriptures teach us
that there are some things
792
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,219
you cannot do if you don't fast.
793
00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:06,879
Miracles, some miracles,
cannot happen without fasting.
794
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,439
Fasting is such a personal experience
795
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,619
for everyone who fasts and
when it's coupled with prayer,
796
00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:15,429
it changes our life.
797
00:36:15,430 --> 00:36:20,430
I truly believe that fasting
can change people's heart.
798
00:36:21,438 --> 00:36:26,438
In the scriptures from ancient
times to the present day,
799
00:36:26,490 --> 00:36:29,369
we read about those who fasted
800
00:36:29,370 --> 00:36:31,379
and in the process of fasting,
801
00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:32,619
they changed.
802
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:35,977
I was living in Peru
and I made the decision
803
00:36:35,978 --> 00:36:37,669
to go to my mission.
804
00:36:37,670 --> 00:36:40,479
My father didn't want me to go.
805
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,069
It was for safety reasons.
806
00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:45,149
The country had a lot
of terrorism problems.
807
00:36:45,150 --> 00:36:47,373
So when I went to talk
to my sect president,
808
00:36:47,374 --> 00:36:52,374
he counseled me to fast and to
pray and then to talk to him.
809
00:36:54,350 --> 00:36:58,279
So I did, I fasted and I prayed,
810
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,679
and then I went to talk to my dad.
811
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,719
We cried together and he told me that,
812
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:06,029
he will let me go to my
mission and that I would
813
00:37:06,030 --> 00:37:07,040
have his support.
814
00:37:17,284 --> 00:37:18,117
It's very meaningful to me
815
00:37:18,118 --> 00:37:23,117
because it was regarding
my mission to serve
816
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,459
and because of it, my life changed.
817
00:37:27,460 --> 00:37:29,869
It brings me closer to God.
818
00:37:29,870 --> 00:37:32,109
I feel spiritual strength coming to me,
819
00:37:32,110 --> 00:37:33,959
temporal blessings come from it.
820
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,799
Graduating from high
school I wanted to know
821
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,719
which of the two colleges I should go to
822
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,879
that I had been admitted
to and I really wanted it
823
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,778
to be the right place and so as I prayed,
824
00:37:43,779 --> 00:37:46,469
I determined fasting would really help me
825
00:37:46,470 --> 00:37:48,419
and so I fasted.
826
00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:50,869
At the closure of my fast, as I prayed,
827
00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:54,749
it was very clear to me the
choice that I should make.
828
00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:58,108
We believe that it is
beneficial both spiritually,
829
00:37:58,109 --> 00:38:02,209
physically, and in fact, it
has a humanitarian benefit
830
00:38:02,210 --> 00:38:04,289
when coupled with helping the poor.
831
00:38:04,290 --> 00:38:06,509
A greater compassion
for those who are in need
832
00:38:06,510 --> 00:38:09,499
and a greater desire to serve
them comes from fasting.
833
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,141
We learn from the
ancient prophet Isaiah,
834
00:38:11,142 --> 00:38:15,569
that God introduced fasting
to the children of Israel.
835
00:38:15,570 --> 00:38:18,197
He even said, "This is the
fast that I have chosen,"
836
00:38:18,198 --> 00:38:21,459
and then goes on that it's
purpose is to deal bread
837
00:38:21,460 --> 00:38:22,293
to the hungry.
838
00:38:22,294 --> 00:38:25,849
We fast once a month
for a period of 24 hours,
839
00:38:25,850 --> 00:38:27,009
two consecutive meals.
840
00:38:27,010 --> 00:38:30,139
The monies that are saved from that fast
841
00:38:30,140 --> 00:38:32,579
are donated to the poor to
help them with all sorts
842
00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:33,879
of humanitarian needs.
843
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,599
Not enough money to
pay the electric bill,
844
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,078
they don't have the food
necessary for their children,
845
00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:39,649
for clothing, et cetera,
846
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:42,528
to help them get themselves on their feet
847
00:38:42,529 --> 00:38:44,969
so they can come self-reliant.
848
00:38:44,970 --> 00:38:47,178
Every person has the opportunity to fast
849
00:38:47,179 --> 00:38:50,842
and even the poorest among
us sometimes will fast
850
00:38:50,843 --> 00:38:53,609
and give what they can in order to help
851
00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:55,303
their brothers and sisters.
852
00:38:55,304 --> 00:38:58,066
There are seven billion
people in the world.
853
00:38:58,067 --> 00:39:01,720
If we all did this, we
would end world hunger.
854
00:39:13,162 --> 00:39:14,802
We're at the sight of the Donner party.
855
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,689
There were over 80 individuals.
856
00:39:19,690 --> 00:39:24,320
They ended up in Truckee
Meadows on Halloween of 1846
857
00:39:25,370 --> 00:39:27,229
and it was right around this spot
858
00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:29,689
where they got completely snowed in
859
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:32,770
and it wasn't until the spring
that rescue parties came.
860
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:38,621
You can see the monument behind me,
861
00:39:38,622 --> 00:39:41,809
you can see the immigrants
are standing on a platform
862
00:39:41,810 --> 00:39:44,659
that is 22 feet high.
863
00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:47,699
That is how deep the compacted snow was.
864
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,408
It got to the point where
they took all the bones
865
00:39:50,409 --> 00:39:53,170
of the animals and boiled
them and boiled them
866
00:39:53,171 --> 00:39:56,559
and boiled them 'til they
were reduced to fragments
867
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,619
about the size of my pinky fingernail
868
00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:02,649
and these I have seen directly
because we excavated them
869
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,169
in 2004.
870
00:40:04,170 --> 00:40:06,377
There were thousands
of fragments that size
871
00:40:06,378 --> 00:40:09,299
and they were boiling
them to extract collagen
872
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,670
which was the only
source of energy in bone.
873
00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:17,933
Some of the stories
about the Donner Party,
874
00:40:17,934 --> 00:40:19,339
it's heart wrenching.
875
00:40:19,340 --> 00:40:22,779
I mean, these mothers did
some unbelievable things
876
00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:24,320
just to keep their kids alive.
877
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:33,820
They started utilizing a
little bit of human flesh
878
00:40:33,821 --> 00:40:38,821
and that helped sustain
at least half of them
879
00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:42,100
until the rescue parties
came in the spring.
880
00:40:43,060 --> 00:40:45,259
When it comes to cannibalism,
881
00:40:45,260 --> 00:40:48,899
when the body starts
breaking down, shutting down,
882
00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:51,129
one system at a time,
883
00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:53,937
eventually you reach the
point where you'd do things
884
00:40:53,938 --> 00:40:57,270
that you ordinarily would never consider.
885
00:41:00,380 --> 00:41:02,889
Once the body is starved of nutrients,
886
00:41:02,890 --> 00:41:07,890
once it's utilized muscle,
bone, and fat stores,
887
00:41:08,270 --> 00:41:09,949
then things start shutting down.
888
00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:12,759
The organs of high growth priority,
889
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,829
they are maintained until the end
890
00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:17,959
and you might be able to
imagine what those would be.
891
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,249
The heart continues to
beat, you need that.
892
00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:25,009
The lungs continue to
inhale and exhale air,
893
00:41:25,010 --> 00:41:27,306
you need that and the
hind and the midbrain
894
00:41:27,307 --> 00:41:31,689
continue to function because
they control breathing
895
00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:33,846
and respiration and everything else
896
00:41:33,847 --> 00:41:37,064
but interestingly and this
is what surprises people -
897
00:41:37,065 --> 00:41:40,426
the sequence that things
start shutting down.
898
00:41:40,427 --> 00:41:45,427
When you say you would
never eat human flesh,
899
00:41:46,980 --> 00:41:51,249
that is because you've never
been faced with that dilemma
900
00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:56,250
because starvation basically
impacts the rational part
901
00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:59,429
of the brain and the cerebellum,
902
00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:03,639
the part of the brain
that focuses on survival,
903
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,846
that's still going, the limbic system,
904
00:42:05,847 --> 00:42:09,779
but the part involved
in thinking is not going
905
00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:14,529
so you have to have
been there to understand
906
00:42:14,530 --> 00:42:16,499
what these people went through.
907
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:21,500
So I pretty much started
with very turbulent teen years.
908
00:42:22,352 --> 00:42:25,838
I was 14 when I first
moved in with my boyfriend.
909
00:42:25,839 --> 00:42:29,509
I was heavily into the
kind of drug party scene,
910
00:42:29,510 --> 00:42:31,339
like drinking a lot of alcohol,
all that kind of stuff.
911
00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:34,819
I spent a lot of nights up
partying in bars with fake IDs,
912
00:42:34,820 --> 00:42:39,650
drinking, not eating properly,
subsiding on processed food,
913
00:42:44,180 --> 00:42:48,369
eventually developing
septicemia when I was about 16.
914
00:42:48,370 --> 00:42:51,499
It started from a really
bad case of pneumonia,
915
00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:53,729
about 24 hours later I was in the hospital
916
00:42:53,730 --> 00:42:58,069
on intravenous antibiotics for
swollen menages of the brain,
917
00:42:58,070 --> 00:43:00,461
septicemia, multiple organ failures,
918
00:43:00,462 --> 00:43:04,039
and severe chronic disease.
919
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,709
My chances of survival
were actually only 40%.
920
00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:10,769
Something changed and it
was probably a combination
921
00:43:10,770 --> 00:43:12,819
of everything that went on but I remember
922
00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:15,669
leaving the hospital and
I wasn't the same person,
923
00:43:15,670 --> 00:43:19,699
like any happiness for life was gone,
924
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,219
I was very apathetic and depressed.
925
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:25,459
I seemed to be really
struggling to believe
926
00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:28,531
in a positive future for
myself and self-conscious
927
00:43:28,532 --> 00:43:30,829
and a lot more introverted.
928
00:43:30,830 --> 00:43:32,678
All of this sort of made me focus on,
929
00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:37,007
made me begin focusing on
what I felt I could control
930
00:43:37,008 --> 00:43:41,109
which is what I ate, how I
looked, how other people saw me
931
00:43:41,110 --> 00:43:45,679
and I think I used obsession with my body
932
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,494
and controlling my intake
as a way to be accepted,
933
00:43:49,495 --> 00:43:54,069
feel connected to the
world and the environment,
934
00:43:54,070 --> 00:43:58,958
to be a part of something,
to feel home somewhere.
935
00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:07,759
I remember looking in the
mirror and hating my body
936
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,489
and judging it so harshly.
937
00:44:09,490 --> 00:44:12,370
So I had a lot of different
health conditions,
938
00:44:20,709 --> 00:44:22,859
my main conditions,
939
00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:26,059
I was dealing with
autoimmune thyroid disease,
940
00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:29,019
extreme hypothyroid and a thyroid goiter.
941
00:44:29,020 --> 00:44:32,080
It was actually very difficult
to swallow and eat food.
942
00:44:32,081 --> 00:44:36,759
I had gastroparesis so
really slow stomach emptying
943
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,196
and chronic stomach
inflammation and gastritis,
944
00:44:39,197 --> 00:44:42,849
probably from years of an
eating disorder and antibiotics
945
00:44:42,850 --> 00:44:44,419
and all that stuff as well.
946
00:44:44,420 --> 00:44:46,522
I had really bad irritable bowel syndrome
947
00:44:46,523 --> 00:44:49,639
and chronic inflammatory bowel disease
948
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,489
so I was bloated all the time,
a lot of pain in the bathroom
949
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:55,078
more than anybody should be,
950
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:58,099
and my most painful condition by far
951
00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:01,579
and what actually prompted me
to start my YouTube channel,
952
00:45:01,580 --> 00:45:03,759
what I really focused on at the beginning
953
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,129
was one of the top three
most painful conditions
954
00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:09,319
that exist and it was
intrastitial cystitis.
955
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,919
So it's a chronic ulcerative
bladder disease and it's,
956
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,241
the symptoms are a lot of
urgency, burning, pain,
957
00:45:16,242 --> 00:45:18,409
but you have no life really.
958
00:45:18,410 --> 00:45:21,049
You're kind of housebound
and living in your bathroom
959
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:21,883
in a lot of pain.
960
00:45:21,884 --> 00:45:23,829
This is where I lived for two years.
961
00:45:23,830 --> 00:45:27,044
I was a prisoner in my own bathroom
962
00:45:27,045 --> 00:45:31,310
and I had my identity stripped
by my eating disorder.
963
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,079
I really didn't have a life at all.
964
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,189
I think the problem is
when you do this fasting,
965
00:45:38,190 --> 00:45:41,999
basically you're simulating
the same kind of situation
966
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,011
that impacted the Donners
and if you take it too far,
967
00:45:46,012 --> 00:45:48,309
it's exactly what I was saying before -
968
00:45:48,310 --> 00:45:49,989
the body starts shutting down.
969
00:45:49,990 --> 00:45:51,479
Anorexics fast all the time.
970
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,070
I mean, some people may justify fasting.
971
00:45:55,071 --> 00:45:56,481
If they have an eating
disorder they may say,
972
00:45:56,482 --> 00:45:57,912
well, look, fasting is fixing all these
973
00:45:57,913 --> 00:45:58,746
other medical problems,
974
00:45:58,747 --> 00:46:01,399
we know that eating disorders
are medical and biological
975
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:02,999
if we're talking about
a brain based disorder.
