WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:20.440 Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Hey, 2 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.600 how are you? Come on, let's have a talk. This 3 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.079 is one of my favorite programs that I've been thinking 4 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:30.440 about and waiting to unveil to you. This is another 5 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.119 series in the Biohacking Basics program, and today we're talking 6 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:39.320 about fasting and fasting. Fasting has been known about for 7 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:43.960 centuries and you can go back to the Greeks and 8 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:48.399 even the Egyptians write about the benefits of fasting. That's 9 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:54.039 abstaining from eating. And what is important about this is 10 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.520 that when we don't eat, we're not starving ourselves. We're 11 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:06.040 caught stopping from consuming food. We're basically allowing the body 12 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:14.000 to quiet itself, the digestive system to stop digesting foods, 13 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.599 and in doing so, there's a number of processes to 14 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.120 go to work that we will be discussing today now. 15 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.000 Intermitute fasting has been all the rage for well almost 16 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:28.040 ten years now, and this is where you take a 17 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:31.079 day and you don't eat. You don't eat from say 18 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:37.640 six o'clock the night before until perhaps nine am the 19 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.680 next day, fifteen sixteen hours of non eating. That's very beneficial. 20 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.519 But what we're going to talk about today is much 21 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.799 more lengthied fast of two to five in some cases 22 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.480 two weeks of just drinking fluids. In the case we're 23 00:01:53.519 --> 00:02:00.000 discussing today, just water fast. I do a quarterly fast 24 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:05.519 every change of season winter, fall, summer, autumn. I try 25 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.840 to do between three and five days, depending on what 26 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.599 kind of work my work week is, because when you're 27 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.960 working and you have a lot of mental stress, it 28 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.840 can really knock you down because your body is basically 29 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.840 shutting off and releasing a bunch of toxins. So but 30 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:29.360 when you're doing a longer fast, you're allowing your digestive 31 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:35.240 system and your body as a whole to sweep out 32 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:41.080 various disease processes, various inflammation processes, and inflammation is a 33 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:44.680 real problem for most of us right now because when 34 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:49.719 you're internal organs and your brain has inflammation, it can 35 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.240 cause havoc on your body. In fact, they have discovered 36 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.599 people who have dementia have chronic inflammation of the brain, 37 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:05.599 and this also goes for various organs. If your organs 38 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.639 are dealing with inflammation, this is a real issue. So 39 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:15.400 short flat fast are fine, they're great for maintenance. But 40 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.560 again I try to do four lengthy fast during times 41 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.159 of the year, usually the changing of the seasons, the 42 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:29.000 solstice or the equinoxes, where it's a seasonal change, and 43 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.599 it's surprising when you do them during that time of year, 44 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.879 they actually feel a little bit better. But I'll tell you, 45 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.360 when you've been abusing yourself, eating a lot of sugars, 46 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.319 a lot of carbohydrates, a lot of gluten, it's a 47 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.560 it's a challenge for the body to sweep it out. 48 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.000 But I'll tell you when you do a lengthy fast 49 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.599 of a few days or more, I think the max 50 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:55.960 I've gotten now is five days without eating. It is 51 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:03.759 wonderful the results, and you're stopping the various disease processes. 52 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.039 You are in some ways you're writing the ship, You're 53 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.240 helping your digestion, you're helping your elimination. And I've been 54 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.360 doing fast for probably, I want to say, thirty plus years, 55 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.439 and I try to do like I said, I try 56 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:26.839 to do one every seasonal change. And I'm starting to 57 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.480 get back to intermitute fasting now. My guest today is 58 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.040 an expert and he runs a clinic here in northern California, 59 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.920 and the the book we're going to talk about today 60 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.040 is called can Fasting Save Your Life? And he's going 61 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.879 to actually talk about the twenty four thousand people who 62 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:49.360 have come through his clinic and the various issues that 63 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:56.759 people have been dealing with, everything from chronic pain, arthritis, 64 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:01.240 to ms and in some cases he is gonna say this, 65 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:05.079 and it's pretty shocking people that have various forms of cancer. 