The Importance of Fasting for Hormonal and Gut Health

Fasting helps restore insulin sensitivity and improves gut health by breaking the cycle of food addiction.

### The Impact of Diet on Hormones and Gut Health: Embracing Fasting and Conscious Eating
* 🍽 What you eat significantly affects your hormones and gut bacteria, making it crucial to **think carefully before consuming any food**.
* ⏳ Fasting is essential as it lowers insulin levels, which rise only when you eat; thus, **eating once or twice a day within a six-hour window** can help manage insulin production.
* 💡 Constant eating leads to **excessive insulin production**, while fasting allows for **insulin sensitivity**, resulting in **lower insulin release** when you do eat.
* 🚫 Many people eat out of habit or social conditioning rather than hunger, contributing to an **addiction-like behavior towards food, especially sugar**.
* 🌱 Fasting not only detoxifies the body but also gives your gut a break, allowing beneficial bacteria to thrive, which is **vital for nutrient absorption and overall health**.
* 🥦 It's important to consume **whole foods and high-fiber plant-based diets** to nourish gut bacteria, while avoiding **processed foods** that can harm gut health.
* 🧠 A leaky gut can lead to inflammation, causing mental fog and other health issues; thus, **improving gut health can enhance cognitive function and overall well-being**.
* ⚖ Embracing time-restricted eating, such as **one meal a day**, aligns with our ancestral eating patterns and helps combat **food addiction and dependency on unhealthy foods**.

what I'm trying to tell you all is that what you eat has huge repercussions on your hormones, your bacteria. Every time you eat, you've got to consciously think twice before you put anything down your stomach. So why fast? Why? Why do you want to fast? Because your insulin levels will come down with fasting. If you don't eat, what happens to your insulin levels? You go down because insulin is only brought on by eating. That's why I make you fast. That's why if you're a patient at CVI, you have to eat only once a day or twice a day. If you're going to eat twice a day, you start out with that eating, but you must eat in a six-hour window, and then no eating the rest of the 18 hours. If you're constantly eating, you're making too much insulin. So you want to fast so that your insulin levels come down. So then after fasting for 18 or 24 hours, when you then do eat, you're sensitive to insulin. So your pancreas will only make this much.

insulin with the next meal versus a whole gallon before. So, eating in a fasting state produces small insulin than eating in a fed state where you produce a lot of insulin. We are always eating in a fed state. Why are you eating if you just fed? Let me ask you, why are you eating? You just had a meal two hours ago. Why do you have to eat again? Are you hungry? You're not hungry. Oh no, but I have to eat. Why? Because two things. One, you're a junkie. You're an addict. You're an addict just like cocaine, just like heroin. You're an addict because that sugar goes to the same part of the brain as dopamine, so it gives you that reward center. So now you have to have your next high. This is very real, guys. That's why intermittent fasting breaks that habit. How do you make a junkie come off his cocaine? You stick him in a room and don't give him any heroin. That's it, or cocaine. So you go do the same thing. You got to

play around with your physiology. You got to play around with it so you don't become an addict. Otherwise, this is, I gotta eat now. You're not hungry, but you still have to eat. You're a junkie, so that's the biggest problem why we eat so frequently. Number two is we've been socially indoctrinated to eat. It's time to eat, so I don't have an urge or anything. Yeah, and if I don't eat, I'm not gonna get cravings that I gotta go eat. I gotta eat. No, but it's just, It's one o'clock, so I gotta go eat. So I'm saying, Why do you have to? Who said you got to eat three meals a day and two snacks? The food industry said that. You didn't say it. Your doctor didn't say it. So I want you all to now have conscious feeding. Conscious feeding. That means you eat when you're hungry. If you're not hungry, don't eat. You're not going to die because you see what it also does. It detoxes you. Fasting detoxifies you.

because you've got all these heavy metals in you and toxins. Fasting is the only thing that gets rid of toxins. Number two, it gives your gut a break so that the bacteria in your gut can reset. Because if you're constantly eating, those poor bacteria, and remember more than 50% of the nutrients that are floating inside your bloodstream are not what you ate, it's what your bacteria have made, metabolized, and released into your bloodstream. So, you need the right bacteria in your gut. All of us in this room have messed up your gut bacteria, and those are your friends. You have 10 trillion cells in your body; you have 100 trillion bacterial cells in your body. You are more bacteria than you are human. Think about that for a moment. It's a symbiotic relationship between the bacteria and you. Otherwise, why did God put bacteria in our gut? For what? Oh yeah, I'm just going to give humans some bacteria. Boom. Just think about it. Why would you have bacteria in your gut and so much, so many, so you think that a lot of these drugs.