976
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,359
Maybe fasting will fix my eating disorder.
977
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,448
Well, anorexics fast all the time,
978
00:46:07,449 --> 00:46:09,539
it makes their disorder worse.
979
00:46:09,540 --> 00:46:12,229
Bulimics purge food in a number of ways -
980
00:46:12,230 --> 00:46:14,469
self-induced vomiting is the
one that people think about
981
00:46:14,470 --> 00:46:16,589
or misuse of laxatives
which actually does nothing
982
00:46:16,590 --> 00:46:18,209
to get rid of calories, by the way,
983
00:46:18,210 --> 00:46:20,549
but the other thing that
bulimics do to purge is fast.
984
00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:23,885
So both bulimics and anorexics fast
985
00:46:23,886 --> 00:46:25,569
and it makes their disorder worse,
986
00:46:25,570 --> 00:46:26,839
it does not fix it.
987
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,385
We did see that in the
archeological record.
988
00:46:29,386 --> 00:46:34,386
Bulimics, remember in Rome
they had the vomiteria,
989
00:46:35,137 --> 00:46:38,537
where they would eat and gorge themselves
990
00:46:38,538 --> 00:46:39,371
and then they'd go throw up.
991
00:46:39,372 --> 00:46:41,949
Yeah, I think that the
Romans and the vomitoriums
992
00:46:41,950 --> 00:46:44,309
that they would have was sort
of a different phenomenon.
993
00:46:44,310 --> 00:46:48,969
That was much more of a social activity
994
00:46:48,970 --> 00:46:52,139
where people would go and
overindulge on purpose
995
00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:54,839
and then they would vomit
in order to continue
996
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,072
to be able to do that.
997
00:46:56,073 --> 00:46:59,949
Patients with bulimia where
they would binge and then purge
998
00:46:59,950 --> 00:47:01,251
often by vomiting,
999
00:47:01,252 --> 00:47:04,729
they find that both the
binging and the purging
1000
00:47:04,730 --> 00:47:06,049
to be highly shameful.
1001
00:47:06,050 --> 00:47:08,089
They will go to great lengths to hide this
1002
00:47:08,090 --> 00:47:08,923
from their friends,
1003
00:47:08,924 --> 00:47:10,312
their family,
1004
00:47:10,313 --> 00:47:12,652
it's not something they feel
comfortable doing in generally,
1005
00:47:12,653 --> 00:47:14,540
in public.
1006
00:47:14,541 --> 00:47:19,541
I remember the first
time I actually purged
1007
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:23,329
and it wasn't with intents.
1008
00:47:23,330 --> 00:47:26,330
I literally had eaten
what I thought I shouldn't
1009
00:47:29,332 --> 00:47:30,385
after a long time of anorexia,
1010
00:47:30,386 --> 00:47:32,039
after many months of
really starving myself
1011
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,087
to the point of insanity,
1012
00:47:33,088 --> 00:47:35,799
and I remember I was so hungry
I just couldn't, I gave in,
1013
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,400
it was like a physiological
survival urge I couldn't ignore
1014
00:47:39,401 --> 00:47:44,401
and I was so anxious while
I was eating that I felt
1015
00:47:44,510 --> 00:47:45,819
such an upset stomach,
1016
00:47:45,820 --> 00:47:49,469
like it felt like I was
doing something so wrong
1017
00:47:49,470 --> 00:47:54,049
and afterwards, I mean, I
ate until I couldn't breathe,
1018
00:47:54,050 --> 00:47:57,349
like I couldn't control
myself, I was like,
1019
00:47:57,350 --> 00:47:59,699
my body needed it and then,
1020
00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:04,700
I felt so worried and panicky
that I was going to gain
1021
00:48:05,030 --> 00:48:05,863
a ton of weight,
1022
00:48:05,864 --> 00:48:07,729
destroy everything I had already done,
1023
00:48:07,730 --> 00:48:10,909
I sort of came in the bathroom
really frantic and scared
1024
00:48:10,910 --> 00:48:12,929
and I sort of leaned over the toilet bowl
1025
00:48:12,930 --> 00:48:16,199
and I was so painfully
full that just the act
1026
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,409
of leaning over, I mean,
1027
00:48:18,410 --> 00:48:20,099
food practically came up itself
1028
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:21,669
and it was so painful coming up,
1029
00:48:21,670 --> 00:48:24,563
it was like fire lava
just shooting out of you
1030
00:48:24,564 --> 00:48:28,179
and at the same time I was
flooded with a sense of relief
1031
00:48:28,180 --> 00:48:31,479
like it was, it was like I
could get rid of all the shame.
1032
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,669
I could get rid of all
the pain in my life,
1033
00:48:33,670 --> 00:48:36,132
I could just get back
to the way I was before
1034
00:48:36,133 --> 00:48:38,979
and then I would feel
really panicky and shaky
1035
00:48:38,980 --> 00:48:40,609
and I would wonder if anybody heard me
1036
00:48:40,610 --> 00:48:43,239
and I would be afraid
that I smelt like vomit
1037
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,819
and I just felt really
dirty and really disgusting
1038
00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:47,959
and I wanted to pretend the
whole thing didn't happen.
1039
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,179
So I would rush over to the sink
1040
00:48:50,180 --> 00:48:53,179
and just put so much
toothpaste on my toothbrush
1041
00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,819
and I was so afraid I
had like splatter on me,
1042
00:48:55,820 --> 00:48:58,399
I just felt so disgusting I guess,
1043
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,629
on such a deep level and
then I would sit in the bath
1044
00:49:01,630 --> 00:49:05,169
for a long time and I would
just run the hot water
1045
00:49:05,170 --> 00:49:07,129
over my hands and splash my face
1046
00:49:07,130 --> 00:49:09,764
and just feel really
ashamed and embarrassed
1047
00:49:09,765 --> 00:49:13,089
and hoped that nobody ever knew that I did
1048
00:49:13,090 --> 00:49:15,299
because it felt like the
most despicable thing
1049
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:16,392
on planet earth.
1050
00:49:16,393 --> 00:49:21,393
When the recovery battle
began, I was 145 pounds and 6'3"
1051
00:49:22,069 --> 00:49:26,131
and now I stand today at 188 pounds.
1052
00:49:26,132 --> 00:49:30,179
I just have maybe an inferiority
complex, if you will.
1053
00:49:30,180 --> 00:49:32,379
I was bullied as a young kid and going up
1054
00:49:32,380 --> 00:49:34,329
through high school and
it always made me angry
1055
00:49:34,330 --> 00:49:36,080
and it made me mad and it felt like
1056
00:49:37,262 --> 00:49:38,095
if I could work out harder
1057
00:49:38,096 --> 00:49:39,639
and if I could watch my diet even tighter,
1058
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,975
that's a way to get back at everybody
1059
00:49:41,976 --> 00:49:46,669
and it caused me to have
very bad social anxiety.
1060
00:49:46,670 --> 00:49:49,280
It just led me to a life of isolation
1061
00:49:49,281 --> 00:49:52,739
because I was afraid that I
was going to eat something
1062
00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,969
that was unhealthy or I was afraid
1063
00:49:54,970 --> 00:49:57,009
that I was going to smell
something and want it
1064
00:49:57,010 --> 00:49:59,279
and not have it and I
would feel massive anxiety
1065
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,139
so I would just talk
myself out of not going
1066
00:50:01,140 --> 00:50:01,973
to these places.
1067
00:50:01,974 --> 00:50:03,996
So I came home for Thanksgiving one year
1068
00:50:03,997 --> 00:50:06,919
and my brother handed me this packet
1069
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,319
that said orthorexia on
it and he threw it at me
1070
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,245
and he said, "You have this."
1071
00:50:11,246 --> 00:50:15,913
♪ You're in the upside down all alone ♪
1072
00:50:24,208 --> 00:50:29,208
♪ Running from the monster beyond ♪
1073
00:50:32,260 --> 00:50:35,019
Orthorexia is a condition
where you take things
1074
00:50:35,020 --> 00:50:36,239
to the extreme.
1075
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,932
I specifically remember
tracking my calories
1076
00:50:38,933 --> 00:50:40,943
and burning approximately 1800 a day
1077
00:50:40,944 --> 00:50:44,274
and consuming only 1400
and if ever a day came
1078
00:50:44,275 --> 00:50:46,459
where those numbers were reversed,
1079
00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:47,799
I would get so depressed and angry,
1080
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,899
it was unbelievable and
I had to super compensate
1081
00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:52,049
the next day to make
sure that I was burning
1082
00:50:52,050 --> 00:50:53,879
more than I was consuming.
1083
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,189
One of the things that
happens when you have
1084
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:58,329
an eating disorder is you
go into this specific type
1085
00:50:58,330 --> 00:51:00,569
of depression where you
just don't find pleasure
1086
00:51:00,570 --> 00:51:01,740
out of things anymore.
1087
00:51:03,118 --> 00:51:08,118
♪ It's like a dream passing
through a shrouded fable ♪
1088
00:51:16,083 --> 00:51:21,083
♪ I've died before but not again ♪
1089
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,179
The only thing that
I really found pleasure
1090
00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:30,750
out of was exercising in huge amounts
1091
00:51:30,751 --> 00:51:34,049
and working out really hard
and restricting my calories
1092
00:51:34,050 --> 00:51:36,749
and seeing how far I can
actually push it or stretch it.
1093
00:51:36,750 --> 00:51:38,459
My emotions were all over the place.
1094
00:51:38,460 --> 00:51:41,919
To say life became a struggle
is putting it lightly.
1095
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,923
I wouldn't go as far as
saying that I was suicidal
1096
00:51:44,924 --> 00:51:48,359
but I definitely had given up on life
1097
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,310
and I did not want to live another day.
1098
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:57,759
I literally would pray
that I would go over
1099
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,439
to the streets of Manhattan
in the afternoon to work
1100
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,989
and I would get hit by a
bus going out of control
1101
00:52:02,990 --> 00:52:05,259
or get killed in gang warfare or get shot
1102
00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:06,093
or stabbed to death.
1103
00:52:06,094 --> 00:52:07,829
I would have to say my lowest point
1104
00:52:07,830 --> 00:52:10,719
was when I was contemplating jumping
1105
00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:12,370
into the East River in Manhattan.
1106
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,304
At that moment I just
started thinking about
1107
00:52:19,305 --> 00:52:22,761
my mom who was back home living by herself
1108
00:52:22,762 --> 00:52:27,762
and a lot of my close
friends and I was wondering
1109
00:52:28,657 --> 00:52:32,516
if they even would care 'cause I didn't
1110
00:52:32,517 --> 00:52:37,479
and then my phone rang at
the very moment I stepped
1111
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,859
onto that rung and it
was my friend, Jessica,
1112
00:52:39,860 --> 00:52:43,709
back home in Pennsylvania and
it's ironic how timing works
1113
00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:46,629
in this life but it couldn't
have come at a better time
1114
00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:49,989
because she basically talked
me down off of that handrail
1115
00:52:49,990 --> 00:52:52,069
and I went and sat down at a bench.
1116
00:52:52,070 --> 00:52:55,164
The root problem was I
was so mineral deficient
1117
00:52:55,165 --> 00:52:58,249
and I had such a lack of food in my system
1118
00:52:58,250 --> 00:53:00,636
that I just wasn't thinking properly.
1119
00:53:00,637 --> 00:53:03,559
It never really was about food per se,
1120
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,229
it was more about my interaction
1121
00:53:06,230 --> 00:53:07,730
and relationships with people,
1122
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,409
good relationships were fine.
1123
00:53:10,410 --> 00:53:12,789
Ones that were a little
rocky just kind of like
1124
00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:15,762
triggered me like that
and I would basically
1125
00:53:15,763 --> 00:53:20,116
take everything out on food and fitness.
1126
00:53:20,117 --> 00:53:22,943
When I began this
journey back to normalcy,
1127
00:53:22,944 --> 00:53:24,089
it was not easy.
1128
00:53:24,090 --> 00:53:25,394
It was not an easy road.
1129
00:53:25,395 --> 00:53:27,939
I had to accept the fact
that I was gonna gain
1130
00:53:27,940 --> 00:53:28,930
some weight back.
1131
00:53:28,931 --> 00:53:31,750
I was 145 pounds, I was 6'3"
1132
00:53:31,751 --> 00:53:35,549
and I was totally zeroing in
on 140 and that's how I worked.
1133
00:53:35,550 --> 00:53:37,779
I would always go in five pound increments
1134
00:53:37,780 --> 00:53:39,569
and to me those were huge victories.
1135
00:53:39,570 --> 00:53:41,461
Any food restriction is
problematic for somebody
1136
00:53:41,462 --> 00:53:43,909
who has had an eating
disorder, is currently,
1137
00:53:43,910 --> 00:53:46,260
actively trying to get
over an eating disorder,
1138
00:53:48,132 --> 00:53:51,032
who has a family history
of an eating disorder.
1139
00:53:51,033 --> 00:53:51,940
It's likely to send you
back into an eating disorder
1140
00:53:52,796 --> 00:53:53,629
if you have a history of it.
1141
00:53:53,630 --> 00:53:57,063
For me, fasting has
actually been a remedy
1142
00:53:57,064 --> 00:54:02,064
in my healing process and
I feel that it has helped
1143
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,329
my relationship with food.
