1 00:00:13,209 --> 00:00:15,959 (dramatic music) 2 00:00:21,110 --> 00:00:22,800 - [Female] Conventional medicine didn't really play 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,678 much of a role in my healing and in the end, 4 00:00:24,678 --> 00:00:28,490 actually what healed me, how I healed myself was through 5 00:00:28,490 --> 00:00:32,570 a combination of eating really high quality foods 6 00:00:32,570 --> 00:00:34,750 and the combination of not eating at all. 7 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:42,320 We're looking for the quick fix. 8 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,910 We're looking for that magic bullet and this is probably 9 00:00:45,910 --> 00:00:49,770 as close to an easy, simple, free magic bullet 10 00:00:49,770 --> 00:00:51,250 that ever existed. 11 00:00:51,250 --> 00:00:54,250 - [Male] I got more mobility change in two days 12 00:00:54,250 --> 00:00:58,250 of water fasting than I did in three weeks of therapy 13 00:00:58,250 --> 00:01:01,420 and my therapist, last Thursday, my fourth day into it, 14 00:01:01,420 --> 00:01:03,895 he says, "What are you doing?" 15 00:01:03,895 --> 00:01:06,478 (upbeat music) 16 00:01:14,890 --> 00:01:17,440 - The advice we give to cut a few calories 17 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,307 is a complete failure. 18 00:01:19,307 --> 00:01:21,257 - If you compare a population of people who never dieted 19 00:01:21,257 --> 00:01:23,670 to a population of people who diet, 20 00:01:23,670 --> 00:01:26,280 the dieters end up weighing significantly more 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,670 than the non-dieters five or 10 years later. 22 00:01:28,670 --> 00:01:30,690 So we need to find new solutions. 23 00:01:30,690 --> 00:01:33,080 - When someone does fasting, 24 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,900 it's very different than when someone simply cuts calories. 25 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:41,240 - So when you fast, you can look at studies 26 00:01:42,984 --> 00:01:44,754 and you will see that the basal metabolic rate 27 00:01:44,754 --> 00:01:48,880 does not go down nearly as much as the calorie restriction. 28 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,760 - There's always a sweet spot for everything. 29 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,181 If you fast for too long, we will say, 30 00:01:53,181 --> 00:01:55,330 if you got out more than say even 10 days, 31 00:01:55,330 --> 00:01:58,810 your metabolism will slow and that's what happens to people 32 00:01:58,810 --> 00:02:02,760 if they try to cut calories for a very long period of time. 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,870 Their metabolism slows and when you start re-feeding, 34 00:02:05,870 --> 00:02:08,366 you will regain the weight and regain it very quickly. 35 00:02:08,366 --> 00:02:10,460 - There's a difference in fat. 36 00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:12,745 The fat that you carry around the waist 37 00:02:12,745 --> 00:02:15,570 is much more dangerous for you. 38 00:02:15,570 --> 00:02:17,670 This study was just published last year. 39 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:20,655 So if you look at truncal fat mass calorie restriction 40 00:02:20,655 --> 00:02:24,370 versus alternate daily fasting, 41 00:02:24,370 --> 00:02:27,990 fasting was six times better at getting rid 42 00:02:27,990 --> 00:02:29,040 of the dangerous fat. 43 00:02:31,690 --> 00:02:34,130 - My plan is to do a seven day fast. 44 00:02:34,130 --> 00:02:36,640 In nine days, I've lost 18 pounds. 45 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,150 - I went seven days and I've lost 20 pounds. 46 00:02:41,150 --> 00:02:44,666 - I thought no way could I go this far 47 00:02:44,666 --> 00:02:46,610 and not be hungry. 48 00:02:46,610 --> 00:02:49,454 - Lots of people noticed the past couple days 49 00:02:49,454 --> 00:02:51,990 how thin that I look already. 50 00:02:51,990 --> 00:02:56,266 I'm on day 21 of my 21 day fast and I've lost 33 pounds. 51 00:02:56,266 --> 00:02:58,591 - Your mind is more clear. 52 00:02:58,591 --> 00:03:00,890 - You're actually gonna be more alert, 53 00:03:00,890 --> 00:03:04,040 you're gonna have more energy and more time. 54 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,330 - We've been skiing for three hours and I haven't eaten 55 00:03:07,330 --> 00:03:10,352 for six days and I feel plenty energized. 56 00:03:10,352 --> 00:03:11,330 Woo Hoo! 57 00:03:12,270 --> 00:03:15,420 I feel like I'm almost on vacation by not eating. 58 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:19,220 - The ancient Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, in fact, 59 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:21,470 he required his students to fast before they came 60 00:03:21,470 --> 00:03:23,450 into the classroom otherwise he thought 61 00:03:23,450 --> 00:03:24,950 they wouldn't be smart enough to figure out 62 00:03:24,950 --> 00:03:26,040 what he was doing. 63 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,470 - So my mind feels as good as it's ever felt. 64 00:03:28,470 --> 00:03:31,480 - When you look at fasting, it's gonna give you 65 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,990 the ability to do all those things at a higher level 66 00:03:34,990 --> 00:03:37,390 than you've ever done them before. 67 00:03:37,390 --> 00:03:38,280 - A lot of people ask me, 68 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,420 "How do you stay so fit at 44 years old?" 69 00:03:41,420 --> 00:03:43,290 And I quite simply look 'em in the eye and I say, 70 00:03:43,290 --> 00:03:45,620 fast before fitness is the ticket. 71 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:47,060 - You're activating your body, 72 00:03:47,060 --> 00:03:50,140 the sympathetic nervous system, noradrenaline, 73 00:03:51,768 --> 00:03:53,200 and growth hormone all go up during a fast. 74 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,400 You actually can workout harder than you've ever done. 75 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,840 - I've always worked out on an empty stomach 76 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,120 in a fasted state. 77 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,890 - The challenges about fasting is that there's 78 00:04:04,742 --> 00:04:06,041 a lot of misinformation out there 79 00:04:06,041 --> 00:04:07,667 and there are several different types. 80 00:04:07,667 --> 00:04:09,240 - Whether you are talking about an overnight fast 81 00:04:10,193 --> 00:04:11,026 or you're talking about a 24 hour fast 82 00:04:11,026 --> 00:04:13,182 or you're talking about a five day or 10 day or 20 day, 83 00:04:13,182 --> 00:04:16,210 people and journalists and everybody likes to use 84 00:04:16,210 --> 00:04:17,270 the same word, right? 85 00:04:18,306 --> 00:04:20,130 And this is very confusing because each turns on 86 00:04:20,130 --> 00:04:21,680 a completely different process. 87 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,470 - This is happening now in practices like mine 88 00:04:24,470 --> 00:04:26,862 all over the country and in the world, 89 00:04:26,862 --> 00:04:30,230 people learning and hopefully will all communicate 90 00:04:30,230 --> 00:04:32,460 and one of the beauties of a film like this 91 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:35,680 is that it will bring attention to the whole concept 92 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,430 of fasting 'cause so many people know nothing about it. 93 00:04:40,444 --> 00:04:43,027 (upbeat music) 94 00:04:44,281 --> 00:04:46,200 - For the last 50 years, we've told people, 95 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,340 eat six meals a day. 96 00:04:48,340 --> 00:04:49,640 Eat the minute that you get up, 97 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,140 within 30 minutes of getting up and make sure you eat 98 00:04:52,140 --> 00:04:54,130 a bedtime snack so you don't get hungry. 99 00:04:54,130 --> 00:04:56,780 The problem is when you start eating the minute you get up 100 00:04:56,780 --> 00:04:59,290 and don't stop eating until the minute you go to bed, 101 00:04:59,290 --> 00:05:01,110 you're constantly telling your body 102 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,770 to store food energy, right? 103 00:05:03,770 --> 00:05:06,790 And you can either, only either store it or burn it, right? 104 00:05:06,790 --> 00:05:08,810 You can't do both at once. 105 00:05:08,810 --> 00:05:12,651 - And even now, many personal trainers and nutritionists 106 00:05:12,651 --> 00:05:16,630 will tell, try to eat something in every two to three hours 107 00:05:16,630 --> 00:05:20,520 you are awake and if we are awake for 18 hours, 108 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,410 then that's a long period of eating. 109 00:05:22,410 --> 00:05:25,310 - The whole problem is eating all the time. 110 00:05:25,310 --> 00:05:27,828 So the very word itself, breakfast, 111 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:32,340 is the meal that breaks your fast and it's actually 112 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:35,467 a very interesting word because what it means 113 00:05:35,467 --> 00:05:40,391 is that fasting is a part of everyday life. 114 00:05:40,391 --> 00:05:43,250 It's something you need to do every single day 115 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:45,970 because it's the flip side of eating. 116 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:47,380 It's just the B side of eating. 117 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:49,661 There's nothing scary about fasting. 118 00:05:49,661 --> 00:05:53,440 So if you fast for 12 hours and eat for 12 hours 119 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,217 or eat for 10 hours and fast for 14 hours, for example, 120 00:05:56,217 --> 00:05:58,827 you'll stay in balance and guess what? 121 00:05:58,827 --> 00:06:01,270 That's what they did in 1960's America. 122 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:04,423 You can look back at surveys 123 00:06:04,423 --> 00:06:07,630 and the average number of meals, 1977, 124 00:06:07,630 --> 00:06:09,620 is three meals a day, right? 125 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:11,702 So I grew up in the 1970's. 126 00:06:11,702 --> 00:06:15,720 Breakfast, lunch, dinner, nothing else. 127 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,058 Snacks? 128 00:06:17,058 --> 00:06:18,058 No. 129 00:06:18,058 --> 00:06:19,060 Guess what? 130 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:20,064 They're eating white bread. 131 00:06:20,064 --> 00:06:21,330 There's no whole wheat pastas, right? 132 00:06:21,330 --> 00:06:22,630 They're eating Oreo cookies. 133 00:06:22,630 --> 00:06:25,480 They're eating ice cream but there's very little obesity. 134 00:06:26,350 --> 00:06:30,220 Now you go to 2005 and the survey, the (inaudible) survey, 135 00:06:30,220 --> 00:06:32,830 which is a large American survey of a lot of things 136 00:06:32,830 --> 00:06:34,390 including dietary habits, 137 00:06:34,390 --> 00:06:37,010 says that we're eating six times a day. 138 00:06:37,010 --> 00:06:39,330 So, again, look at my son's schedule - 139 00:06:39,330 --> 00:06:44,090 breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, after school snack, 140 00:06:44,090 --> 00:06:46,010 dinner, oh, hey, he's playing soccer, 141 00:06:46,010 --> 00:06:48,038 there's snack between the halves of soccer, 142 00:06:48,038 --> 00:06:51,551 six times a day, every single day. 143 00:06:51,551 --> 00:06:55,486 So he's giving his body instructions to store fat 144 00:06:55,486 --> 00:06:59,170 every minute of that waking day and then we wonder 145 00:06:59,170 --> 00:07:00,210 why is he gaining weight? 146 00:07:00,210 --> 00:07:01,960 Well, there's no mystery. 147 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,410 You're eating all the time. 148 00:07:03,410 --> 00:07:05,460 - We would never even consider starting to cook 149 00:07:05,460 --> 00:07:08,263 until 7:30 and we'd usually eat around 8. 150 00:07:08,263 --> 00:07:10,780 - We might get home and eat at eight or nine o'clock 151 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:12,490 and have a big meal at eight or nine o'clock. 152 00:07:12,490 --> 00:07:14,978 - And it was a grazing after dinner that was going on. 153 00:07:14,978 --> 00:07:17,780 - It's a length of time that you let your body 154 00:07:17,780 --> 00:07:20,036 kind of burn that food that you've taken. 155 00:07:20,036 --> 00:07:21,710 That's basically it. 156 00:07:21,710 --> 00:07:24,670 You're giving your body time to digest it. 157 00:07:24,670 --> 00:07:28,950 - If you have them continue their same type of food intake 158 00:07:28,950 --> 00:07:31,528 and about the same number of calories 159 00:07:31,528 --> 00:07:35,008 but you shrink that eating time down, 160 00:07:35,008 --> 00:07:38,380 they will lose weight and they'll feel satisfied 161 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:40,700 and they won't feel miserable because we didn't put them 162 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:42,160 on a 1,600 calorie diet. 163 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,240 - I've not necessarily eaten well. 164 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,350 I've been overweight, sometimes up to 200 pounds. 165 00:07:48,350 --> 00:07:50,316 - Like everybody else, I've gained a pound or two a year 166 00:07:50,316 --> 00:07:51,710 since I was 30. 167 00:07:51,710 --> 00:07:52,950 - About three years ago, 168 00:07:52,950 --> 00:07:55,070 I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. 169 00:07:55,070 --> 00:08:00,070 My A1C was over 14 and I had no idea that it was 170 00:08:00,420 --> 00:08:01,950 out of control the way that it was. 171 00:08:01,950 --> 00:08:04,503 I knew that I'd probably had it based on the symptoms. 172 00:08:04,503 --> 00:08:07,720 So I just tried to control it with diet, medication, 173 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,220 but in the end, it just wasn't working for me, 174 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,790 what I was doing so I decided it was time to switch doctors, 175 00:08:12,790 --> 00:08:16,670 got a recommendation to Dr. Julie and it kinda, 176 00:08:16,670 --> 00:08:17,660 she rocked my world. 177 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:20,587 - First came upon that study, Dr. Panda's study, 178 00:08:20,587 --> 00:08:23,260 it was very easy to understand. 179 00:08:23,260 --> 00:08:25,930 It's so elegantly done that someone who's not 180 00:08:25,930 --> 00:08:29,000 in high level research could understand this paper. 181 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,200 - Big gnarly study with a lot of detail, 182 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,940 tons of charts and graphs, big words, 183 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:34,625 I'm back and worth with Wikipedia, 184 00:08:34,625 --> 00:08:37,160 took like four hours to get through that study. 185 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,560 - They embrace the information because it's something new 186 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:42,100 and it is a void in most people's knowledge base 187 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:46,440 in terms of nutrition and diet and it does sort of 188 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,540 dispel this myth that you need to eat before bedtime 189 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:51,550 or you need to have protein before bedtime 190 00:08:51,550 --> 00:08:52,980 to build muscle mass. 191 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:54,670 - So on the flight back to the west coast, 192 00:08:54,670 --> 00:08:56,080 I read it again for 4 hours. 193 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,577 It was on that flight that I said, I gotta try this. 194 00:08:59,577 --> 00:09:02,188 - So the simple experiment that we did was we took 195 00:09:02,188 --> 00:09:04,760 exactly identical set of mice -- 196 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,900 - One group was eating ad libitum. 