work because, oh yeah, doc gave me this drug, and it goes into my system, and I absorb it, and it's doing now. At least 20% of the drugs are actually metabolized by your bacteria in your gut, and their metabolites get released into your bloodstream. So, therefore, if you wiped out all your bacteria. So, if we did the study in mice, we do it all the time. Take out all the bacteria, then we give them the drug, no effect. You put the bacteria back again, now you have an effect. What I'm trying to tell you all is that what you eat has huge repercussions on your hormones, your bacteria. Every time you eat, you've got to consciously think twice before you put anything down your stomach. What you're going to eat, you should be eating fermented foods, you should be eating bacterial products. Like, you should be eating lots of yogurt and doing, and all, you know, sauerkraut. If you live here, you know, which is cauliflower and cabbage that has been fermented, and kefir, and balsamic.

vinegar, and these are extremely healthy for your gut. So, eat only whole foods. Please don't eat any processed foods. Eat high fiber intake from a variety of plants. A lot of fiber, fiber, fiber, fiber, fiber, because fiber... What for? Who? It's not for you. You can't digest fiber. Fiber goes to your bacteria. I just told you how important bacteria are. Why are you starving them? So, your poor bacteria, they're waiting for their food. They only live on one thing that they love, which is fiber, which is a polysaccharide. But instead, you're giving them sugar. Now, there are bacteria that live on sugar, but those are the bad boys. They produce metabolites that are no good. So, you just invited the worst teams to come and play in your backyard, the bad guys. Why are you inviting the bad guys into your gut? So, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt to improve the biodiversity of your microbiome, and non-processed foods must be whole foods. It must be whole, must be whole, and

measure your blood pressures and get your weight down to a BMI of 23. You must do intermittent fasting so you can restore insulin sensitivity, which I talked to you about, and to improve your microbiota and to improve your liquid gut. What is that all about? Now I'm going to tell you about inflammation a little bit more. So if you have a leaky gut, the food creates an antibody response; therefore, you get joint pains, mental fog. Who don't you know that has mental fog? Who don't you know that's got early dementia already? Where do you think that's coming from? It comes from inflammation from the leaky gut. So if you fix the gut, all of a sudden that person's brain starts working better because all that inflammatory stuff crosses the blood-brain barrier, causes what is known as mental fog. And this happens not only to old people. I do this to a lot of young people. They come and say, Oh my God, Doc, I'm just every morning I wake up, I got this fog, my brain is a fog. And then I make them

change their diet, and the first thing they come back and say, You know, I feel so much alive. I can think better. My memory is better. So, you got to fast. You go to time-restricted feeding. Oh man, omad means eating one meal a day because your ancestors and you are not such great hunters that you can make a kill every two hours and stop eating at night because you can't bring the carcass into your cave because then the hyenas will come into your cave as well and eat you up. So, you're supposed to only eat one meal a day and get it over with, okay? An addiction. Consciously think about it because you are becoming addicted to wheat, sweetness, sugar, caffeine, dairy products, and snacks. They actually cause addiction. You think you're not addicted? I can prove to all of you you are in some way or the other addicted. So, these patients come and say, Oh, I felt so bad by four o'clock. I was hungry. So, I said, Okay, so what did you do? It says, I ate. Then I felt good.

so I said, Why do you think you're feeling bad? My sugar went so low. I said, Did you measure your sugar? Yeah, it was 90. So I said, That's not low. So they're feeling bad. It's not just low sugar. You're feeling bad because you're a junkie. You're a junkie. [Music]

Top Two Reasons Why Most People Fail at Intermittent Fasting

Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, MD

The Impact of Eating on Hormones and Insulin

What you eat significantly affects your hormones and bacteria.

Fasting is important for lowering insulin levels, as eating too frequently leads to excess insulin production.

Intermittent fasting breaks the cycle of addiction to food and sugar, helping to regulate insulin sensitivity and reduce cravings.

The Importance of Conscious Feeding and Fasting

Frequent eating is often driven by social conditioning and a misguided sense of urgency, rather than true hunger.

Practicing conscious feeding—eating only when hungry—can detoxify the body and reset gut bacteria, which play a crucial role in nutrient metabolism.

The symbiotic relationship between human cells and bacteria highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy gut for overall well-being.

The Impact of Gut Bacteria on Drug Metabolism and Health

Gut bacteria play a crucial role in metabolizing drugs, with their metabolites entering the bloodstream.

The food we eat significantly affects our hormones and gut bacteria, making it important to choose wisely.

A diet rich in fermented foods, high fiber intake from whole plant sources, and avoiding processed foods can improve gut health and microbiome diversity.

The Importance of Gut Health and Intermittent Fasting

Maintaining a BMI of 23 and practicing intermittent fasting can restore insulin sensitivity and improve gut health.

A leaky gut can lead to inflammation, causing joint pain and mental fog, which can affect people of all ages.

Time-restricted feeding and eating one meal a day can help break the cycle of addiction to certain foods and improve overall well-being.

The Misinterpretation of Low Sugar Levels

A person expressed feeling bad due to low sugar, but their measured level was 90, which is not considered low.

The speaker suggests that the person's discomfort is not solely due to sugar levels but also related to their lifestyle choices.

The conversation highlights the complexity of feeling unwell and the impact of habits on overall health.