1144
00:54:05,330 --> 00:54:08,951
One of the things that
works so efficiently for me
1145
00:54:08,952 --> 00:54:13,830
to keep my eating disorder in
check is eating in windows.
1146
00:54:14,773 --> 00:54:18,839
I feel like I don't have to
put as much thought into food.
1147
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,258
It kind of basically
takes my mind off of food.
1148
00:54:21,259 --> 00:54:25,329
So I become more relaxed
and because of that,
1149
00:54:25,330 --> 00:54:29,429
it improves my relationship with food.
1150
00:54:29,430 --> 00:54:32,669
You don't see too many old fat people
1151
00:54:32,670 --> 00:54:36,149
and there's a reason
because being overweight
1152
00:54:36,150 --> 00:54:37,669
is definitely hard on the system.
1153
00:54:37,670 --> 00:54:39,717
I'm a bit overweight and
I'm worried about it.
1154
00:54:39,718 --> 00:54:43,060
I might even look into this
fasting myself.
1155
00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:50,489
There's essentially two forms of fasting
1156
00:54:50,490 --> 00:54:51,779
that are being advocated currently:
1157
00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:52,819
the intermittent fasting
1158
00:54:52,820 --> 00:54:55,205
which is essentially intermittent feeding
1159
00:54:55,206 --> 00:54:57,036
in which you narrow the feeding windows,
1160
00:54:57,037 --> 00:54:59,609
you may restrict calories on
one or two days or more a week.
1161
00:54:59,610 --> 00:55:02,724
These can be done safely
often in an outpatient basis
1162
00:55:02,725 --> 00:55:05,249
but medically supervised
water only fasting
1163
00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:06,900
is a little bit more complicated.
1164
00:55:07,982 --> 00:55:09,102
It does require supervision.
1165
00:55:10,582 --> 00:55:11,856
It does require a contained
environment in order
1166
00:55:11,857 --> 00:55:13,139
to ensure a safe and effective experience.
1167
00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:16,199
So when we talk about the
long-term water only fasting,
1168
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,964
that's done at facilities like
the True North Health Center
1169
00:55:19,965 --> 00:55:21,789
where people are able to
undergo physical exams,
1170
00:55:21,790 --> 00:55:23,339
laboratory monitoring,
1171
00:55:23,340 --> 00:55:25,399
being in controlled and
contained environment
1172
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,959
and in that type of a setting,
1173
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,929
fasting can be done,
even prolonged fasting,
1174
00:55:28,930 --> 00:55:30,293
can be done safely.
1175
00:55:30,294 --> 00:55:32,328
It's also important
that fasting be applied
1176
00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:34,889
at patients at the right time.
1177
00:55:34,890 --> 00:55:36,749
In other words, there are some
people who have conditions
1178
00:55:36,750 --> 00:55:39,180
where they would be better
off with a different approach
1179
00:55:39,181 --> 00:55:40,459
than fasting.
1180
00:55:40,460 --> 00:55:42,709
Fasting may be too vigorous
or may be inappropriate
1181
00:55:42,710 --> 00:55:45,640
because of complications
with medical management
1182
00:55:45,641 --> 00:55:48,885
or at least until medications
can be withdrawn, et cetera.
1183
00:55:48,886 --> 00:55:52,109
So fasting has a wide
range of applications
1184
00:55:52,110 --> 00:55:55,819
but where it does it's
best work is in dealing
1185
00:55:55,820 --> 00:55:58,141
with conditions that are caused by excess.
1186
00:55:58,142 --> 00:56:00,879
So conditions associated
with dietary excess
1187
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,919
include things like obesity,
high blood pressure,
1188
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,749
and other cardiovascular related
disease, Type 2 Diabetes,
1189
00:56:07,750 --> 00:56:10,129
a host of autoimmune
diseases and even some forms
1190
00:56:10,130 --> 00:56:14,779
of cancer like lymphoma seem
to be intimately with our diet
1191
00:56:14,780 --> 00:56:16,409
and lifestyle choices
1192
00:56:16,410 --> 00:56:18,529
and so it makes sense
that where dietary excess
1193
00:56:18,530 --> 00:56:20,659
is a contributing factor to the problem,
1194
00:56:20,660 --> 00:56:23,226
fasting may be a helpful means
of rapidly giving the body
1195
00:56:23,227 --> 00:56:26,759
a chance to reverse the
consequences of dietary excess.
1196
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,849
In 1994 I had a head injury
1197
00:56:28,850 --> 00:56:30,222
and when I regained consciousness,
1198
00:56:30,223 --> 00:56:33,623
I had a terrible headache
and prior to the accident,
1199
00:56:33,624 --> 00:56:35,835
I had been a practicing dentist.
1200
00:56:35,836 --> 00:56:38,417
So because of the nerve
damage to my hands,
1201
00:56:38,418 --> 00:56:41,111
I also had to quit practicing dentistry.
1202
00:56:41,112 --> 00:56:43,744
I sought medical advice to
get rid of the headache.
1203
00:56:43,745 --> 00:56:48,079
I visited with several neurologists.
1204
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,369
They were unable to help me.
1205
00:56:50,370 --> 00:56:52,359
I also tried some alternative treatments -
1206
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,157
acupuncture, cupping -
1207
00:56:54,158 --> 00:56:56,479
unfortunately, nothing
was able to help me.
1208
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,039
I had a headache everyday
for 16 years, 24/7.
1209
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,623
It just never ever went away.
1210
00:57:02,624 --> 00:57:05,740
So the neurologist told
me that the reason I had
1211
00:57:07,052 --> 00:57:09,585
this never-ending headache
was because the dura mater,
1212
00:57:09,586 --> 00:57:11,629
the leatherlike covering of
the brain and the spinal cord
1213
00:57:11,630 --> 00:57:15,759
had been torn and had become
inflamed and then when I saw
1214
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,429
on the True North website that a number
1215
00:57:18,430 --> 00:57:20,349
of the health conditions that they treated
1216
00:57:20,350 --> 00:57:21,944
were based on inflammation,
1217
00:57:21,945 --> 00:57:25,260
I decided to call and see
if maybe their treatment
1218
00:57:25,261 --> 00:57:28,549
of water only fasting
would be helpful to me.
1219
00:57:28,550 --> 00:57:29,540
At the True North Health Center,
1220
00:57:29,541 --> 00:57:32,049
we take a rather clinical
approach to fasting.
1221
00:57:32,050 --> 00:57:35,931
All patients are
carefully screened by both
1222
00:57:35,932 --> 00:57:39,119
taking their history as well
as reviewing their previous
1223
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,479
medical treatment.
1224
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,659
He was very honest in
saying that they had never
1225
00:57:42,660 --> 00:57:45,120
treated a patient with
this particular problem
1226
00:57:45,121 --> 00:57:47,389
but he thought I might have a chance.
1227
00:57:47,390 --> 00:57:49,089
When I initially came to True North,
1228
00:57:49,090 --> 00:57:51,739
they asked me how long I wanted to fast.
1229
00:57:51,740 --> 00:57:53,459
I didn't know I had a choice in that.
1230
00:57:53,460 --> 00:57:55,779
I just thought they would tell me.
1231
00:57:55,780 --> 00:57:57,749
Fasting protocols here at
the True North Health Center
1232
00:57:57,750 --> 00:58:00,039
can range anywhere from five to 40 days
1233
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,529
depending on the patient
and how they respond.
1234
00:58:02,530 --> 00:58:06,589
Not everybody or not every
condition has a stereotypical
1235
00:58:06,590 --> 00:58:09,739
amount of time that's associated
with its optimum outcome.
1236
00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:11,700
And I told him I was going to fast
1237
00:58:11,701 --> 00:58:14,180
until one of three things happened:
1238
00:58:14,181 --> 00:58:18,523
either the headache went away
or I could not fast any longer
1239
00:58:18,524 --> 00:58:21,399
or all of the doctors
got together and said,
1240
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,189
for my own safety, I
needed to quit fasting.
1241
00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:27,379
People have wondered at my
commitment to water only fasting
1242
00:58:27,380 --> 00:58:30,029
but you have to remember
I had been in serious pain
1243
00:58:30,030 --> 00:58:32,849
every minute of the day for 16 years.
1244
00:58:32,850 --> 00:58:36,019
I had tried everything that
traditional western medicine
1245
00:58:36,020 --> 00:58:37,309
had to offer,
1246
00:58:37,310 --> 00:58:38,785
I had tried alternatives.
1247
00:58:38,786 --> 00:58:41,979
I also knew there was a
very good chance that I was
1248
00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:44,689
going to live to be an old lady.
1249
00:58:44,690 --> 00:58:47,489
We have longevity in my
family and other than this
1250
00:58:47,490 --> 00:58:48,699
never-ending headache,
1251
00:58:48,700 --> 00:58:50,673
I really didn't have any health problems
1252
00:58:50,674 --> 00:58:54,182
and I did not want to be 80
years old one day thinking,
1253
00:58:54,183 --> 00:58:57,399
what would've happened if I'd
gone to that True North place?
1254
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,670
I wanted to try everything
that was possible
1255
00:58:59,671 --> 00:59:01,318
to get out of pain.
1256
00:59:01,319 --> 00:59:05,458
So I started fasting, the
doctors come in twice a day.
1257
00:59:05,459 --> 00:59:08,069
They're monitored twice
a day by staff doctors
1258
00:59:08,070 --> 00:59:11,159
during their fasting experience
where we're taking vitals
1259
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,010
and monitoring their conditions.
1260
00:59:15,315 --> 00:59:16,148
To check on you, to make
sure you're doing well,
1261
00:59:17,143 --> 00:59:18,060
and everyday it was the same question -
1262
00:59:18,061 --> 00:59:19,099
how are you doing?
1263
00:59:19,100 --> 00:59:22,581
And everyday for 18 days
it was the same answer,
1264
00:59:22,582 --> 00:59:24,459
I didn't have any change.
1265
00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:28,289
I still had the headache
but then on day 19 I woke up
1266
00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:30,969
and I thought something's wrong.
1267
00:59:30,970 --> 00:59:33,279
I didn't know what it was
but it was really scary
1268
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,772
because something was wrong and I decided,
1269
00:59:35,773 --> 00:59:38,889
I'm not moving out of this
bed until I figure out
1270
00:59:38,890 --> 00:59:41,939
what it was and I've got to
say it took me about a minute
1271
00:59:41,940 --> 00:59:44,299
to realize what was wrong is
1272
00:59:44,300 --> 00:59:46,559
I didn't have a headache anymore.
1273
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:50,140
I had forgotten what it
felt like not to be in pain
1274
00:59:51,090 --> 00:59:53,739
and that lasted for about five minutes
1275
00:59:53,740 --> 00:59:56,687
and then I went down to tell Dr. Goldhamer
1276
00:59:56,688 --> 00:59:59,669
and if possible I think he
might've been more excited
1277
00:59:59,670 --> 01:00:00,503
than I was.
1278
01:00:00,504 --> 01:00:02,369
He kept saying, "It's
amenable to treatment.
1279
01:00:02,370 --> 01:00:03,957
"It's amenable to treatment."
1280
01:00:03,958 --> 01:00:07,069
So I went through that whole day wondering
1281
01:00:07,070 --> 01:00:09,856
because the pain had only been
gone for about five minutes,
1282
01:00:09,857 --> 01:00:12,169
then it came back and I wondered,
1283
01:00:12,170 --> 01:00:14,395
I wonder if this will
happen again tomorrow.
1284
01:00:14,396 --> 01:00:18,399
The next morning I woke
up and I had no pain
1285
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,769
for about 10 minutes
and everyday thereafter
1286
01:00:21,770 --> 01:00:24,909
I had a little more time without pain
1287
01:00:24,910 --> 01:00:29,206
but almost even better than
that was during the afternoon
1288
01:00:29,207 --> 01:00:33,289
and evening my pain was decreasing a lot.
1289
01:00:33,290 --> 01:00:34,869
When I first got to True North,
1290
01:00:34,870 --> 01:00:38,806
they asked me what my pain
was on the zero to 10 scale
1291
01:00:38,807 --> 01:00:40,169
and my answer was,
1292
01:00:40,170 --> 01:00:42,417
"It's about a six to an
eight all of the time
1293
01:00:42,418 --> 01:00:44,829
"with the exception of those rare moments
1294
01:00:44,830 --> 01:00:48,119
"where it kicks up to a 10
when I truly could not move,
1295
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,162
"when it would stop me in my tracks,"
1296
01:00:50,163 --> 01:00:54,863
and after day 19 and the pain
started to reduce over time,
1297
01:00:54,864 --> 01:00:57,459
it finally got to the
point in the afternoon
1298
01:00:57,460 --> 01:00:59,980
where I was down to a one or a two.
1299
01:00:59,981 --> 01:01:02,566
You just can't imagine
what a blessing that was
1300
01:01:02,567 --> 01:01:05,626
and finally on day 41 I woke up,
1301
01:01:05,627 --> 01:01:08,376
I had had a whole day without pain,
1302
01:01:08,377 --> 01:01:12,259
the doctors wanted me
to quit and I was ready
1303
01:01:12,260 --> 01:01:13,531
to quit fasting.
1304
01:01:13,532 --> 01:01:17,479
So on that day, I had
a full day without pain
1305
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,690
for the first time in 16 years.
