 Next question is from June in 87. What are your views on cleansing or fast days? Cleansing or fast day? I don't like the terminology. Yeah, like here's the value of fasting is this. Okay, the main values of fasting is this. And I know that there's studies that show that it benefits the body and you get a salatophagy and you get, you know, neurogenesis. All that happens with a low calorie diet too, by the way. So you don't need to necessarily fast for all of that. But here's the real benefits. Really, it's in for the right people, not everybody, but for the right people, it helps you develop a better relationship with food, really helping you detach from something that we tend to have a bad relationship with. So for example, if you did a 48 hour fast and again, it needs to be appropriate for you. If your issues are that you tend to starve yourself, fasting will make things worse. But if it's right for you, let's say you fast for 48 hours and in that 48 hour period, you feel stressed like you normally do or you're bored, like you normally do or you wanna distract yourself or whatever, you're not eating. Now you're becoming more aware of how you tend to snack or eat when you're bored or stressed or at certain times. Now you know how to deal with feeling cravings. Cravings are very different from hunger and you can start to identify those things. So it can help with your attachment to food, it can help with your relationship to food. This is why fasting is present in every major world religion, why it's present in most spiritual practices, not for the fat loss or weight loss effects, but rather for lack of a better term, the spiritual benefits. But as far as helping the body, I mean, maybe for like specific cases, but otherwise, no, I wouldn't recommend anybody fast to cleanse their body. Yeah, I mean, I think it's good to mechanistically to take a break and let your digestive system sort of out. Yeah, just to have time to function without bombarding it and inundating it all the time with food. And again, all those values that you've brought up in terms of being able to reflect and have all the cognitive benefits and step away from the ritual of food too. Like, I think, I mean, all that is the main benefits you're gonna get from fasting. I just hate calling it detoxing because I know there's a lot of products and things. They even brought up isogenics, which I was familiar with. Like some of my clients were always asking me about that and it's like this solution that they're trying to sell to basically like, get all the quote unquote toxic chemicals and elements out of your body while you're going through this. Really the main benefit is just stepping away and having those other benefits that you'd mentioned earlier. I have a very specific way that I use fasting with clients and I don't use it for everybody. And I don't use it with somebody who's just starting with me. Most clients that are just getting started with a diet and a training program, like we're learning what all the foods are and macronutrients and figuring out where their caloric maintenance is at and most every client that I've ever taken, very rarely am I not trying to speed their metabolism by increasing their caloric and taking adding good foods to their diet. So much of what I do at the beginning, no matter what your goal is, even if it's weight loss, I'm adding to your diet at first. And then I use fasting to interrupt like us being regimen for a long time. So let's say you've been training with me for six months and the first three months was a lot of education and consistency and figuring out your body and where you're at and gets you to understand what carbs, fats and proteins are and what a good day of eating looks like you, bad day of eating looks like for you, like, and then stringing some consistent weeks and maybe months together of dieting correctly and eating well. And then I like to interrupt that, right? So now that they get it, they get the importance of getting all these macros in and being consistent with what they eat, then I like to just like take it away from them and say, okay, now we're gonna, on Friday, we're gonna fast for 24 hours. And then it's literally for the purpose that Sal is talking about, which is to just, I wanna first train you on how important it is for you to get all these foods and be consistent with it. And then I also want to interrupt that by showing you that, listen, you don't have to always be eating all these foods. Let's completely not have anything and start to understand what real hunger is like. Cause a lot of time people think they're hungry when a craving kicks up every two to three hours and detach from that. That is the only way I'm using it. I'm never using it for a, we need to detox your body or this may help us lose some more body fat or none of the things, and all the ways that they promote fasting and all the benefits that come with it, I don't use it for those reasons. It's simply to interrupt somebody who has been training or eating and dieting consistently. And that normally looks like a competitor for me. It's rarely an average person. Most people, I would spend most of my time trying to get them to be consistent with their eating and be consistent with the things that we're trying to do and just throwing a day of fasting at that person who hasn't even strung two weeks together of eating similar type macros. I don't see a lot of value in interrupting that with a fast. I do though, when I would get a competitor who is like, for the last year they've been eating the same foods and they eat every two hours and they're like, so they feel like if they don't eat that they're gonna lose muscle and they'll never be able to build unless they're hitting these exact targets every day and they have this crazy attachment to food. Those are the people that I see the most value to do a fast with. Now I've also heard though to like one of my, well somebody that I hang out with every now and then he was telling me he was doing like sort of like a cleanse but it was all just like a lot of fiber. And he would like every now and then intermittently throughout the year he would do like this an excessive amount of fiber to try and clear out all the shit in his body. Yeah, it's okay, it's not like a chimney, you know. It's not like we're like pipes, you know where you think I gotta flush something through here to clean out all the pipes. It's not really how it works. So this terminology is all marketing kind of terminology. The cleansing effect that you may get from a fast is just cleansing you of your maybe bad attachment to food. So it's more of a mental thing than anything. But if you're one of those people that, you know, if you're bad relationship to food is skipping meals and not eating, you know. Oh yeah, they call that starving yourself. Terrible idea. Absolutely.