How Fasting Affects Your Body

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What can intermittent fasting do for your health? Here’s what all the hype is about.

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Timestamps
0:00 How fasting affects your body
0:17 Fasting and our brain
1:51 Fasting and your liver
3:22 Fasting and your gut
4:02 Fasting and your immune system
4:34 Fasting and your pancreas
5:12 Fating and fat
6:16 Fasting and muscle
6:54 Fasting and your heart
8:24 Key takeaways
8:39 Keto recipe channel promo

In this video, I want to talk to you about how fasting affects your body. I’ve created a lot of videos on intermittent fasting. But in this one, I want to give you an overview of just how powerful it really is.

Brain - Fasting stimulates BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). This stuff is like Miracle Grow for the brain. BDNF helps repair and regenerate neurons. Fasting also helps with stress resistance, neurogenesis, mitochondrial production, and reducing inflammation.

Liver - Intermittent fasting helps improve your liver by restoring insulin sensitivity. Fasting also helps your liver function by detoxifying the body, acting as an antioxidant, reducing fatty liver, and lowering inflammation.

Gut - Intermittent fasting helps improve the diversity of your gut microbes. It also helps reduce the inflammation in your gut that contributes to leaky gut syndrome. Additionally, fasting helps prevent SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth).

Immunity - Fasting improves your immunity. It helps you become immune to pathogens by increasing the strength, size, and quality of white blood cells. Prolonged fasts (72+ hours) help produce stem cells—which basically helps you grow a new and stronger immune system.

Pancreas - The effects of fasting on your pancreas are huge. When you’re eating 3-6 meals a day, you are constantly triggering insulin. This creates damage to the cells in your pancreas. When you fast, you give your pancreatic cells a chance to heal and regenerate. In turn, this helps restore insulin sensitivity.

Fat - Fasting helps break down fat and get rid of fat cells. You also start generating ketones, which are a great source of energy. Intermittent fasting helps respire leptin sensitivity, which helps reduce inflammation and hunger.

Muscle - Fasting helps you restore insulin sensitivity, which also helps your ability to create muscle. Fasting also causes your muscles to go into a state where they stop breaking down—it prevents protein loss.

Heart - Fasting helps trigger the parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation mode), which is the opposite of the sympathetic nervous system (stress mode). This helps with normalizing blood pressure levels and heart rate. Fasting also helps with heart rate variability.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 58, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

I hope this video gave you insight into all of the powerful effects that intermittent fasting has on your body.