66 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.879 And when you can apply a self healing technique that 67 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.439 begins to tear down the disease process known as cancer, 68 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.800 you're talking about miracle healing. And we don't hear enough 69 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:23.399 about long term fasting because it's not comfortable. It's uncomfortable. 70 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.399 And the beauty of this clinic we're talking about today 71 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:31.759 is that it's a supervised fast and he'll also present 72 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.639 a series of suggestions for those who don't live in 73 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.000 California as to where you can go and have these 74 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:43.680 I again, have been following fasting for many, many years, 75 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:49.399 and when I was younger, fasting was a rage of 76 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.800 kind of like the Hippie movement, the New Age movement, 77 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.439 and there were sanitariums in various parts of California. If 78 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.399 you go back to the turn of the Central Tree, 79 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:08.120 there were actual healing sanitariums that suggested obstination of food, 80 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:13.079 not eating, just drinking fluids. Now when I fast, I 81 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.839 have coffee, tea and water for five days or more. 82 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:25.439 And then also breaking the fast, it's called refeeding is 83 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.959 critically important. You don't want to eat any cooked food, 84 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.120 you don't want to have meats, you want to have 85 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:37.279 raw foods if you can, no breads, no gluten. You 86 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:43.519 want to slowly re enter the feeding phase without stressing 87 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:48.000 out the body. So the refeeding post fasting is just 88 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:52.279 as important as the actual fast itself. So I think 89 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.160 you're going to be amazed at our guests today. And 90 00:06:55.399 --> 00:07:01.639 this biohacking basic program is really really important because it's 91 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.639 again not discussed a great deal. It's very very simple 92 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.199 to do because you're just substaining from food and the 93 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.759 benefits are just amazing. And one of the things that 94 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.639 we don't hear enough about is how fasting can remove 95 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:22.920 what they call these sinescent cells, otherwise known as zombie cells. 96 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:26.600 And if you have an accumulation of these zombie cells, 97 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:32.639 this is what the beginning of illnesses and your body 98 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:34.439 can't get rid of them, so they just store these 99 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.319 zombie cells and you want to use fasting and other 100 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:45.360 nutritional programs to get rid of sinescent cells, because that 101 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.560 is the beginning again, it's the beginning of disease. So 102 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.920 today's biohacking Basics program is the miracle of fasting. And 103 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:06.120 my guest is doctor Alan Goldhammer. We're featuring an incredible 104 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.920 opportunity to visit one of the real enigmas of the 105 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:14.120 ancient world, and that is Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. 106 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.319 This is a new tour that we're doing. It looks 107 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.959 like this will probably be the only chance we get 108 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.879 to go. But we're lucky because doctor Edwin Barnhardt, our 109 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:28.920 host and our tour leader, has been surveying this island 110 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.519 for a number of years and has some really amazing 111 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:38.559 insights on just how detailed and how complicated and how 112 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:42.559 mysterious this island is going to be. March fifteenth through 113 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.519 twenty third, I wanted to ask just a brief question 114 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.600 or two because I obviously have never been there. I'm 115 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.159 really excited to be a part of this. It's a highlight. 116 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.120 Talk about the moai. There's a number of them, aren't there. 117 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.559 There are so many moai there. It's out you see 118 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.399 from coffee table books that there's lines of them, but 119 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.240 in point of fact, there's over one thousand moi and 120 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.080 they're spread all over the island. They're where ancient villages 121 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.440 used to be. So we're going to go visit a 122 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.879 bunch of those. There's also the quarry. There's one quarry 123 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.200 where almost all of them were made, and a lot 124 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.320 of them are still half made lying in the quarry. 125 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.799 That thing is just a sight to see how. 126 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.360 Grew up briefly, and I didn't realize they have an 127 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:33.000 observatory there. Is it a planetarium or is it more 128 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.120 of a setup for evening sites. 129 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.759 It's a planetarium. It's a passion project by a man 130 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:45.279 named EDMUNDO Edwards who's been studying the archaeo astronomy of 131 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:49.840 the island for his entire life, I think almost fifty 132 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.600 years now. He knows more than anyone and he put 133 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:57.159 together this planetarium to share this lifetime of knowledge with 134 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:58.840 the visitors that come to the place. 