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 So when you don't eat, which is any time you don't eat is called fasting.
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So when you fast, that means your insulin is going to drop and that's the signal for your body.
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You're either in the fed state or you're in the fasted state.
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Okay.
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So when you're in the fed state, you're eating.
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 insulin is going up.
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And as insulin goes up, its job like its normal job is to tell your body to store those calories.
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Okay, so you can store it as glycogen, which is sugar, or it can store it as body fat.
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But that's the point.
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So you eat lunch or dinner, there's way more calories in that meal than you can use right at that point.
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So you want to store that.
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 So when you don't eat, which is anytime you don't eat is called fasting.
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So when you fast, that means your insulin is going to drop.
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And that's the signal for your body to now start pulling those calories out of storage, right.
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And that's the reason you don't die in your sleep every single night is because we have the ability
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 to hold some of those calories in storage.
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So in the fed state, insulin goes up, you're storing calories or body fat.
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In the fasted state, you're not eating, your insulin's dropping, and you're using calories.
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So you're in one or the other.
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You can't do both at the same time.
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So if now you say, okay, I'm gonna go.
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 I'm not using calories, is that right?
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Every time I eat, I will store, I'm not burning body fat.
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You're not burning body fat because you're putting in sugar, for example, and that sugar is gonna signal that, hey, sugar's coming in, use the sugar that's coming in.
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Do not use.
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Don't burn anything off my body.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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Keep all that stored fat, keep it.
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Just keep piling it on, right?
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Exactly.
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So the only way that you can actually use the body fat
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 is to let the insulin fall and not eat.
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So if you are now eating constantly, so the minute you get up, somebody tells you, oh, you have to eat, you can't skip breakfast, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And then you have to snack all day long.
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So now if you look at studies, the average duration of how long people eat for is about 14 hours and 45 minutes.
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 That's the average.
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So if you start eating at 8am, you don't stop till 10.45pm.
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That's on average.
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That's the average.
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 14 hours, you mean a 14 hour span of eating from the start to finish, right?
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You may not be eating every moment, but you're eating every few hours within a 14 hour window.
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It takes about four hours for you to switch over into the fasted state.
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So the point is that before where you'd eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and by six o'clock you're done, you know, boom, you're, you know, now you shift into using those calories and your mom would, you say, oh, you need time to digest, right?
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That's what she sort of said.
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But the point was that you need to start using
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 those calories that you stored up during your mealtimes.
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And that was the secret that they could stay relatively slim.
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Now, if you're eating constantly, then you never give your body a chance to switch over into that fasted state and start using those calories.
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The problem, of course, is that insulin stays high.
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 which tends to keep your body storing calories, your body.
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So the high insulin, for example, blocks fat burning, you can't burn your fat stores, because your body's like, the instructions that I'm getting is to store energy, not use energy, I want to keep my stored energy for when there's a time that there's no food.
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The problem, of course, is that there's never a time there's no food, right?
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Every day is the same.
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 Same thing, right?
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14 hours of eating and no time of not eating.
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And that's the point.
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So now if you understand the problem, you can say, well, how am I going to change this?
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Well, it's simple.
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Increase the amount of time that you're not eating.
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And that's all intermittent fasting is.
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If you eat one meal a day, for example, or if you eat within an eight hour window or a four hour window or whatever,
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 What you're doing is you're simply allowing your body to use the calories that have been stored, which is body fat predominantly.
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But that is precisely the reason you carry body fat.
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Like that body fat is not there for looks.
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It's there for you to use, right?
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And that's the whole point.
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What's so bad about using it?
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 If you don't eat, you're going to burn it.
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Well, so again, go back to the 70s.
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And everybody says, Oh, you can't fast, you can't fast.
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Well, you know, they're eating breakfast, lunch, dinner.
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And if you're a naughty boy, you got sent to bed without dinner.
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So you went from 12 o'clock to 8am.
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 20 hours without eating.