197 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:10,970 So they got to eat their food throughout the day 198 00:09:10,970 --> 00:09:12,860 whenever they wanted to eat it and there, 199 00:09:12,860 --> 00:09:16,371 both these groups are on a super size me diet, 200 00:09:16,371 --> 00:09:18,540 like that guy from that movie. 201 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:22,460 - I started with a high fat diet because there are 11,000 202 00:09:22,460 --> 00:09:27,271 research papers published so far where animals or humans 203 00:09:27,271 --> 00:09:31,163 are given this fatty food and this fatty food 204 00:09:31,163 --> 00:09:34,621 causes different diseases starting from diabetes, obesity, 205 00:09:34,621 --> 00:09:39,621 liver damage, cancer, and IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, 206 00:09:41,533 --> 00:09:43,300 et cetera. 207 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:45,500 - The lean mouse, without a doubt, 208 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:47,442 became obese, gained weight. 209 00:09:47,442 --> 00:09:50,354 The lean mouse that was on the time restricted regime 210 00:09:50,354 --> 00:09:53,280 actually stayed lean and that's really 211 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,700 what caught my attention. 212 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:56,963 - So even though they eat the same amount of calories, 213 00:09:56,963 --> 00:10:00,163 at the end, the time restricted mice are lean 214 00:10:00,163 --> 00:10:03,337 compared to the ad lib fed mice. 215 00:10:03,337 --> 00:10:05,208 - And they could stay progressively fitter 216 00:10:05,208 --> 00:10:07,840 and all they had to do was change when they eat, 217 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:08,870 not what they eat. 218 00:10:08,870 --> 00:10:12,180 - Your body needs a daily fasting period and that 219 00:10:12,180 --> 00:10:14,619 eating erratically and kind of eating all over the day 220 00:10:14,619 --> 00:10:17,020 takes away from our body's natural rhythm 221 00:10:17,020 --> 00:10:18,860 to say this is when we eat, this is when we rest, 222 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:20,760 and it's hitting a manual override button. 223 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,350 - We work with a circadian rhythm. 224 00:10:22,350 --> 00:10:24,440 Our bodies are on a clock basically 225 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,189 which is aligned with the 24 hour rotation of the earth. 226 00:10:28,189 --> 00:10:31,811 - The circadian rhythm and turning on and off 227 00:10:31,811 --> 00:10:36,811 of more than 10,000 genes is the largest regulatory network 228 00:10:37,797 --> 00:10:41,640 that we know that exists in human. 229 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,650 - Circadian rhythms in the liver, the pancreas, 230 00:10:44,650 --> 00:10:48,430 and the fat cells get tremendously disrupted 231 00:10:48,430 --> 00:10:51,647 when you eat late at night or when you eat 232 00:10:51,647 --> 00:10:54,690 for more than 12 hours during the day. 233 00:10:54,690 --> 00:10:59,040 - So if the liver clock tracks when we eat, 234 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,704 then forget about light/dark, 235 00:11:00,704 --> 00:11:04,420 what we have to be more careful about is when we eat 236 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:06,000 and when we fast. 237 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,480 - And we have to stay in beat with earth 238 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,860 in order to be healthy. 239 00:11:09,860 --> 00:11:13,700 So we really should stop eating by 7 P.M. at the latest 240 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:15,180 because their pancreas goes to sleep. 241 00:11:15,180 --> 00:11:17,973 - Just before you wake up, somewhere around 4 A.M., 242 00:11:17,973 --> 00:11:22,020 growth hormone, adrenaline and so on, 243 00:11:22,020 --> 00:11:23,430 all get pumped up. 244 00:11:23,430 --> 00:11:25,965 You're basically activating yourself for the day. 245 00:11:25,965 --> 00:11:27,650 So for all those people who say oh, 246 00:11:27,650 --> 00:11:29,213 you have to get up and eat 247 00:11:29,213 --> 00:11:31,510 because you're not gonna have energy, 248 00:11:32,686 --> 00:11:34,174 like your body has already prepared you 249 00:11:34,174 --> 00:11:35,780 for everything you're gonna do. 250 00:11:37,122 --> 00:11:38,948 You don't need to do it again. 251 00:11:38,948 --> 00:11:39,800 - [Michael Voiceover] And so during the day, 252 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,222 we need to be able to go out and hunt and get our food 253 00:11:41,222 --> 00:11:42,680 and do all those kinds of good things 254 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:45,210 so we need access to energy. 255 00:11:45,210 --> 00:11:47,807 We need to be able to metabolize energy quickly 256 00:11:47,807 --> 00:11:52,440 and we need to be able to make sugar as quickly as possible 257 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,320 and we also need to be able to oxidize fats for energy. 258 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,350 - So at night, we can't absorb the fat and the salt 259 00:11:58,350 --> 00:11:59,220 and the sugar. 260 00:11:59,220 --> 00:12:00,630 Your body just takes it and shoves it 261 00:12:00,630 --> 00:12:02,280 right into a fat store. 262 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,000 - In the evening once we get ready for bed, 263 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,210 our body switches to another mode and the circadian rhythms 264 00:12:09,210 --> 00:12:13,380 for processing energy go down and the circadian rhythms 265 00:12:13,380 --> 00:12:17,263 that help with the repair of the body, finding cancer cells, 266 00:12:17,263 --> 00:12:21,419 renewing all of the bodily systems kick in 267 00:12:21,419 --> 00:12:24,460 and those are the strongest during the night, 268 00:12:24,460 --> 00:12:26,620 immune system function, et cetera. 269 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:29,740 If you eat during the night, 270 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:32,511 you disrupt all of those mechanisms and so not only 271 00:12:32,511 --> 00:12:37,511 are you predisposing yourself to diabetes and obesity 272 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:39,000 and hypertension, 273 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,480 but you're also predisposing yourself 274 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,727 to a pro-inflammatory condition throughout the body 275 00:12:45,727 --> 00:12:49,760 which makes it easier for cancer to take hold. 276 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,510 - If you're trying to repair a highway, 277 00:12:52,510 --> 00:12:54,870 you have to stop the traffic. 278 00:12:54,870 --> 00:12:58,010 So similarly our body cannot repair itself 279 00:12:58,010 --> 00:12:59,210 if we continue to eat. 280 00:13:00,767 --> 00:13:03,294 - The body makes less insulin so for the same sugar load 281 00:13:03,294 --> 00:13:06,080 that you would give yourself during the day 282 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,230 that would not cause your blood sugar to rise significantly, 283 00:13:09,230 --> 00:13:12,300 for that same sugar load after about seven or eight o'clock 284 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:15,140 at night will cause a significant rise in your blood sugar 285 00:13:15,140 --> 00:13:17,160 mimicking the effects of diabetes. 286 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,038 - It was a study that came out in a neurology journal 287 00:13:20,038 --> 00:13:24,710 that found if you were giving artificial nutrition 288 00:13:24,710 --> 00:13:25,674 in the hospital, 289 00:13:25,674 --> 00:13:28,590 that patients did better if you didn't give it 290 00:13:28,590 --> 00:13:29,820 around the clock. 291 00:13:29,820 --> 00:13:33,710 They gave the nutrition in a shortened time frame, 292 00:13:33,710 --> 00:13:38,144 they're connecting the person back to the day cycle, 293 00:13:38,144 --> 00:13:41,613 they have a better outcome. 294 00:13:41,613 --> 00:13:44,161 - Just having weighed myself this morning, 295 00:13:44,161 --> 00:13:47,305 two months now have gone by and I've dropped 296 00:13:47,305 --> 00:13:50,610 somewhere in the neighborhood of 29 pounds 297 00:13:50,610 --> 00:13:52,240 just with Dr. Julie. 298 00:13:53,313 --> 00:13:55,350 - It wasn't hard to do because it was just 299 00:13:55,350 --> 00:13:58,160 a small habit change that I had to ask them to make. 300 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,630 All they had to do was apply this shortening 301 00:14:01,630 --> 00:14:04,070 their total time of eating during the day. 302 00:14:04,070 --> 00:14:05,150 Hi, Nina! 303 00:14:05,150 --> 00:14:06,554 - Hi, Dr. Julie. 304 00:14:06,554 --> 00:14:07,558 - How are you? 305 00:14:07,558 --> 00:14:08,558 Good to see you. 306 00:14:08,558 --> 00:14:09,563 - Good, how are you? 307 00:14:09,563 --> 00:14:10,563 - Good! 308 00:14:10,563 --> 00:14:11,564 Thanks for coming today. 309 00:14:11,564 --> 00:14:12,600 So we're gonna go over your bloodtest, is that right? 310 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,053 - Mm hmm. 311 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:14,886 - And you had them drawn already. 312 00:14:14,886 --> 00:14:16,053 - Mm hmm. 313 00:14:16,053 --> 00:14:17,052 - Perfect. 314 00:14:17,052 --> 00:14:18,360 So when I have people come in and they'll tell me, 315 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,130 "Oh well, my parents have high blood pressure. 316 00:14:20,130 --> 00:14:22,396 "So that's probably why I have it." 317 00:14:22,396 --> 00:14:25,840 It's not always a genetically inherited problem. 318 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,027 It's possibly a lifestyle inherited problem 319 00:14:29,027 --> 00:14:32,050 because we carry with us the type of habits 320 00:14:32,050 --> 00:14:34,640 that our parents brought us up to have 321 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,930 and if late night eating and indulging slightly 322 00:14:36,930 --> 00:14:39,420 on the weekends was something that we saw them do 323 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:41,730 or that we were allowed to do growing up, 324 00:14:41,730 --> 00:14:43,634 we're gonna carry that habit with us. 325 00:14:43,634 --> 00:14:45,310 - And that first night was a struggle. 326 00:14:45,310 --> 00:14:49,160 I remember getting off my plane down in Burbank 327 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,390 and getting ready to take an hour and a half drive 328 00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:53,970 to Santa Barbara and thinking okay, 329 00:14:53,970 --> 00:14:56,660 where am I gonna stop to get something sweet for the road 330 00:14:56,660 --> 00:14:59,010 and I went wait, it's past six o'clock. 331 00:14:59,010 --> 00:15:02,090 - [Julie Voiceover] And I found that the first week 332 00:15:02,090 --> 00:15:03,660 was very uncomfortable. 333 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:07,180 I mean, I went to bed with hunger pains and that's all 334 00:15:07,180 --> 00:15:10,798 I could do to stay on this time restricted eating time frame 335 00:15:10,798 --> 00:15:14,080 was to go to bed early so that I wouldn't feel hungry. 336 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,380 - [Male] And Dr. Julie had given me the advice 337 00:15:18,531 --> 00:15:20,630 that the first two weeks were going to be very hard. 338 00:15:20,630 --> 00:15:22,040 - [Julie] After about a week, 339 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,660 those hunger pains completely went away. 340 00:15:24,660 --> 00:15:26,514 - [Male] And she was right 341 00:15:26,514 --> 00:15:28,210 but I was glad she shared that 342 00:15:28,210 --> 00:15:29,043 because it prepared me. 343 00:15:29,043 --> 00:15:31,368 - And then after that, it was no cravings. 344 00:15:31,368 --> 00:15:34,027 So it was really strange but cravings for food 345 00:15:34,027 --> 00:15:36,470 later in the evening just went away. 346 00:15:36,470 --> 00:15:38,950 Your liver tests look fantastic. 347 00:15:38,950 --> 00:15:41,670 In fact, they were lower than they were before 348 00:15:41,670 --> 00:15:42,503 the previous time. 349 00:15:42,503 --> 00:15:43,420 - Okay, I'm glad. (laughs) 350 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:44,410 - Yeah. 351 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:46,180 So your fatty liver is completely reversed. 352 00:15:46,180 --> 00:15:47,632 You have totally normal liver enzymes. 353 00:15:47,632 --> 00:15:49,130 - Okay. 354 00:15:49,130 --> 00:15:52,340 - And you did it purely by just lifestyle changes. 355 00:15:52,340 --> 00:15:54,030 Within a couple of months, 356 00:15:54,030 --> 00:15:56,076 you can have a reversal of fatty liver. 357 00:15:56,076 --> 00:15:58,806 You can start seeing blood sugar changes 358 00:15:58,806 --> 00:16:00,620 in less than two months. 359 00:16:00,620 --> 00:16:04,400 I mean, it's like better than medicine! 360 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,750 Debra has a new patient to me. 361 00:16:06,750 --> 00:16:10,080 - But my concern is that I've been told I should take 362 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,120 blood pressure medicine to control my blood pressure. 363 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,690 - Her one fear was being on a blood pressure medicine 364 00:16:17,690 --> 00:16:18,746 for the rest of her life. 365 00:16:18,746 --> 00:16:22,103 - Yeah, I think it had gotten in the 150's and 160's. 366 00:16:22,103 --> 00:16:25,052 - And her blood pressure was running 367 00:16:25,052 --> 00:16:29,400 in the hypertensive range so she was running over 140's. 368 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,540 - Just didn't like the side effects. 369 00:16:31,540 --> 00:16:33,609 I was falling asleep at the wheel. 370 00:16:33,609 --> 00:16:37,200 - And she was given the recommendation of trying 371 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,200 to just restrict her eating time to about 11 or 12 hours 372 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,120 and two weeks later she came in 373 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,240 and her blood pressure was normal, 120's to 130's systolic. 374 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,340 - My blood pressure read, I don't know if you have it there, 375 00:16:51,340 --> 00:16:53,479 it was 126 over -- 376 00:16:53,479 --> 00:16:54,460 - [Julie] Over 70. 377 00:16:54,460 --> 00:16:55,675 - Yes, it hasn't been that for awhile. 378 00:16:55,675 --> 00:16:56,806 - It was beautiful! 379 00:16:56,806 --> 00:16:59,249 And she came in again a few weeks later, 380 00:16:59,249 --> 00:17:01,830 and her blood pressure was normal again. 381 00:17:01,830 --> 00:17:03,710 It's like your daily medicine. 382 00:17:03,710 --> 00:17:05,280 These medical conditions, 383 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,960 we should be thinking about them as really symptoms, right? 384 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,508 I mean, it's really not a medical condition 385 00:17:11,508 --> 00:17:14,360 because it's totally reversible. 386 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:16,726 You noticed a sleep improvement with adopting 387 00:17:16,726 --> 00:17:19,350 this lifestyle change over some of the other things 388 00:17:19,350 --> 00:17:20,640 you had tried before. 389 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,174 - And a much sounder sleep. 390 00:17:22,174 --> 00:17:23,235 - Yeah. 391 00:17:23,235 --> 00:17:25,720 That's interesting 'cause I hear people bring that up to me. 392 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,540 Potentially, she's not a hypertensive patient any longer. 393 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:32,060 - [Female] I located Dr. Julie Wei-Shatzel 394 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:34,310 and I said I really, really need to get this weight 395 00:17:34,310 --> 00:17:35,143 under control. 