1306
01:01:30,465 --> 01:01:31,465
Dr. Goldhamer explained that sometimes
1307
01:01:31,466 --> 01:01:33,599
it takes more than one
fast to solve a problem
1308
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,559
and it turned out that
happened with me as well.
1309
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,189
When I started the re-feeding process
1310
01:01:39,190 --> 01:01:41,429
which is a very careful re-introduction
1311
01:01:41,430 --> 01:01:43,609
of food after fasting.
1312
01:01:43,610 --> 01:01:46,400
I started to get some
twinges of pain on and off.
1313
01:01:46,401 --> 01:01:49,259
So after two months of re-feeding,
1314
01:01:49,260 --> 01:01:51,439
I went back to Dr. Goldhamer and said,
1315
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,820
and at the time I couldn't
believe I was asking
1316
01:01:55,330 --> 01:01:56,861
to do this again but I said,
1317
01:01:56,862 --> 01:01:57,859
"I need to fast again.
1318
01:01:57,860 --> 01:01:58,882
"What do you think?"
1319
01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:00,044
and he said he thought
that would be a good idea
1320
01:02:00,045 --> 01:02:02,179
since I had had good
results on the first fast
1321
01:02:02,180 --> 01:02:04,149
and I said, "Great, I'll
start again tomorrow,"
1322
01:02:04,150 --> 01:02:06,799
and he said, "No, you
can't start fasting right now,
1323
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,419
"you've only been
re-feeding for two months,"
1324
01:02:09,420 --> 01:02:10,829
and I said, "Well, what's the problem?"
1325
01:02:10,830 --> 01:02:14,549
and he said, "You need to rebuild
your nutritional reserves.
1326
01:02:14,550 --> 01:02:16,199
"That's very important,"
1327
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:17,879
and I said, "Well, how
long will that take?"
1328
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,939
and he said, "With the length
of fast that you've done,
1329
01:02:20,940 --> 01:02:22,939
"probably at least six months,"
1330
01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:25,209
and then six months to
the day after I ended
1331
01:02:25,210 --> 01:02:26,289
that first fast,
1332
01:02:26,290 --> 01:02:27,872
I started fasting again,
1333
01:02:27,873 --> 01:02:30,447
again, not knowing how long I would fast,
1334
01:02:30,448 --> 01:02:34,839
and I just kept fasting until
all of the pain was gone.
1335
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,686
It turned out it was another 40 days
1336
01:02:36,687 --> 01:02:40,147
and then I started to
re-feed and at that point,
1337
01:02:40,148 --> 01:02:42,699
I didn't have any pain but I had worries
1338
01:02:42,700 --> 01:02:46,055
that it would come back
but I just kept following
1339
01:02:46,056 --> 01:02:49,210
the doctor's recommendations
about what to eat,
1340
01:02:49,211 --> 01:02:53,119
how to eat and it finally
dawned on me one day
1341
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:57,279
that that headache was
gone and that was in 2010
1342
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,030
and I haven't had a headache since.
1343
01:03:08,114 --> 01:03:08,947
Well, I found out
about True North through
1344
01:03:08,948 --> 01:03:10,921
one of the talks that Dr. Goldhamer
1345
01:03:10,922 --> 01:03:13,879
gave to our medical school
and I remember seeing him
1346
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,786
and thinking, I definitely,
1347
01:03:15,787 --> 01:03:16,620
definitely need to do an internship there.
1348
01:03:16,621 --> 01:03:19,000
We have an opportunity
for doctors to train
1349
01:03:20,165 --> 01:03:20,998
in the use of fasting.
1350
01:03:20,999 --> 01:03:24,159
We have about 30
clinicians a year that come
1351
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,649
from medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic,
1352
01:03:26,650 --> 01:03:27,749
and naturopathology.
1353
01:03:27,750 --> 01:03:31,069
As part of their rotation,
they're able to do rotations.
1354
01:03:31,070 --> 01:03:34,319
We're a ND residency site for
the naturopathic profession
1355
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:37,059
and those doctors come
in and spend a year.
1356
01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:38,569
We've recently completed, for example,
1357
01:03:38,570 --> 01:03:41,169
a fasting safety study
which shows that fasting
1358
01:03:41,170 --> 01:03:43,649
can be a safe and effective
means when it's done properly.
1359
01:03:43,650 --> 01:03:46,749
The conclusion was
that water only fasting
1360
01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:51,463
in a medically supervised
facility such as True North Health
1361
01:03:51,464 --> 01:03:54,012
using the True North Health protocol,
1362
01:03:54,013 --> 01:03:56,329
because we didn't compare
any other protocols,
1363
01:03:56,330 --> 01:03:58,259
is relatively safe.
1364
01:03:58,260 --> 01:04:01,769
We're actually very
excited because we see
1365
01:04:01,770 --> 01:04:04,209
a wide range of conditions
that tend to respond
1366
01:04:04,210 --> 01:04:06,619
to this approach and now
we're in a position finally
1367
01:04:06,620 --> 01:04:08,849
with the help of our nonprofit
True North Health Foundation
1368
01:04:08,850 --> 01:04:10,919
to begin to document those results
1369
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:12,527
and present them in a way that I think
1370
01:04:12,528 --> 01:04:14,835
both clinicians and scientists
will find acceptable.
1371
01:04:14,836 --> 01:04:17,319
What the foundation
is now doing is turning
1372
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:20,879
that into accepted, peer
reviewed published research
1373
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,419
and so we're doing the
human subjects research,
1374
01:04:23,420 --> 01:04:25,759
bringing people in to look at how fasting
1375
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,099
changes biomarkers in the
blood, taste and adaptation,
1376
01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:29,933
different studies.
1377
01:04:29,934 --> 01:04:32,439
So we'll actually have published material
1378
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:35,459
that we can show people and
people will start seeing fasting
1379
01:04:35,460 --> 01:04:39,119
as a modality of healing that
really does amazing things
1380
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,579
and has been for millennia for humans.
1381
01:04:41,580 --> 01:04:43,509
For example, in the treatment
of high blood pressure,
1382
01:04:43,510 --> 01:04:45,049
we did a study with our colleague,
1383
01:04:45,050 --> 01:04:47,245
T. Colin Campbell from Cornell University.
1384
01:04:47,246 --> 01:04:50,179
We took 174 consecutive patients
1385
01:04:50,180 --> 01:04:52,439
that had high blood pressure
and we put them through
1386
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,359
a period of fasting followed
by a whole plant food,
1387
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:56,591
sugar, oil and salt free diet.
1388
01:04:56,592 --> 01:05:00,882
Of the 174 consecutive patients
with high blood pressure,
1389
01:05:00,883 --> 01:05:03,619
174 people lowered their pressure enough
1390
01:05:03,620 --> 01:05:05,613
to eliminate the need for
medication and in that study,
1391
01:05:05,614 --> 01:05:08,309
we were able to
demonstrate and effect size
1392
01:05:08,310 --> 01:05:10,879
of over 60 points average
drop in stage 3 hypertension.
1393
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,929
That's the largest effect
that's ever been shown
1394
01:05:13,930 --> 01:05:16,129
in treating high blood
pressure in humans as far
1395
01:05:16,130 --> 01:05:17,452
as I'm aware of.
1396
01:05:17,453 --> 01:05:20,468
Essentially if you have
high blood pressure
1397
01:05:20,469 --> 01:05:24,460
and you undergo fasting and
make diet and lifestyle changes,
1398
01:05:25,327 --> 01:05:26,967
you have an exceptionally high likelihood
1399
01:05:27,352 --> 01:05:29,523
of being able to normalize
your blood pressure
1400
01:05:29,524 --> 01:05:30,510
and if you're willing
to do really dangerous
1401
01:05:30,511 --> 01:05:32,541
and radical things like
eat good and exercise,
1402
01:05:32,542 --> 01:05:34,549
go to bed on time,
1403
01:05:34,550 --> 01:05:36,759
you have an excellent chance of being able
1404
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:37,593
to maintain those results.
1405
01:05:37,594 --> 01:05:40,099
The reason I stayed after
my residency at True North
1406
01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:43,211
is because you see that
on an everyday basis here.
1407
01:05:43,212 --> 01:05:45,609
You don't have to be
here for years in order
1408
01:05:45,610 --> 01:05:50,050
to understand the profound
effect that water fasting has.
1409
01:06:02,550 --> 01:06:04,049
If someone is going to fast
1410
01:06:04,050 --> 01:06:05,069
for a day or two,
1411
01:06:05,070 --> 01:06:07,019
most people in the United
States are going to have
1412
01:06:07,020 --> 01:06:08,570
absolutely no issues with that.
1413
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,199
We have plenty of fat
reserves, we can do that.
1414
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,319
It is important to make
sure that people are getting
1415
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:15,639
adequate amounts of fluids during that
1416
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,809
because dehydration can be very dangerous.
1417
01:06:17,810 --> 01:06:19,769
I think what's happening
right now is that
1418
01:06:19,770 --> 01:06:21,749
a lot of people are improvising.
1419
01:06:21,750 --> 01:06:23,809
If someone's going to go
and say, as you mentioned,
1420
01:06:23,810 --> 01:06:25,189
a 21 day fast.
1421
01:06:25,190 --> 01:06:26,819
That is something that
I think should actually
1422
01:06:26,820 --> 01:06:29,309
be monitored that people are doing well.
1423
01:06:29,310 --> 01:06:32,869
So fasting and re-feeding
cycles are extremely powerful,
1424
01:06:32,870 --> 01:06:36,080
probably more powerful than
a powerful cocktail of drugs
1425
01:06:36,950 --> 01:06:39,059
and so when you eliminate the doctor,
1426
01:06:39,060 --> 01:06:41,369
you eliminate the registered dietician,
1427
01:06:41,370 --> 01:06:44,579
you eliminate something that
is being clinically tested,
1428
01:06:44,580 --> 01:06:48,545
you're now really putting
yourself in a lot of,
1429
01:06:48,546 --> 01:06:51,589
in a very dangerous position
and it could be that
1430
01:06:51,590 --> 01:06:53,553
it's not very dangerous to you today
1431
01:06:53,554 --> 01:06:56,802
because maybe your immune system is fine,
1432
01:06:56,803 --> 01:07:00,549
you're not taking any other
drugs but maybe two years
1433
01:07:00,550 --> 01:07:01,889
down the road you try it again,
1434
01:07:01,890 --> 01:07:04,349
now all of a sudden
you're immuno suppressed
1435
01:07:04,350 --> 01:07:06,928
or you have a viral
infection or you're taking
1436
01:07:06,929 --> 01:07:11,929
a drug for Diabetes or
you're taking another drug
1437
01:07:12,630 --> 01:07:16,751
and now together they
become very problematic
1438
01:07:16,752 --> 01:07:20,589
like the infection now could
become a lethal infection
1439
01:07:20,590 --> 01:07:21,510
or the insulin.
1440
01:07:21,511 --> 01:07:22,597
Now we know some of the people
that have died in clinics
1441
01:07:22,598 --> 01:07:27,479
that do fasting have died
from a combination of insulin
1442
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:28,519
and fasting.
1443
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,340
So something and even when
I talk to diabetologists,
1444
01:07:34,235 --> 01:07:35,068
endocrinologists and they
say, "Your patient could die."
1445
01:07:36,108 --> 01:07:37,788
Immediately their answer is like, come on,
1446
01:07:38,323 --> 01:07:39,349
it's not possible.
1447
01:07:39,350 --> 01:07:40,502
These are doctors, right?
1448
01:07:40,503 --> 01:07:41,642
These are experienced doctors.
1449
01:07:41,643 --> 01:07:45,839
They don't realize how
combining drug with fasting
1450
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,919
can turn to very innocuous
things into something
1451
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,149
that can even be lethal.
1452
01:07:51,150 --> 01:07:55,339
For example, metformin, very
safe, very widely utilized,
1453
01:07:55,340 --> 01:07:58,236
well metformin happens to be
a gluconeogenesis inhibitor
1454
01:07:58,237 --> 01:07:59,869
and guess what?
1455
01:07:59,870 --> 01:08:02,017
Fasting requires gluconeogenesis.
1456
01:08:02,018 --> 01:08:05,524
Now, you take a blocker of gluconeogenesis
1457
01:08:05,525 --> 01:08:08,799
and something that requires to survive,
1458
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,159
if you don't have gluconeogenesis,
1459
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:13,344
gluconeogenesis refers to
the liver making new glucose,
1460
01:08:13,345 --> 01:08:15,989
if you block it on one
side and you require it
1461
01:08:15,990 --> 01:08:16,990
on the other side,
1462
01:08:18,202 --> 01:08:19,130
you can see you have a
very problematic situation
1463
01:08:19,131 --> 01:08:22,559
and now think about the fact
that 100 million Americans
1464
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:24,859
are either diabetic or pre-diabetic
1465
01:08:24,860 --> 01:08:26,939
and so all of them are eligible.
1466
01:08:26,940 --> 01:08:29,699
So one American in three or
so is eligible for metformin
1467
01:08:29,700 --> 01:08:31,649
and pretty soon will be on metformin.
1468
01:08:31,650 --> 01:08:35,303
You see how now the
combination of fasting,
1469
01:08:35,304 --> 01:08:38,049
or the improvisation with fasting
1470
01:08:38,050 --> 01:08:39,599
could be extremely dangerous.
