Doing THIS Might Save Your Life...

Hello health champions. Today we're going to  talk about the easiest thing that you can do  

that might save your life and I think this might  be a little bit different than what you think.  

Plus at the end we're going to talk about  how doing this thing could not only reduce  

your risk of heart disease and stroke, but it  might even save you from cancer. What if there  

was something that you could do that could save  you time but actually take no time? What if it  

could save you money but cost no money  there's nothing that you would have to buy  

and if this thing might even save your life  in the process? So here's what most people  

do basically because we've been told to do it this  way they wake up they have breakfast then they  

have a mid-morning snack then they have lunch then  they have an afternoon snack then they have dinner  

and then they have an evening snack. And we've  been told to do this because it's supposed to be  

so good for us and the only thing that you have  to do is don't do what everyone else is doing  

and you skip the snacks and then you  skip breakfast and now you basically eat  

all the food you're going to eat in two meals  and obviously you can see how that would save you  

a lot of time because you don't have to spend the  time making this stuff or eating the stuff and it  

will also save you money because you don't have  to spend money at so many different times but how  

would this actually save your life. So we need  to look at what people actually die from and in  

the united states last year there were 3.3 million  total deaths from all causes all different reasons  

the number one was cardiovascular disease 697  thousand cancer was 602 000 co-morbidities 19  

was 351 thousand accidents accounted for 201 000  pneumonia was 153 Alzheimer's was 134 000 and  

diabetes was 102 000. now I want to calculate  the percentage of some of these and then we'll  

talk about that so cardiovascular disease was 21  cancer 18 Covid 10 Alzheimer's 4 and diabetes 3  

and why am I putting percentages on these because  they have something in common including covet 19  

is that they are all caused or  a strong contributing factor  

is metabolic health Covid 19 virtually all of  the deaths the vast majority had co-morbidities  

like cardiovascular disease and diabetes and high  blood pressure and what they all have in common is  

their metabolic disease now if we add all that up  that's 56 of all deaths that are either directly  

caused or have a strong component of poor  metabolic health now here's the problem that  

if you do some reading on this they're going to  tell you that the number one cause here is obesity  

and there's two problems with that because  first of all obesity isn't the cause of anything  

and secondly there's a lot of obese people who are  actually metabolically healthy who have the same  

or close the same life expectancy and who don't  have any of these problems so what we need to  

understand is that it's really about something  called hyperinsulinemia that simply means  

chronically high levels of a hormone called  insulin in the bloodstream now why is it so  

important that we understand the difference  why don't we just call it obesity because if we  

think that obesity causes disease then we might go  after the wrong thing we may end up with some bad  

advice so we need to understand is that there is a  type of overload when we put more into the system  

chronically put more into the system that it  can process then we end up with high levels of  

insulin chronically high levels and we end  up with inflammation and these are the actual  

causes these are the causes of disease and  for the most part the cause of obesity so  

understanding this we can go after the true cause  and understand what the mechanism is and not  

think of the problem as obesity so we want to take  away this arrow that indicates causation and when  

people don't understand the true mechanism the  true cause then they come up with stupid advice  

such as this watch your weight right they always  tell you to treat the end symptom like watch your  

weight control your blood sugar control your blood  pressure well they don't tell you how to do that  

so you're going like well watch my weight I'm  doing that I'm watching my weight and it's going  

up year after year I need some tools right and the  reason that they give you stupid advice like that  

is that they're stuck in a model called calories  in calories out they think that if you just  

ate less and exercised more then you'd be fine  because that works for one percent of people but  

what happens is you get some short term results  and then something kicks in called a set point  

that's like a thermostat your body remembers where  it's been so if you cut down the calories and you  

expand more after a little while your body says  hey you know this is stressful this is dangerous i  

want to get back to my set point so it's going to  lower your metabolism and you end up gaining the  

weight back and one of the primary reasons  that it's hard to change the set point is  

for the hormone insulin because insulin is  an anabolic hormone it's a storage hormone  

so when you have chronic high levels of insulin  it's going to tend to store more it's going to  

build tissue it's going to put on more tissue  on your body the other reason that calories  

in calories out don't work is when you try to eat  less for any extended period of time when you have  

