How To Do Intermittent Fasting For Health - Dr Sten Ekberg Wellness For Life

How to do intermittent fasting for health. There's always a good way to do

something and a not-so-good way to do something I'm gonna tell you what you

need to know am Doctor Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to

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there's this huge trend it's a movement of intermittent fasting low carb

ketogenesis and so forth so a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon and

for every video out there with good information there's 10 videos with just

opinions and people tried something and they said oh it works for me therefore

it must be healthy so we're going to talk about the healthy way to do this we

have so many people who are obese and we know that that's not very healthy so we

just assume that the weight is the cause of the unhealthiness and therefore if

you lose weight you will get healthier and it doesn't work like that it's not

that simple there's lots and lots of ways to lose weight in a very unhealthy

way there are lots and lots of skinny people who are very very unhealthy

skinny people get diabetes skinny people get high blood pressure skinny people

get cancer so we can't just jump to that conclusion what we want to understand is

that the weight is not the cause it's the result of an unhealthy lifestyle

right those opposed to intermittent fasting they typically say things like

oh well breakfast is the most important meal of the day you have to get started

with a good bowl of cereal to get your blood sugar up they say that you should

eat small but frequent meals to make sure that your blood sugar stays up that

if you're if you don't eat often enough your blood sugar is going to drop well

all of these things are only true if you have taught your body to rely on carbo-

hydrates if you've taught your body to rely on frequent meals and on high

carbohydrate so that you create a blood sugar rollercoaster because then every

time it goes up it must come down every time it goes down you've got to fill it

back up so it's this is the quick swings that are creating the problems and then

of course it seems like a good idea to top off the blood sugar frequently we

have the same physiology we share the physiology with our ancestors our DNA is

the same they never had these things so whatever our ancestors developed and

adapted to that's what's still normal for us and they never had six meals a

day or three meals a day they had food when they found it they never had

breakfast unless there might be some leftovers occasionally and their blood

sugar was level because they didn't have any carbohydrates or not a significant

amount of carbohydrates they had no grains they had no abundance of

processed things and starchy things the proponents of the intermittent fasting

they say oh this is the best thing since sliced bread it's amazing I've tried

everything to lose weight and now the weights coming off I can eat anything I

want and there's so many channels out there with videos where they tell you oh

look I'm eating anything I want I'm eating garbage I'm eating you don't have

to give up the food you love and look the weights coming off well that is not

proof of health and a lot of these people doing it are in their 20s and 30s

so they haven't had a chance to break down their bodies yet they haven't had a

chance to degenerate to where this becomes a problem and they're saying

that this is a way for fast weight loss well I'd like you to get over the idea

once and for all that there is a fast way to do something it's like trying to

grow an oak quickly it's like yelling at the grass or pulling on the grass to

make it grow faster nature a certain pace and if it took you a

certain amount of time to degenerate or create a certain problem or create a

certain toxicity or deficiency it's gonna take a while to turn it around the

body has to rebuild the body has to regenerate and do it the right way so

please get over the idea of a quick fix if you'd like long lasting results you

have to create a long lasting solution there is no fad or trend or diet that

you can jump on and get off and get any lasting results not possible

so both be opposed and the proponents they have a certain point but they're

not looking at health and they're missing the big picture of what is our

physiology designed to do so the opposed people they're they're missing what our

physiology is designed for and the proponents they are missing what health

is and how the world has changed how our food has changed more in the last 50

years than it has in the previous 50 thousand when we talk about health you

have to look at what health is health is not the absence of symptoms health is

when every cell when every organ is functioning optimally when it has the

resources to do the job it's supposed to do to think to focus to produce energy

to digest food to move to not have pain to regulate blood pressure and hormones

and to send signals and to maintain and and keep up with everything and make

sure that the next generation of cells next generation of organs because they

constantly wear out and are we are being rebuilt that the next generation is as

healthy and has the same work capacity as the previous that's what health is

when we have a good health reserve and we main

that has very little to do with symptoms because symptoms happen many many years

after we have started on that slippery slope

after we've started to burn our candle in both ends so to speak so cells

produce all the work they perform all the work in the body and they are

interfered with by toxins so if you think you can eat anything and you're

eating a bunch of pesticides and you're eating preservatives and you're eating

sugar that is a huge stress because it unbalances your entire hormone system

then you're missing the point nutrients those are what the body needs

to maintain to rebuild those cells processed foods don't have nutrients the

nutrients such as fiber and minerals and vitamin complex --is the way they occur

in nature not in a synthetic little pill essential fatty acids essential amino

acids all of those things occur in whole real food from nature but they are being

