Hey guys, Dr. Derek here! This is going to be our video on How to Prepare for a Successful Fast. I find this might be the most important piece to fasting in general, and I say that because a proper, preparatory way of eating allows fasting to be a much easier part of your life. So this is actually where we have to start with a lot of people, especially folks who have really aggressive hunger, and this is very common across the board people who suffer from obesity and diabetes…
Hey guys welcome to our video series on fasting. That word might scare you a little bit. I know it scares a lot of my patients when we first start talking about it, but I have found fasting to be an incredibly valuable tool—especially for my patients who are struggling with weight loss, struggling with diabetes, or insulin resistance, or PCOS. It's an incredible tool to help these folks get their metabolic regulation back under control, and I wanted to create some videos that share some of this information on “what is fasting?” and “how do I do it?”, and “how do we prepare to be successful?” and then “what are the other strategies we can implement along the way?” In this series of videos, I want to explain why do we even suggest fasting. Why I don't find it scary at all and why, in fact, I find it to be the opposite. Loading up on pharmaceutical medications should be much more scary….
Unlike colonoscopies, endoscopies are only done if a patient is feeling symptoms—they're not done for screening purposes. So, if you’re having an endoscopy, usually [that means] something's going wrong. One thing endoscopies miss is they don't tell us too much about the microbial ecosystem in the small intestine.
So, good news, you just had your colonoscopy and everything came back fine. Wonderful! That's what I love to hear; however, your colonoscopy isn’t perfect. What did they miss? They do miss a few things. I always encourage patients when they get the good news of having a clean colonoscopy (no polyps, no other lesions): what's the next step?…
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