1471
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:43,639
This was the scariest thing
that I've ever experienced
1472
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:45,919
and I really thought that
I was gonna lose my life
1473
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:46,920
at one point.
1474
01:08:56,032 --> 01:08:58,649
I decided to do my 35
day extended water fast
1475
01:08:58,650 --> 01:09:02,079
in a fasting clinic outside of Canada.
1476
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,179
I was fasting alongside other people,
1477
01:09:04,180 --> 01:09:06,459
about 30, 40 people I
think we were in total,
1478
01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:07,709
and there,
1479
01:09:07,710 --> 01:09:10,808
it turned out actually that
there was a significant issue
1480
01:09:10,809 --> 01:09:15,459
with the water and so even with that,
1481
01:09:15,460 --> 01:09:17,178
even with poor quality water,
1482
01:09:17,179 --> 01:09:19,939
everybody at the center
from what I witnessed
1483
01:09:19,940 --> 01:09:24,449
did really well in general
up until about three weeks,
1484
01:09:24,450 --> 01:09:27,239
so up until about 21 days and after that
1485
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,139
things sort of started to go down south,
1486
01:09:29,140 --> 01:09:31,840
not just for me but for
numerous other people as well.
1487
01:09:32,980 --> 01:09:35,410
By about day 26, I was really,
1488
01:09:37,035 --> 01:09:40,109
instinctively I felt a
powerful urge to end my fast
1489
01:09:40,110 --> 01:09:42,847
and I ignored that urge
and my ignoring that urge,
1490
01:09:42,848 --> 01:09:45,589
I got really sick.
1491
01:09:45,590 --> 01:09:47,359
My roommate almost got raped.
1492
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,629
There was a guy with
psychosis who slit his wrists
1493
01:09:49,630 --> 01:09:51,199
and had to be rushed to the hospital.
1494
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,799
It turned out he had
hyponitremia so it's where
1495
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:56,579
your sodium levels crash so much
1496
01:09:56,580 --> 01:09:58,309
that your potassium levels skyrocket
1497
01:09:58,310 --> 01:10:01,247
and you actually go
into a mental psychosis.
1498
01:10:01,248 --> 01:10:05,219
One girl was so dehydrated
she went to the hospital
1499
01:10:05,220 --> 01:10:07,731
and had to be on IV and
the other girl almost died.
1500
01:10:07,732 --> 01:10:09,819
I felt helpless.
1501
01:10:09,820 --> 01:10:14,548
I felt sort of desperate and
terrified, like terrified.
1502
01:10:14,549 --> 01:10:16,610
There was a woman who was there
1503
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:18,640
and her mother came to the center
1504
01:10:18,641 --> 01:10:21,359
and was terrified because
her daughter had been so ill
1505
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,519
and dehydrated and she
had all the symptoms
1506
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:24,460
of renal failure.
1507
01:10:24,461 --> 01:10:26,939
I felt certain that she was
gonna die and I remember
1508
01:10:26,940 --> 01:10:30,519
being up all night thinking
this poor girl came here
1509
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,500
to save her own life, to heal, and repair,
1510
01:10:34,629 --> 01:10:36,278
and she literally almost died.
1511
01:10:42,622 --> 01:10:44,149
Her mother took her to
the hospital against
1512
01:10:44,150 --> 01:10:46,940
our fasting supervisor's
directive and she was told
1513
01:10:46,941 --> 01:10:49,689
that she was in such bad renal failure
1514
01:10:49,690 --> 01:10:52,999
and so dangerously
dehydrated that she was,
1515
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,509
they weren't sure she was gonna make it.
1516
01:10:54,510 --> 01:10:57,159
What I discovered a little bit late
1517
01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:02,089
is that it's very important
to research a fasting facility
1518
01:11:02,090 --> 01:11:04,319
and make sure that you're
in the care of people
1519
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,399
that really can medically supervise you.
1520
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:08,800
Make sure everything's okay.
1521
01:11:10,779 --> 01:11:13,504
When things turned for me on day 28,
1522
01:11:13,505 --> 01:11:17,065
I was really fearful for my life.
1523
01:11:19,910 --> 01:11:24,819
I actually snuck in to
use a computer at a time
1524
01:11:24,820 --> 01:11:26,220
when we weren't supposed to.
1525
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:49,089
And I wrote messages to
personal people in my life
1526
01:11:49,090 --> 01:11:51,599
like telling them that I wasn't
well and that I was afraid
1527
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,799
that I would lose my life
and that I felt more unwell
1528
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:55,900
than I had ever felt.
1529
01:11:58,064 --> 01:12:03,064
Because I fasted too long and
didn't get appropriate care,
1530
01:12:03,090 --> 01:12:07,039
I think what ended up
happening was I had a lot
1531
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:08,459
of health problems.
1532
01:12:08,460 --> 01:12:10,299
I had something called moon face,
1533
01:12:10,300 --> 01:12:13,009
extreme inflammation in my face.
1534
01:12:13,010 --> 01:12:16,019
In my whole body I had
edema and water retention
1535
01:12:16,020 --> 01:12:17,859
from how dehydrated I had been,
1536
01:12:17,860 --> 01:12:19,999
how off my electrolytes were,
1537
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,959
weight gain, I gained a lot of weight,
1538
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:27,735
about 30 pounds actually
or 28 pounds in two weeks!
1539
01:12:27,736 --> 01:12:31,289
As soon as I started eating salt,
1540
01:12:31,290 --> 01:12:33,139
even small amounts of cooked food,
1541
01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:36,800
it took me two years of eating regularly
1542
01:12:36,801 --> 01:12:39,719
and nurturing my body
and trying to tough out
1543
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,029
all of these symptoms,
1544
01:12:41,030 --> 01:12:42,439
I now, two years later,
1545
01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:45,589
am finally completely
feeling like myself again.
1546
01:12:45,590 --> 01:12:47,078
I look like myself again.
1547
01:12:47,079 --> 01:12:49,216
Fasting needs boundaries.
1548
01:12:49,217 --> 01:12:52,107
I almost killed myself through extremism
1549
01:12:52,108 --> 01:12:56,235
with my eating disorder and
all of my misuse of food
1550
01:12:56,236 --> 01:13:00,163
and then I healed myself
through the right modalities,
1551
01:13:00,164 --> 01:13:03,839
finally brought myself back
to health with moderate
1552
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,849
and balanced intermittent
fasting, juicing,
1553
01:13:06,850 --> 01:13:10,015
eating healthy, developing a
healthy relationship to food,
1554
01:13:10,016 --> 01:13:12,449
and then took it a step
too far again
1555
01:13:12,450 --> 01:13:14,950
and did extremism and almost died again
1556
01:13:14,951 --> 01:13:18,169
with my long water fast
and making myself sick
1557
01:13:18,170 --> 01:13:23,109
for an additional two
awful years only to then
1558
01:13:23,110 --> 01:13:27,659
find balance again to
finally again go back
1559
01:13:27,660 --> 01:13:30,169
to a moderate way of just
intermittent fasting,
1560
01:13:30,170 --> 01:13:31,970
getting the benefit without extreme.
1561
01:13:32,968 --> 01:13:34,860
Fasting needs boundaries.
1562
01:13:42,921 --> 01:13:45,719
This is the brilliant part
of the fasting mimicking diet
1563
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,239
is that at the Longevity
Institute they did research
1564
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,891
for many, many years and
discovered how to use food
1565
01:13:51,892 --> 01:13:55,839
to fly under the radar
of what we call mTOR,
1566
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,619
the detection of food.
1567
01:13:57,620 --> 01:14:02,459
So you're actually eating
food, so your body sees food,
1568
01:14:02,460 --> 01:14:04,349
but your brain sees fasting.
1569
01:14:04,350 --> 01:14:06,339
The NCI, the National Cancer Institute,
1570
01:14:06,340 --> 01:14:08,589
gave us the funds to
do that and we came up
1571
01:14:08,590 --> 01:14:12,316
with a fast mimicking diet that
is as effective as fasting,
1572
01:14:12,317 --> 01:14:16,779
as water only fasting.
1573
01:14:16,780 --> 01:14:19,959
It's five days but
the five days of eating,
1574
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:21,489
the fasting mimicking diet,
1575
01:14:21,490 --> 01:14:23,759
gives you the same benefits as if you did
1576
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:27,219
a complete water fast, nothing
but water for four days.
1577
01:14:27,220 --> 01:14:29,249
And we call it fasting
with food which is
1578
01:14:29,250 --> 01:14:32,089
a fast-inating or fascinating concept.
1579
01:14:32,090 --> 01:14:36,069
L-Nutra in 2016 launched Prolon,
1580
01:14:36,070 --> 01:14:38,469
the very first fast mimicking diet,
1581
01:14:38,470 --> 01:14:40,450
and Prolon stands for
promoting health and longevity.
1582
01:14:40,451 --> 01:14:45,451
I first heard about Prolon
when I asked Valter Longo,
1583
01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:50,119
Dr. Valter Longo, if I could
interview him for my website
1584
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:53,087
where I write about healing naturally
1585
01:14:53,088 --> 01:14:54,020
from inflammatory disorders.
1586
01:14:54,021 --> 01:14:56,604
We had this wonderful
conversation about how
1587
01:14:56,605 --> 01:15:00,549
his fasting mimicking diets
can turn over up to 40%
1588
01:15:00,550 --> 01:15:02,599
of white blood cells in the immune system
1589
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,367
which is fantastic news because
for people with the disorder
1590
01:15:05,368 --> 01:15:09,359
I had which is the reason
I left CNN and the BBC.
1591
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,669
I was working as a journalist in war zones
1592
01:15:11,670 --> 01:15:14,379
for about a decade until I got really sick
1593
01:15:14,380 --> 01:15:16,369
and I couldn't work anymore
and I devoted myself
1594
01:15:16,370 --> 01:15:19,761
to blogging about this,
about these conditions.
1595
01:15:22,050 --> 01:15:25,919
Tried the five day fasting
mimicking diet, the Prolon.
1596
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:29,219
My first round of Prolon
was pretty amazing.
1597
01:15:29,220 --> 01:15:30,539
It was the first time in my life
1598
01:15:30,540 --> 01:15:34,129
that I had had complete
relief from my symptoms
1599
01:15:34,130 --> 01:15:36,099
of mast cell activation.
1600
01:15:36,100 --> 01:15:41,013
Just absolute and total
remission of symptoms
1601
01:15:41,014 --> 01:15:46,014
just so quickly and it lasted
for about a month I'd say
1602
01:15:49,860 --> 01:15:54,860
which is, I've understood that
I need to do it once a month.
1603
01:15:55,260 --> 01:16:00,260
I was diagnosed with a
very rare, only 10 to 20%
1604
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,949
of all cases are this type of cancer,
1605
01:16:03,950 --> 01:16:07,639
with a very rare and
very, very aggressive,
1606
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:09,409
it's called triple negative breast cancer.
1607
01:16:09,410 --> 01:16:13,219
Coincidence, I had
just arrived in LA, thankfully,
1608
01:16:13,220 --> 01:16:16,984
because I was told that I
could join a medical trial
1609
01:16:16,985 --> 01:16:21,985
for their new fasting product
which is called Chemo Leaf.
1610
01:16:22,370 --> 01:16:25,289
And they're looking
at it in cancer patients
1611
01:16:25,290 --> 01:16:29,269
to improve the efficacy and
safety of chemo therapy.
1612
01:16:29,270 --> 01:16:33,269
Fasting we find that
mice and probably patients
1613
01:16:33,270 --> 01:16:36,200
become protected against chemo therapy
1614
01:16:36,201 --> 01:16:39,579
and the cancer cells instead don't,
1615
01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:42,699
when you just use fasting
cycles, usually at least in my,
1616
01:16:42,700 --> 01:16:45,089
fasting cycles are as
powerful as chemotherapy
1617
01:16:45,090 --> 01:16:48,809
but it is the combination
of fasting and chemotherapy
1618
01:16:48,810 --> 01:16:51,189
that is really effective
and that's where we see
1619
01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:56,190
20 to 60% of mice becoming
cancer free in response
1620
01:16:56,370 --> 01:16:58,569
to the combination and this is true
1621
01:16:58,570 --> 01:17:00,659
for many different types of cancers.
1622
01:17:00,660 --> 01:17:02,969
That was a number that
made me think, okay,
1623
01:17:02,970 --> 01:17:07,112
so I am, I'm gonna do both
especially when I was told
1624
01:17:07,113 --> 01:17:11,379
that it would protect my
body, my immune system,
1625
01:17:11,380 --> 01:17:14,359
and I just thought I
really can't pass that up.
1626
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,369
The amazing thing is that
I have this pre-existing
1627
01:17:17,370 --> 01:17:20,769
inflamatory condition, the
mast cell activation syndrome,
1628
01:17:20,770 --> 01:17:24,149
which means that part of my immune system
1629
01:17:24,150 --> 01:17:27,629
is kind of on the fritz
and it's these cells,
1630
01:17:27,630 --> 01:17:30,549
the mast cells, are constantly
releasing inflammation
1631
01:17:30,550 --> 01:17:34,649
into the body and so, consequently,
we're really susceptible
1632
01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:36,389
to allergy type things.