396 00:17:35,143 --> 00:17:38,570 It's out of control. 397 00:17:38,570 --> 00:17:39,812 She said, 398 00:17:39,812 --> 00:17:41,530 "Would you be interested I participating in a study?" 399 00:17:41,530 --> 00:17:44,007 - Trying to do now is expand the study. 400 00:17:44,007 --> 00:17:47,640 The original study was done in 150 adults in San Diego. 401 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,790 We are now running a worldwide study. 402 00:17:49,790 --> 00:17:51,960 We have almost 9,000 users. 403 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,350 - She explained to me about the circadian clock app. 404 00:17:55,350 --> 00:17:57,741 - Now with the launch of this app, My Circadian Clock, 405 00:17:57,741 --> 00:18:02,103 we have close to 10,000 people who have downloaded. 406 00:18:02,103 --> 00:18:04,920 - And I downloaded his app. 407 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,990 - And so I went through the process of taking pictures 408 00:18:07,990 --> 00:18:08,823 of the food that I ate everyday and then also 409 00:18:08,823 --> 00:18:13,823 making sure that I fasted for a minimum of 12 hours 410 00:18:14,128 --> 00:18:18,120 each night with dinner being at six o'clock. 411 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,560 - First two weeks we ask you to log everything 412 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,790 you currently do and then at the end of those two weeks, 413 00:18:22,790 --> 00:18:24,420 you get a summary of everything that you've done. 414 00:18:24,420 --> 00:18:26,560 It's kind of shocking to see how much you forget 415 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,240 and when you look back and have the hard evidence, 416 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,120 it's really helpful. 417 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:31,990 - Using that app is really, to me, 418 00:18:31,990 --> 00:18:34,488 much more useful than using something like Fitbit 419 00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:38,720 because you're going to maximize your circadian rhythm 420 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,740 and all of your organs run on circadian rhythm. 421 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:43,800 - I think one of the exciting things that we've seen 422 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,510 is that people are pretty able to adapt to this style. 423 00:18:46,510 --> 00:18:48,590 If you say, you can still have that piece of cake 424 00:18:48,590 --> 00:18:51,270 but you just can't eat it after 6 P.M., 425 00:18:51,270 --> 00:18:52,730 people are a lot more open to that 426 00:18:52,730 --> 00:18:55,556 and they'll adjust when they eat their types of food 427 00:18:55,556 --> 00:18:56,389 and say, okay, you know what? 428 00:18:56,389 --> 00:18:57,222 I can have it in the morning. 429 00:18:57,222 --> 00:18:58,055 - Within about eight months 430 00:18:59,110 --> 00:19:02,717 of about a 12 hour fasting window everyday, 431 00:19:02,717 --> 00:19:05,280 I found that my triglycerides had gotten 432 00:19:06,454 --> 00:19:09,540 well below any number I had been able to achieve previously 433 00:19:09,540 --> 00:19:12,890 and I also found that my A1C had also fallen 434 00:19:12,890 --> 00:19:15,390 to the lowest point it had been in years. 435 00:19:15,390 --> 00:19:17,370 - I realized so much benefit so fast. 436 00:19:17,370 --> 00:19:19,986 In the first 90 days, I lost 11 pounds 437 00:19:19,986 --> 00:19:23,310 and in 180 days, I lost 16 pounds. 438 00:19:23,310 --> 00:19:24,143 I'm trim anyway. 439 00:19:24,143 --> 00:19:25,954 I was 153 pounds when I started. 440 00:19:25,954 --> 00:19:29,901 As I got through that, I wrapped myself around the mantra of 441 00:19:29,901 --> 00:19:32,968 don't change what you eat, just change when you eat. 442 00:19:32,968 --> 00:19:35,544 So I actually might've started eating worse 443 00:19:35,544 --> 00:19:39,220 and so (laughs) I could've confounded the study a little bit 444 00:19:39,220 --> 00:19:41,150 by eating worse because I felt like I could eat 445 00:19:41,150 --> 00:19:43,450 whatever I wanted and I was getting good results. 446 00:19:43,450 --> 00:19:44,921 I wasn't dieting. 447 00:19:44,921 --> 00:19:47,440 So after that study, I met with Satchin 448 00:19:48,290 --> 00:19:49,160 and I asked him about that and he kind of chuckled 449 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,584 and laughed and said, "No, Bill, don't eat whatever you want 450 00:19:53,584 --> 00:19:55,790 "but do control when you eat." 451 00:19:55,790 --> 00:19:57,080 - [Female] My blood pressure was elevated. 452 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,750 I was on medication for high blood pressure 453 00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:01,750 as well as for cholesterol. 454 00:20:01,750 --> 00:20:05,773 The past year, since using time restricted feeding, 455 00:20:05,773 --> 00:20:08,990 I have actually, I've lost 20 pounds, 456 00:20:08,990 --> 00:20:12,530 my blood pressure is excellent and I'm no longer taking 457 00:20:12,530 --> 00:20:13,910 a statin drug. 458 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:17,190 - Implementing time restricted feeding is an easy 459 00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:18,240 first step to take. 460 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,314 It has no cost, it has no side effects, 461 00:20:21,314 --> 00:20:26,310 and it feels so much better than taking medication. 462 00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:29,630 - In 2004, I decided to take a personal challenge 463 00:20:29,630 --> 00:20:31,500 and I was gonna try a triathlon. 464 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:33,080 I tried a half Ironman. 465 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,677 So that's a 50 mile bike ride, a 1.6 mile swim, 466 00:20:37,677 --> 00:20:41,860 and it was a 12.1 mile run. 467 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:44,211 My performance has degraded over the years 468 00:20:44,211 --> 00:20:46,661 to where I'm doing just sprint triathlons. 469 00:20:46,661 --> 00:20:49,218 That's 1/4 of that half Ironman. 470 00:20:49,218 --> 00:20:50,990 You would've thought that I would've progressed 471 00:20:50,990 --> 00:20:52,659 to actually doing the full Ironman. 472 00:20:52,659 --> 00:20:54,200 So I haven't. 473 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,591 Well, it turns out that I have a cardio condition 474 00:20:56,591 --> 00:21:00,459 where my heart beats super rapidly and irregularly 475 00:21:00,459 --> 00:21:02,360 but what'll happen is, 476 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:04,895 it'll beat at 250 to 300 beats a minute 477 00:21:04,895 --> 00:21:08,605 and it's like a boat cavitating a propeller, 478 00:21:08,605 --> 00:21:10,777 it doesn't bite and so there's no blood pumping through 479 00:21:10,777 --> 00:21:13,965 my heart and I get all lightheaded and I might pass out. 480 00:21:13,965 --> 00:21:16,082 It can happen anywhere 481 00:21:16,082 --> 00:21:19,330 and so I've progressively been doing shorter and shorter 482 00:21:19,330 --> 00:21:20,260 distance triathlons. 483 00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:22,090 At the end of the study, 484 00:21:22,090 --> 00:21:24,440 it was allowing me to run longer and harder, 485 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,917 to ride farther and faster and to swim longer 486 00:21:26,917 --> 00:21:31,917 and more smoothly and so I felt like this next triathlon, 487 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,570 I'll see how I do and I went ahead and I signed up 488 00:21:34,570 --> 00:21:36,836 for the Olympic, that's a double sprint triathlon 489 00:21:36,836 --> 00:21:40,439 and so the interesting short of it is, 490 00:21:40,439 --> 00:21:44,570 no cardiac problems, completed the Olympic triathlon. 491 00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:46,721 - If you can just implement that first portion of it, 492 00:21:46,721 --> 00:21:50,054 then the rest of the healthy changes will come along. 493 00:21:50,054 --> 00:21:53,312 - When you put the mice on the treadmill, 494 00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:57,499 very well like you would do for a human treadmill, 495 00:21:57,499 --> 00:22:00,470 they run much longer when they are on 496 00:22:00,470 --> 00:22:03,807 time restricted feeding than the ad lib fed control, 497 00:22:03,807 --> 00:22:08,807 suggesting that there is some cardiovascular benefits 498 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,340 to time restricted feeding. 499 00:22:10,340 --> 00:22:11,530 - I'm up in the morning, 500 00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:14,949 I feel like I'm alert quicker than I have been previously. 501 00:22:14,949 --> 00:22:18,520 - I would say that obesity is probably the single major 502 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,760 largest challenge in America these days 503 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,420 in terms of overall health and chronic disease. 504 00:22:25,420 --> 00:22:27,758 - The category of people who are very obese 505 00:22:27,758 --> 00:22:32,758 and they're not necessarily consuming significantly 506 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:34,300 more calories. 507 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,040 Oftentimes, these people have some difficulty 508 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,385 sleeping through the night and so if they're getting up 509 00:22:39,385 --> 00:22:42,620 later in the evening or early in the morning, 510 00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,330 they'll just go and have a snack. 511 00:22:44,330 --> 00:22:46,260 They'll have something to eat or something to drink. 512 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:49,182 That actually increases their total eating time 513 00:22:49,182 --> 00:22:51,420 to much greater than 15 hours. 514 00:22:52,370 --> 00:22:54,400 In fact, they may be eating 20 hours a day. 515 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,200 - Flying back on the plane, I'm reading the study, 516 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,908 I'm starting to understand what's going on. 517 00:22:57,908 --> 00:23:01,239 There was a third group of mice that was really interesting. 518 00:23:01,239 --> 00:23:03,880 They had a control group that was five days 519 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,842 on the time restricted feeding regime and two days off 520 00:23:06,842 --> 00:23:09,230 and so the idea is that might mirror 521 00:23:09,230 --> 00:23:12,321 our five day working schedule and our two day off schedule. 522 00:23:12,321 --> 00:23:16,060 - So I wanted to try whether you could party 523 00:23:16,060 --> 00:23:17,010 on the weekend. 524 00:23:17,010 --> 00:23:19,630 So I had one group of mice that were only 525 00:23:19,630 --> 00:23:22,160 on time restricted feeding during the weekdays 526 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,480 but then they would have full access, so 24 hours access, 527 00:23:26,357 --> 00:23:28,460 to foods during the weekends so we called this 528 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:32,190 the 5T2A regime for five days on time restricted feeding 529 00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:35,319 and two days of ad lib starting on Friday night. 530 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:38,600 Good news is there's no difference between being 531 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,620 seven days on time restricted feeding or only five days 532 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:44,500 on time restricted feeding at least in mice. 533 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,370 So if you're mice, you can party on the weekend. 534 00:23:47,370 --> 00:23:49,260 - All of healthcare should be embracing this. 535 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:50,810 We should be using this. 536 00:23:50,810 --> 00:23:53,160 - [Michael] We're really not telling people what to eat, 537 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:54,841 we're telling people when to eat. 538 00:23:54,841 --> 00:23:57,870 I think that this could give us an excellent way 539 00:23:57,870 --> 00:24:01,380 to initiate a long-term and effective treatment 540 00:24:01,380 --> 00:24:02,270 for obesity. 541 00:24:02,270 --> 00:24:04,790 - Even if you eat healthy foods after 7 P.M., 542 00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:07,175 you actually push your body, you push your pancreas, 543 00:24:07,175 --> 00:24:11,190 your beta cells, and you actually become more inclined 544 00:24:11,190 --> 00:24:13,420 to develop pre-Diabetes and Diabetes. 545 00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:16,219 - When we compared the high fat diet fed animals 546 00:24:16,219 --> 00:24:19,220 and the ones that were on time restricted feeding, 547 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:20,470 there was a massive difference. 548 00:24:20,470 --> 00:24:22,780 Basically the ones on time restricted feeding, 549 00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:26,020 they don't have this Type 2 Diabetes problem anymore. 550 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:27,850 - From what I've seen, 551 00:24:27,850 --> 00:24:30,175 when someone adopts time restricted feeding, 552 00:24:30,175 --> 00:24:32,390 that's all they need to do. 553 00:24:32,390 --> 00:24:34,461 That's all they need to do to completely reverse 554 00:24:34,461 --> 00:24:36,090 this hyperglycemia, 555 00:24:36,090 --> 00:24:39,567 to completely take them out of this pre-Diabetic state. 556 00:24:39,567 --> 00:24:44,480 I had one woman who was running pre-Diabetic for two years. 557 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,390 We had her follow time restricted feeding for a few weeks 558 00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:49,969 and her blood sugar came back normal, 559 00:24:49,969 --> 00:24:51,428 absolutely normal. 560 00:24:51,428 --> 00:24:54,410 We tested her again a few months later 561 00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,400 and her blood sugar was again normal 562 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,547 as well as her hemoglobin A1C and that hemoglobin A1C 563 00:24:58,547 --> 00:25:02,643 is a marker for your blood sugar over the past three months 564 00:25:02,643 --> 00:25:06,520 and so for her, the burden of developing Diabetes 565 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,730 was completely lifted. 566 00:25:07,730 --> 00:25:08,730 She didn't have to worry 567 00:25:08,730 --> 00:25:11,930 about that disease entity anymore at all. 568 00:25:11,930 --> 00:25:14,010 - Diabetes is completely off the chart. 569 00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:16,290 Metabolic syndrome is off the chart. 570 00:25:16,290 --> 00:25:18,448 We can't solve that with drug interventions 571 00:25:18,448 --> 00:25:23,040 but a cultural change where we learn to eat in that window 572 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,379 where we were at before, 573 00:25:24,379 --> 00:25:26,360 that seems kind of doable. 574 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,460 It's the kind of thing that a group could start, 575 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:30,210 you could teach children in school, 576 00:25:30,210 --> 00:25:33,499 we could observe that at home, we could walk the talk 577 00:25:33,499 --> 00:25:36,510 and that might make such a big difference 578 00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:39,720 on a national scale that it actually moves the needle. 579 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,980 - If physicians are more involved in helping people 580 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:43,330 make this lifestyle change, 581 00:25:44,241 --> 00:25:46,380 I think it will be an overall cost savings for the, 582 00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:48,960 just medicine in general because we're going 583 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,060 to be spending less on medication. 