destroyed and depleted and nuked out of existence when we eat processed foods so

sure you can lose weight doing this but you cannot maintain health unless you do

it the right way so absolutely intermittent fasting is healthy it's one

of the best things that you can do to reverse insulin resistance when you

every time that you eat if you eat small frequent meals every time that you eat

you have an insulin response and you're building up your insulin resistance

you're telling your body with every meal time to store some things time to store

something because that's what insulin is it's a storage hormone so one of the

primary benefits of intermittent fasting is that you help with insulin resistance

and that is the most important factor in obesity and weight gain but it is not

the only factor in health it is a huge factor in health but it's

not the only factor because we also have toxicity and deficiency insulin

resistance wreaks havoc with your physiology on so many levels and the

proponents when they find out that they can eat anything that they can do these

things and the way comes off they are addressing insulin resistance but that

is not the same thing as health so what I would encourage you to do is to start

skipping breakfast or even before that actually start reducing carbs so that

you don't have this crazy blood sugar rollercoaster and then once you're on a

lower carb diet now you're gonna have less violent swings of blood sugar now

you're not gonna suffer much if you skip a meal here and there and what I would

suggest is start skipping breakfast and then you take your coffee or your tea or

whatever beverage you like in the morning and you add a little bit of fat

to it so I put I have coffee in the morning I put coconut cream I put a

little bit of butter and I put some MCT oil some medium chain triglyceride oil

it's it's an oil made from coconut basically but it has certain lengths of

fatty acids that are especially beneficial to support you so if you do

that you will probably find that you don't miss breakfast at all and the

longer you go the more your body gets used to that the easier it gets to not

just look for the next meal not to have that craving for the next meal so often

times I'll have my coffee in the morning and then sometimes I'll have lunch at

1:00 or 2:00 and sometimes I don't I'll just go straight through to dinner five

or six o'clock I'll have a big meal and that is all I need to eat but you don't

necessarily want to try to force yourself into doing this but let it

happen you start stabilizing your blood sugar

by lowering your carb then you start eating more Whole Foods and then you go

into skipping breakfast make yourself a drink with some fats and bulletproof

coffee and then you'll find that your body adapts it gets easier and easier if

you want to eat twice a day eat twice a day if you want to eat three times a day

do that but stay away from the processed foods and over time you'll probably want

to eat less and less often so once you start skipping that that breakfast and

even though you're getting some calories with the coffee the bulletproof coffee

you're getting some some energy from that fat that has virtually zero blood

sugar impact it has no insulin impact so it's like you're still fasting because

you're not upsetting your blood sugar your body doesn't really change anything

and then you let's say that you skip breakfast and you have lunch at 12

o'clock then however late you have your dinner let's say six o'clock now you had

two meals in that day that's a six hour feeding window means you're fasting for

18 hours so if you can get to that point then you're already doing pretty well

with intermittent fasting some people they take it a little further and they

start pushing the lunch later or the dinner earlier and then eventually just

go to to one meal but do it when it's when your body feels that it's right

so start these changes gradually and then just listen to your body but your

body won't tell you the truth if you keep doing these things if you keep

eating processed foods if you keep eating junk if you keep eating small

meals and lots and lots of carbs and sugar now your body is never gonna tell

you the right thing it's never gonna give you the right messages because

you're tricking it with chemicals you're tricking it with things that upset

hormone balance your your making it unable to give you the right the right

clues to remember that there is no fast way to health sure you can lose some

weight quickly but that's not health and if you want to get healthy then you have

to get your cells and your organs healthy you have to provide them some

nutrients and you have to stop putting toxins in you're going to take some bad

out put some good in and stay with nature that is the key whenever humans

have tried to change things or an alter things I have yet to find an example

where there is a man-made food or chemical that is good for us leave me a

comment let me know if you have found a man-made chemical that is healthy but I

I have not seen any evidence of that I've never seen anything come across my

path so I would strongly recommend intermittent fasting but don't do it as

a way of losing weight yes it will do that but just learn how to get healthy

and the way to get healthy is to eat whole food take a whole food supplement

take some fish oil do things naturally and then you fit that into the idea of

intermittent fasting so keep all this in mind and if you enjoy this sort of

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are and if you have any questions on whether what you have done is a healthy

way of doing it or not as always thanks for listening