your three meals and your three snacks and you try  to eat fewer calories so you have a 100 calorie  

snack and you have a 300 calorie meal which is  green lettuce and dried chicken with no dressing  

you never feel satisfied there is no fun in eating  there is no reward you always feel like I would  

have liked to eat a little bit more and how long  can you really keep that up deprivation is not a  

lifestyle nobody can keep this up and this is why  calories in calories out fail 99 of the time but  

if you do what i suggested you cut out the snacks  you cut out the breakfast you shorten your feeding  

window you eat twice a day now you can eat rich  satisfying rewarding food with more calories  

twice a day and still end up eating less and now  you don't feel deprived this is something you can  

turn into a lifestyle and there's three reasons  this works three things are probably gonna happen  

number one you'll probably eat less calories  because you only eat twice that's not necessarily  

true because some people still eat the same  number of calories in two meals but it still works  

why because it is so potent it's so powerful  in reducing insulin and then you change your  

set point you change your fat burning you change  your metabolism and the third thing that happens  

is that hunger goes away biggest reason that  you get hungry is that you eat something  

if I have breakfast then I'm hungry by 11 or 12  o'clock if I skip breakfast I don't think about  

food until the afternoon hunger is a habit and  most people aren't even hungry in the morning  

when they wake up they only eat because they think  they're supposed to but why is fasting so powerful  

even more powerful than low carb or keto because  every time you eat you stimulate insulin even  

if you just have a dab of butter it's the tiny  tiny amount of insulin but you still stimulate  

insulin if you eat a high carb meal then you  stimulate a lot of insulin it's like a batch  

of food coming in you're going to have a batch  of insulin to handle it if you eat low carb  

then there's going to be a much much smaller batch  of insulin however if you're fasting if you're not  

eating any new food during that period of time  there is no batch there's no new insulin produced  

you're making a trickle of insulin just to  maintain blood sugar levels for whatever  

the body is making for maintenance but there  is no batch of food coming in so there is no  

batch of insulin and therefore insulin goes down  even faster let me make it even simpler for you  

so whenever you eat something you're loading up  the body think of it like loading up the pantry  

you buy something you stick it in the pantry  you eat something you stick it into storage  

and then if you go eat again and you eat again  and you eat again then you're going to over load  

it's like the pantry if you keep buying things and  you never take anything out the pantry is going to  

be overloaded it's going to be congested it's  going to be stagnant it's going to be all the  

stuff in there because you never take anything out  when you fast now you do the opposite you unload  

all right it's as simple as that you're  taking stuff out of the pantry so instead of  

overloading all you're doing is you're allowing  for a natural balance in the body between taking  

something out and putting something in and  repeating that cycle and I know this makes so much  

sense to you right now but for a lot of you in  the back of your head there's this nagging doubt  

well I heard someone who said that they knew  someone who said that it was dangerous that if you  

don't eat you won't have energy you can't regulate  blood sugar you get hypoglycemia and so forth  

well here's what I want to show you that there is  one hormone to bring blood sugar down but there  

are four hormones to bring it up there's glucagon  adrenaline human growth hormone and cortisol and  

they're all there to balance blood sugar now  here's an interesting point these four hormones  

are called counter regulatory so let's understand  that word regulation means to bring something up  

or down regulation means both but we have gone so  far with regulating our blood sugar with eating  

that we think the only regulation of blood sugar  is to bring it down that's why insulin is called a  

regulatory hormone and the other four are called  counter regulatory as if they didn't belong  

as if that was some special case but the reason  we call that regulatory and the others counter  

regulatory is that we have become a society we've  been trained to regulate our blood sugar bringing  

it back up only by eating we've been told to eat  so many meals and so many snacks because when your  

blood sugar goes down the only thing that can  bring it back up is to eat and that is so false  

when you rely on that model you're bypassing the  wisdom of the ages that's built into your body  

that brings the balance back to the body of  loading and unloading but if you eat all the time  

you put that completely out of commission so  we need to understand there's no such thing as  

counter regulatory there is only regulatory  balancing it up or down and the body knows  

how to do both and what they tell you to do the  six meals a day unless you have an extremely  

high metabolism some very favorable genetics  or you maintain very very high activity levels  

