Reddit reviews The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

So I actually first heard about it following my favorite mixed martial artist Georges St. Pierre. He had / has ulcerative colitis and after reading about it some from him, I was interested. Then he went on the Joe Rogan podcast and spoke to him about it but what I took away was his doctor's name Dr. Jason Fung.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/authors/dr-jason-fung-m-d

Here's the video that started explaining things to me: https://youtu.be/v9Aw0P7GjHE?t=1

The video is kinda tough to get through but it really broke things down for me. The book he wrote is free if you download the audiobook on amazon. Otherwise it's only $10.

So these guys aren't even using it for weight loss, but are a) losing weight, and b) fixing their symptoms with health issues c) maintaining their super active lifestyles.

If you don't know who George St Pierre is, he was largely considered one of the biggest names in mixed martial arts and not only being good, but an all-time pound for pound great. So he's using it while training for fighting and saying it's not holding him back at all, but actually letting him train harder by managing his symptoms.

As far as this AMA, it basically falls back on the "eat 6 meals a day" to keep your metabolism going. People have been finding little by little that humans weren't really designed to eat 6 meals a day. Not only that but eating the typical "american" diet even when broken down to 6 smaller meals a day is just stunting the weight loss aspect. As Dr. Jason Fung puts it, each time you eat your insulin spikes. Smaller meals mean smaller spikes. Insulin is the most powerful hormone in the body in that your body won't burn fat while insulin is up. More meals means more spikes which means less of or smaller fat burning windows. Why IF works is that when you stretch that fasting period out, you're keeping your insulin low extending said fat burning period. As a nephrologist he also deals with patients with kidney disease and while he's not claiming IF is a miracle cure, he says he's seen definite improvements in his patients that have really stuck with their IF regiment. He's also a huge proponent of low carb diets. In that longer video I believe it was (the one I linked up top) he also mentions that cancer cells cannot gain energy through oxygen on it's own, it's through carbs and glucose that gives them energy and by basically cutting back on carbs or cutting them out almost completely (keto) one is likely to see great improvements in their treatments and their overall healthiness.

I won't pretend I'm a doctor by any means so don't take my word for it without doing your own research. I literally learned all of what I know through this doctor and listening to him talk online and beginning IF by myself. If fasting DOESN'T work for you, you're / they're either lying to yourself / themselves (ie cheating on it) or they have some other underlying crazy health complications that could prevent it from helping. Again, it's not a cure, but holy shit has it changed my life from not only weight loss but to energy gain and better blood panels etc that I took both before starting on IF and now. It sounds like bullshit, I totally get it, but give it an honest try for a week and cutting carbs down you'll see why it's no wonder we as a country (americans) have gotten so obese. There's carbs in like 90% of our foods when we as a species didn't have carbs until thousands of years into our existence.

ninja edit: I feel I should mention this really tied together when I watched a documentary on netflix called "The Magic Pill" in which they track several cultures, families, and children with different situations in their lives (and different diets) but the underlying factor being carbs and it shows how literally every single one of them improve after giving up carbs.

edited again for some clarity near the end.

OMG! That's like a scam website. Why don't you educate yourself and listen to some of Dr. Fung's video in youtube or buy Dr. Fung and Jimmy Moore's [book] (https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day/dp/B01N9CQX29/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504794828&sr=8-1&keywords=dr.+fung). They present scientific evidence to dispute this nonsense easily. Also, visit the r/leangains sub

People typically have massive weight loss the first few days but it will be less coming from keto. The massive drop is much of the weight you will gain back (digestive material, glycogen stores, water, etc).

The comforting part for me is that you can't screw up a fast. You are fasting or not. Your metabolism is increased the first ~4 days and it's directly eating body fat.

For reference: https://i.imgur.com/0u7ABIy.png (not sure what is going on with the massive drop this morning. I think I was dehydrated. I expect to see weight gain tomorrow.)

EDIT: If you do want to play with extended fasting I can't recommend this book and Dr. Fung enough: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day/dp/B01N9CQX29

Checkout this: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day/dp/B01N9CQX29

Latest research and technologies can't tell the difference between organ fat and organ muscle. But the extremities experience no muscle loss so why would the organs?

Schitzo is perfectly treatable and there's no need to do drugs or spend on anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaY4m00wXpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Kj2mQksaU

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day/dp/B01N9CQX29/


You can get well, brother. Life doesn't have to be fucking trash haha.

Keto doesn't really abide by CICO (Calories In - Calories Out). It's all about hormones and insulin. When you restrict your body from relying on carbs (glucose) to burn for energy, it turns to fat and ketones instead. It lowers your blood sugar and provides very rapid weight loss.

> There is no miracle diet.

Honestly, the 'miracle diet' is no diet at all. Extended Water Fasting is amazing for weight loss and for your health. First of all, no, you don't constantly lose muscle when water fasting, you lose a small amount in the first few days but then it stays constant. Doing a bit of weight training will maintain your muscle no problem.

Water fasting will also make your body go through 'autophagy', which is where any bad or damaged cells will be replaced with healthy new cells. This can even help treat certain ailments.

Scientists and doctors are starting to recommend that everyone does at least a 72 hour water fast once per year to be healthier.

The human body is designed to go through periods of fasting due to the fact that early humans had to hunt for food and could often go days or weeks without sustenance. There are also a lot of people who do extended fasting for religious reasons.

Personally, I do 3 to 7 day fasts with one or two days of feeding in between (keto food only to stay in ketosis).

You'll probably brush this off as you seem set in your ways, but if you would like more info head to /r/fasting, or check out these books by Dr. Jason Fung: The Obesity Code and The Complete Guide to Fasting.