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Dr. Alan Goldhamer is one of the world’s top experts on fasting, and the Founder and Director of True North Health Center, where over 25,000 people have reversed chronic illnesses through medically supervised, water-only fasting. He is also the author of books such as, ‘Can Fasting Save Your Life?’ and ‘The Pleasure Trap’.  

Is fasting more powerful than any diet pill?! Dr Alan Goldhamer reveals how this simple practice burns belly fat, boosts energy, clears brain fog…and may even cure depression! 

He explains: 

⬛How to fast without losing muscle

⬛Why obesity is more deadly than most diseases

⬛How to fix your body with water-only fasting

⬛How fasting treats PCOS better than medication

⬛Why calorie counting doesn’t work

⬛Why the ‘pleasure trap’ is silently keeping you sick 

Topics: 

1 Introduction  

2 What Have You Spent Your Entire Life Doing?  

3 What Type of Fasting Are You Referring To?  

4 What Happens to the Body During Fasting?  

5 What Is Autophagy?  

6 Difference Between Fasting and Calorie Restriction  

7 Why Does Avoiding Carbs Improve Cognitive Function?  

8 Juice Fasting  

9 Who Are You Giving a 40-Day Water Fast To?  

10 What Kind of Person Does a 40-Day Water Fast?  

11 What Happens to Our Psychology When We Fast?  

12 Could We Just Remove Processed Food Instead?  

13 Why Would Anyone Do a Water Fast?  

14 How Do Different Genders Respond to Fasting?  

15 How Many Meals Do You Miss on a 40-Day Water Fast?  

16 Do You Supplement During Water Fasts?  

17 What to Eat After a Water Fast  

18 Ads  

19 Is There a Benefit to Fasting If You're Already Healthy?  

20 Is Fasting Effective for Weight Loss?  

21 Outcome Data from Fasting Studies  

22 PCOS and the Menstrual Cycle While Fasting  

23 Does Fasting Improve Other Areas of Life?  

24 What’s the Longest a Person Can Fast?  

25 Safety Concerns with Water Fasts  

26 Common Misconceptions About Fasting  

27 How Fasting Eliminates Excess Sodium  

28 How Fasting Reduces Toxins in the Body  

29 How Fasting Affects the Nervous System  

30 How Fasting Changes Your Taste Buds  

31 Ads  

32 What's the Next Step If People Are Curious?  

33 The Biggest Lie That's Ruining People's Lives  

34 What Do 40-Day Fast Patients Struggle With?  

1 Introduction

This is the most effective treatment that's ever been shown in treating the leading cause of death and disability, which is high blood pressure. It also reduces insulin resistance. It can enhance cognitive capacities. And you also see it affecting things like depression and anxiety. It's called fasting. And there's more. 

   Fasting introduces not just a chance to lose weight. It also mobilizes visceral fat, which is the fat around the belly and the organs, which is giving off inflammatory products that's causing heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many people are maintaining higher visceral fat than what they should be. So, I've spent 40 years helping people get healthy. And I can tell you that I think you should be fasting every day. 

So, tell me about that then. But also, isn't the game here just to not eat as much? Well, here's the problem. Dr. Alan Goldhammer is a pioneering physician who spent his life helping thousands of people reverse chronic disease, eliminate medication, and reclaim their health using one of the most ancient healing tools known to humanity. 

Today, we live in a world designed to make you fat, sick, and miserable, where 76% of people are overweight or obese, and where people think that health comes from pills, potions, and powders. And yet, most of us are ignorant of the proven health benefits of fasting.

 In fact, if you look at all the chemical changes that happen with exercise, they also happen with fasting. Things like   increasing BDNF, a neurochemical protect in the brain from Alzheimer's disease. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a mammalian protein found in Homo sapiens   And what about water fasting? 

So, people that have not been successful resolving their conditions with medications, including patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome, have been profoundly affected by water fasting. And we'll go through fabulous research. But one thing you want to realize is that all human beings have the capacity to fast. 

Okay. So, let's run through the unique selling points versus any other diet or intervention. 

 So yeah, thank you Dr. Alan Goldhammer. My first question is who are you and what have you spent the last four decades of your life doing and why? 

What Have You Spent Your Entire Life Doing? 

I've spent my entire life really focused on one topic and that's this idea that you know health results from healthful living. I got interested really young. I was in an elementary school and I had decided that I wanted to pursue this as a career and when I finished training in the United States, I had an opportunity to go to Australia and I studied with a guy named Alec Burton who was the world's leading expert in the use of medically supervised water only fasting and I saw things there that weren't supposed to be happening. People were getting better. I saw people with chronic diseases like high blood pressure resolving their hypertension getting off the medications. And so we began to carefully evaluate patients with hypertension. In this study, 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure and 174 people normalize their blood pressure without the need for medication. After we published that paper, we went on and we've published a couple dozen papers now on the use of diet and fasting in the literature and we've written a book. It's called can fasting save your life which summarizes our work and other people's work on this use of fasting to help uh the body do what it really does best and which is heal itself if you get out of the way.

So fasting the word has become incredibly popular but there's a variety of different types of fasting. 

What Type of Fasting Are You Referring To?

So what is the type of fasting that you spend most of your time doing working on administering to patients? Right. Well, fasting is the complete abstinence of all substances in an environment of complete rest.

So, what does that mean? That means that means that you're actually resting while you're fasting in order to get therapeutic fasting to be most effective. And the reason is if you're very active when you're fasting, your body has to produce more glucose in order to carry on the extra muscular and brain activity. And the only way that it does that after glycogen reserves are depleted is through a process called gluconneogenesis where the body breaks down lean tissue. 

[Notes: Gluconeogenesis is how the liver makes glucose from non-carbohydrate sources like amino acids DOAC about 48hours of fasting. This can cause some lean mass loss early on, but the body will shift Subscribe to using fat and ketones, helping preserve muscle. (J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 2021)

So when you're fasting, if your goal is to maximize fat loss and minimize lean tissue loss, it's important that resting be a part of the protocol. It's true if people are more active when they're fasting, they'll lose more weight, but that extra weight won't be fat. It'll be lean tissue. So, so what