then six meals a day is dangerous if you do that  with a more or less sedentary lifestyle maybe some  

exercise here and there you are probably going to  create a disease with that it might take 20 years  

it might take 50 years but you will most likely  be moving in that direction and fasting is so  

much easier than most people realize if you're  sleeping eight hours a day then you're already  

fasting eight hours every day and it's so simple  to stretch that to 10 or 12 or 14 hours if you  

do it gradually you won't even notice any change  and for a lot of people this is enough to start  

reversing all these different conditions reversing  metabolic disease reversing type 2 diabetes  

lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease and  high blood pressure and stroke and like i said  

you can dramatically reduce your risk of any covet  19 complications by becoming metabolically healthy  

and bringing your body back to balance in all  of this you can do with some very simple changes  

and you can maintain that as a satisfying  lifestyle with intermittent fasting and when  

i say a lifestyle just on basic intermittent  fasting I'm talking about eating all your  

meals in an eight-hour window and fasting 16 or  maybe eating all your meals in a six hour window  

and fasting 18 hours and this can even reduce  your risk of cancer because cancer does have  

some metabolic components to it but if you  really want to start reducing the risk of cancer  

then we will need to understand what causes it  what is this thing so cancer is caused by genetic  

mutations but these genetic mutations don't  happen for no reason these mutations are caused  

by toxicity that's why they talk about smoking  and carcinogens and pesticides these are chemicals  

that cause mutations then that cancer cell  is promoted by insulin because insulin  

is an anabolic hormone insulin makes  things grow it promotes growth of things  

and then it is fed by blood sugar because cancer  cells are much more dependent on glucose on blood  

sugar for their energy than other cells of the  body most other cells can switch pretty readily  

to burn fat but cancer doesn't like fat it likes  sugar and then that cancer has to be missed by  

your immune system because you have killer t  cells you have macrophages you have different  

cells in your body that fight cancer and that  eliminate cancer many many times during your  

lifetime so there are four different factors that  cause and promote a cancer now what if there was  

one thing that could basically handle all of  them the toxicity the insulin the blood sugar  

and that could boost the immune system how  amazing would that be and now we're talking  

about therapeutic fasting this is when you take  it one step beyond just your everyday lifestyle  

things so this is a fast that lasts more than two  days and this has been proven to be so powerful  

that it can shrink some tumors and it can do  that rather quickly the mechanism is something  

called autophagy this is something that happens  when you fast a long time because when you add  

fuel when you add resources to the body the body  has plenty of them when you stop adding them when  

you stop eating resources become scarce so now  they become more valuable and the body will start  

up regulating its recycling system everything  in the body becomes more precious and therefore  

your body is going to take better care of stuff  as a result it goes out and it starts cleaning  

all the nooks and crannies looking for stuff so  this is a very powerful form of detox and part of  

this recycling crew is your immune system because  guess what viruses and bacteria they have protein  

in them so the body makes more of these killer  t cells it makes more of these macrophages  

and immune cells so it can go out and clean up  better and some of those things it cleans up are  

virus and bacteria at the same time fasting and  autophagy is the most powerful way to bring down  

blood sugar blood glucose and to reduce insulin so  here we have all of those four factors that cause  

and promote cancer we can powerfully influenced  with a longer fast so what we're talking about  

to get these benefits now is to do a three to  five day fast a couple of times a year or maybe  

three to four times a year and i believe it is  very very safe for the vast majority of people  

if you have a condition if you feel that you're  not very stable then don't do this on your own  

but if you have done the intermittent fasting as  a lifestyle if you sort of graduated from 14 to  

16 to 18 maybe doing one meal a day fasting 24  hours then it's not that difficult to go into  

a three-day fast and what you do is you just pay  attention to how you feel if you don't feel great  

break the fast get some electrolytes make sure  you drink plenty of fluids you get some salt  

then when you've done a three day next time  you can do a four day and next time you can  

do a five day fast as long as you feel good and  i think this could be a powerful part of a health  

regimen if you're just maintaining health  you're preventing disease then this is fine  

if you have a disease if you have a condition and  you like to do more then i suggest that you get  

some supervision you get some help by someone  who is qualified and experienced and who does  

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