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You look good the next day.
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You're looking clean, you got a six pack, it's burning fat.
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Exactly.
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And nobody died, nothing bad happens, right?
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There was nothing wrong with that.
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And hopefully you learned your lesson too, right?
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And that's the whole point, is that there's nothing wrong.
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It's a natural part of our human physiology.
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If we couldn't survive without eating, like we would not be here today.
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Because when we were cavemen and cavewomen,
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 They didn't have food every day.
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Exactly.
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They couldn't they there might be a stretch of three, four or five days where there was no food.
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And therefore, they had to survive on their own body fat, which they did.
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And that was the whole point.
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So let's let our body, you know, use it.
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Because that's the most natural thing to do.
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What's the process for you?
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 your day to day life?
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Do you eat one meal a day, two meals a day?
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Do you fast every month for a day?
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Are you always doing intermittent fasting?
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Is there a downside to intermittent fasting?
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What's your process?
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 Yeah, I usually do a lot of sort of, I rarely eat breakfast.
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And I'll tell you that it didn't come, I mean, I started this in medical school and that was mostly because I really wanted to just roll out of bed and go like, you know, I'd wake up literally like five minutes before I left the door.
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I brushed my teeth, put on some clothes and rolled out the door.
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 you know, it's just, it's just that the way I was, right.
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And so I don't eat breakfast now, because again, people say you have to eat breakfast, you have to, but there's actually nothing magical about breakfast.
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If you don't eat breakfast, what's going to happen?
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Well, my body, which is now burning fat, because I've had eight hours of sleep, it's gone into sort of fat burning mode, because that's the storage form of calories, or it's burning sugar.
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 Um, it's just going to keep doing it, right?
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There's nothing wrong with it.
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So, um, so a lot of times I try and confine myself to sort of an eating window of sort of six to eight hours.
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And then once in a while, when I get very busy, I will do a 24 hour fast, which is a one meal a day.
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And then every so often I'll do a longer fast and the longer fasts are actually not as bad as you might think, but they really disrupt your schedule sort of socially.
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It's, it's, it's a tough one because
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 a lot of our socialization happens at meals.
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So I often have dinner with my family, for example, and doing those longer fast is really, really disruptive to that sort of thing, which is why when you look at traditional societies, like if you look at say, you know, during major religions, for example, there will be a period of fasting that's sort of universal.
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So, you know, everyone's doing it.
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So no one's feeling exactly, because stress when they smell the food, like,
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 Exactly.
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So if it's like Good Friday or during Lent or during Ramadan for Muslims or, you know, during Yom Kippur for Jews or whatever, everybody's fasting.
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So it's actually terrifically easy because you're not disrupting the sort of social fabric of your life there.
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Whereas nowadays, if you fast, and I've done this, it's just really hard to do.
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Physically, it's not hard, but it's hard.
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And I do it mostly, you know, when I've gained a bit of weight, usually after the holidays and after a vacation,
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 sort of schedule a longer fast right after because I know that I can lose that weight very quickly.
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But that means I can enjoy myself.
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Like a couple years ago, I went on a cruise and really ate too much.
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Just a lot.
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I had a lot and I knew it then I could feel it in my pants were
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 So I did sort of a three or four day fast.
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And I'll tell you, by the next week, I was back to my normal weight.
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Well, that's great because a week, but I got to enjoy the whole week prior where I really didn't look at what I was eating or how often I was eating or anything.
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I was like, this is my vacation, I'm doing this.
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And at the same time, I know, hey, I've got this next, you know, after this week, the week after, you know, very little to eat.
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And it gives you a great tool
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 to use if you need it.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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It's almost like either every day don't indulge and balance and create a schedule where you're only eating in a certain window of time, whether it be four, six, eight hours, which I'm hearing is kind of the, uh, which would be a great standard to have between four and eight hours of a feeding time.
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Is that right?