584 00:25:51,060 --> 00:25:53,280 We're going to be spending less on disease. 585 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,370 You know, that super size me guy should do 586 00:25:55,370 --> 00:25:57,350 his whole routine again, 587 00:25:57,350 --> 00:26:00,340 he should do his whole eating that super size me diet 588 00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:01,940 but under a shorter time frame 589 00:26:02,853 --> 00:26:07,369 and I wonder if he'd have all those health effects. 590 00:26:07,369 --> 00:26:09,952 (upbeat music) 591 00:26:12,778 --> 00:26:15,160 - What we're doing here is really reversing 592 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,230 all of Type 2 Diabetes and all it's downstream 593 00:26:18,230 --> 00:26:20,570 complications with fasting. 594 00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:23,862 - I've worked with Jason for 17 years in nephrology 595 00:26:23,862 --> 00:26:27,680 and we were just watching our patients die 596 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,400 from Diabetes essentially, 597 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,798 watching them get more and more obese, 598 00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:34,657 watching their blood sugars get worse and worse and worse, 599 00:26:34,657 --> 00:26:37,604 their medications go through the roof. 600 00:26:37,604 --> 00:26:40,810 They're on like two or three pages of medications 601 00:26:40,810 --> 00:26:42,440 and every time we saw a patient, 602 00:26:43,462 --> 00:26:44,639 they were on more and more drugs. 603 00:26:44,639 --> 00:26:46,153 - And I was basically holding their hand 604 00:26:46,153 --> 00:26:47,820 as they had their heart attacks, 605 00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:50,620 as they went on dialysis, as they developed kidney failures 606 00:26:50,620 --> 00:26:51,453 and strokes. 607 00:26:51,453 --> 00:26:53,670 - That's how we got into this in the first place. 608 00:26:53,670 --> 00:26:55,760 It was really disheartening to watch people die 609 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,272 before our eyes. 610 00:26:57,272 --> 00:27:00,313 - So one day, I was talking to a friend 611 00:27:00,313 --> 00:27:03,114 and she was talking about doing a cleanse 612 00:27:03,114 --> 00:27:07,260 and I realized that really what she's talking about 613 00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:10,272 is a fast and I thought, wow, that's a really stupid idea 614 00:27:10,272 --> 00:27:13,570 but then I thought for a second, okay, 615 00:27:13,570 --> 00:27:15,760 well this was my initial reaction and most people 616 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,190 have that same sort of eye-rolling reaction 617 00:27:18,190 --> 00:27:20,111 to the word fasting and I thought, 618 00:27:20,111 --> 00:27:22,892 okay, but I'm a physician. 619 00:27:22,892 --> 00:27:27,892 What exactly is it that's so bad about the fasting? 620 00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:30,420 Because she actually had pretty decent results. 621 00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:31,966 She always says she feels better, 622 00:27:31,966 --> 00:27:34,420 she doesn't feel hungry and I thought okay, well, 623 00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,300 that's very interesting. 624 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:37,100 So then I started to look at the fasting 625 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:38,200 and I thought why not? 626 00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:41,620 Like why not have people fast? 627 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:46,620 I mean, what honestly is more obvious than fasting? 628 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,460 If you don't eat, your blood sugars will come down, 629 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:52,535 and you no longer need your diabetic medications. 630 00:27:52,535 --> 00:27:53,806 Hey, that's great. 631 00:27:53,806 --> 00:27:56,596 If you don't eat, you will lose weight. 632 00:27:56,596 --> 00:27:57,763 Hey, that's great. 633 00:27:57,763 --> 00:27:59,740 Where's the downside? 634 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:04,230 - [Megan] Ann's hemoglobin A1C was so high that the lab 635 00:28:04,230 --> 00:28:05,490 couldn't detect it. 636 00:28:05,490 --> 00:28:08,000 - Groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers, 637 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,610 they're all group based sessions. 638 00:28:09,610 --> 00:28:12,600 - [Megan] So Ann, can you tell us about your first fast? 639 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,550 - They're not individually counseling sessions 640 00:28:14,550 --> 00:28:17,338 because you're losing a very important 641 00:28:17,338 --> 00:28:20,771 support structure there. 642 00:28:20,771 --> 00:28:24,060 - Yes, Dr. Fung said seven or 14 days. 643 00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:26,030 - So that's one of the lessons we've learned 644 00:28:26,030 --> 00:28:29,570 and we've gone to these kind of group sessions. 645 00:28:29,570 --> 00:28:30,403 - In the beginning, 646 00:28:30,403 --> 00:28:33,237 it's a pain in the butt to get over that, 647 00:28:33,237 --> 00:28:37,750 the first two day hump and then after that, 648 00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:39,320 it's really easy. 649 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,100 It seems really easy like I can't believe I'm not eating 650 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:45,070 so I stopped at 10 days. 651 00:28:45,070 --> 00:28:46,960 - Since then you haven't touched insulin. 652 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:47,960 You haven't needed to. 653 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,570 - No, if I went Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 654 00:28:50,570 --> 00:28:52,598 but then you're going through those hunger pains. 655 00:28:52,598 --> 00:28:55,780 You know, like where your stomach's growling, 656 00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:56,980 you feel like you could, 657 00:28:57,979 --> 00:28:59,310 ravenous like you could eat a horse, yeah. 658 00:28:59,310 --> 00:29:01,080 - [Megan] What reading did you get this morning? 659 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,670 - I got down to 6.4 in the morning. 660 00:29:03,670 --> 00:29:04,610 - Nice! 661 00:29:04,610 --> 00:29:07,725 So I started intermittent fasting about five years ago. 662 00:29:07,725 --> 00:29:11,900 Within six months I had reversed my hemoglobin A1C 663 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:13,503 from 6.4% to 4.6%. 664 00:29:13,503 --> 00:29:17,711 I was diagnosed with fatty liver disease when I was 12. 665 00:29:17,711 --> 00:29:21,101 In six months, no more fatty liver infiltration. 666 00:29:21,101 --> 00:29:23,947 Another thing that I was diagnosed with when I was 14 667 00:29:23,947 --> 00:29:26,576 was polycystic ovarian syndrome 668 00:29:26,576 --> 00:29:29,951 and I would go to the hospital all of the time 669 00:29:29,951 --> 00:29:32,995 from cysts rupturing and it just being so painful. 670 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:35,270 You couldn't bare it. 671 00:29:35,270 --> 00:29:39,264 About six months into fasting, everything sort of regulated 672 00:29:39,264 --> 00:29:43,390 and when I saw another specialist later on, my OB, 673 00:29:43,390 --> 00:29:45,890 and we started talking about it and she said, Megan, 674 00:29:45,890 --> 00:29:48,344 when was the last time you had a cyst rupture? 675 00:29:48,344 --> 00:29:50,125 And I said I don't know. 676 00:29:50,125 --> 00:29:53,150 I don't remember and I said I know my periods 677 00:29:53,150 --> 00:29:57,940 are regular now and so she sent me for an ultrasound 678 00:29:57,940 --> 00:29:59,650 and everything anatomically, 679 00:29:59,650 --> 00:30:02,310 there was no sign of polycystic ovarian syndrome, 680 00:30:02,310 --> 00:30:04,765 none at all, which is pretty mind blowing, 681 00:30:04,765 --> 00:30:09,050 my progesterone hormones and all my fertility stuff 682 00:30:09,050 --> 00:30:10,690 and it was fantastic. 683 00:30:10,690 --> 00:30:14,650 It was so much better than it was when I was a teenager 684 00:30:14,650 --> 00:30:16,984 and my early 20's when I had measured those. 685 00:30:16,984 --> 00:30:21,230 So fertility for me is not really gonna be an issue anymore 686 00:30:21,230 --> 00:30:23,543 and I spent most of my life thinking that I wouldn't 687 00:30:23,543 --> 00:30:25,500 be able to have babies. 688 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:28,430 They actually saw me improve so I think that's how we 689 00:30:28,430 --> 00:30:30,890 got some initial success in how our program 690 00:30:30,890 --> 00:30:32,170 really started to snowball. 691 00:30:32,170 --> 00:30:34,560 People just didn't want to die from Diabetes. 692 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,320 - But I was walking with a cane, I wasn't breathing well, 693 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,600 I was, I had put on 130 pounds with the insulin. 694 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,600 - The patients come back to me with incredible stories. 695 00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:50,005 - I was talking 210 units of insulin a day. 696 00:30:50,005 --> 00:30:55,005 I did the 21 day fast and I haven't had insulin since. 697 00:30:55,978 --> 00:31:00,510 I've lost close to 100 pounds. 698 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:04,103 - So everyday I come in, almost every single day, 699 00:31:04,103 --> 00:31:09,103 I come in and I say, wow, Mr. So And So or Mrs. So And So, 700 00:31:09,620 --> 00:31:12,600 look, your numbers are such to the point 701 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,276 that you are not classified as diabetic. 702 00:31:15,276 --> 00:31:16,580 That is amazing. 703 00:31:17,470 --> 00:31:19,820 - It saved my life, is what it did. 704 00:31:19,820 --> 00:31:21,070 - [Megan] You're off the Coversyl too 705 00:31:21,070 --> 00:31:22,672 for your blood pressure. 706 00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:23,930 So you're off of everything. 707 00:31:23,930 --> 00:31:28,930 And around her waist she has lost 27 centimeters. 708 00:31:31,250 --> 00:31:34,280 - Sometimes people find that when they fast, 709 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,910 that a lot of these cravings just stop. 710 00:31:40,369 --> 00:31:41,619 - Energy is unbelievable. 711 00:31:42,590 --> 00:31:44,850 As I said, I was walking with a cane. 712 00:31:44,850 --> 00:31:46,450 - Gotta treat everybody as individuals 713 00:31:46,450 --> 00:31:47,283 and that's what we do. 714 00:31:47,283 --> 00:31:49,030 So we see all different regiments. 715 00:31:49,030 --> 00:31:50,240 We use all different regiments. 716 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,792 - I stop eating at about seven in the evening 717 00:31:53,792 --> 00:31:58,792 and after that it will be just liquids until dinner 718 00:31:59,650 --> 00:32:00,940 the next day. 719 00:32:00,940 --> 00:32:04,840 - Avocado, slice it up with two eggs and I will eat that 720 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,080 maybe about 10 o'clock in the morning. 721 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,870 I do not eat again until maybe three, 722 00:32:09,870 --> 00:32:11,250 four o'clock the next day. 723 00:32:12,140 --> 00:32:14,531 That is almost (inaudible), I don't even feel hungry. 724 00:32:14,531 --> 00:32:15,565 - We can tailor it to people's needs. 725 00:32:15,565 --> 00:32:17,897 If you need it for weight loss, 726 00:32:17,897 --> 00:32:22,160 then I can give you something that's gonna do weight loss 727 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,620 but you only wanna do it for say overall wellbeing, 728 00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:29,100 mental clarity, well, I'll give you something different. 729 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:30,870 - Sometimes seven days. 730 00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:32,770 It depends, okay? 731 00:32:32,770 --> 00:32:34,660 When I feel that it's more comfortable, 732 00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:36,290 then I will take longer one. 733 00:32:36,290 --> 00:32:39,120 - And the key rule and especially for the elderly is 734 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,930 if you don't feel well, stop, let us know, 735 00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:45,940 let's re-evaluate. 736 00:32:45,940 --> 00:32:47,560 - I have a dinner or lunch, 737 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,158 then you have to keep 36 or 24 hours fasting. 738 00:32:51,158 --> 00:32:53,620 That's what I prefer. 739 00:32:54,650 --> 00:32:59,650 - But the financial benefits are actually just mind blowing 740 00:33:00,490 --> 00:33:04,450 because think about it, you have Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, 741 00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:06,769 you've got all kinds of costs. 742 00:33:06,769 --> 00:33:08,865 - I had a new consult a couple weeks ago and he said, 743 00:33:08,865 --> 00:33:12,360 "I watched my grandparents follow the guidelines 744 00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:16,125 "and I watched them die. 745 00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:16,958 "I watched my parents follow the guidelines 746 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,733 "and now I'm watching them die and they're gonna be dead 747 00:33:20,733 --> 00:33:21,914 "20 years before my grandparents and look at me now. 748 00:33:21,914 --> 00:33:24,890 "I'm Diabetic, I have fatty liver disease, 749 00:33:24,890 --> 00:33:28,770 "my eyesight's going to hell, I don't want this to be me. 750 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:32,580 "Clearly what they're doing and the method of treatment 751 00:33:32,580 --> 00:33:34,614 "that these physicians are having, 752 00:33:34,614 --> 00:33:36,580 "had my grandparents follow 753 00:33:36,580 --> 00:33:39,580 "and are having my parents follow don't work." 754 00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:42,233 - You've got your medications, you've got surgeries, 755 00:33:42,233 --> 00:33:46,360 you've got heart attacks, very expensive, strokes, 756 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,193 hospitals. 757 00:33:47,193 --> 00:33:51,017 You've got stuff, you need to pay for nursing care, 758 00:33:51,017 --> 00:33:53,205 you need to pay for nursing homes. 759 00:33:53,205 --> 00:33:57,180 So an incredible amount of cost all built in 760 00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:59,550 to take care of these sick people. 761 00:33:59,550 --> 00:34:01,900 - I watched my family die from heart disease. 762 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,028 I watched my grandmother die from Diabetes. 763 00:34:04,028 --> 00:34:07,487 I watched my mother suffer from Diabetes 764 00:34:07,487 --> 00:34:10,510 following the guidelines to a T. 765 00:34:10,510 --> 00:34:11,343 It doesn't work. 766 00:34:11,343 --> 00:34:14,886 Clearly something is broken there and I think people more so 767 00:34:14,886 --> 00:34:18,147 than a lot of physicians understand that science 768 00:34:18,147 --> 00:34:19,920 needs to evolve. 769 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,537 - Well, what if you could get rid of all that for free? 770 00:34:23,537 --> 00:34:25,290 For free. 771 00:34:25,290 --> 00:34:27,760 Like that's just unbelievable. 772 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,230 Then you'd have money to fight poverty 773 00:34:30,230 --> 00:34:33,483 and you'd have money for education at the same time 774 00:34:33,483 --> 00:34:35,984 that everybody's healthier than they've ever been 775 00:34:35,984 --> 00:34:40,172 and the crazy part is that it doesn't require anything 776 00:34:40,172 --> 00:34:44,910 but the right knowledge which has the potential to save 777 00:34:44,910 --> 00:34:47,210 like our entire nation's budget. 