Why FASTING will solve ALL your health problems I love to eat. So when I first started hearing about studies proving that short periods of fasting could help people lose weight, reduce inflammation, and initiate a massive repair response in the body, I was skeptical. I have spent decades studying nutrition. I was a big fan of eat 6-8 meals a day, especially breakfast. But when enough research begins to prove a nutritional strategy is working, I want to try it. I first started with INTERMITTENT FASTING. Intermittent fasting is where you are eating all the food you want in a shorter period of time. I eat my meals between noon and 8pm, giving myself 16 hours of being in a fasted state. Research proves that 15-18 hours fasting provides the best health benefit. At first this was difficult. I love breakfast. So I started by taking a smoothie with me in the morning as I walked out the door. I tried to go as long as could not drinking the smoothie. At first I could only make it till 10am (12 hours of fasting). But as I applied intermittent fasting to my health habits everyday, I noticed that I could go longer and longer periods without food. I then tried a ONE DAY BONE BROTH FAST. If you haven’t noticed, bone broth is all the rage right now. And with good reason. Bone broth has nutrients in it that can heal a leaky gut and help give key nutrients to the liver. It also is easy to make. After I had incorporated intermittent fasting into my life, going longer periods without food was becoming easier. The made bone broth fasting quiet easy. The first step to a daily bone broth fast I tried was going to dinner to dinner without eating anything but bone broth. What that means is that you have a healthy dinner one night, drink only bone broth during the next day, followed by a healthy dinner the next night. That allows you to go 24 hours with out food. Once you have mastered that you go sunrise to sunset with only bone broth, no food. The results I experienced were profound. I do this every week. I pick one fasting day. What I have noticed is that the days I fast, I have greater mental clarity and more energy. The days after the fast I have very little hunger. In fact, my hunger and cravings have gone completely away since I introduced these fasting strategies into my life. So much so that I often have to remind myself to eat. So what are the studies saying that fasting does to your body? Why are so many people trying these fasting techniques out? Fasting has a way of accelerating healing and gets your body to repair itself. It will:
  • Normalizing your insulin  and leptin sensitivity, which is key for optimal health
  • Improving biomarkers of disease
  • Reducing inflammation and lessening free radical damage
  • Lowering triglyceride levels
  • Preserving memory functioning and learning
  • Increase your growth hormone (a fat burning hormone) secretion by 1300%
  • Boost your brain power by stimulating BDNF (a brain boosting hormone) by 400%
If you haven’t tried fasting. I highly recommend it. Start by intermittent fasting daily. Try to go 15 hours without food. You may only go 13 hours to start, but with repetition your body will get more and more used to fasting and will comfortably go 15 hours. The one warning I have, is that people with  adrenal fatigue will really struggle with fasting. They can find themselves dizzy and ready to pass out. If this is you, be sure that you are doing everything you can to strengthen your adrenals. There are two supplements I love for strengthen adrenals Ga by Systemic Formulas and Loving Energy by Bioray. You can find them on my website store at: http://familylifechiropractic.com/our-stores/ Or reach out to my office at 408-298-8092 and my staff will walk you through my adrenal repair protocol. http://familylifechiropractic.com/our-stores/ Happy fasting!!! I would love to hear how you are do with these fasting tools. Shoot me an email and give me an update when you try them out. Have a healthy day! Dr. Mindy www.drmindypelz.com Dr. Mindy Pelz