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 Yeah, I mean, if you want to lose weight, you can do very well, of course, with a sort of standard 70s style, sort of 8am to 6pm, which in a 14 hour fast, every single night.
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Remember, they're doing a 12 to 14 hours a day, every single night without even thinking about it.
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Like that's a secret because they don't even think about
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 that, that's just a period of time that they're not eating, right.
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But now, of course, the traditions are different, you can eat anywhere you want, you can eat in the theater, you can eat at your desk, you can eat in a car, like in the 70s, stuff like that didn't exist, you didn't eat in a meeting in a boardroom, for example, now you go to a meeting in a boardroom when there's food, donuts, there's a
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 donuts and cookies right somebody's ordered a plate of bagels or something like that right it's like well why we're having a meeting here right so that's the uh that's the thing so you could do very well with that kind of you know eight hour eating window for 10 hour eating window you can do very well with it but if you're not doing well then you can extend it and that's the beauty of it you could extend it as much as you want
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 So if you think about fasting, you could go three days, you could go five days, you could go 30 days.
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People do that all the time.
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But- No food.
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No food, yeah.
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So if you look, if you think about fasting, so the amount of energy that you need, so a pound of fat has 3,500 calories roughly.
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If you need about 1,800 calories, so that's for like a regular person, not like an athlete or somebody who's working out a lot.
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 It takes about half a pound of fat per day.
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So if you're dealing with a lot of obese people, like 100 pounds overweight, you could go 200 days.
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You know, if you want to lose 100 pounds, you could go 200 days without eating before you get and survive and survive.
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Exactly.
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And be okay.
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Exactly.
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Be perfectly fine.
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Because this is a very efficient fat is an efficient store of calories, right?
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It's very efficient.
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That's why we developed this to keep you alive when there's no food around.
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Exactly.
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So use it.
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 Does it affect your digestive system?
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Does it mess with your metabolism if you don't eat after a certain amount of time?
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And what happens when you start eating again?
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Does that affect your, again, your stomach, your intestines, your
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 colon metabolism, what's affected there.
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And this is the interesting part is that everybody thinks that fasting is like the worst thing you can do when you actually look at the science of what happens during fasting is actually one of the best things you can do for yourself from both a mental standpoint and a physiologic standpoint.
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Assuming of course, you're not malnourished, right?
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I mean, I'm assuming if you're the average American who's, you know, 10 2030 pounds overweight,
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 then this is something that actually has a lot of benefits.
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So there's a lot of sort of myths around it.
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One is that you're going to burn a lot of muscle.
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And the truth is that you don't.
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I mean, when you, you know, if your body, your body stores energy as body fat, so people say, oh, you're going to burn muscle.
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It's like, well, you've got to think that our body is so stupid that it stores energy as fat.
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 the minute you need it, it starts burning muscle, right?
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Like, why would our body be so stupid?
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And if it were so stupid, how did we survive?
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Right?
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And it's like, you know, if you save firewood all winter for the winter, and then as soon as it gets cold, you chop up your sofa and throw it into the fire, like, why would you be so stupid, right?
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Our body's just the same.
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It's not that so, you know, and I know, and everybody knows that the way that you build muscle is that you exercise, right?
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So if you have, you know, lift heavy weights,
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 then your muscles become stronger.
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It doesn't become stronger because you eat, right?
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That snake does nothing for building muscle.
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Like otherwise we'd be, you know, the strongest nation on earth, right?
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But we're not, we're the fattest nation on earth.
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So that's the whole problem, right?
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I mean, you're confusing two completely different things.
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 There is a point during fasting where there is a little bit of protein breakdown, and that's where people get very confused and say, well, you're burning muscle, but you're not.
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Protein is not the same as muscle.
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So our body has all kinds of protein, including all the connective tissue, like the skin and stuff that holds stuff in place.
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And some of that is often burned off.
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So for example, when you look at those shows where people get surgery and they lose 150 pounds, they get all this flappy skin.