135 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:03.000 Fantastic. So March fifteenth to the twenty third, that is 136 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.919 a week, and it sounds like we've really packed a 137 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.320 lot in during those seven days, right. 138 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.960 I tell you, For an island that's only twelve miles across. 139 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:15.159 There is an endless amount of things to see there. 140 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.879 I'm looking forward to it. Fantastic, all right. 141 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.120 For more information, go to Earth Ancients dot com forward 142 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.720 slash tours, look for the photo of Ed standing next 143 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.240 to one of the big Mai sculptures and registered as 144 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.399 soon as you can. Again go to Earthnchients dot com 145 00:10:31.440 --> 00:11:09.799 forward slash tours. Thanks Ed, Thank you, Cliff. As we 146 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:15.080 continue our series biohic Hacking Basics, we're talking on fasting 147 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:19.279 this week, a subject that I've been very interested in 148 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:23.480 for probably thirty or more years, simply because I realized 149 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.399 at a younger age that when you stop eating, the 150 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.320 body goes to work and becomes a what they consider 151 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:32.879 kind of a broom, sweeping away problems and helping the 152 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.759 body heal. And my guest today is doctor Alan Goldhammer. 153 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.320 He has just released a new book called Can Fasting 154 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.360 Save Your Life? What a great title, and he is 155 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.799 the director of the True North Health Clinicians in Santa 156 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.440 Rosas just north of me, and would you believe he's 157 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.440 been doing this for four four decades, so it's amazing. 158 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.559 And we're going to talk about this new book and 159 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.559 the benefits and the power of fasting. So Alan, welcome 160 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:03.480 to Destiny. Great to have you on the program. 161 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.480 Thank you for having me talk a little bit about 162 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:11.639 your own journey, your own perhaps you know understanding of 163 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.120 the benefits of fasting and how you developed this clinic. 164 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.799 I started very young. I was a teenager, and you know, 165 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.720 kind of being on the spectrum, got interested in something 166 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.879 and never lost focus. It happened to be fasting and diet. 167 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:29.720 I read a book by Shelton who said that health 168 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.000 had causes, just like disease had causes. So if you 169 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:34.600 wanted to be healthy, you had to do the things 170 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.639 that cause health, and that was diet, sleep, exercise, and fasting, 171 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.720 and so that kind of got me interested. I was 172 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.399 motivated also by my uncle, who was a medical doctor, 173 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.120 and he said that there was nothing worse than doctors 174 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.919 that did alternative medicine. And when I mentioned I was 175 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.200 interested in going into alternate medicine, he said I would 176 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.080 not go into alternate medicine, that nobody in our family 177 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.279 would go to a doctor like that, let alone become 178 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.960 a doctor like that, and that better I should be 179 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.200 a communist spy. 180 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:02.679 Oh my god. 181 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.639 He was really upset. I remember screaming at me, and 182 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.159 my dad took me aside after he left me said, son, 183 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.399 I don't know anything about this alternative business, but anything 184 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.039 that makes him that angry and mad, it can't be bad. 185 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:17.039 So you stick to your guns in good luck. 186 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:20.279 That's hilarious. 187 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:22.480 And you know, I had later became one of my 188 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:25.000 first patients when I got out of school. He was 189 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.240 having transing Nashimi attacks that had gotten into serious trouble. 190 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.519 Ended up fasting for twenty six days, made a remarkable 191 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:36.039 recovery twenty years later, helped us our edit our first book, 192 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.759 which was The Pleasure Trap, and then you know, ended 193 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:40.639 up doing very well. 194 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.559 So so as a young person, you're into it. So 195 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.600 are you saying, as a teenager you are actually doing 196 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.960 a couple of day fast. 197 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.639 Well, I not only did some occasional fasting, but more importantly, 198 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.000 I adopted a whole plant food SOS free diet, so 199 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:02.200 you know, I began eating healthily and really could experience 200 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.360 the changes that that happened. And I did some periodic 201 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.679 fasting as well. I'd have to see the diet, the sleep, 202 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.720 the exercise seemed to be the most critical components in 203 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.080 long term. Hell. Fasting is a great tool, as we'll 204 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.159 talk about today, but without the diet's, sleep and exercise, 205 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.840 fasting alone is not going to get you where you 206 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:18.120 want to. 207 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:23.559 Go, right. It's a wellness therapy that you need to follow. 