778 00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:50,079 - Having that diagnosis of borderline Diabetes 779 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:54,050 and being told by my family doctor that 6.4%, 780 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,120 that was scary. 781 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,472 I've had cancer and the diagnosis of Diabetes 782 00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:02,870 being delivered to me was so much scarier to me 783 00:35:02,870 --> 00:35:05,520 than the cancer diagnosis 'cause at least with cancer 784 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,590 there's a shot. 785 00:35:06,590 --> 00:35:09,140 With Diabetes, it's a death sentence 786 00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:13,120 and it's a long, painful, slow, progressive death sentence. 787 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,554 - People sometimes say the three most influential people 788 00:35:16,554 --> 00:35:19,300 in the history of the world - 789 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:22,760 Jesus Christ, the prophet Mohammad, and Buddha - 790 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,613 probably only agreed on one thing 791 00:35:24,613 --> 00:35:27,240 and that was the power of fasting. 792 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,107 (angelic choir) 793 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,980 - Fasting is an essential part of our Christian faith. 794 00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:46,820 Christ taught it by his own example. 795 00:35:46,820 --> 00:35:50,150 He also commanded his disciples to fast. 796 00:35:50,150 --> 00:35:52,220 When they were trying to help other people out 797 00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:54,250 and they weren't so successful, he said, 798 00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:57,450 these problems are only resolved by fasting and prayer. 799 00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:01,040 - The scriptures teach us that there are some things 800 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,220 you cannot do if you don't fast. 801 00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:06,880 Miracles, some miracles, cannot happen without fasting. 802 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,440 - Fasting is such a personal experience 803 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,620 for everyone who fasts and when it's coupled with prayer, 804 00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:15,430 it changes our life. 805 00:36:15,430 --> 00:36:20,430 - I truly believe that fasting can change people's heart. 806 00:36:21,438 --> 00:36:26,438 - In the scriptures from ancient times to the present day, 807 00:36:26,490 --> 00:36:29,370 we read about those who fasted 808 00:36:29,370 --> 00:36:31,380 and in the process of fasting, 809 00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:32,620 they changed. 810 00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:35,978 - I was living in Peru and I made the decision 811 00:36:35,978 --> 00:36:37,670 to go to my mission. 812 00:36:37,670 --> 00:36:40,480 My father didn't want me to go. 813 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,070 It was for safety reasons. 814 00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:45,150 The country had a lot of terrorism problems. 815 00:36:45,150 --> 00:36:47,374 So when I went to talk to my sect president, 816 00:36:47,374 --> 00:36:52,374 he counseled me to fast and to pray and then to talk to him. 817 00:36:54,350 --> 00:36:58,280 So I did, I fasted and I prayed, 818 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,680 and then I went to talk to my dad. 819 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,720 We cried together and he told me that, 820 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:06,030 he will let me go to my mission and that I would 821 00:37:06,030 --> 00:37:07,040 have his support. 822 00:37:08,331 --> 00:37:11,498 (inspirational music) 823 00:37:17,284 --> 00:37:18,117 It's very meaningful to me 824 00:37:18,117 --> 00:37:23,117 because it was regarding my mission to serve 825 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,460 and because of it, my life changed. 826 00:37:27,460 --> 00:37:29,870 - It brings me closer to God. 827 00:37:29,870 --> 00:37:32,110 I feel spiritual strength coming to me, 828 00:37:32,110 --> 00:37:33,960 temporal blessings come from it. 829 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,800 Graduating from high school I wanted to know 830 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,720 which of the two colleges I should go to 831 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,880 that I had been admitted to and I really wanted it 832 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,779 to be the right place and so as I prayed, 833 00:37:43,779 --> 00:37:46,470 I determined fasting would really help me 834 00:37:46,470 --> 00:37:48,420 and so I fasted. 835 00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:50,870 At the closure of my fast, as I prayed, 836 00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:54,750 it was very clear to me the choice that I should make. 837 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:58,109 - We believe that it is beneficial both spiritually, 838 00:37:58,109 --> 00:38:02,210 physically, and in fact, it has a humanitarian benefit 839 00:38:02,210 --> 00:38:04,290 when coupled with helping the poor. 840 00:38:04,290 --> 00:38:06,510 - A greater compassion for those who are in need 841 00:38:06,510 --> 00:38:09,500 and a greater desire to serve them comes from fasting. 842 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,142 - We learn from the ancient prophet Isaiah, 843 00:38:11,142 --> 00:38:15,570 that God introduced fasting to the children of Israel. 844 00:38:15,570 --> 00:38:18,198 He even said, "This is the fast that I have chosen," 845 00:38:18,198 --> 00:38:21,460 and then goes on that it's purpose is to deal bread 846 00:38:21,460 --> 00:38:22,293 to the hungry. 847 00:38:22,293 --> 00:38:25,850 - We fast once a month for a period of 24 hours, 848 00:38:25,850 --> 00:38:27,010 two consecutive meals. 849 00:38:27,010 --> 00:38:30,140 - The monies that are saved from that fast 850 00:38:30,140 --> 00:38:32,580 are donated to the poor to help them with all sorts 851 00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:33,880 of humanitarian needs. 852 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,600 - Not enough money to pay the electric bill, 853 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,079 they don't have the food necessary for their children, 854 00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:39,650 for clothing, et cetera, 855 00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:42,529 to help them get themselves on their feet 856 00:38:42,529 --> 00:38:44,970 so they can come self-reliant. 857 00:38:44,970 --> 00:38:47,179 - Every person has the opportunity to fast 858 00:38:47,179 --> 00:38:50,843 and even the poorest among us sometimes will fast 859 00:38:50,843 --> 00:38:53,610 and give what they can in order to help 860 00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:55,304 their brothers and sisters. 861 00:38:55,304 --> 00:38:58,067 - There are seven billion people in the world. 862 00:38:58,067 --> 00:39:01,720 If we all did this, we would end world hunger. 863 00:39:07,380 --> 00:39:10,130 (dramatic music) 864 00:39:13,162 --> 00:39:14,660 - We're at the sight of the Donner party. 865 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,690 There were over 80 individuals. 866 00:39:19,690 --> 00:39:24,320 They ended up in Truckee Meadows on Halloween of 1846 867 00:39:25,370 --> 00:39:27,230 and it was right around this spot 868 00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:29,690 where they got completely snowed in 869 00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:32,770 and it wasn't until the spring that rescue parties came. 870 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:38,622 You can see the monument behind me, 871 00:39:38,622 --> 00:39:41,810 you can see the immigrants are standing on a platform 872 00:39:41,810 --> 00:39:44,660 that is 22 feet high. 873 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:47,700 That is how deep the compacted snow was. 874 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,409 It got to the point where they took all the bones 875 00:39:50,409 --> 00:39:53,171 of the animals and boiled them and boiled them 876 00:39:53,171 --> 00:39:56,560 and boiled them 'til they were reduced to fragments 877 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,620 about the size of my pinky fingernail 878 00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:02,650 and these I have seen directly because we excavated them 879 00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,170 in 2004. 880 00:40:04,170 --> 00:40:06,378 There were thousands of fragments that size 881 00:40:06,378 --> 00:40:09,300 and they were boiling them to extract collagen 882 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,670 which was the only source of energy in bone. 883 00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:17,934 Some of the stories about the Donner Party, 884 00:40:17,934 --> 00:40:19,340 it's heart wrenching. 885 00:40:19,340 --> 00:40:22,780 I mean, these mothers did some unbelievable things 886 00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:24,320 just to keep their kids alive. 887 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:33,821 They started utilizing a little bit of human flesh 888 00:40:33,821 --> 00:40:38,821 and that helped sustain at least half of them 889 00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:42,100 until the rescue parties came in the spring. 890 00:40:43,060 --> 00:40:45,260 When it comes to cannibalism, 891 00:40:45,260 --> 00:40:48,900 when the body starts breaking down, shutting down, 892 00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:51,130 one system at a time, 893 00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:53,938 eventually you reach the point where you'd do things 894 00:40:53,938 --> 00:40:57,270 that you ordinarily would never consider. 895 00:41:00,380 --> 00:41:02,890 Once the body is starved of nutrients, 896 00:41:02,890 --> 00:41:07,890 once it's utilized muscle, bone, and fat stores, 897 00:41:08,270 --> 00:41:09,950 then things start shutting down. 898 00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:12,760 The organs of high growth priority, 899 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,830 they are maintained until the end 900 00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:17,960 and you might be able to imagine what those would be. 901 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,250 The heart continues to beat, you need that. 902 00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:25,010 The lungs continue to inhale and exhale air, 903 00:41:25,010 --> 00:41:27,307 you need that and the hind and the midbrain 904 00:41:27,307 --> 00:41:31,690 continue to function because they control breathing 905 00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:33,847 and respiration and everything else 906 00:41:33,847 --> 00:41:37,065 but interestingly and this is what surprises people - 907 00:41:37,065 --> 00:41:40,427 the sequence that things start shutting down. 908 00:41:40,427 --> 00:41:45,427 When you say you would never eat human flesh, 909 00:41:46,980 --> 00:41:51,250 that is because you've never been faced with that dilemma 910 00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:56,250 because starvation basically impacts the rational part 911 00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:59,430 of the brain and the cerebellum, 912 00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:03,640 the part of the brain that focuses on survival, 913 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,847 that's still going, the limbic system, 914 00:42:05,847 --> 00:42:09,780 but the part involved in thinking is not going 915 00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:14,530 so you have to have been there to understand 916 00:42:14,530 --> 00:42:16,500 what these people went through. 917 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:21,500 - So I pretty much started with very turbulent teen years. 918 00:42:22,352 --> 00:42:25,839 I was 14 when I first moved in with my boyfriend. 919 00:42:25,839 --> 00:42:29,510 I was heavily into the kind of drug party scene, 920 00:42:29,510 --> 00:42:31,340 like drinking a lot of alcohol, all that kind of stuff. 921 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:34,820 I spent a lot of nights up partying in bars with fake IDs, 922 00:42:34,820 --> 00:42:39,650 drinking, not eating properly, subsiding on processed food, 923 00:42:44,180 --> 00:42:48,370 eventually developing septicemia when I was about 16. 924 00:42:48,370 --> 00:42:51,500 It started from a really bad case of pneumonia, 925 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:53,730 about 24 hours later I was in the hospital 926 00:42:53,730 --> 00:42:58,070 on intravenous antibiotics for swollen menages of the brain, 927 00:42:58,070 --> 00:43:00,462 septicemia, multiple organ failures, 928 00:43:00,462 --> 00:43:04,040 and severe chronic disease. 929 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,710 My chances of survival were actually only 40%. 930 00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:10,770 Something changed and it was probably a combination 931 00:43:10,770 --> 00:43:12,820 of everything that went on but I remember 932 00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:15,670 leaving the hospital and I wasn't the same person, 933 00:43:15,670 --> 00:43:19,700 like any happiness for life was gone, 934 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,220 I was very apathetic and depressed. 935 00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:25,460 I seemed to be really struggling to believe 936 00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:28,532 in a positive future for myself and self-conscious 937 00:43:28,532 --> 00:43:30,830 and a lot more introverted. 938 00:43:30,830 --> 00:43:32,679 All of this sort of made me focus on, 939 00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:37,008 made me begin focusing on what I felt I could control 940 00:43:37,008 --> 00:43:41,110 which is what I ate, how I looked, how other people saw me 941 00:43:41,110 --> 00:43:45,680 and I think I used obsession with my body 942 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,495 and controlling my intake as a way to be accepted, 943 00:43:49,495 --> 00:43:54,070 feel connected to the world and the environment, 944 00:43:54,070 --> 00:43:58,958 to be a part of something, to feel home somewhere. 945 00:43:58,958 --> 00:44:02,541 (train clacking on tracks) 946 00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:07,760 I remember looking in the mirror and hating my body 947 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,490 and judging it so harshly. 948 00:44:09,490 --> 00:44:12,370 So I had a lot of different health conditions, 949 00:44:20,709 --> 00:44:22,860 my main conditions, 950 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:26,060 I was dealing with autoimmune thyroid disease, 951 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:29,020 extreme hypothyroid and a thyroid goiter. 