Enduring 24 Hour Fasts

Welcome back everybody today we're gonna be talking 24-hour fasting okay if you didn't watch the previous videos in the series I'm gonna encourage you to go ahead and watch them we started with talking about why fast what can it do for me how can it help me lose weight how can it help me reverse diabetes improve PCOS and just make me feel better and more energetic overall we then moved into low carbohydrate diets and how they are a fantastic way to have to prepare for a successful fast and then our last video was on intermittent fasting and time restricted eating as the next step to have a kind of a successful elongated fast why I love starting with intermittent fasting is because we get a period of 16 hours throughout the day where we're not eating anything and some people that can sneak even longer into 17 18 if they get busy during that day so to make that next leap to a full day fast is actually not that challenging once we've been doing and entering fast for you know a week or two so how do we you know logistically do a 24 hour fast well let's break it down to real life it's simply you know go through your normal day assuming your intermittent fasting that means you've had maybe lunch around 1:00 2:00 o'clock you've had dinner around 6:00 you're not gonna eat after dinner and then they're not gonna eat that entire day until dinnertime again so say dinner starts at 6:00 that means you have your next dinner at 6:00 that's a 24-hour period where you didn't eat anything it's at this 24 period of fasting mark where some people will start to find you know those feelings of hunger really challenging to deal with and this is when we have the conversation over well what can we do to maybe calm them down that can be making sure we have you know a lot of herbal tea on hand herbal teas a fantastic kind of for just palliating or lowering that that you're feeling we could even sip on some bone broth whether you buy it at the store or you maybe yourself that can be you know another way to just sip on a little bit of some nice warm soothing fluid that's gonna cut that hunger down the other option I often recommend will be using a particular supplement called exogenously tones there's a host of companies out there that use this I personally use designs for health and this is a supplement that won't interrupt a fast per se but can really help drop hunger and make us feel a little satisfied and energetic so that we can keep you know plowing through our fasting period as you can see you know picking a step from intermittent fasting to adding in a a 24 hour fast is not really that much of a stretch so is one 24 hour fast you know in your life gonna change everything no not necessarily but we're introducing these topics because we can use these strategically in my practice will often use 24-hour fast strategically throughout the week so we'll maybe do two three or even four 24-hour fast throughout the week so that we can start to kind of build our baseline of understanding how we tolerate these longer periods of time without eating and then we'll build on there but if you struggle with you know difficulty losing weight diabetes PCOS is low energy or even things like hypoglycemia this can be a valuable tool at helping regain control over those and and is not the end but more so just the beginning of creating a strategy for success at overcoming those so to recap today we talked about extending an internet fast to include a full 24-hour fast and to put this in real-life terms this is having our dinner not eating after dinner and then for the full next day not eating until dinnertime again so that would be putting 24 hours of fast into your life might sound easy not necessarily easy easy for some not for others and so with that we want to make sure we plan for success that is making sure we have herbal teas around making sure we have maybe some bone broth around to calm down those hunger pangs that may come during that time or if we're feeling a little light-headed or feeling a little bit shaky those can be helpful if you attempt this and you know what you're just like I don't know this doesn't feel right eat something you know that's the great thing about fasting if you know something comes up where you're like I don't know I can't handle this right now I'll eat something and we'll try to get another day you know it's free yes so there's no harm in trying this but if of course you're having challenge getting to those full 24 hour time periods yeah maybe that's a time where we got to seek someone who's got a little more expertise and say you know what am I doing wrong or what's going on in my physiology that I might need help with this is what we do with a lot of our patients here at the clinic our next video is going to be on what's called 5:2 fasting okay that is going to be basically 5 days of feasting 2 days of fasting during the week and we'll talk about the different permutations and combinations that we can use with that if you haven't watched the previous videos in the series about why should we fast how do we prepare for a successful fast with a low carbohydrate diet implementing intermittent fasting go take a look at those videos and please leave any feedback below with questions that you want answered concerns that you do have we're looking to educate and help everybody be able to access this tool regardless of whether or not you suffer from you know obesity diabetes PCOS just tired all the time where you want to optimize your health fasting at me a great tool