208 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.759 So talk a little bit about your experience as a 209 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:32.159 young faster and how that carried it so forward into 210 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.480 your perhaps your early years, and then your education and 211 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.519 eventually becoming this expert of this clinic. 212 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:44.720 Yeah. Well, I went to Chiropractic College at Western States 213 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.480 in Oregon, and then I got an opportunity to attend 214 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:49.919 to Osteopathic College in Australia with a guy named Alec 215 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.080 Burton who was the world's leading authority in the use 216 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:55.360 of fasting and human beings. So when I came back 217 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:59.080 from Australia in nineteen eighty four, my wife, doctor Jennifer Morano, 218 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.639 and I open the True North Health Center and we've 219 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.240 been operating it continuously for forty years. We've had twenty 220 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.919 five thousand patients come through and do medically supervised water 221 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.799 only fasten and as you said, we just came out 222 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.120 with a book. Recently, we've published twenty two papers in 223 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:17.679 the scientific literature case supports and studies, and this book 224 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.879 is largely built on our own original research that deals 225 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:26.080 with fasting in a way to give patients the understanding 226 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.200 of how fasting works and what they need to know, 227 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.559 but also to give people's doctors an understanding that fast 228 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.639 is not actually crazy and all the things necessary to 229 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.200 help a person get through fasting safely and effectively. So 230 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.279 I think it's an important book. It's certainly the first 231 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:44.919 book that's like that, and hopefully it'll turn out to 232 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.519 be very useful to people that are serious about understanding 233 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:48.480 how fasting worked. 234 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.279 Yeah, it's a good primer for those who are interested 235 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.519 in learning about fasting in the different types of fasting 236 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.720 that are available. Let's talk briefly historically what we know 237 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.399 about fasting. You write in the in your book that 238 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.919 the Chinese were fasting as far back as twenty five 239 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:14.440 hundred years ago. Who else of our ancestors were documenting 240 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.879 the results of their fasting? I think you know. 241 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.360 Fasting itself, when you think about it, is what's called 242 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:26.519 a biological adaptation. Every single human being that couldn't fast died, 243 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.000 and what's fasting is essentially the conversion of our largest 244 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:34.600 burner of glucose, which is the brain from burning sugar 245 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.440 to burning fat. That's essentially what fasting comes down to, 246 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.759 the brain changes fuels. If your brain kept burning glucose, 247 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.200 you could only go a week or so before you'd 248 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:48.879 enter starvation. Human being, because of fasting, can go seventy 249 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:53.039 days or more before entering starvation. That's why you'll never 250 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.080 see chimps wandering away from the tropics, because they don't 251 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.000 have the same conversion process, and so they need a 252 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.840 constant source of redla available food. Human beings wandered away 253 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.960 from the tropics, and everybody that couldn't convert their bulboustereronal 254 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.559 and that that huge brain that we carry around to 255 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.920 bringing a different fuel dyed. That's what a biological adaptation means. 256 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.599 That was so critical. All the ones that didn't have 257 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.599 it didn't make it, and we're left with a population 258 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.240 around the world right now of almost what eight billion people, 259 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.160 all of which if you take food away, they go 260 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.640 into ketosis and begin this fasting process. So all we've 261 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.079 done is taken this very ancient biological adaptation and applied 262 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.519 it in a very unusual situation that never occurred before, 263 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.799 which is where people had consistent dietary excess. In the 264 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.400 old days, there was no cardiovascid disease, there was no diabetes, 265 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.519 there was very little of these chronic the general diseases. 