 I just finished a one week fast and I figured this would be an excellent time to talk about fasting and I'm referring specifically to only drinking water for a period of days to a week or two. There's intermittent fasting which is consuming within a time window, there's OMAD which is one meal a day which is what I've pretty much done for my whole carnivore period of six years and there's all other variations on fasting, alternate day fasting, some people only eat on the weekend, some people only eat during the week but the focus of this video is mainly the wet or dry fasting and wet fasting being with water, dry fasting being no water and I personally cannot dry fast because I just get such terrible acne that I've never really been able to do it for more than a day at a time without just rehydrating but the benefits of fasting are very apparent in regards to weight loss. Most people fast to lose weight and there's even a crazy story that people throw around where the sky fasted for over a year on just like minerals and supplements and lost hundreds of pounds then the next benefit is autophagy which is kind of the replenishment of cells you know old cells becoming new ones but to me those two benefits can be achieved on a zero-carb carnivore diet because if you optimize your nutrient intake through high vitamin animal foods you're optimizing cell differentiation and regeneration how your body makes cells in addition to that the weight loss thing is usually achieved as well the main purpose I see in fasting is resetting appetite resetting digestion you know I might only want to eat five pounds of grain fed ribeye a day but if I fast for two or three days the next thing I put in my mouth is going to taste amazing it's an excellent excellent tool for resetting appetite it allows you to be more in line with what your natural body craves but if you haven't tried a ketogenic or a zero-carb diet there are many many benefits to removing visceral fat losing weight increasing nutrient density that can be achieved without fasting and in addition to that it takes your body longer to get into ketosis and benefit from fasting if you haven't been on a low carb diet already that really depends on your glycogen storage as well as the amount of food that's in your digestive system so the problem with this is a lot of people might want to think oh I could do a one or two or three day fast and benefit from it but to really benefit from autophagy I think you have to fast for at least five to seven days preferably longer that's why those fasts should you know they're very very beneficial and are usually done every few months for most people autophagy in the body is kind of like breaking down all of the old machinery and equipment and repurposing it but to me again with the gene expression cell differentiation the importance of fat type of vitamins in that seems like it can be achieved in other ways and you will look less muscular but you won't actually be losing muscle your body depletes glycogen storage your body loses water you look smaller and in most cases there's actually studies showing that you can gain muscle while fasting and it increases muscle gain obviously when fasting you're not going to gain as much muscle as consuming like a carnivore or keto diet but muscle loss should be the last concern the only way you would start losing muscle is literally like three or four weeks of fasting and sedentary activity the most important factor here in improving muscle mass and lean body mass is making sure to maintain that exercise routine of resistance training electrolytes are a big thing and a main concern and I can't tell you how many people have come to me with this snake juice thing I have a very in-depth half hour video on electrolytes that I'll link in the description where I go into natural electrolyte ratios what you should be doing the best way to replenish your electrolytes naturally is to use seaweed water or to use clay in your water using various mineral supplements using salt using those things although that's beneficial definitely watch my video on electrolytes try to understand what the natural ratios of electrolytes are on the body it's just you kind of want to stay away from those collated minerals those various supplements and that really gets fishy and it's much easier to throw the body out of balance in regards to electrolyte ratios when you're not using natural methods the longest period of time I've actually fasted is two weeks and I drank only distilled water with clay for two weeks so by the end of that and it was actually I think over two weeks it was 13 or 14 days I literally felt like death so I was able to fast for two weeks I'm pretty much just distilled water with no minerals or electrolytes although I don't recommend that and that was already at a very very lean body weight I did that mostly for autophagy benefits resetting appetite I mean you save money on food but that's not really a good reason to fast in the context of how to actually go about doing it if you haven't increased the nutrient density of your diet yet through foods like fish row fish eggs liver organ meats wild caught fish pastured eggs high quality animal foods I would fast for like if you're like come up to me and say hey Frank I want to lose as much weight as possible and be as healthy as possible as quick as possible I would say okay you do a heavily calorie restricted diet only with high quality animal foods literally only eating several hundred calories per day to appetite of these foods because if you only eat fish row if you only eat raw salmon if you only eat like really high quality low palatable foods you're not going to consume more than several hundred calories worth of them it's it's very very interesting if people take like a bowl of like a bowl of raw fish row which I have here how far into that do you think you're going to get maybe a few tablespoons in and you think you're going to be done so that's a way to kind of reduce caloric intake heavily calorically restricted fast and then after you've kind of done that for two or three weeks increase the vitamin content in your fat cells and then your liver you know restore your fat soluble vitamin stores that you haven't had your whole life then you could do things like getting a lot of sun water fasting doing those things but for me the main point I wanted to get across in this video was that you need to replenish your fat soluble vitamin stores I think that's the most important thing as you might see the benefits that you're looking to see in fasting through that as well as the lower carbohydrate diets like keto and zero carb removing visceral fat so just to kind of briefly touch on what I've done in the past I mean I've done it two week fast several times I've done a one week fast several times I used to actually fast one quarter of the time I haven't been doing that lately but it's something I usually do I haven't I mean mainly because I haven't I've been having a hard time getting a job lately I've been under a lot of stress I've been a lot of personal issues that have led me to consuming a lot I had the main thing that stopped me from fasting was I went and brought primal I had a problem with raw dairy and eggs I had a lot of allergy allergic reactions and I wasn't eating a lot I lost a lot of weight so that's why I haven't been able to fast recently but I did fast this last week the first few days were just clay water then I started drinking seaweed water and you could even eat things like seaweed and not really break the fast there's many many ways to replenish electrolytes naturally through foods as well as kind of clear out your digestive system along the way I think that's something that seaweed is great for doing but thank you guys for watching if you guys would like to 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