1633
01:17:36,390 --> 01:17:40,619
There's nothing more allergy
inducing then chemotherapy
1634
01:17:40,620 --> 01:17:42,966
which is why they give you
steroids the day before,
1635
01:17:42,967 --> 01:17:47,967
the day of and the day after
and then maybe everyday
1636
01:17:48,010 --> 01:17:49,699
after that depending on how you react.
1637
01:17:49,700 --> 01:17:52,668
Let me tell you, I went
through one cycle out of eight
1638
01:17:52,669 --> 01:17:56,099
without the Chemo Leaf because I fasted
1639
01:17:56,100 --> 01:17:58,479
and then there was a scheduling
mix up at the hospital
1640
01:17:58,480 --> 01:18:00,569
and I wasn't able to do
my treatment that day.
1641
01:18:00,570 --> 01:18:03,869
So the difference between the
time that I went without it
1642
01:18:03,870 --> 01:18:05,099
and the time that I went,
1643
01:18:05,100 --> 01:18:06,932
the times that I did the Chemo Leaf,
1644
01:18:06,933 --> 01:18:10,293
I felt myself going into shock
1645
01:18:10,294 --> 01:18:13,299
while I was receiving the chemotherapy,
1646
01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:15,420
that time without the Chemo Leaf,
1647
01:18:16,737 --> 01:18:17,570
and I firmly believe
1648
01:18:17,571 --> 01:18:20,542
that I was okay the other
times because my immune system
1649
01:18:20,543 --> 01:18:22,640
was being protected.
1650
01:18:24,648 --> 01:18:26,849
All the genetic testing
that I did revealed
1651
01:18:26,850 --> 01:18:28,553
was that my tumor had
certain characteristics
1652
01:18:28,554 --> 01:18:33,169
that respond to fasting which is amazing!
1653
01:18:33,170 --> 01:18:37,004
So I can actually switch off
the genes that were expressing,
1654
01:18:37,005 --> 01:18:41,319
the troublesome genes that
were found in my tumor,
1655
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:44,389
that were driving the growth of the tumor,
1656
01:18:44,390 --> 01:18:46,819
are turned off by fasting.
1657
01:18:46,820 --> 01:18:49,266
The reaction of most
people when you tell them
1658
01:18:49,267 --> 01:18:52,629
that you're going through
chemotherapy is absolute horror.
1659
01:18:52,630 --> 01:18:56,689
Nowadays, we have
medications that can handle
1660
01:18:56,690 --> 01:18:59,009
the side effects, people are on steroids,
1661
01:18:59,010 --> 01:19:01,659
they're on two or three different
kinds of antihistamines,
1662
01:19:01,660 --> 01:19:03,589
they're on medication to
stop them from throwing up,
1663
01:19:03,590 --> 01:19:05,009
they're on medication to help them sleep,
1664
01:19:05,010 --> 01:19:06,149
they're on medication,
1665
01:19:06,150 --> 01:19:08,569
they're on beta blockers
to block the adrenaline
1666
01:19:08,570 --> 01:19:10,669
because they're having so much anxiety,
1667
01:19:10,670 --> 01:19:13,179
they're on Xanax, stuff like that.
1668
01:19:13,180 --> 01:19:16,600
I didn't take most of what I was given.
1669
01:19:16,601 --> 01:19:21,339
I was kickboxing for an hour
at a time, three days a week.
1670
01:19:21,340 --> 01:19:22,889
I was doing yoga.
1671
01:19:22,890 --> 01:19:25,047
I was standing on my head,
I was doing headstands.
1672
01:19:25,048 --> 01:19:28,600
I was almost doing acro-yoga.
1673
01:19:28,601 --> 01:19:31,529
I was running up to 45 minutes a day
1674
01:19:31,530 --> 01:19:35,459
but the cycle that I
didn't do the fasting,
1675
01:19:35,460 --> 01:19:36,674
I struggled to exercise.
1676
01:19:36,675 --> 01:19:39,339
I maintained my weight
throughout the whole thing.
1677
01:19:39,340 --> 01:19:42,622
People keep telling me
things happen for a reason
1678
01:19:42,623 --> 01:19:44,549
and it's kind of what
kept me going through
1679
01:19:44,550 --> 01:19:48,309
the whole cancer thing
and thinking,
1680
01:19:48,310 --> 01:19:50,938
I need to tell everybody
about the fasting.
1681
01:19:50,939 --> 01:19:53,969
I need to tell everybody
because I think it's gonna
1682
01:19:53,970 --> 01:19:54,979
save sanity.
1683
01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:56,295
I think it's gonna save lives.
1684
01:19:56,296 --> 01:20:01,296
Sometimes something is so life
changing that you can't help
1685
01:20:02,980 --> 01:20:05,779
but want to shout it out to absolutely
1686
01:20:05,780 --> 01:20:07,929
everybody you meet because
what you experienced
1687
01:20:07,930 --> 01:20:09,010
was so profound.
1688
01:20:11,310 --> 01:20:13,029
One of the problems with fasting
1689
01:20:13,030 --> 01:20:14,449
and fasting mimicking diets
1690
01:20:14,450 --> 01:20:16,669
are what you're essentially
selling is nothing.
1691
01:20:16,670 --> 01:20:19,219
You're selling the idea that
your body can fix itself
1692
01:20:19,220 --> 01:20:21,983
if we remove all of the outside stimuli.
1693
01:20:21,984 --> 01:20:24,526
So monetizing that can
be a real challenge.
1694
01:20:24,527 --> 01:20:27,049
Getting people to care and
invest money in something
1695
01:20:27,050 --> 01:20:29,959
where essentially the benefit
is other people get better
1696
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:33,759
is the ultimate goal but it's
not a very good business model
1697
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:35,139
for the most part.
1698
01:20:35,140 --> 01:20:37,210
That's one of the
challenges in getting people
1699
01:20:38,083 --> 01:20:39,709
to care about this is
how, what's in it for me?
1700
01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:41,089
It's a little tricky.
1701
01:20:41,090 --> 01:20:43,569
What do you do with drugs
and it should be handled
1702
01:20:43,570 --> 01:20:45,349
by people that spend a lot of time,
1703
01:20:45,350 --> 01:20:47,449
so I encourage anybody that's thinking
1704
01:20:47,450 --> 01:20:49,879
about a clinical trial to contact us
1705
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,929
and have our contribution in developing
1706
01:20:52,930 --> 01:20:55,429
the clinical protocol for the trial.
1707
01:20:55,430 --> 01:20:57,829
The fasting mimicking
diet has been published
1708
01:20:57,830 --> 01:21:00,959
in the top scientific and medical journals
1709
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,419
such as Cell, Cancer Cell,
1710
01:21:03,420 --> 01:21:04,949
Cell Metabolism,
1711
01:21:04,950 --> 01:21:06,079
JAMA which is the Journal
1712
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:07,941
of the American Medical Association
1713
01:21:07,942 --> 01:21:10,249
and Science Translational Medicine.
1714
01:21:10,250 --> 01:21:12,449
Recently published just a few months ago
1715
01:21:12,450 --> 01:21:16,151
a major paper in Cell showing
that fasting mimicking diet
1716
01:21:16,152 --> 01:21:20,458
some five to six cycles
are able in mice models
1717
01:21:20,459 --> 01:21:23,529
to reverse Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
1718
01:21:23,530 --> 01:21:26,389
This is the first time in
history that the reverse
1719
01:21:26,390 --> 01:21:29,069
of Diabetes could be done and, again,
1720
01:21:29,070 --> 01:21:31,369
it's due to the stem cell rejuvenation.
1721
01:21:31,370 --> 01:21:33,714
The stem cells in the body,
when the body is starved,
1722
01:21:33,715 --> 01:21:37,189
they actually specialize in
beta cells in the pancreas
1723
01:21:37,190 --> 01:21:39,679
and allow the pancreas
to reproduce insulin
1724
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:41,939
and decrease glucose in the blood.
1725
01:21:41,940 --> 01:21:44,719
Beta cells in the
pancreas are rejuvenated,
1726
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:45,553
regenerated.
1727
01:21:45,554 --> 01:21:47,069
There's nothing in medicine today
1728
01:21:47,070 --> 01:21:49,309
that can induce these effects.
1729
01:21:49,310 --> 01:21:52,250
We think it's a very old program
1730
01:21:53,451 --> 01:21:55,331
that is not that different
from what happens
1731
01:21:55,332 --> 01:21:56,332
when you cut yourself.
1732
01:21:57,079 --> 01:21:59,552
So you cut yourself and within a few weeks
1733
01:21:59,553 --> 01:22:01,429
everything goes back to
almost a perfect state.
1734
01:22:01,430 --> 01:22:04,409
So the body really knows
how to repair itself
1735
01:22:04,410 --> 01:22:08,677
is that probably fasting
has always been used
1736
01:22:08,678 --> 01:22:13,678
as a way to get rid of bad
cells, turn on stem cells,
1737
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,419
regenerate for tens of thousands of years
1738
01:22:17,420 --> 01:22:20,272
and now in the last 100 years or so,
1739
01:22:20,273 --> 01:22:23,669
we eat so much all the
time and most patients
1740
01:22:23,670 --> 01:22:26,469
that we talk to have never
gone more than a day or so
1741
01:22:26,470 --> 01:22:27,679
without food.
1742
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:29,689
So it turns out that
once you get to about
1743
01:22:29,690 --> 01:22:31,720
the third day of not having any food,
1744
01:22:31,721 --> 01:22:34,339
then your body has to go into action.
1745
01:22:34,340 --> 01:22:36,670
After two days either on a complete fast
1746
01:22:36,671 --> 01:22:38,549
or a fasting mimicking diet,
1747
01:22:38,550 --> 01:22:40,624
now the body starts really entering
1748
01:22:40,625 --> 01:22:42,439
a starvation response mode.
1749
01:22:42,440 --> 01:22:45,149
The body then starts
shedding elderly cells
1750
01:22:45,150 --> 01:22:47,079
and cells with DNA damage
1751
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:48,469
because these are consuming calories,
1752
01:22:48,470 --> 01:22:50,919
they're not doing their job right though
1753
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:53,179
and then the body starts
pushing the stem cell,
1754
01:22:53,180 --> 01:22:55,790
the young cost effective
from cells
1755
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,039
pushes them to actually replace those
1756
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:02,699
and now you have new cells
in the body replicating
1757
01:23:02,700 --> 01:23:04,189
and taking action.
1758
01:23:04,190 --> 01:23:06,169
This is what we call
part of the rejuvenation
1759
01:23:06,170 --> 01:23:08,759
in the body due to the consecutive
1760
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,169
or longer period of fasting,
1761
01:23:10,170 --> 01:23:13,099
what we call today prolonged
or periodic fasting.
1762
01:23:13,100 --> 01:23:16,145
In terms of stem cells, you
will not stimulate stem cells.
1763
01:23:16,146 --> 01:23:19,109
You won't get brain derived
neurotrophic factor increase
1764
01:23:19,110 --> 01:23:22,739
unless you fast for at
least three to four days.
1765
01:23:22,740 --> 01:23:25,579
You need to realize that
stem cells are the repairmen
1766
01:23:25,580 --> 01:23:26,580
of the body.
1767
01:23:27,689 --> 01:23:29,359
They're all over your body
and they're constantly working
1768
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:32,100
to repair little bits of
damage that happen everyday
1769
01:23:33,921 --> 01:23:36,635
but think what would
happen if those stem cells
1770
01:23:36,636 --> 01:23:38,774
stopped doing their job
1771
01:23:38,775 --> 01:23:41,839
and that's what happens
in a lot of patients
1772
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:44,158
who really aren't living
a healthy lifestyle,
1773
01:23:44,159 --> 01:23:48,510
is those cells can get hurt
and they're not doing their job
1774
01:23:48,511 --> 01:23:50,999
so injuries stack up.
1775
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,199
In 2004, I was reading an
animal study on a rabbit
1776
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,819
that showed that you could
take Mesenchymal stem cells
1777
01:23:56,820 --> 01:23:58,129
and regrow a disc.
1778
01:23:58,130 --> 01:24:00,319
Obviously that caught my
attention 'cause we had
1779
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,019
a lot of back pain
patients with bad discs.
1780
01:24:03,020 --> 01:24:06,205
So I sought out some
researchers that were using
1781
01:24:06,206 --> 01:24:09,382
Mesenchymal stem cells to treat injuries
1782
01:24:09,383 --> 01:24:11,666
and they were doing it in horses
1783
01:24:11,667 --> 01:24:14,739
and so we ported that over to humans.
1784
01:24:14,740 --> 01:24:19,740
So, today, we've published
50% of all of the patients
1785
01:24:20,290 --> 01:24:22,149
in the world literature
who have been treated
1786
01:24:22,150 --> 01:24:24,741
with stem cells and who
have orthopedic problems.
1787
01:24:24,742 --> 01:24:29,169
What we can say at this
point is that the environment
1788
01:24:29,170 --> 01:24:33,499
that your stem cells are in
can have a dramatic impact
1789
01:24:33,500 --> 01:24:36,510
on their ability to grow, proliferate,
1790
01:24:36,511 --> 01:24:38,489
and do what they're supposed to.
1791
01:24:38,490 --> 01:24:41,079
That environment can be affected by diet,
1792
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:42,823
it can be affected by exercise,
1793
01:24:42,824 --> 01:24:45,433
it can be affected by medications.
1794
01:24:45,434 --> 01:24:48,419
Everything in the body
has multiple functions,
1795
01:24:48,420 --> 01:24:49,989
multiple sites of action.