266 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.599 As a consequence, we they used to be called the 267 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.119 diseases of kings because it was only the wealthy, elite 268 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.440 kings that could get the gout and get these conditions 269 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.599 that were right, and now they're abiquitous because we got 270 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.799 ultra processed foods. Seventy percent of calories come from multiprocessed 271 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.160 foods now, and so people are getting fat. And when 272 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.359 you get fat, you get visceral fat. And the visceral 273 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:11.119 fat is pro It acts like a tumor, it's hyper metabolic, 274 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.759 it gives off inflammatory products. So if you have extra 275 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.799 fat on your body, let's say you have twenty pounds 276 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:19.359 of fat in your body, ten percent of that on 277 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.680 average is going to be visceral fat. The fat that 278 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:25.079 accumulates are on the organs that it's like having a 279 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.319 two pound tumor in your abdomen. And so when you 280 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:30.400 go on to fast, one of the exciting things is 281 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:32.200 the body not only gets rid of fat, but it 282 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.400 preferentially mobilizes visceral fat. So if you go on to 283 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.359 fast and lose ten percent of your total body weight, 284 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.960 which you would say in two week fast, you'll not 285 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.839 lose just ten percent of your tumor, but possibly fifty 286 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.039 or one hundred percent of your tumor. For example, in 287 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.799 a study we did on fasting and body composition using 288 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.519 a dex scanner, these people fasted an average of about 289 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.480 two weeks. They lost ten percent of their body fat, 290 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.039 twenty percent of their total or ten percent of their 291 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.559 body weight, twenty percent of their total fat, and forty 292 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.279 percent of their visceral fat, only six percent of lean tissue, 293 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.559 and that was fully recovered at six week follow up, 294 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.480 and the fat loss continues. So this is the way 295 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.000 of giving the body a chance to reformulate its body composition. 296 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:19.400 Are you suggesting that our ancestors would fast periodically out 297 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.119 of necessity or that it was just something they did seasonally. 298 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.640 No, it was always by choice. Spring came late, there 299 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:27.759 was nothing to eat, they would fast, and those that 300 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:32.079 couldn't fast died. It would never do it by choice, 301 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.200 it was always by force. But the reality is spring 302 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:37.599 comes late, and we evolved in an environment of scarcity. 303 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.720 Most people didn't live to reproduce. Most people died from 304 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.400 starvation and predation, and it was a tough world. The 305 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.480 people that survived were the ones that could store enough 306 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.640 fat to survive those periods of deprivation. And so you 307 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.079 know today, if you get fat easily, that's not necessarily 308 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:56.359 a bad thing. Biologically, that means you have good plummet 309 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:59.279 you absorb what you eat. The problem is, up till 310 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.359 two hundred year years ago, these mechanisms were great because 311 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:06.559 people rarely got too much to eat because it was 312 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:10.440 so difficult just getting enough. But since the Industrial Revolution, 313 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.559 we began to process foods, and now if you have 314 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.319 good biological genes, the problem is in the modern worlds, 315 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:18.920 you're screwed because if you eat those highly process foods, 316 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.319 you're gonna get fat. If you get fat, you're gonna 317 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.400 get viceral fat, and it's gonna produce inflammation, and then 318 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:27.039 you're gonna get heart disease, diabetes cancer, not immune disease. Now, 319 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.240 what's interesting is those diseases are treated as if they're unrelated, 320 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.359 independent conditions. You have to go to different kinds of 321 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.759 doctors even to be diagnosed with those different diseases. But 322 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.920 they have something in common. They're all associated with the 323 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:42.519 inflammation that's coming from excess visceral fat. 324 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:49.119 Yeah. I don't want to slam allopathy too hard today, 325 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.519 but they're gonna come up a lot. Currently in the 326 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:57.480 United States, it's a Western culture. Allopathic medicine is the 327 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:02.200 dominant treatment of wellness. And they don't even understand fasting 328 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.480 you're diagnosed and you're giving a medicine. 