952 00:44:29,020 --> 00:44:32,081 It was actually very difficult to swallow and eat food. 953 00:44:32,081 --> 00:44:36,760 I had gastroparesis so really slow stomach emptying 954 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,197 and chronic stomach inflammation and gastritis, 955 00:44:39,197 --> 00:44:42,850 probably from years of an eating disorder and antibiotics 956 00:44:42,850 --> 00:44:44,420 and all that stuff as well. 957 00:44:44,420 --> 00:44:46,523 I had really bad irritable bowel syndrome 958 00:44:46,523 --> 00:44:49,640 and chronic inflammatory bowel disease 959 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,490 so I was bloated all the time, a lot of pain in the bathroom 960 00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:55,079 more than anybody should be, 961 00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:58,100 and my most painful condition by far 962 00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:01,580 and what actually prompted me to start my YouTube channel, 963 00:45:01,580 --> 00:45:03,760 what I really focused on at the beginning 964 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,130 was one of the top three most painful conditions 965 00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:09,320 that exist and it was intrastitial cystitis. 966 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,920 So it's a chronic ulcerative bladder disease and it's, 967 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,242 the symptoms are a lot of urgency, burning, pain, 968 00:45:16,242 --> 00:45:18,410 but you have no life really. 969 00:45:18,410 --> 00:45:21,050 You're kind of housebound and living in your bathroom 970 00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:21,883 in a lot of pain. 971 00:45:21,883 --> 00:45:23,830 This is where I lived for two years. 972 00:45:23,830 --> 00:45:27,045 I was a prisoner in my own bathroom 973 00:45:27,045 --> 00:45:31,310 and I had my identity stripped by my eating disorder. 974 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,080 I really didn't have a life at all. 975 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,190 - I think the problem is when you do this fasting, 976 00:45:38,190 --> 00:45:42,000 basically you're simulating the same kind of situation 977 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,012 that impacted the Donners and if you take it too far, 978 00:45:46,012 --> 00:45:48,310 it's exactly what I was saying before - 979 00:45:48,310 --> 00:45:49,990 the body starts shutting down. 980 00:45:49,990 --> 00:45:51,480 - Anorexics fast all the time. 981 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,071 I mean, some people may justify fasting. 982 00:45:55,071 --> 00:45:56,482 If they have an eating disorder they may say, 983 00:45:56,482 --> 00:45:57,913 well, look, fasting is fixing all these 984 00:45:57,913 --> 00:45:58,746 other medical problems, 985 00:45:58,746 --> 00:46:01,400 we know that eating disorders are medical and biological 986 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,000 if we're talking about a brain based disorder. 987 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,360 Maybe fasting will fix my eating disorder. 988 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,449 Well, anorexics fast all the time, 989 00:46:07,449 --> 00:46:09,540 it makes their disorder worse. 990 00:46:09,540 --> 00:46:12,230 Bulimics purge food in a number of ways - 991 00:46:12,230 --> 00:46:14,470 self-induced vomiting is the one that people think about 992 00:46:14,470 --> 00:46:16,590 or misuse of laxatives which actually does nothing 993 00:46:16,590 --> 00:46:18,210 to get rid of calories, by the way, 994 00:46:18,210 --> 00:46:20,550 but the other thing that bulimics do to purge is fast. 995 00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:23,886 So both bulimics and anorexics fast 996 00:46:23,886 --> 00:46:25,570 and it makes their disorder worse, 997 00:46:25,570 --> 00:46:26,840 it does not fix it. 998 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,386 - We did see that in the archeological record. 999 00:46:29,386 --> 00:46:34,386 Bulimics, remember in Rome they had the vomiteria, 1000 00:46:35,137 --> 00:46:38,538 where they would eat and gorge themselves 1001 00:46:38,538 --> 00:46:39,371 and then they'd go throw up. 1002 00:46:39,371 --> 00:46:41,950 - Yeah, I think that the Romans and the vomitoriums 1003 00:46:41,950 --> 00:46:44,310 that they would have was sort of a different phenomenon. 1004 00:46:44,310 --> 00:46:48,970 That was much more of a social activity 1005 00:46:48,970 --> 00:46:52,140 where people would go and overindulge on purpose 1006 00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:54,840 and then they would vomit in order to continue 1007 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,073 to be able to do that. 1008 00:46:56,073 --> 00:46:59,950 Patients with bulimia where they would binge and then purge 1009 00:46:59,950 --> 00:47:01,252 often by vomiting, 1010 00:47:01,252 --> 00:47:04,730 they find that both the binging and the purging 1011 00:47:04,730 --> 00:47:06,050 to be highly shameful. 1012 00:47:06,050 --> 00:47:08,090 They will go to great lengths to hide this 1013 00:47:08,090 --> 00:47:08,923 from their friends, 1014 00:47:08,923 --> 00:47:10,313 their family, 1015 00:47:10,313 --> 00:47:12,653 it's not something they feel comfortable doing in generally, 1016 00:47:12,653 --> 00:47:14,541 in public. 1017 00:47:14,541 --> 00:47:19,541 - I remember the first time I actually purged 1018 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:23,330 and it wasn't with intents. 1019 00:47:23,330 --> 00:47:26,330 I literally had eaten what I thought I shouldn't 1020 00:47:29,332 --> 00:47:30,386 after a long time of anorexia, 1021 00:47:30,386 --> 00:47:32,040 after many months of really starving myself 1022 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,088 to the point of insanity, 1023 00:47:33,088 --> 00:47:35,800 and I remember I was so hungry I just couldn't, I gave in, 1024 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,401 it was like a physiological survival urge I couldn't ignore 1025 00:47:39,401 --> 00:47:44,401 and I was so anxious while I was eating that I felt 1026 00:47:44,510 --> 00:47:45,820 such an upset stomach, 1027 00:47:45,820 --> 00:47:49,470 like it felt like I was doing something so wrong 1028 00:47:49,470 --> 00:47:54,050 and afterwards, I mean, I ate until I couldn't breathe, 1029 00:47:54,050 --> 00:47:57,350 like I couldn't control myself, I was like, 1030 00:47:57,350 --> 00:47:59,700 my body needed it and then, 1031 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:04,700 I felt so worried and panicky that I was going to gain 1032 00:48:05,030 --> 00:48:05,863 a ton of weight, 1033 00:48:05,863 --> 00:48:07,730 destroy everything I had already done, 1034 00:48:07,730 --> 00:48:10,910 I sort of came in the bathroom really frantic and scared 1035 00:48:10,910 --> 00:48:12,930 and I sort of leaned over the toilet bowl 1036 00:48:12,930 --> 00:48:16,200 and I was so painfully full that just the act 1037 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,410 of leaning over, I mean, 1038 00:48:18,410 --> 00:48:20,100 food practically came up itself 1039 00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:21,670 and it was so painful coming up, 1040 00:48:21,670 --> 00:48:24,564 it was like fire lava just shooting out of you 1041 00:48:24,564 --> 00:48:28,180 and at the same time I was flooded with a sense of relief 1042 00:48:28,180 --> 00:48:31,480 like it was, it was like I could get rid of all the shame. 1043 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,670 I could get rid of all the pain in my life, 1044 00:48:33,670 --> 00:48:36,133 I could just get back to the way I was before 1045 00:48:36,133 --> 00:48:38,980 and then I would feel really panicky and shaky 1046 00:48:38,980 --> 00:48:40,610 and I would wonder if anybody heard me 1047 00:48:40,610 --> 00:48:43,240 and I would be afraid that I smelt like vomit 1048 00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,820 and I just felt really dirty and really disgusting 1049 00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:47,960 and I wanted to pretend the whole thing didn't happen. 1050 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,180 So I would rush over to the sink 1051 00:48:50,180 --> 00:48:53,180 and just put so much toothpaste on my toothbrush 1052 00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,820 and I was so afraid I had like splatter on me, 1053 00:48:55,820 --> 00:48:58,400 I just felt so disgusting I guess, 1054 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,630 on such a deep level and then I would sit in the bath 1055 00:49:01,630 --> 00:49:05,170 for a long time and I would just run the hot water 1056 00:49:05,170 --> 00:49:07,130 over my hands and splash my face 1057 00:49:07,130 --> 00:49:09,765 and just feel really ashamed and embarrassed 1058 00:49:09,765 --> 00:49:13,090 and hoped that nobody ever knew that I did 1059 00:49:13,090 --> 00:49:15,300 because it felt like the most despicable thing 1060 00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:16,393 on planet earth. 1061 00:49:16,393 --> 00:49:21,393 - When the recovery battle began, I was 145 pounds and 6'3" 1062 00:49:22,069 --> 00:49:26,132 and now I stand today at 188 pounds. 1063 00:49:26,132 --> 00:49:30,180 I just have maybe an inferiority complex, if you will. 1064 00:49:30,180 --> 00:49:32,380 I was bullied as a young kid and going up 1065 00:49:32,380 --> 00:49:34,330 through high school and it always made me angry 1066 00:49:34,330 --> 00:49:36,080 and it made me mad and it felt like 1067 00:49:37,262 --> 00:49:38,095 if I could work out harder 1068 00:49:38,095 --> 00:49:39,640 and if I could watch my diet even tighter, 1069 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,976 that's a way to get back at everybody 1070 00:49:41,976 --> 00:49:46,670 and it caused me to have very bad social anxiety. 1071 00:49:46,670 --> 00:49:49,281 It just led me to a life of isolation 1072 00:49:49,281 --> 00:49:52,740 because I was afraid that I was going to eat something 1073 00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,970 that was unhealthy or I was afraid 1074 00:49:54,970 --> 00:49:57,010 that I was going to smell something and want it 1075 00:49:57,010 --> 00:49:59,280 and not have it and I would feel massive anxiety 1076 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,140 so I would just talk myself out of not going 1077 00:50:01,140 --> 00:50:01,973 to these places. 1078 00:50:01,973 --> 00:50:03,997 So I came home for Thanksgiving one year 1079 00:50:03,997 --> 00:50:06,920 and my brother handed me this packet 1080 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,320 that said orthorexia on it and he threw it at me 1081 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,246 and he said, "You have this." 1082 00:50:11,246 --> 00:50:15,913 - ♪ You're in the upside down all alone ♪ 1083 00:50:24,208 --> 00:50:29,208 ♪ Running from the monster beyond ♪ 1084 00:50:32,260 --> 00:50:35,020 - Orthorexia is a condition where you take things 1085 00:50:35,020 --> 00:50:36,240 to the extreme. 1086 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,933 I specifically remember tracking my calories 1087 00:50:38,933 --> 00:50:40,944 and burning approximately 1800 a day 1088 00:50:40,944 --> 00:50:44,275 and consuming only 1400 and if ever a day came 1089 00:50:44,275 --> 00:50:46,460 where those numbers were reversed, 1090 00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:47,800 I would get so depressed and angry, 1091 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,900 it was unbelievable and I had to super compensate 1092 00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:52,050 the next day to make sure that I was burning 1093 00:50:52,050 --> 00:50:53,880 more than I was consuming. 1094 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,190 One of the things that happens when you have 1095 00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:58,330 an eating disorder is you go into this specific type 1096 00:50:58,330 --> 00:51:00,570 of depression where you just don't find pleasure 1097 00:51:00,570 --> 00:51:01,740 out of things anymore. 1098 00:51:03,118 --> 00:51:08,118 - ♪ It's like a dream passing through a shrouded fable ♪ 1099 00:51:16,083 --> 00:51:21,083 ♪ I've died before but not again ♪ 1100 00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,180 - The only thing that I really found pleasure 1101 00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:30,751 out of was exercising in huge amounts 1102 00:51:30,751 --> 00:51:34,050 and working out really hard and restricting my calories 1103 00:51:34,050 --> 00:51:36,750 and seeing how far I can actually push it or stretch it. 1104 00:51:36,750 --> 00:51:38,460 My emotions were all over the place. 1105 00:51:38,460 --> 00:51:41,920 To say life became a struggle is putting it lightly. 1106 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,924 I wouldn't go as far as saying that I was suicidal 1107 00:51:44,924 --> 00:51:48,360 but I definitely had given up on life 1108 00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,310 and I did not want to live another day. 1109 00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:57,760 I literally would pray that I would go over 1110 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,440 to the streets of Manhattan in the afternoon to work 1111 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,990 and I would get hit by a bus going out of control 1112 00:52:02,990 --> 00:52:05,260 or get killed in gang warfare or get shot 1113 00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:06,093 or stabbed to death. 1114 00:52:06,093 --> 00:52:07,830 I would have to say my lowest point 1115 00:52:07,830 --> 00:52:10,720 was when I was contemplating jumping 1116 00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:12,370 into the East River in Manhattan. 1117 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,305 At that moment I just started thinking about 1118 00:52:19,305 --> 00:52:22,762 my mom who was back home living by herself 1119 00:52:22,762 --> 00:52:27,762 and a lot of my close friends and I was wondering 1120 00:52:28,657 --> 00:52:32,517 if they even would care 'cause I didn't 1121 00:52:32,517 --> 00:52:37,480 and then my phone rang at the very moment I stepped 1122 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,860 onto that rung and it was my friend, Jessica, 1123 00:52:39,860 --> 00:52:43,710 back home in Pennsylvania and it's ironic how timing works 1124 00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:46,630 in this life but it couldn't have come at a better time 1125 00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:49,990 because she basically talked me down off of that handrail 1126 00:52:49,990 --> 00:52:52,070 and I went and sat down at a bench. 1127 00:52:52,070 --> 00:52:55,165 The root problem was I was so mineral deficient 1128 00:52:55,165 --> 00:52:58,250 and I had such a lack of food in my system 1129 00:52:58,250 --> 00:53:00,637 that I just wasn't thinking properly. 1130 00:53:00,637 --> 00:53:03,560 It never really was about food per se, 1131 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,230 it was more about my interaction 1132 00:53:06,230 --> 00:53:07,730 and relationships with people, 1133 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,410 good relationships were fine. 1134 00:53:10,410 --> 00:53:12,790 Ones that were a little rocky just kind of like 1135 00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:15,763 triggered me like that and I would basically 1136 00:53:15,763 --> 00:53:20,117 take everything out on food and fitness. 1137 00:53:20,117 --> 00:53:22,944 When I began this journey back to normalcy, 1138 00:53:22,944 --> 00:53:24,090 it was not easy. 1139 00:53:24,090 --> 00:53:25,395 It was not an easy road. 1140 00:53:25,395 --> 00:53:27,940 I had to accept the fact that I was gonna gain 1141 00:53:27,940 --> 00:53:28,930 some weight back. 1142 00:53:28,930 --> 00:53:31,751 I was 145 pounds, I was 6'3" 1143 00:53:31,751 --> 00:53:35,550 and I was totally zeroing in on 140 and that's how I worked. 1144 00:53:35,550 --> 00:53:37,780 I would always go in five pound increments 1145 00:53:37,780 --> 00:53:39,570 and to me those were huge victories. 1146 00:53:39,570 --> 00:53:41,462 - Any food restriction is problematic for somebody 1147 00:53:41,462 --> 00:53:43,910 who has had an eating disorder, is currently, 1148 00:53:43,910 --> 00:53:46,260 actively trying to get over an eating disorder, 1149 00:53:48,132 --> 00:53:51,033 who has a family history of an eating disorder. 