1796
01:24:49,990 --> 01:24:52,379
So when you give a drug
that you think is working
1797
01:24:52,380 --> 01:24:53,429
in one site,
1798
01:24:53,430 --> 01:24:55,639
it's working and doing
things all over the body
1799
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,509
in ways that we may not even comprehend.
1800
01:24:58,510 --> 01:25:00,469
That's why when you
look at pharmaceuticals,
1801
01:25:00,470 --> 01:25:03,659
the list of side effects are
huge and often including death.
1802
01:25:03,660 --> 01:25:05,829
If you've watched television
and you see the commercials
1803
01:25:05,830 --> 01:25:07,669
from any of the pharmaceuticals,
1804
01:25:07,670 --> 01:25:10,129
they actually show people
having a wonderful time
1805
01:25:10,130 --> 01:25:12,719
and then they say, and by the
way, this drug may kill you.
1806
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,989
That is one thing that does
not happen when you eat
1807
01:25:15,990 --> 01:25:17,029
the right foods,
1808
01:25:17,030 --> 01:25:20,578
when you exercise, when you
incorporate periodic fasting.
1809
01:25:20,579 --> 01:25:23,268
So what we found was that
high blood pressure medications,
1810
01:25:23,269 --> 01:25:24,769
cholesterol medications,
1811
01:25:24,770 --> 01:25:27,209
these are common things taken by many,
1812
01:25:27,210 --> 01:25:31,739
many different Americans but
they hurt their stem cells'
1813
01:25:31,740 --> 01:25:33,831
ability to grow and culture.
1814
01:25:33,832 --> 01:25:35,519
So that's not a good thing.
1815
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,755
If you think about the
fact that these medications
1816
01:25:37,756 --> 01:25:41,541
are impacting your body's own stem cells
1817
01:25:41,542 --> 01:25:45,131
and their ability to maintain
and repair that body,
1818
01:25:45,132 --> 01:25:47,889
that's a big problem.
1819
01:25:47,890 --> 01:25:48,860
So as an example,
1820
01:25:48,861 --> 01:25:52,189
we've treated lots of patients
through the years with
1821
01:25:52,190 --> 01:25:55,685
tendinopathy due to taking a
specific type of antibiotic.
1822
01:25:55,686 --> 01:25:58,300
I literally became debilitated.
1823
01:25:58,301 --> 01:26:01,986
I had shoulder pain, neck pain, leg pain.
1824
01:26:01,987 --> 01:26:03,689
I could barely walk.
1825
01:26:03,690 --> 01:26:05,469
I even had a hard time breathing.
1826
01:26:05,470 --> 01:26:09,317
Two of my discs had completely
herniated into my spine.
1827
01:26:09,318 --> 01:26:11,299
I really felt I was dying.
1828
01:26:11,300 --> 01:26:13,059
Now this is a known problem.
1829
01:26:13,060 --> 01:26:16,069
They'll take this antibiotic
'cause they have a common cold
1830
01:26:16,070 --> 01:26:17,062
and the next thing they know,
1831
01:26:17,063 --> 01:26:19,339
they're in chronic pain
all over their body.
1832
01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:20,280
Why?
1833
01:26:20,281 --> 01:26:22,785
Because that particular antibiotic reduces
1834
01:26:22,786 --> 01:26:27,466
the stem cells ability in their
body to repair their tendons
1835
01:26:27,467 --> 01:26:29,621
and we all get tendon
wear and tear everyday
1836
01:26:29,622 --> 01:26:31,819
that needs to be repaired.
1837
01:26:31,820 --> 01:26:33,200
So one of the things we started realizing
1838
01:26:33,201 --> 01:26:36,539
is that when we were
going to use the patient's
1839
01:26:36,540 --> 01:26:38,173
own cells to try to repair something,
1840
01:26:38,174 --> 01:26:41,159
we had to have patients
clean up their lifestyle
1841
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,234
including their diet.
1842
01:26:42,235 --> 01:26:45,029
We make sure that they're
fasting when they come in
1843
01:26:45,030 --> 01:26:47,799
because we know that fasting can increase
1844
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:50,364
the body's ability to help repair itself.
1845
01:26:50,365 --> 01:26:52,813
For the next several
weeks after each time I do
1846
01:26:52,814 --> 01:26:54,244
a fasting mimicking diet,
1847
01:26:54,245 --> 01:26:57,515
I end up with significantly reduced pain
1848
01:26:57,516 --> 01:26:59,329
in all of my joints.
1849
01:26:59,330 --> 01:27:00,839
Polycystic ovary syndrome.
1850
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:02,149
That's one of my niches.
1851
01:27:02,150 --> 01:27:03,989
I deal a lot with hormones.
1852
01:27:03,990 --> 01:27:07,119
If you take an unhealthy
woman and you trick her body
1853
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:08,020
into getting pregnant,
1854
01:27:08,021 --> 01:27:10,749
often it will be rejected
and if it's successful,
1855
01:27:10,750 --> 01:27:13,799
it's not usually very successful
because she often will have
1856
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,539
very severe complications
later on towards the end
1857
01:27:16,540 --> 01:27:19,609
of pregnancy like high
blood pressure and toxemia,
1858
01:27:19,610 --> 01:27:21,859
pre-term labor, a lot of Diabetes,
1859
01:27:21,860 --> 01:27:23,999
many, many complications in these women
1860
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,349
when they do not get them
healthy but trick them
1861
01:27:26,350 --> 01:27:27,629
into getting pregnant.
1862
01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:30,175
So then she came to me and she just said,
1863
01:27:30,176 --> 01:27:32,535
"I've tried the conventional route.
1864
01:27:32,536 --> 01:27:35,134
"I've spent thousands of
dollars trying to get pregnant
1865
01:27:35,135 --> 01:27:40,135
"and I've heard that there's
this integrative approach.
1866
01:27:40,590 --> 01:27:42,119
"So what can you do to help me?"
1867
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,039
She did everything I asked.
1868
01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:47,619
So she had a large breakfast,
she had a medium lunch,
1869
01:27:47,620 --> 01:27:48,979
she had a tiny dinner.
1870
01:27:48,980 --> 01:27:50,989
She didn't eat after 7 P.M.
1871
01:27:50,990 --> 01:27:52,319
She began exercising.
1872
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:54,731
She ate no processed foods.
1873
01:27:54,732 --> 01:27:56,689
She did everything right.
1874
01:27:56,690 --> 01:27:59,402
Then after a month, I put her on Prolon.
1875
01:27:59,403 --> 01:28:02,494
After three cycles, she got pregnant.
1876
01:28:02,495 --> 01:28:06,010
That was almost a year ago
1877
01:28:07,150 --> 01:28:09,349
and she recently delivered her baby.
1878
01:28:09,350 --> 01:28:11,444
She has a beautiful, healthy baby.
1879
01:28:11,445 --> 01:28:14,059
She's in her late 30's now.
1880
01:28:14,060 --> 01:28:16,636
She's been trying for all these years.
1881
01:28:16,637 --> 01:28:17,630
Depending on the therapeutic use,
1882
01:28:17,631 --> 01:28:20,419
you have to really
understand this and use it
1883
01:28:20,420 --> 01:28:22,085
to your advantage.
1884
01:28:22,086 --> 01:28:24,679
So, for example, when we do
it for metabolic syndrome,
1885
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,219
Diabetes, and cancer,
1886
01:28:27,220 --> 01:28:29,640
we do between four and five days fasting
1887
01:28:32,141 --> 01:28:33,141
together with various therapies.
1888
01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:34,142
That's sufficient.
1889
01:28:34,143 --> 01:28:37,459
When we look at auto immunities
instead we go to seven days.
1890
01:28:37,460 --> 01:28:38,360
Why do we do that?
1891
01:28:38,361 --> 01:28:42,989
Because we now wanna do more
destruction of damaged cells.
1892
01:28:42,990 --> 01:28:45,239
The auto immune cells in this case.
1893
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:46,627
So if you do a shorter fast,
1894
01:28:46,628 --> 01:28:48,839
you're not really gonna benefit that much
1895
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:53,462
because you don't have
enough time to destroy
1896
01:28:53,463 --> 01:28:58,278
the damaged cells and also
you have less rebuilding
1897
01:28:58,279 --> 01:28:59,668
using the stem cell.
1898
01:28:59,669 --> 01:29:02,379
So this is why it's so
important to understand
1899
01:29:02,380 --> 01:29:05,219
the mechanism behind it
and for each purpose,
1900
01:29:05,220 --> 01:29:10,099
really using a different
fasting base intervention.
1901
01:29:10,100 --> 01:29:12,239
I was working on a
documentary for the BBC,
1902
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,180
What if We Could Stay Young Forever?
1903
01:29:15,592 --> 01:29:17,679
We were looking at diet
and exercise and lifestyle.
1904
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:20,679
I met Dr. Valter Longo
to talk about his work
1905
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:21,610
and it was at the time
1906
01:29:21,611 --> 01:29:23,856
he was preparing for his clinical trial
1907
01:29:23,857 --> 01:29:25,619
and suggested that I might like to be
1908
01:29:25,620 --> 01:29:27,899
one of the volunteers in that trial.
1909
01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:30,219
So the trial involved what is known
1910
01:29:30,220 --> 01:29:34,542
as a fasting mimicking diet
over five consecutive days
1911
01:29:34,543 --> 01:29:36,869
and that was repeated three times.
1912
01:29:36,870 --> 01:29:38,739
One of the things that
our large clinical trials
1913
01:29:38,740 --> 01:29:40,279
have shown is that at the very least,
1914
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,312
we know that fasting
mimicking diets are safe
1915
01:29:42,313 --> 01:29:43,759
for the average person.
1916
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:45,500
Probably the number one
thing that I noticed is
1917
01:29:45,501 --> 01:29:46,999
is weight control.
1918
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,899
The past year I have
prescribed the Prolon diet
1919
01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:54,209
to about 120 or 130 patients.
1920
01:29:54,210 --> 01:29:57,339
A lot of them come to me
saying I tried all the diets
1921
01:29:57,340 --> 01:29:59,319
and I can't lose weight.
1922
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:01,409
Well, I tell them, well
let me prove them wrong.
1923
01:30:01,410 --> 01:30:02,729
Let's try this diet and you will see
1924
01:30:02,730 --> 01:30:04,030
that you will lose weight.
1925
01:30:05,007 --> 01:30:05,840
All of them have lost weight.
1926
01:30:05,841 --> 01:30:07,319
The other things we saw is that
1927
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:08,589
you do have to train the body.
1928
01:30:08,590 --> 01:30:10,129
It's a little bit like working out.
1929
01:30:10,130 --> 01:30:11,989
If you just do this once for five days,
1930
01:30:11,990 --> 01:30:13,419
you'll get a lot of the benefits:
1931
01:30:13,420 --> 01:30:14,919
quite a bit of weight loss,
1932
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,223
a number of other metabolic
markers may be affected as well
1933
01:30:18,224 --> 01:30:20,929
but you will eventually return to normal
1934
01:30:20,930 --> 01:30:23,459
if you make no other lifestyle changes
1935
01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:25,649
over the period of the next
several weeks to months.
1936
01:30:25,650 --> 01:30:29,069
If you do this consecutively
for three months in a row
1937
01:30:29,070 --> 01:30:31,089
of five days at the
beginning of each month,
1938
01:30:31,090 --> 01:30:33,849
we see that you maintain a
much more significant amount
1939
01:30:33,850 --> 01:30:36,359
of benefits over a much
longer period of time.
1940
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:41,211
I find Prolon to be a
breakthrough in the care
1941
01:30:41,212 --> 01:30:43,399
that I give to diabetics.
1942
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:45,303
Ideally, once a quarter is about the,
1943
01:30:45,304 --> 01:30:48,236
what appears to be the kind
of set point to keep that
1944
01:30:48,237 --> 01:30:51,879
sort of cellular muscle tone, as you will,
1945
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,819
to keep the body in the,
in shape for nutrition.
1946
01:30:55,820 --> 01:30:57,499
Dr. Longo actually did
a study where he did
1947
01:30:57,500 --> 01:30:58,919
two groups of mice,
1948
01:30:58,920 --> 01:30:59,753
one group ate,
1949
01:30:59,754 --> 01:31:01,919
they both ate the same total
calories during the study,
1950
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,282
one group had fasting mimicking mixed in
1951
01:31:04,283 --> 01:31:07,929
and then overate and the other
group ate the same amount
1952
01:31:07,930 --> 01:31:10,445
the whole time and the group that overate
1953
01:31:10,446 --> 01:31:12,809
with fasting mimicking
diet was still skinny
1954
01:31:12,810 --> 01:31:14,279
and the other group of mice was obese.
1955
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:16,849
So it is really about training the cells
1956
01:31:16,850 --> 01:31:17,683
how to use nutrition.
1957
01:31:17,684 --> 01:31:21,409
You can take in even potentially
less good for you foods
1958
01:31:21,410 --> 01:31:23,999
if your body is in shape and
it'll do the right things
1959
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:24,833
with them.
1960
01:31:24,834 --> 01:31:27,954
They'll say they've lost
up to eight pounds a week,
1961
01:31:27,955 --> 01:31:30,539
they have more energy, they feel better.