329 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:06.920 What they do understand is disease though, and they will 330 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:08.839 tell you if you go to a doctor today and 331 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:12.119 you say have high blood pressure or diabetes, they will 332 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:16.079 tell you, listen, you take these drugs, and I promise 333 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:20.880 you you'll never get well. You'll be sick forever, and 334 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:23.599 you'll be on the drugs the rest of your life. 335 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.359 So they will honestly tell you that what they're doing 336 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.039 for you has nothing to do with you getting well. 337 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:33.960 Well. They won't say that, but or they will. 338 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:36.200 They will tell you you'll be on these drugs for 339 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:40.920 how long? Two weeks, two months? No, they'll tell you you'll 340 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:43.759 be on these drugs the rest of your life. Why 341 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:49.039 because you'll never recover. If you're a drug addict and 342 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:53.200 you go to the impatient program for thirty days. Say 343 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:55.839 you're a heroin addict, there's a ninety percent chance you'll 344 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.519 be back to using heroin in a year. If you're 345 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.640 an alcoholic and you go to an inpatient program for 346 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:03.799 thirty days and ninety visits in ninety days, to a 347 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.160 twelve step program, and you have family support, there's an 348 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.680 eighty three percent chance you'll be drinking within a year. 349 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:11.880 If you're overweight and you want to lose five percent 350 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.960 of your body weight, there's a ninety five percent chance 351 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.279 if you follow your doctor's advice, you will be have 352 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.240 regained your obesity within a year. There's only a five 353 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.240 percent chance that you'll lose your weight and keep it off. 354 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.039 And if your BMI is over forty, there's a ninety 355 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.880 nine percent chance you will not lose that weight and 356 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:33.640 develop a healthy weight ever, because treating a weight loss 357 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.599 is less successful than treating drug addiction. Because at least 358 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.680 with drug addicts, we tell them the truth. They have 359 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:42.759 to stop drinking completely. What we tell overweight people is 360 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:46.160 eat less and it doesn't work very well. Or change 361 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:48.759 the color of your meat from red to white, or 362 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:51.400 put your food on a smaller plate and chop your 363 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.359 food and put your fork down between each bite and 364 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.400 you won't be overweight anymore. We lie to them instead 365 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:59.440 of saying you're overweight because you're fooling the tiding mechanisms 366 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:02.680 you will bring with chemicals called salt oil and sugar. 367 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.160 If you don't remove the SOS, it's very difficult to 368 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:08.480 remove the weight loss. So what we advocate is a 369 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:12.279 whole plant food diet that's SOS free. SOS, of course, 370 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.119 is the international symbol of danger, but it also stands 371 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:17.039 for the chemicals we put in our food that fool 372 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:19.640 our brain and cause us to gain the extra weight. 373 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:22.160 Now those chemicals are salt, oil and sugar. 374 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:28.440 I just want to remind our listeners that a document 375 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:34.279 just came out, a worldwide study that showed the America, 376 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:39.640 the United States, is the tenth worst country for healthcare 377 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.559 among the industrial nations. That's the last on the list. 378 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.839 And that's not that's not a good thing to happen, 379 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:51.759 given the multi trillions of dollars that we spend on 380 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:52.799 healthcare each year. 381 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.279 But that's because we spend our money treating the leading 382 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:58.240 cause of depth, which are hard tosease, cancer, diabetes, et cetera, 383 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.319 instead of treating the actual causes of death. The reason 384 00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:04.160 people get heart disease, cancer and diabetes, which is a 385 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:09.079 high fat, high protein diet, and smoking and alcohol consumption. 386 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:13.480 If we focused on treating the actual causes of disease drinking, smoking, 387 00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:16.119 and eating a poor diet rather than waiting until people 388 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:19.880 develop diseases and then ineffectively treating them with drugs and 389 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.240 stents and bypass procedures, we might be able to get 390 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:23.279 more bang for our buck. 391 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:26.200 Yeah, but it has to do with the education. When 392 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:29.359 you say alan, I mean we're talking about physicians that 393 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:32.839 are graduating that get maybe one class of nutrition and 394 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.400 everything else is pharmacology. 395 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.279 Well, that's because medicine has nothing to do with healthcare. 396 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:39.599 It's got to do with the management of the symptoms 397 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:41.839 of disease using drugs and surgery. And frankly, they do 398 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:44.880 a rather impressive job. They figured out more drugs that 399 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.319 you can take for the rest of your life than 400 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.440 ever before, and so the industry has never been more 401 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.519