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550: Fasting Expert: The Complete Guide to Fasting (Do It Correctly!) | Dr. Mindy Pelz

The Ultimate Health Podcast

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The Importance of Fasting for the Microbiome

There's something called geographical relocation that happens in the body where all of our microbes start to clump together. So fasting helps them unclump and become more separate so that nutrient absorption can happen. The second thing is any bad bacteria the longer you fast will die off. This is where you start to see people who get diarrhea and constipation. All that is is the bad stuff dying off.

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