1150 00:53:51,033 --> 00:53:51,940 It's likely to send you back into an eating disorder 1151 00:53:52,796 --> 00:53:53,629 if you have a history of it. 1152 00:53:53,629 --> 00:53:57,064 - For me, fasting has actually been a remedy 1153 00:53:57,064 --> 00:54:02,064 in my healing process and I feel that it has helped 1154 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,330 my relationship with food. 1155 00:54:05,330 --> 00:54:08,952 One of the things that works so efficiently for me 1156 00:54:08,952 --> 00:54:13,830 to keep my eating disorder in check is eating in windows. 1157 00:54:14,773 --> 00:54:18,840 I feel like I don't have to put as much thought into food. 1158 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,259 It kind of basically takes my mind off of food. 1159 00:54:21,259 --> 00:54:25,330 So I become more relaxed and because of that, 1160 00:54:25,330 --> 00:54:29,430 it improves my relationship with food. 1161 00:54:29,430 --> 00:54:32,670 - You don't see too many old fat people 1162 00:54:32,670 --> 00:54:36,150 and there's a reason because being overweight 1163 00:54:36,150 --> 00:54:37,670 is definitely hard on the system. 1164 00:54:37,670 --> 00:54:39,718 I'm a bit overweight and I'm worried about it. 1165 00:54:39,718 --> 00:54:43,060 I might even look into this fasting myself (laughs). 1166 00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:50,490 - There's essentially two forms of fasting 1167 00:54:50,490 --> 00:54:51,780 that are being advocated currently: 1168 00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:52,820 the intermittent fasting 1169 00:54:52,820 --> 00:54:55,206 which is essentially intermittent feeding 1170 00:54:55,206 --> 00:54:57,037 in which you narrow the feeding windows, 1171 00:54:57,037 --> 00:54:59,610 you may restrict calories on one or two days or more a week. 1172 00:54:59,610 --> 00:55:02,725 These can be done safely often in an outpatient basis 1173 00:55:02,725 --> 00:55:05,250 but medically supervised water only fasting 1174 00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:06,900 is a little bit more complicated. 1175 00:55:07,982 --> 00:55:08,900 It does require supervision. 1176 00:55:10,582 --> 00:55:11,857 It does require a contained environment in order 1177 00:55:11,857 --> 00:55:13,140 to ensure a safe and effective experience. 1178 00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:16,200 So when we talk about the long-term water only fasting, 1179 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,965 that's done at facilities like the True North Health Center 1180 00:55:19,965 --> 00:55:21,790 where people are able to undergo physical exams, 1181 00:55:21,790 --> 00:55:23,340 laboratory monitoring, 1182 00:55:23,340 --> 00:55:25,400 being in controlled and contained environment 1183 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,960 and in that type of a setting, 1184 00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,930 fasting can be done, even prolonged fasting, 1185 00:55:28,930 --> 00:55:30,294 can be done safely. 1186 00:55:30,294 --> 00:55:32,329 It's also important that fasting be applied 1187 00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:34,890 at patients at the right time. 1188 00:55:34,890 --> 00:55:36,750 In other words, there are some people who have conditions 1189 00:55:36,750 --> 00:55:39,181 where they would be better off with a different approach 1190 00:55:39,181 --> 00:55:40,460 than fasting. 1191 00:55:40,460 --> 00:55:42,710 Fasting may be too vigorous or may be inappropriate 1192 00:55:42,710 --> 00:55:45,641 because of complications with medical management 1193 00:55:45,641 --> 00:55:48,886 or at least until medications can be withdrawn, et cetera. 1194 00:55:48,886 --> 00:55:52,110 So fasting has a wide range of applications 1195 00:55:52,110 --> 00:55:55,820 but where it does it's best work is in dealing 1196 00:55:55,820 --> 00:55:58,142 with conditions that are caused by excess. 1197 00:55:58,142 --> 00:56:00,880 So conditions associated with dietary excess 1198 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,920 include things like obesity, high blood pressure, 1199 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,750 and other cardiovascular related disease, Type 2 Diabetes, 1200 00:56:07,750 --> 00:56:10,130 a host of autoimmune diseases and even some forms 1201 00:56:10,130 --> 00:56:14,780 of cancer like lymphoma seem to be intimately with our diet 1202 00:56:14,780 --> 00:56:16,410 and lifestyle choices 1203 00:56:16,410 --> 00:56:18,530 and so it makes sense that where dietary excess 1204 00:56:18,530 --> 00:56:20,660 is a contributing factor to the problem, 1205 00:56:20,660 --> 00:56:23,227 fasting may be a helpful means of rapidly giving the body 1206 00:56:23,227 --> 00:56:26,760 a chance to reverse the consequences of dietary excess. 1207 00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,850 - In 1994 I had a head injury 1208 00:56:28,850 --> 00:56:30,223 and when I regained consciousness, 1209 00:56:30,223 --> 00:56:33,624 I had a terrible headache and prior to the accident, 1210 00:56:33,624 --> 00:56:35,836 I had been a practicing dentist. 1211 00:56:35,836 --> 00:56:38,418 So because of the nerve damage to my hands, 1212 00:56:38,418 --> 00:56:41,112 I also had to quit practicing dentistry. 1213 00:56:41,112 --> 00:56:43,745 I sought medical advice to get rid of the headache. 1214 00:56:43,745 --> 00:56:48,080 I visited with several neurologists. 1215 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,370 They were unable to help me. 1216 00:56:50,370 --> 00:56:52,360 I also tried some alternative treatments - 1217 00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,158 acupuncture, cupping - 1218 00:56:54,158 --> 00:56:56,480 unfortunately, nothing was able to help me. 1219 00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,040 I had a headache everyday for 16 years, 24/7. 1220 00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,624 It just never ever went away. 1221 00:57:02,624 --> 00:57:05,740 So the neurologist told me that the reason I had 1222 00:57:07,052 --> 00:57:09,586 this never-ending headache was because the dura mater, 1223 00:57:09,586 --> 00:57:11,630 the leatherlike covering of the brain and the spinal cord 1224 00:57:11,630 --> 00:57:15,760 had been torn and had become inflamed and then when I saw 1225 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,430 on the True North website that a number 1226 00:57:18,430 --> 00:57:20,350 of the health conditions that they treated 1227 00:57:20,350 --> 00:57:21,945 were based on inflammation, 1228 00:57:21,945 --> 00:57:25,261 I decided to call and see if maybe their treatment 1229 00:57:25,261 --> 00:57:28,550 of water only fasting would be helpful to me. 1230 00:57:28,550 --> 00:57:29,540 - At the True North Health Center, 1231 00:57:29,540 --> 00:57:32,050 we take a rather clinical approach to fasting. 1232 00:57:32,050 --> 00:57:35,932 All patients are carefully screened by both 1233 00:57:35,932 --> 00:57:39,120 taking their history as well as reviewing their previous 1234 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,480 medical treatment. 1235 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,660 - He was very honest in saying that they had never 1236 00:57:42,660 --> 00:57:45,121 treated a patient with this particular problem 1237 00:57:45,121 --> 00:57:47,390 but he thought I might have a chance. 1238 00:57:47,390 --> 00:57:49,090 When I initially came to True North, 1239 00:57:49,090 --> 00:57:51,740 they asked me how long I wanted to fast. 1240 00:57:51,740 --> 00:57:53,460 I didn't know I had a choice in that. 1241 00:57:53,460 --> 00:57:55,780 I just thought they would tell me. 1242 00:57:55,780 --> 00:57:57,750 - Fasting protocols here at the True North Health Center 1243 00:57:57,750 --> 00:58:00,040 can range anywhere from five to 40 days 1244 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,530 depending on the patient and how they respond. 1245 00:58:02,530 --> 00:58:06,590 Not everybody or not every condition has a stereotypical 1246 00:58:06,590 --> 00:58:09,740 amount of time that's associated with its optimum outcome. 1247 00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:11,701 - And I told him I was going to fast 1248 00:58:11,701 --> 00:58:14,181 until one of three things happened: 1249 00:58:14,181 --> 00:58:18,524 either the headache went away or I could not fast any longer 1250 00:58:18,524 --> 00:58:21,400 or all of the doctors got together and said, 1251 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,190 for my own safety, I needed to quit fasting. 1252 00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:27,380 People have wondered at my commitment to water only fasting 1253 00:58:27,380 --> 00:58:30,030 but you have to remember I had been in serious pain 1254 00:58:30,030 --> 00:58:32,850 every minute of the day for 16 years. 1255 00:58:32,850 --> 00:58:36,020 I had tried everything that traditional western medicine 1256 00:58:36,020 --> 00:58:37,310 had to offer, 1257 00:58:37,310 --> 00:58:38,786 I had tried alternatives. 1258 00:58:38,786 --> 00:58:41,980 I also knew there was a very good chance that I was 1259 00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:44,690 going to live to be an old lady. 1260 00:58:44,690 --> 00:58:47,490 We have longevity in my family and other than this 1261 00:58:47,490 --> 00:58:48,700 never-ending headache, 1262 00:58:48,700 --> 00:58:50,674 I really didn't have any health problems 1263 00:58:50,674 --> 00:58:54,183 and I did not want to be 80 years old one day thinking, 1264 00:58:54,183 --> 00:58:57,400 what would've happened if I'd gone to that True North place? 1265 00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,671 I wanted to try everything that was possible 1266 00:58:59,671 --> 00:59:01,319 to get out of pain. 1267 00:59:01,319 --> 00:59:05,459 So I started fasting, the doctors come in twice a day. 1268 00:59:05,459 --> 00:59:08,070 - They're monitored twice a day by staff doctors 1269 00:59:08,070 --> 00:59:11,160 during their fasting experience where we're taking vitals 1270 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,010 and monitoring their conditions. 1271 00:59:15,315 --> 00:59:16,148 - To check on you, to make sure you're doing well, 1272 00:59:17,143 --> 00:59:18,060 and everyday it was the same question - 1273 00:59:18,060 --> 00:59:19,100 how are you doing? 1274 00:59:19,100 --> 00:59:22,582 And everyday for 18 days it was the same answer, 1275 00:59:22,582 --> 00:59:24,460 I didn't have any change. 1276 00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:28,290 I still had the headache but then on day 19 I woke up 1277 00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:30,970 and I thought uh oh, something's wrong. 1278 00:59:30,970 --> 00:59:33,280 I didn't know what it was but it was really scary 1279 00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,773 because something was wrong and I decided, 1280 00:59:35,773 --> 00:59:38,890 I'm not moving out of this bed until I figure out 1281 00:59:38,890 --> 00:59:41,940 what it was and I've got to say it took me about a minute 1282 00:59:41,940 --> 00:59:44,300 to realize what was wrong is 1283 00:59:44,300 --> 00:59:46,560 I didn't have a headache anymore. 1284 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:50,140 I had forgotten what it felt like not to be in pain 1285 00:59:51,090 --> 00:59:53,740 and that lasted for about five minutes 1286 00:59:53,740 --> 00:59:56,688 and then I went down to tell Dr. Goldhamer 1287 00:59:56,688 --> 00:59:59,670 and if possible I think he might've been more excited 1288 00:59:59,670 --> 01:00:00,503 than I was. 1289 01:00:00,503 --> 01:00:02,370 He kept saying, "It's amenable to treatment. 1290 01:00:02,370 --> 01:00:03,958 "It's amenable to treatment." 1291 01:00:03,958 --> 01:00:07,070 So I went through that whole day wondering 1292 01:00:07,070 --> 01:00:09,857 because the pain had only been gone for about five minutes, 1293 01:00:09,857 --> 01:00:12,170 then it came back and I wondered, 1294 01:00:12,170 --> 01:00:14,396 I wonder if this will happen again tomorrow. 1295 01:00:14,396 --> 01:00:18,400 The next morning I woke up and I had no pain 1296 01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,770 for about 10 minutes and everyday thereafter 1297 01:00:21,770 --> 01:00:24,910 I had a little more time without pain 1298 01:00:24,910 --> 01:00:29,207 but almost even better than that was during the afternoon 1299 01:00:29,207 --> 01:00:33,290 and evening my pain was decreasing a lot. 1300 01:00:33,290 --> 01:00:34,870 When I first got to True North, 1301 01:00:34,870 --> 01:00:38,807 they asked me what my pain was on the zero to 10 scale 1302 01:00:38,807 --> 01:00:40,170 and my answer was, 1303 01:00:40,170 --> 01:00:42,418 "It's about a six to an eight all of the time 1304 01:00:42,418 --> 01:00:44,830 "with the exception of those rare moments 1305 01:00:44,830 --> 01:00:48,120 "where it kicks up to a 10 when I truly could not move, 1306 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,163 "when it would stop me in my tracks," 1307 01:00:50,163 --> 01:00:54,864 and after day 19 and the pain started to reduce over time, 1308 01:00:54,864 --> 01:00:57,460 it finally got to the point in the afternoon 1309 01:00:57,460 --> 01:00:59,981 where I was down to a one or a two. 1310 01:00:59,981 --> 01:01:02,567 You just can't imagine what a blessing that was 1311 01:01:02,567 --> 01:01:05,627 and finally on day 41 I woke up, 1312 01:01:05,627 --> 01:01:08,377 I had had a whole day without pain, 1313 01:01:08,377 --> 01:01:12,260 the doctors wanted me to quit and I was ready 1314 01:01:12,260 --> 01:01:13,532 to quit fasting. 1315 01:01:13,532 --> 01:01:17,480 So on that day, I had a full day without pain 1316 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,690 for the first time in 16 years. 1317 01:01:30,465 --> 01:01:31,465 Dr. Goldhamer explained that sometimes 1318 01:01:31,465 --> 01:01:33,600 it takes more than one fast to solve a problem 1319 01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,560 and it turned out that happened with me as well. 1320 01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,190 When I started the re-feeding process 1321 01:01:39,190 --> 01:01:41,430 which is a very careful re-introduction 1322 01:01:41,430 --> 01:01:43,610 of food after fasting. 1323 01:01:43,610 --> 01:01:46,401 I started to get some twinges of pain on and off. 1324 01:01:46,401 --> 01:01:49,260 So after two months of re-feeding, 1325 01:01:49,260 --> 01:01:51,440 I went back to Dr. Goldhamer and said, 1326 01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,820 and at the time I couldn't believe I was asking 1327 01:01:55,330 --> 01:01:56,862 to do this again but I said, 1328 01:01:56,862 --> 01:01:57,859 "I need to fast again. 1329 01:01:57,859 --> 01:01:58,883 "What do you think?" 1330 01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:00,045 and he said he thought that would be a good idea 1331 01:02:00,045 --> 01:02:02,180 since I had had good results on the first fast 1332 01:02:02,180 --> 01:02:04,150 and I said, "Great, I'll start again tomorrow," 1333 01:02:04,150 --> 01:02:06,800 and he said, "Oh no, you can't start fasting right now, 1334 01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,420 "you've only been re-feeding for two months," 1335 01:02:09,420 --> 01:02:10,830 and I said, "Well, what's the problem?" 1336 01:02:10,830 --> 01:02:14,550 and he said, "You need to rebuild your nutritional reserves. 