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That's not excess fat, that's excess protein.
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 So that's, you know, it's functional tissue that you've never used up.
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So we actually see very little of that problem when people fast because there's a small period of time where they're actually using up the protein, your body will maintain its musculature based on what exercises stuff you're using.
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So another big myth, muscle burning is one thing.
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The other big, big myth is people talk about
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 as starvation mode or metabolic rate.
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So metabolic rate is the amount of energy that your body uses in a day, the number of calories you burn in a day.
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And this is what we see if you simply cut calories.
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So this is a standard medical advice, cut 500 calories a day, and you'll lose a pound of fat a week.
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 What happens, of course, is that you cut 500 calories a day, and then your body quickly reduces the amount of calories it uses by about 500 calories.
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So now, you're actually not losing any weight.
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That's what happens all the time.
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Why does it stop burning those calories?
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 Well, it stops burning the calories by reducing its metabolic rate.
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So the metabolic rate is the energy that your body uses to say generate body heat, your liver, your kidney, your heart, and so on.
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And we've known this for 100 years, that if you simply restrict the number of calories, but keep the foods very similar, what happens is that your body is going to start using less.
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So because it doesn't like running a deficit, right?
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It's just like, if you normally make $100,000 a year, and you spend $100,000 a year,
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 now you make $50,000, you don't keep spending $100,000, right?
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You're going to get thrown into jail.
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So you reduce your expenditure, same as a body.
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So it's getting less, so it's going to use less.
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And that's the natural reaction.
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It's important because it's a survival response.
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It cannot do anything different.
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 So it's almost like you need to be extreme in order for it to burn and kill off these cells that might be harmful to you.
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 But if you just do a little bit, I'm gonna eat a little bit less today, it's not gonna be that much.
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It doesn't work.
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And people assume that if you go to zero, which is fasting, say you fast for a full day, you have zero calories, you don't die, right?
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Because what happens is completely different.
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Now you've lowered your insulin, so you're changing the hormonal profile of the body.
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 And as you do that, you're now switching fuel sources.
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So instead of using food as your fuel, you're switching it into body fat, just like those hybrid cars where you go from gas to electric, right?
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So it's using food.
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And then boom, it goes, Okay, I have no food coming in, I need to switch over now into body fat.
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And then it goes, Whoa, I have like 500,000 calories of body fat here.
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So why do I need to cut cut it down?
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 And the point is that it doesn't because assuming if you have no body fat, of course, it's a problem.
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But for people who have adequate stores of body fat, which is most of us, and truthfully, most people do it for weight loss, too much body fat, then what happens is that there's so much there.
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Why wouldn't you use it?
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Because it's a fuel source.
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That's all it is.
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That's the way you have to look at the body fat.
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If you're eating all the time, you can never use your body fat.
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 Because your your insulins here, your insulins high, you're using food, then you get hungry.
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So you eat some more, right, you have a snack, you have a low fat muffin, you stay here, there's you can only burn food, all that stuff over there, those 500,000 calories of body fat are completely inaccessible for your body.
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So if you simply dial it down like this, and say, Okay, instead of 2000 calories, I'm going to eat 1500, I'm going to eat 10 times a day, keeping myself here,
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 Now you only have 1500 coming in, you can only burn 1500.
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You can't access that.
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If you go to zero, you go boom, and then your body burns the full 2000.
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So they did a study, for example, where they took people and fasted them for four days and measured how many calories they're using.
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 They also measure their vo two, which, as you know, is something that it's a measure of how much cellular work your body is doing.
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And what they found, so they measured the metabolic rate at time zero, then they measured it at four days of zero food.
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And they were burning 10% more calories than they were per day than they were when they were eating.
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The vo two was 10% higher, you're doing more work
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 body is actually not shutting down is revving itself up.
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And again, there's a good physiologic reason for that.
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And we know that when insulin goes down, when you switch yourself into this sort of, you know, mode that you're burning fat, other hormones go up, including your sympathetic nervous system, which is your noradrenaline.
