 It's indicated that you've had a massive detox, massive. Your cellar energy production, your phase angle, improved over 5%. Which basically means your body's functioning much better. So is that an under 5% stronger on the bike? Alright, so we're back in South Melbourne. I'm off to see Tim. He's the fasting expert, the practitioner that set me up on this 5-day cleanse, which I finished a day and a half ago. I'm currently in a reintroduction to food pro grams, day 7. And I'm off to meet Tim to talk about the 5-day cleanse, the experience that I just had, all the weird symptoms that I felt. My Instagram followers when I felt some pretty bizarre things like achy legs, sore lower back, cold and flu symptoms. So I want to ask him about why I felt that way. We're also going to do another bio-impedance test to find out what physiological changes have happened to my body since going on the 5-day fast. Alright, so Tim, I want to talk to you about all my side effects. I want you to explain to me why I felt that way before we go through the bio-impedance test, the results that I've got over the last six or seven days. Well, when did we last do that? It was two weeks ago, was it? We did it two weeks ago, so a few days before you started. Yeah, about five days before I started. As long as you didn't do anything crazy, like you didn't go on a crazy monster carb loading fast before the fast. No, no, I just stuck to the normal. Yeah, okay, if you kept it normal, it's fine. Yeah. But before I go on the side effects, I gave you a message the day after. I said, when can I have coffee? And you said another seven days and it's absolutely destroying me. I'm feeling a little bit better now, but that texts back from you saying no caffeine for another seven days. Why am I not allowed caffeine? Well, because what we'd established initially when we first, in the first, you know, consult one, we were chatting looking at your day to day functioning, day to day energy levels, what you eat and what sort of stuff. Basically, you have a bit of a, you were reliant a bit on coffee as a fix, an energy fix. And it's an artificial fix. So, you know, stimulates the liver to produce more, to release more sugar in your bloodstream, you know, via this sort of a fix via the adrenals to stimulate the liver to, you know, release more sugar. And that's great in the short term and in the long term, it can drain you. It can be bad for your nervous system, bad for your adrenals. And so it can rob your energy, amongst other things. So, basically, when you go on, if you stay on caffeine, you're staying reliant on a chemical to stay fixed. And I basically have seen with clients and with myself and what have you many, many times the difference between real energy and stimulated energy. And if you clean your system out, and your body works well, then it'll produce energy. Could you drink a coffee and do a cleanse at the same time, or that wouldn't be counter-intuitive? But it's like, you know, riding, running a marathon and stopping at 40Ks. Yeah, I don't know. You know, like, if you, you know, just, you probably could, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as good. And you're still, your system's not, you're not giving your system a complete rest. Yeah. Yeah, so I, we did that. And then it's just when in the end there, you know, you said, can I have a coffee now? And I was like, well, you're still sort of in that cycle. And then I think it was the next day, can I have black tea? So I was like, no, the boy's looking for a fix. However he can get his fix. And black tea's not as strong as coffee, but it's still caffeine. So it's just like, wait, because you're not doing an extended, extended fast. You're doing a five day fast. And from our discussions, most of that time will be full on detoxing. So you haven't even, I don't think you've even seen the fruits of this process. So I'd prefer you see, you know, rather than getting a fix now from caffeine, I'd prefer you to sort of wean off it properly and then see the energy levels you can have without it. Yeah. And then you know, well, I don't, I'm not reliant on it. Yeah, okay. Fair call. That's the reason. Yeah, fair call. Plus I, you know, I'm a masochist and I just like seeing you suffer. Ha ha ha, thanks for that. No. Yeah. So I was a bit surprised about this five days. Yeah. I had my body reacted. I was anticipating from just watching a few videos and things that I've seen that I was going to start feeling really good on day four and five. But it turns out that I felt the first two days I was getting through coffee withdrawals. And then day three, I went through like into detoxing. And it was day three, day four, and even a bit of five and even a little bit into six where I just felt here are the symptoms. And I want you to understand why I felt this way. So I'd achy like abs and lower back. I would almost feel it internally. I was aching, like my organs were aching. That was day three, four, I think you're saying. Yeah, day three, four. Yeah, and even a little bit of five. I had pretty much bad sleep the whole time. I woke up a number of times in the middle of the night. Found it hard to get back to sleep, like around three 30 a couple of times. Cold and flu like symptoms. And I also had some light headaches as well throughout. So, and that was, so the five days was pretty hard. It wasn't like the first two days were hard and then the next three days were a bit easier. Like it was really tough going. So why did I feel like that? Well, the first couple of days with the caffeine withdrawal, that's the headaches and sort of that you might feel a bit edgy and that that's definitely withdrawal from caffeine. So some of those symptoms could be that but a lot of those symptoms you're talking about, in fact, all of them are classic detox response. So it's like your body's putting it at the garbage. So, you know, cells are cleaning out and the liver's metabolizing more toxins because your body, you're not putting more toxins in, you're giving your digestive system a rest and you're saving a fair bit of energy from digestion so your body spends more energy on metabolism and what have you and you basically you're cleaning your system out but it'll in the process of if it gets released out of cells or out of organs, then it'll be in your, before it gets released out of your body, it'll flow around your blood system. So what you've gone through because you've done a five day fast, you've gone through, you know, in the times I've done fast there, the first five days are the toughest days. So you've gone through the big detox. You know, that's the big cleanse. So I'm not surprised that that's what you felt. I've done it a couple of times where I fast with two or three other people at the same time and we compared symptoms and we monitored ourselves with the bio-impedance along the way and we're all different. Like one person felt amazing straight away and we were dirty at her. Cause I felt pretty, I've always felt a bit ordinary early and then felt great later on. And now the guy was a bit similar to me although he didn't feel as great later on. The one that I found most strange was the, I could actually feel my internal organs, like my kidneys, like achy, like I've