6 Intermittent Fasting Protocols for Fat Loss, Mood, Energy, and Improving Your Overall Health
Sep 18, 2023
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Dr. Mindy Pelz, a renowned holistic health expert and intermittent fasting advocate, shares valuable insights on fasting as a transformative health tool. She discusses six different fasting protocols, explaining their unique benefits for fat loss and overall well-being. Mindy highlights how fasting supports women's health during hormonal changes and offers simple ways to get started. With a blend of scientific research and personal anecdotes, she empowers listeners to harness fasting for improved energy and mental clarity.
Intermittent fasting offers various health benefits including fat burning, inflammation reduction, and promotion of growth hormone production.
Different fasting windows provide unique benefits such as cellular repair, gut reset, fat burning, and immune system regeneration.
Fasting can positively impact women's hormonal health by alleviating symptoms, boosting energy, and promoting cellular repair.
Deep dives
Intermittent Fasting: A Powerful Health Protocol
Intermittent fasting is a healing state that can be achieved by avoiding food for a certain period of time. It is a free and natural tool that offers numerous health benefits. In a fasting window of 12-16 hours, the body switches to burning stored fat, reduces inflammation, and triggers the production of growth hormone, which slows down aging. Another fasting window of 17 hours activates autophagy, a cellular detox process where cells repair and eliminate dysfunctional parts. Autophagy fasting has shown promising results in preventing cancer recurrence and boosting the immune system. Both intermittent fasting and autophagy fasting can be incorporated into a fasting lifestyle for long-term health benefits.
Understanding the Different Fasting Windows
Fasting can be tailored to different time periods, each with specific health benefits. In a 12-16 hour window of intermittent fasting, the body enters a fat-burning state, reduces inflammation, and boosts growth hormone production. At 17 hours of fasting, autophagy is triggered, leading to cellular repair and elimination of dysfunctional cells, such as cancer cells. A 24-hour fasting window allows for a gut reset, promoting intestinal stem cell production and improving gut health. Fasting for 36 hours helps with fat burning and accessing stored energy, while a 48-hour fast can reset the dopamine system, enhancing happiness and motivation. Finally, a 72-hour fast promotes immune system regeneration, replacing old white blood cells with new ones. These fasting windows offer unique benefits that can improve overall health and well-being.
Benefits of Fasting for Women and the Importance of Fasting as a Tool
Fasting is especially beneficial for women due to its positive impact on hormonal health. It can help address perimenopausal symptoms, melt belly fat, boost energy levels, and combat brain fog. The benefits of fasting for women are supported by scientific research, including studies indicating a lower risk of breast cancer recurrence. Fasting is not a diet but rather a lifestyle approach that allows for flexibility in food choices. It taps into the body's natural healing mechanisms, such as ketone production, autophagy, and growth hormone release. By embracing fasting as a tool, individuals can take control of their health, promote cellular repair, and slow down the aging process.
Compressing Food into a 12-Hour Window Triggers Weight Loss
By compressing food into a 12-hour eating window, individuals can experience weight loss even without changing what they eat. This eating pattern allows for metabolic switching into a healing state, where the body can repair and insulin and glucose levels can stabilize. This approach has been shown to lead to significant weight loss, as seen in a case study where a man lost around 120 pounds over a year by compressing his food into a 12-hour window.
Fasting Protocols and the Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Fasting protocols, such as intermittent fasting, can lead to changes in food choices and have several mechanisms for promoting weight loss and overall health. Firstly, intermittent fasting can help improve the hunger hormone response by stabilizing blood sugar levels and producing ketones that suppress appetite. Secondly, fasting affects the gut microbiome, leading to changes in bacterial diversity and reducing cravings caused by certain bacteria. Finally, fasting allows for cellular repair and reduced inflammation, improving the overall health of cells and promoting weight loss.
In this episode, renowned holistic health expert and intermittent fasting devotee Dr. Mindy Pelz is here to explain the 101 of fasting for better health. You’ll learn the empowering science behind why it works and how it can help you achieve so many health goals.
Dr. Mindy is fascinated by our body’s ability to "heal itself" and how fasting protocols can activate some remarkable results based on extensive research studies.
If you’re tired of diets that leave you feeling like sh*t, health improvements that cost money, or just hate feeling out of control of your body, this is the one zero-cost tool that could have a significant impact on your health.
Dr. Mindy is on a mission to help people understand and harness their healing abilities through fasting. And today, she’s told all the Olympic athletes, Academy Award-winning actors, and Silicon Valley CEOs that she works with to step aside because she’s got an appointment with someone more important: you.
This episode is a guide to 6 recommended and researched fasting protocols. You’ll learn about each one and how they unleash your body’s natural ability to heal itself, reset the gut, and even get rid of damaged cells in the body.
Dr. Mindy breaks it all down with significant research, stories, and shocking statistics.
She’ll teach you:
What fasting even is and why it’s different from a "diet".
The 6 different fasting protocols and their researched-backed benefits.
The 3 easiest ways to start fasting at any point.
What the two energy systems in your body are and how fasting helps you tap into both.
What is biologically happening when you follow a fasting protocol?
What Keto really stands for and why the term "Keto-friendly" can’t be trusted.
The 9 cellular healing benefits of fasting and how it can help cure disease.
The fasting protocol that will help you lose belly fat (for good).
I can’t wait for you to learn from Dr. Mindy about this free tool that may just be what you’ve been looking for. Get ready to feel empowered.
Xo, Mel
IMPORTANT: This podcast discusses fasting, and its advice may not be suitable for anyone with an eating disorder. If you have an existing health condition, are pregnant or nursing, or are taking medication, always consult your healthcare practitioner before going for prolonged periods without eating.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
4:40: According to the research, what does fasting do?
5:30: Here’s why fasting is such a passion for Dr. Mindy Pelz.
7:20: So how does fasting work exactly?
10:00: Our bodies have two energy systems, but we only use one.
12:15: What is autophagy and why should I care?
14:00: When your body isn’t making ketones, you’re missing a key component of health.
17:30: The surprising places most of the fasting research comes from.
20:40: Science recommends intermittent fasting as a first line of treatment.
21:45: This is why fasting is NOT a dieting trend.
25:00: Here’s how fasting melts calories, no matter what you eat.
28:20: Got cravings? This is where they come from and how you can control them.
31:00: Ignore “keto-friendly” marketing; eat this food instead.
33:00: Fasting is not for pregnant and nursing women, or people with eating disorders.
35:10: What about my coffee?
37:15: Describing the 6 different types of fasting.
39:50: I want to make this idea of fasting easy for you.
45:40: When your body makes a ketone, it also makes the calming GABA hormone.
48:00: Let’s unpack autophagy and who exactly that is for.
54:40: How do intestinal stem cells make a difference to your health?
55:35: Is it even safe to fast for 36 hours, and why on earth do I want to do that?
58:30: Feeling anxious? Give this type of intermittent fasting a try.
60:30: Research found that fasting chemo patients had healthier white blood cells.