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So you're actually pumping your body up.
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 The reason for that is sort of again, it's a survival response.
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So imagine again, we're caveman, and it's winter, and there's no food.
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So if you don't eat for two days, and you get weaker, you're never dying again, you're gonna die because every day is gonna be harder, you're gonna circle the drain.
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 So our bodies just not that stupid, right?
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So what they do is that your body says, okay, there's no food coming in, boom, I'm going to switch you over to body fat.
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And then I'm going to pump you up so that you have energy, you go out there, you go kill that woolly mammoth, you're focused, you're clear in the zone, everything.
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 Exactly.
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And that's, that's the reason that we actually pump ourselves up.
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And the constant, the mental aspects is actually fascinating, because people also say, Well, I, I have to eat because I have to concentrate.
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It's like your concentration is actually much higher.
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When you don't eat.
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Think about when you had a huge Thanksgiving meal.
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Well, were you really sharp?
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Or did you really want to just lie down on the sofa and watch some football?
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 right?
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You don't have any sort of focus.
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But if you think about animals, it's the same thing.
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Lions, they just eat, they just like lounging around.
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But if you're the hungry wolf, that is not that is a very dangerous animal.
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 because he's focused, he's ready to kill you.
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Same thing for us, our level of concentration, our mental ability, mental agility goes up significantly when we're hungry.
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Like if you think, oh, you're hungry for this, hungry for that, that doesn't mean you're falling down lethargic, it means you're focused.
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So it's interesting because there is this book a few years ago called Unbroken, which is a biography of this fellow who got, who went to a prisoner of war camp in World War II Japan.
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 and he's talking about starvation and he they were literally starving like there's they eat like almost nothing for the full day and he's talking about how his his uh his uh other prisoners were doing these incredible mental feats so one guy was reading a book entirely from memory another guy learned
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 all of Norwegian in a week.
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And he, so the guy says, this is simply the mental clarity of starvation.
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So it was incredible.
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It's like, it was so widespread.
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Everybody was starving and they'd see these incredible feats that nobody else in the world could do all the time.
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In your decades of
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 work through from medical school to your research to your practice to these things.
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What is what was the biggest aha when you learn this thing?
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It, it changed everything for you.
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 You know, there've been so many instances of that, like the scientists, I'm seeing new things literally on a weekly basis.
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Things are like my jaw drops virtually, but you know, like last week, Louis, I read about a new discovery that we just discovered a new type of human cell in our heart.
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 last week.
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Like, you know, like, that's like, I hit my head like, Oh, my God, really?
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We a couple years ago, we discovered a new brain cell called the rose hip neuron.
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Okay.
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And it seems to be linked to depression.
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So I'm always amazed.
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I mean, as a scientist, I'm amazed by the by the marvelousness of the body and how much we don't know about it.
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And still, so we have to respect it.
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 Did you know, by the way, that we had also, this is just this past year, 2021, there was a landmark discovery that changed everything we knew about our metabolism.
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 Hmm.
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Well, so everybody says that, you know, like, um, when you're, uh, uh, a teenager, you're growing tall.
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You got a high metabolism.
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It just, right.
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Okay.
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Totally wrong.
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Metabolism is going down when you're a teen.
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Okay.
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And then, and then people say when you're, um, in your twenties or thirties, you know, and you're starting to gain weight and getting out of shape.
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 And they're like, man, my metabolism is slowing down.
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And then some people basically say that, you know, I was unlucky because I was born with a bad metabolism.
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Look at my sister or look at my cousin.
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She's real thin.
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She's so lucky.
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She's got a fast metabolism, right?
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 all that has been turned up ended completely.
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It turns out that all humans go through only four phases of metabolism in their whole life.
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Tell me.
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Okay.
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I'm actually, I'm going to show you this cause it's actually right here on my desk.
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Got a chart.
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You got a, you got a graph.