1962
01:31:30,540 --> 01:31:32,569
I've been trying to
convince this patient
1963
01:31:32,570 --> 01:31:33,929
for months and months,
1964
01:31:33,930 --> 01:31:36,490
maybe a year to try to give up his soda.
1965
01:31:36,491 --> 01:31:40,329
It just took five days with
Prolon for him to stop.
1966
01:31:40,330 --> 01:31:42,919
This is the brilliance of
the fasting mimicking diet
1967
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,438
that we get to harness
our inner powers to heal
1968
01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,539
while simultaneously enjoying food.
1969
01:31:48,540 --> 01:31:49,740
So what could be better?
1970
01:31:54,970 --> 01:31:59,139
What we've been teaching
here since 1956 is that people
1971
01:31:59,140 --> 01:32:01,645
ought not to be eating solid
food until approximately
1972
01:32:01,646 --> 01:32:03,615
10 o'clock or so in the morning.
1973
01:32:03,616 --> 01:32:06,339
We wind down in the evening.
1974
01:32:06,340 --> 01:32:09,269
Ideally, you don't eat
after five but the latest
1975
01:32:09,270 --> 01:32:11,939
would be six or seven o'clock at night,
1976
01:32:11,940 --> 01:32:15,209
providing you go to bed
then three hours later.
1977
01:32:15,210 --> 01:32:16,937
Now this is something we've
observed with hundreds
1978
01:32:16,938 --> 01:32:20,853
and hundreds of thousands
of people for over 60 years.
1979
01:32:20,854 --> 01:32:24,006
This is no longer a theory or a philosophy
1980
01:32:24,007 --> 01:32:27,269
and the scientific
community now has validated
1981
01:32:27,270 --> 01:32:29,744
what we've been observing
in a clinical setting.
1982
01:32:29,745 --> 01:32:33,919
So all of our guests here
are encouraged to do at least
1983
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:35,306
a one day a week fast.
1984
01:32:35,307 --> 01:32:38,759
I had the privilege of
directing one of the most
1985
01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:41,338
renowned fasting clinics
in Europe in Sweden.
1986
01:32:41,339 --> 01:32:45,809
So the government realized
they needed to do research
1987
01:32:45,810 --> 01:32:48,355
and they spent about $2.5 billion to find,
1988
01:32:48,356 --> 01:32:53,356
it was like 90% success rate
and we actually got certified
1989
01:32:54,121 --> 01:32:58,359
and by doing that to us,
any physician that thought,
1990
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,007
well, you have an inflammatory problem,
1991
01:33:01,008 --> 01:33:05,159
because fasting was definitely
something that worked
1992
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,879
as an anti-inflammatory with arthritis,
1993
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:13,880
rheumatoid arthritis and
gout and asthma, emphysema,
1994
01:33:14,803 --> 01:33:18,789
psoriasis, eczema, you name it,
1995
01:33:18,790 --> 01:33:22,589
everything just about
under the sun, Diabetes,
1996
01:33:22,590 --> 01:33:26,869
cardiovascular, obesity, Crohn's, colitis,
1997
01:33:26,870 --> 01:33:29,599
then actually 80% of their fee
1998
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,429
would be paid by the government.
1999
01:33:31,430 --> 01:33:36,149
So this was back in the
mid-70's and ran until
2000
01:33:36,150 --> 01:33:37,576
the beginning of 80's.
2001
01:33:37,577 --> 01:33:40,859
It disappeared when a new
group came into the government.
2002
01:33:40,860 --> 01:33:43,679
The problem is it wasn't
replaced by something
2003
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:45,159
that was even better,
2004
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:47,656
it didn't have 90% success rate.
2005
01:33:47,657 --> 01:33:50,989
I think those people
were influenced by money,
2006
01:33:50,990 --> 01:33:52,339
as simple as that.
2007
01:33:52,340 --> 01:33:56,769
I was driving and all
the cars were disappearing
2008
01:33:56,770 --> 01:33:58,819
into like an abyss, into a mirror,
2009
01:33:58,820 --> 01:34:03,820
and the white lanes were
going up and down and my head
2010
01:34:04,791 --> 01:34:09,791
was pounding so bad
that I felt like someone
2011
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:13,899
was taking a crowbar and
pulling apart my head.
2012
01:34:13,900 --> 01:34:17,362
I pulled over on the side of the turnpike.
2013
01:34:17,363 --> 01:34:21,892
I had a four pound brain tumor
that were surgically removed
2014
01:34:21,893 --> 01:34:24,260
at the National Institutes of Health.
2015
01:34:24,261 --> 01:34:29,261
It was the biggest ordeal
that I ever went through.
2016
01:34:29,350 --> 01:34:34,310
They drilled six holes into
my head and 47 staple scar.
2017
01:34:37,999 --> 01:34:41,403
When I was diagnosed with
two more brain cancers,
2018
01:34:41,404 --> 01:34:45,350
I just, I fell apart.
2019
01:34:46,380 --> 01:34:50,364
I could not handle having surgery.
2020
01:34:50,365 --> 01:34:52,690
I couldn't handle chemo.
2021
01:34:53,730 --> 01:34:56,832
Here at Hippocrates, ever since 1956,
2022
01:34:56,833 --> 01:34:59,492
we've been dealing with
tens of thousands of people
2023
01:34:59,493 --> 01:35:01,459
who have cancer.
2024
01:35:01,460 --> 01:35:06,460
In October of 2012, I
found a lump in my breast.
2025
01:35:06,990 --> 01:35:08,699
It was cancer.
2026
01:35:08,700 --> 01:35:12,562
This cancer had grabbed ahold
of everything behind my knee
2027
01:35:12,563 --> 01:35:16,339
and bundled it so they
couldn't do anything
2028
01:35:16,340 --> 01:35:20,489
but cut my leg off above the knee.
2029
01:35:20,490 --> 01:35:23,290
And the last three oncologists
that we consulted with,
2030
01:35:26,303 --> 01:35:28,263
second and third opinions,
all said the same thing
2031
01:35:30,341 --> 01:35:31,449
that she has to have the leg
removed or she's gonna die,
2032
01:35:31,450 --> 01:35:32,943
no mistake about that.
2033
01:35:32,944 --> 01:35:35,739
Of course, fasting has
always been a big part,
2034
01:35:35,740 --> 01:35:39,599
a significant part of the
caloric intake and dietary part
2035
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:44,299
of our program but those
who condone water fasting,
2036
01:35:44,300 --> 01:35:47,149
in the case of people
who are in the conquest
2037
01:35:47,150 --> 01:35:48,668
of all forms of cancer,
2038
01:35:48,669 --> 01:35:50,829
we don't think it's really prudent.
2039
01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:52,689
You need caloric intake.
2040
01:35:52,690 --> 01:35:55,916
You need the protein
that literally comes from
2041
01:35:55,917 --> 01:36:00,463
the juices we suggest here
which are non-sugary juices
2042
01:36:00,464 --> 01:36:03,900
made out of green
vegetables, green leaves,
2043
01:36:04,995 --> 01:36:07,679
and most important, sprouts
that have very high amounts
2044
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:11,099
of amino acids and these
amino acids are something
2045
01:36:11,100 --> 01:36:14,859
that the body requires
to maintain the strength
2046
01:36:14,860 --> 01:36:16,479
and the viability of the cells.
2047
01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:17,860
Now we're made of cells.
2048
01:36:17,861 --> 01:36:21,346
You have a hundred trillion
cells that make up your body
2049
01:36:21,347 --> 01:36:23,340
and this tends to breakdown,
2050
01:36:23,341 --> 01:36:27,164
the emaciation you see from cancer
2051
01:36:27,165 --> 01:36:29,778
basically is a protein degradation.
2052
01:36:29,779 --> 01:36:34,560
I ended up doing it for three
months and when I went back
2053
01:36:40,525 --> 01:36:42,461
to the oncologist, I did
the MRI with contrast,
2054
01:36:42,462 --> 01:36:44,012
we got the results - no cancer.
2055
01:36:45,170 --> 01:36:49,999
I maintained this lifestyle
very strictly for a full year
2056
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:53,719
and at the same time continued
to see that lump diminish
2057
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:55,589
until now it's gone.
2058
01:36:55,590 --> 01:36:56,470
I'm 91.
2059
01:36:56,471 --> 01:36:58,349
This little girl is 90.
2060
01:36:58,350 --> 01:37:03,350
For 21 years, I have been cancer free!
2061
01:37:03,540 --> 01:37:05,179
We are great dancers.
2062
01:37:05,180 --> 01:37:08,670
We now teach people at
Golden Lakes to dance.
2063
01:37:09,730 --> 01:37:11,108
How 'bout a kiss?
2064
01:37:11,109 --> 01:37:14,340
Yay!
2065
01:37:15,730 --> 01:37:18,589
I get these horrible
skin rashes on my face
2066
01:37:18,590 --> 01:37:19,619
and my body.
2067
01:37:19,620 --> 01:37:22,689
Coming to a place like
Hippocrates would make my life
2068
01:37:22,690 --> 01:37:26,849
and just the fasting
experience a lot easier.
2069
01:37:26,850 --> 01:37:31,850
For me, just doing water
fasting wasn't going to work.
2070
01:37:32,060 --> 01:37:34,299
Even more than a day was very difficult,
2071
01:37:34,300 --> 01:37:35,450
just for me personally.
2072
01:37:37,554 --> 01:37:39,338
I can only speak from personal experience
2073
01:37:39,339 --> 01:37:41,181
but if I were to do the juice fasting,
2074
01:37:41,182 --> 01:37:43,115
it was easier because I was still able
2075
01:37:43,116 --> 01:37:43,970
to have that intake of food.
2076
01:37:43,971 --> 01:37:46,389
And today is actually the
fourth day that I'm coming out,
2077
01:37:46,390 --> 01:37:49,549
I'm easing myself gently out of the fast.
2078
01:37:49,550 --> 01:37:51,109
My skin just smoothing out.
2079
01:37:51,110 --> 01:37:53,779
I didn't have the red marks
I usually have on my arms
2080
01:37:53,780 --> 01:37:55,479
and on my face.
2081
01:37:55,480 --> 01:37:57,279
I didn't always feel
this way about fasting.
2082
01:37:57,280 --> 01:37:59,819
In fact, I was pretty opposed to it.
2083
01:37:59,820 --> 01:38:01,749
Dr. Mercola and I have
been together eight years,
2084
01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:04,739
my significant other, so
we did the program in 2012
2085
01:38:04,740 --> 01:38:08,069
here at Hippocrates and
I think it inspired him.
2086
01:38:08,070 --> 01:38:10,929
I've come to the conclusion
that there is no single
2087
01:38:10,930 --> 01:38:14,939
more powerful metabolic
intervention that can be used
2088
01:38:14,940 --> 01:38:15,773
than fasting.
2089
01:38:15,774 --> 01:38:17,349
In fact, when people,
friends or relatives,
2090
01:38:17,350 --> 01:38:19,983
come to me now with
heart attack or cancer,
2091
01:38:19,984 --> 01:38:23,609
in almost every case
that is the first step
2092
01:38:23,610 --> 01:38:25,393
I'll have them do because
it's gonna jumpstart
2093
01:38:25,394 --> 01:38:28,209
their ability to build fat for fuel
2094
01:38:28,210 --> 01:38:30,199
and increase all the metabolic benefits
2095
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:31,459
that you get from doing that.
2096
01:38:31,460 --> 01:38:35,643
I lost 40 pounds in
90 days on a juice fast
2097
01:38:35,644 --> 01:38:36,939
and never gained it back.
2098
01:38:36,940 --> 01:38:40,919
So the problems we have
today that 2/3 of Americans
2099
01:38:40,920 --> 01:38:45,920
are obese, 5% morbidly obese,
diabetes, cancer, arthritis,
2100
01:38:46,009 --> 01:38:49,711
all of this should never have happened.
2101
01:38:49,712 --> 01:38:52,504
We had the solution in the 70's.
2102
01:38:52,505 --> 01:38:55,599
We really need to realize
there's nothing new
2103
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:56,530
under the sun.
2104
01:38:56,531 --> 01:39:00,219
Get back on the track
with your own lifestyle.
2105
01:39:00,220 --> 01:39:03,184
Whatever religion, whatever
country you come from,
2106
01:39:03,185 --> 01:39:05,107
I think you will agree with this.
2107
01:39:05,108 --> 01:39:08,810
We have to take our
responsibility in our own hands
2108
01:39:08,811 --> 01:39:12,629
and have the life for our
family, for our children,
2109
01:39:12,630 --> 01:39:15,940
our grandchildren, that they deserve.
2110
01:39:15,941 --> 01:39:19,949
They deserve an amazing
life and I think most of us
2111
01:39:19,950 --> 01:39:23,137
are looking right now at
the future and saying,
2112
01:39:23,138 --> 01:39:24,859
how are they gonna deal with this?
2113
01:39:24,860 --> 01:39:26,389
How are they gonna deal with the diseases?
2114
01:39:26,390 --> 01:39:29,339
How are they gonna deal with
food that's not nutritious?
2115
01:39:29,340 --> 01:39:30,469
With all the chemicals,
2116
01:39:30,470 --> 01:39:32,549
the pollution in our water and our air,
2117
01:39:32,550 --> 01:39:33,799
how are they gonna deal with it?
2118
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:35,700
Well, it's time we deal with it.
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