never experienced it in my life. And that was kind of, it was almost like this connecting experience with my body because it was like doing things that it's never done before because it was ridding myself of that. Why would I get the achy in actual internally? It's going to be work, things like your kidneys, your liver, you know, your gallbladder and like going to work harder. Even your spleen would agree, they're going to work harder because of your detoxing and cleansing. And it's, you know, it's a quite a full on process. And so I remember the first question I asked you is how much water are you drinking? And you said, apart from the old herbal tea and the juices, you're not having much, which actually surprised me. Because, you know, I would think you need a litre to a litre and a half on top of those. And so if you're not drinking a lot of water, you're not, your body's got to flush them out, you know, the toxins out somehow. We'll go into this further when we talk about what you're, what we found from the Biompedance Test Results. Because that relates a bit to this. Do you want to talk about them now? Yeah. I've found some of them super interesting. Well, rather than bringing it up on the screen and going into detail, you lost about one, I mean, I've found, for example, when I've done fast in the past, I lost about similar amounts of fat, muscle and water. Whereas you lost, you lost about, what was it? 6 kilos a lot. 5.8, yeah, you lost 1.2 kilos of fat, roughly 1.2, 2.1 or so of muscle. So that's more muscle than fat, but you didn't have a lot of fat to lose at the start. Whereas I put on, I put on muscle easy. Which ultimately means I put on fat easy. So I've always carried a little, even when I was training full time, I always carried a little bit. You said that as well, because I was burning more muscle than fat might have actually been a thing you feel bad as well. But why is that? Well, because if you're burning a lot of muscle, so when your body breaks, because you're on a fast, you've got very, very little carbohydrate coming in. Yes, you're having a couple of juices, but it's not a lot. So your body will have to find energy stores from its own internal stores. So it will start converting muscle and fat back to carbohydrate for energy called gluconeogenesis, just for a fancy word for you. And when you convert fat back to carbohydrate, the by-product is a ketone, so ketosis. When you convert muscle back to carbohydrate, the by-product is ammonia. Yeah, right. And ammonia, you smell floor cleaning product. Can you taste that? Yeah, that's often equate to... Because I reckon I had at times, my wife wasn't with me to check me and say, yeah, you're breasting, but I had this weird taste in my mouth. So you're burning, well, not double, but close to double the amount of muscle and you burn fat. So you were beyond ketosis, you were burning, and therefore you've got this, you could have the ammonia circulating around your system as well. It's not at the level where it's extremely bad for you. In your situation, that's why we supervise you on a fast, we want to know what's going on. Yes, you were burning, it wasn't dangerous, but it's something we monitor over time. What are you burning, muscle, fat, et cetera? And that can explain for some of those yucky feelings. Yeah, interesting. Plus also then you're flushing, as I mentioned, you're also flushing toxins out of cells, out of organs, and they may be then traveling around your system and you're not gonna feel good from that either. Yeah, double-edged sword. And it doesn't mean to say everyone who does it fastest is gonna get this. But you're just like me, that when I've done the two week, it's the first five days of the hardest days for me. And so you've done it five days fast, you've just done the hard yards. But what we also found from that test, so that's the body composition changes, your abdomen drops seven centimetres, which is, what's that, three inches? Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah, my pants are falling off the edge. Yeah, but in terms of water loss, you lost over three, you lost 3.25 kilos of water total. And we wanna have more water inside the cells than outside the cells. I think it's roughly 60, 40 inside compared to outside. And you stripped, and so if water gets drawn from the inside of the cells to the outside of the cells, it means there's something going on. And normally that will be some sort of chemical reaction that water's drawn to and that will be normally toxicity or inflammation or infection. And in your case, you lost, most of that 3.2 litres of water was extracellular water. So your body's basically, you've lost, when you're losing that much extracellular water, that's an indication you're flushing toxicity. But yeah, so you're losing toxins. Yeah, it's a great sign. So when I found in that phase when people do a fast, or they do a detox program, and when their water, extracellular water levels drop, I've generally found that's the time when they start to feel really good. When it starts, when that drops a man, it starts to plateau. We don't know that with you at this stage, but I would expect you'll start to feel pretty good within the next day or so. Oh, you've already said, you've already started to perk up now. And the first day after the fast is not really, you're not going out and having lots of food. It's a pretty basic sproff without the veggies. I've had four big glasses of water with a little bit of stuff in it. Yeah, so it's pretty much still fasting. It is, yeah, it felt like it. But we just take it really slowly, reintroducing it to food. So essentially, it's indicated that you've had a massive detox, massive. And what that also showed was that you're, we look at a thing called phase angle, which looks at the ability of the body to hold on to the charge, because there's a difference in charge from the inside to the outside of a cell. If my cells are really healthy and around and robust, like grapes, they'll hold on to the charge better. And therefore they'll do their job better. In other words, they'll produce energy better and they'll do whatever their job is. So a cell in your brain will do what brain cells do better, et cetera, et cetera. So your cell at energy production, your phase angle improved over 5%, which basically means your body's functioning much better. You're producing energy more. So it's not going to be 5% stronger on the bike. Yeah, it would be nice to say that, but I don't have a direct correlate between, I don't have a longitudinal study that's done a comparison of improving phase angle and performance on a bike. So can I say that definitively? No. About to find out. But what we can say is that you're more likely to be producing energy more efficiently. And let's see. Let's see. Yes, you definitely are producing more energy more efficiently. There's less what we call fluid retention, less information, so your body's cleaner or work better. Theoretically from that, then you'll recover better between sessions, because everything works better. Your cells are working better, your body's cleaner in general. I guess it goes back to that. Using the right fuel and giving your car a good clean service and tune will just function better.