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You got a chart.
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No, no.
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I got it.
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I got it.
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 This baby right here, it's in a journal of science.
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Okay.
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This is how researchers do it.
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Like I all around my office, man, like I am reading this stuff and this paper, I tell you, I got to look at this.
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It, it studied 8,000 people from like 30 countries.
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And it studied people from eight days old to 90 years old across
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 20 different countries, all right?
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This is the largest study of human metabolism ever undertaken.
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And here's what they found, that if you subtracted out body fat, which is different for everybody, okay?
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And you were to just go right down to the core of real metabolism.
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 Energy usage, energy generation, here are the four phases.
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When we're born, we got the same metabolism as our mother.
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Makes sense, synchronized, okay?
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From zero or from the day you're born to one year old, your metabolism skyrockets.
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In fact, it's twice high when you're one year old as when you're 20 years old.
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 Okay.
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So from one year old down to throughout your teenage years in puberty, at the time you think that you're eating a lot and your metabolism is going sky high, it's actually coming down from its peak.
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Interesting.
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Why does it seem like you're burning so many calories?
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 Well, you're more active and you're growing.
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So you may be burning more calories, but your metabolism isn't changing.
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This is the key thing.
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We are hardwired to go through these phases.
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Now it's going down to 20 years old.
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From 20 years old to 60 years old.
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 Okay.
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From college to retirement, it doesn't change.
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It is rock stable.
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All right.
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So it's our, and then after 60, it starts to diminish, but not as fast as you think.
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It's a slow, it's a slow grade down.
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Okay.
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Four phases of human metabolism.
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We never knew this before this year.
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All right.
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This is how it knew it is.
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So here's the key thing.
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 what makes all the difference between people?
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Like how, why is your metabolism different than mine?
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And why is somebody, why is a sumo wrestlers metabolism different than, you know, somebody who's on a runway?
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Okay.
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And it has to do with the fact that our metabolisms are all the same, but the lifestyle choices that we make can actually push our metabolism one way or the other.
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So it, our metabolism doesn't cause us to be fat.
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 Our fat slows down our metabolism.
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It's the other way around.
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Interesting.
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Completely.
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So what, so how do we burn more fat then?
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 to speed up my metabolism.
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That's what I'm working on right now.
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And that is the topic of my next book, by the way, which I'm writing right now.
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So stay tuned for that answer, because I'm onto something really hot on that.
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And I will give you a little bit of a sneak peek.
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Well, you can eat certain foods.
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 to burn your fat down.
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So while caloric restriction and fasting can actually also do it, it turns out there are certain foods that you can actually eat that will trigger it.
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 Give me some of those.
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I don't want to give you a too much.
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I don't want to give your viewers a spoiler because I'll have you come.
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I'll have you invite me back on the show.
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We'll talk about it.
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We'll have you back on for sure.
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You can give us the whole debrief.
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But what would you say are a couple of these foods at least that you think that are now research and proven to be powerful fat burning?
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Well, I'll give you one that's actually just a surprise.
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It's seafood, actually.
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 Seafood.
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Yeah.
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Helps burn fat.
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Yep.
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Is it help burn fat or search trigger and activate the fat burning process?
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It's it triggers.
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So there's there's certain elements in food that are newly discovered in research.
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Like I just told you, I just told you some new stuff that's coming out of the hot off the presses.
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But I can tell you like, this is where this is what I do the research that if I told you about research about
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 biotech developments, it may not actually mean anything to you for 10 years, maybe ever, maybe never.
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But when there's research about food or about your health, a lot of times there's stuff that has immediacy, you can put it to use right away.
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 So, cancer-starving foods, regenerative foods, gut health foods that can also help your brain, foods that slow down cellular aging, foods that lower inflammation and boost your immune system at the same time, you know, that's what I'm talking about, because the power of healing rests inside our body.
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And healthcare is not something that we need to rely on when we go to the doctor's office.