1337 01:02:14,550 --> 01:02:16,200 "That's very important," 1338 01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:17,880 and I said, "Well, how long will that take?" 1339 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,940 and he said, "With the length of fast that you've done, 1340 01:02:20,940 --> 01:02:22,940 "probably at least six months," 1341 01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:25,210 and then six months to the day after I ended 1342 01:02:25,210 --> 01:02:26,290 that first fast, 1343 01:02:26,290 --> 01:02:27,873 I started fasting again, 1344 01:02:27,873 --> 01:02:30,448 again, not knowing how long I would fast, 1345 01:02:30,448 --> 01:02:34,840 and I just kept fasting until all of the pain was gone. 1346 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,687 It turned out it was another 40 days 1347 01:02:36,687 --> 01:02:40,148 and then I started to re-feed and at that point, 1348 01:02:40,148 --> 01:02:42,700 I didn't have any pain but I had worries 1349 01:02:42,700 --> 01:02:46,056 that it would come back but I just kept following 1350 01:02:46,056 --> 01:02:49,211 the doctor's recommendations about what to eat, 1351 01:02:49,211 --> 01:02:53,120 how to eat and it finally dawned on me one day 1352 01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:57,280 that that headache was gone and that was in 2010 1353 01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,030 and I haven't had a headache since. 1354 01:03:04,900 --> 01:03:08,114 (dramatic music) 1355 01:03:08,114 --> 01:03:08,947 - Well, I found out about True North through 1356 01:03:08,947 --> 01:03:10,922 one of the talks that Dr. Goldhamer 1357 01:03:10,922 --> 01:03:13,880 gave to our medical school and I remember seeing him 1358 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,787 and thinking, I definitely, 1359 01:03:15,787 --> 01:03:16,620 definitely need to do an internship there. 1360 01:03:16,620 --> 01:03:19,000 - We have an opportunity for doctors to train 1361 01:03:20,165 --> 01:03:20,998 in the use of fasting. 1362 01:03:20,998 --> 01:03:24,160 We have about 30 clinicians a year that come 1363 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,650 from medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, 1364 01:03:26,650 --> 01:03:27,750 and naturopathology. 1365 01:03:27,750 --> 01:03:31,070 As part of their rotation, they're able to do rotations. 1366 01:03:31,070 --> 01:03:34,320 We're a ND residency site for the naturopathic profession 1367 01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:37,060 and those doctors come in and spend a year. 1368 01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:38,570 We've recently completed, for example, 1369 01:03:38,570 --> 01:03:41,170 a fasting safety study which shows that fasting 1370 01:03:41,170 --> 01:03:43,650 can be a safe and effective means when it's done properly. 1371 01:03:43,650 --> 01:03:46,750 - The conclusion was that water only fasting 1372 01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:51,464 in a medically supervised facility such as True North Health 1373 01:03:51,464 --> 01:03:54,013 using the True North Health protocol, 1374 01:03:54,013 --> 01:03:56,330 because we didn't compare any other protocols, 1375 01:03:56,330 --> 01:03:58,260 is relatively safe. 1376 01:03:58,260 --> 01:04:01,770 - We're actually very excited because we see 1377 01:04:01,770 --> 01:04:04,210 a wide range of conditions that tend to respond 1378 01:04:04,210 --> 01:04:06,620 to this approach and now we're in a position finally 1379 01:04:06,620 --> 01:04:08,850 with the help of our nonprofit True North Health Foundation 1380 01:04:08,850 --> 01:04:10,920 to begin to document those results 1381 01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:12,528 and present them in a way that I think 1382 01:04:12,528 --> 01:04:14,836 both clinicians and scientists will find acceptable. 1383 01:04:14,836 --> 01:04:17,320 - What the foundation is now doing is turning 1384 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:20,880 that into accepted, peer reviewed published research 1385 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,420 and so we're doing the human subjects research, 1386 01:04:23,420 --> 01:04:25,760 bringing people in to look at how fasting 1387 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,100 changes biomarkers in the blood, taste and adaptation, 1388 01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:29,933 different studies. 1389 01:04:29,933 --> 01:04:32,440 So we'll actually have published material 1390 01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:35,460 that we can show people and people will start seeing fasting 1391 01:04:35,460 --> 01:04:39,120 as a modality of healing that really does amazing things 1392 01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,580 and has been for millennia for humans. 1393 01:04:41,580 --> 01:04:43,510 - For example, in the treatment of high blood pressure, 1394 01:04:43,510 --> 01:04:45,050 we did a study with our colleague, 1395 01:04:45,050 --> 01:04:47,246 T. Colin Campbell from Cornell University. 1396 01:04:47,246 --> 01:04:50,180 We took 174 consecutive patients 1397 01:04:50,180 --> 01:04:52,440 that had high blood pressure and we put them through 1398 01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,360 a period of fasting followed by a whole plant food, 1399 01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:56,592 sugar, oil and salt free diet. 1400 01:04:56,592 --> 01:05:00,883 Of the 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure, 1401 01:05:00,883 --> 01:05:03,620 174 people lowered their pressure enough 1402 01:05:03,620 --> 01:05:05,614 to eliminate the need for medication and in that study, 1403 01:05:05,614 --> 01:05:08,310 we were able to demonstrate and effect size 1404 01:05:08,310 --> 01:05:10,880 of over 60 points average drop in stage 3 hypertension. 1405 01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,930 That's the largest effect that's ever been shown 1406 01:05:13,930 --> 01:05:16,130 in treating high blood pressure in humans as far 1407 01:05:16,130 --> 01:05:17,453 as I'm aware of. 1408 01:05:17,453 --> 01:05:20,469 Essentially if you have high blood pressure 1409 01:05:20,469 --> 01:05:24,460 and you undergo fasting and make diet and lifestyle changes, 1410 01:05:25,327 --> 01:05:26,420 you have an exceptionally high likelihood 1411 01:05:27,352 --> 01:05:29,524 of being able to normalize your blood pressure 1412 01:05:29,524 --> 01:05:30,510 and if you're willing to do really dangerous 1413 01:05:30,510 --> 01:05:32,542 and radical things like eat good and exercise, 1414 01:05:32,542 --> 01:05:34,550 go to bed on time, 1415 01:05:34,550 --> 01:05:36,760 you have an excellent chance of being able 1416 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:37,593 to maintain those results. 1417 01:05:37,593 --> 01:05:40,100 - The reason I stayed after my residency at True North 1418 01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:43,212 is because you see that on an everyday basis here. 1419 01:05:43,212 --> 01:05:45,610 You don't have to be here for years in order 1420 01:05:45,610 --> 01:05:50,050 to understand the profound effect that water fasting has. 1421 01:05:52,709 --> 01:05:55,792 (slow pensive music) 1422 01:06:02,550 --> 01:06:04,050 - [Alan] If someone is going to fast 1423 01:06:04,050 --> 01:06:05,070 for a day or two, 1424 01:06:05,070 --> 01:06:07,020 most people in the United States are going to have 1425 01:06:07,020 --> 01:06:08,570 absolutely no issues with that. 1426 01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,200 We have plenty of fat reserves, we can do that. 1427 01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,320 It is important to make sure that people are getting 1428 01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:15,640 adequate amounts of fluids during that 1429 01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,810 because dehydration can be very dangerous. 1430 01:06:17,810 --> 01:06:19,770 - I think what's happening right now is that 1431 01:06:19,770 --> 01:06:21,750 a lot of people are improvising. 1432 01:06:21,750 --> 01:06:23,810 - If someone's going to go and say, as you mentioned, 1433 01:06:23,810 --> 01:06:25,190 a 21 day fast. 1434 01:06:25,190 --> 01:06:26,820 That is something that I think should actually 1435 01:06:26,820 --> 01:06:29,310 be monitored that people are doing well. 1436 01:06:29,310 --> 01:06:32,870 - So fasting and re-feeding cycles are extremely powerful, 1437 01:06:32,870 --> 01:06:36,080 probably more powerful than a powerful cocktail of drugs 1438 01:06:36,950 --> 01:06:39,060 and so when you eliminate the doctor, 1439 01:06:39,060 --> 01:06:41,370 you eliminate the registered dietician, 1440 01:06:41,370 --> 01:06:44,580 you eliminate something that is being clinically tested, 1441 01:06:44,580 --> 01:06:48,546 you're now really putting yourself in a lot of, 1442 01:06:48,546 --> 01:06:51,590 in a very dangerous position and it could be that 1443 01:06:51,590 --> 01:06:53,554 it's not very dangerous to you today 1444 01:06:53,554 --> 01:06:56,803 because maybe your immune system is fine, 1445 01:06:56,803 --> 01:07:00,550 you're not taking any other drugs but maybe two years 1446 01:07:00,550 --> 01:07:01,890 down the road you try it again, 1447 01:07:01,890 --> 01:07:04,350 now all of a sudden you're immuno suppressed 1448 01:07:04,350 --> 01:07:06,929 or you have a viral infection or you're taking 1449 01:07:06,929 --> 01:07:11,929 a drug for Diabetes or you're taking another drug 1450 01:07:12,630 --> 01:07:16,752 and now together they become very problematic 1451 01:07:16,752 --> 01:07:20,590 like the infection now could become a lethal infection 1452 01:07:20,590 --> 01:07:21,510 or the insulin. 1453 01:07:21,510 --> 01:07:22,598 Now we know some of the people that have died in clinics 1454 01:07:22,598 --> 01:07:27,480 that do fasting have died from a combination of insulin 1455 01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:28,520 and fasting. 1456 01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,340 So something and even when I talk to diabetologists, 1457 01:07:34,235 --> 01:07:35,068 endocrinologists and they say, "Your patient could die." 1458 01:07:36,108 --> 01:07:37,160 Immediately their answer is like, come on, 1459 01:07:38,323 --> 01:07:39,350 it's not possible. 1460 01:07:39,350 --> 01:07:40,503 These are doctors, right? 1461 01:07:40,503 --> 01:07:41,643 These are experienced doctors. 1462 01:07:41,643 --> 01:07:45,840 They don't realize how combining drug with fasting 1463 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,920 can turn to very innocuous things into something 1464 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,150 that can even be lethal. 1465 01:07:51,150 --> 01:07:55,340 For example, metformin, very safe, very widely utilized, 1466 01:07:55,340 --> 01:07:58,237 well metformin happens to be a gluconeogenesis inhibitor 1467 01:07:58,237 --> 01:07:59,870 and guess what? 1468 01:07:59,870 --> 01:08:02,018 Fasting requires gluconeogenesis. 1469 01:08:02,018 --> 01:08:05,525 Now, you take a blocker of gluconeogenesis 1470 01:08:05,525 --> 01:08:08,800 and something that requires to survive, 1471 01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,160 if you don't have gluconeogenesis, 1472 01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:13,345 gluconeogenesis refers to the liver making new glucose, 1473 01:08:13,345 --> 01:08:15,990 if you block it on one side and you require it 1474 01:08:15,990 --> 01:08:16,890 on the other side, 1475 01:08:18,202 --> 01:08:19,130 you can see you have a very problematic situation 1476 01:08:19,130 --> 01:08:22,560 and now think about the fact that 100 million Americans 1477 01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:24,860 are either diabetic or pre-diabetic 1478 01:08:24,860 --> 01:08:26,940 and so all of them are eligible. 1479 01:08:26,940 --> 01:08:29,700 So one American in three or so is eligible for metformin 1480 01:08:29,700 --> 01:08:31,650 and pretty soon will be on metformin. 1481 01:08:31,650 --> 01:08:35,304 You see how now the combination of fasting, 1482 01:08:35,304 --> 01:08:38,050 or the improvisation with fasting 1483 01:08:38,050 --> 01:08:39,600 could be extremely dangerous. 1484 01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:43,640 - This was the scariest thing that I've ever experienced 1485 01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:45,920 and I really thought that I was gonna lose my life 1486 01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:46,753 at one point. 1487 01:08:48,342 --> 01:08:51,092 (dramatic music) 1488 01:08:56,032 --> 01:08:58,650 I decided to do my 35 day extended water fast 1489 01:08:58,650 --> 01:09:02,080 in a fasting clinic outside of Canada. 1490 01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,180 I was fasting alongside other people, 1491 01:09:04,180 --> 01:09:06,460 about 30, 40 people I think we were in total, 1492 01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:07,710 and there, 1493 01:09:07,710 --> 01:09:10,809 it turned out actually that there was a significant issue 1494 01:09:10,809 --> 01:09:15,460 with the water and so even with that, 1495 01:09:15,460 --> 01:09:17,179 even with poor quality water, 1496 01:09:17,179 --> 01:09:19,940 everybody at the center from what I witnessed 1497 01:09:19,940 --> 01:09:24,450 did really well in general up until about three weeks, 1498 01:09:24,450 --> 01:09:27,240 so up until about 21 days and after that 1499 01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,140 things sort of started to go down south, 1500 01:09:29,140 --> 01:09:31,840 not just for me but for numerous other people as well. 1501 01:09:32,980 --> 01:09:35,410 By about day 26, I was really, 1502 01:09:37,035 --> 01:09:40,110 instinctively I felt a powerful urge to end my fast 1503 01:09:40,110 --> 01:09:42,848 and I ignored that urge and my ignoring that urge, 1504 01:09:42,848 --> 01:09:45,590 I got really sick. 1505 01:09:45,590 --> 01:09:47,360 My roommate almost got raped. 1506 01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,630 There was a guy with psychosis who slit his wrists 1507 01:09:49,630 --> 01:09:51,200 and had to be rushed to the hospital. 1508 01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,800 It turned out he had hyponitremia so it's where 1509 01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:56,580 your sodium levels crash so much 1510 01:09:56,580 --> 01:09:58,310 that your potassium levels skyrocket 1511 01:09:58,310 --> 01:10:01,248 and you actually go into a mental psychosis. 1512 01:10:01,248 --> 01:10:05,220 One girl was so dehydrated she went to the hospital 1513 01:10:05,220 --> 01:10:07,732 and had to be on IV and the other girl almost died. 1514 01:10:07,732 --> 01:10:09,820 I felt helpless. 1515 01:10:09,820 --> 01:10:14,549 I felt sort of desperate and terrified, like terrified. 1516 01:10:14,549 --> 01:10:16,610 There was a woman who was there 1517 01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:18,640 and her mother came to the center 1518 01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,360 and was terrified because her daughter had been so ill 1519 01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,520 and dehydrated and she had all the symptoms 1520 01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:24,460 of renal failure. 1521 01:10:24,460 --> 01:10:26,940 I felt certain that she was gonna die and I remember 1522 01:10:26,940 --> 01:10:30,520 being up all night thinking this poor girl came here 1523 01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,500 to save her own life, to heal, and repair, 1524 01:10:34,629 --> 01:10:36,278 and she literally almost died. 1525 01:10:36,278 --> 01:10:39,028 (dramatic music) 1526 01:10:42,622 --> 01:10:44,150 Her mother took her to the hospital against 1527 01:10:44,150 --> 01:10:46,941 our fasting supervisor's directive and she was told 1528 01:10:46,941 --> 01:10:49,690 that she was in such bad renal failure 1529 01:10:49,690 --> 01:10:53,000 and so dangerously dehydrated that she was, 1530 01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,510 they weren't sure she was gonna make it. 1531 01:10:54,510 --> 01:10:57,160 What I discovered a little bit late 1532 01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:02,090 is that it's very important to research a fasting facility 1533 01:11:02,090 --> 01:11:04,320 and make sure that you're in the care of people 1534 01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,400 that really can medically supervise you. 1535 01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:08,800 Make sure everything's okay. 1536 01:11:10,779 --> 01:11:13,505 When things turned for me on day 28, 1537 01:11:13,505 --> 01:11:17,065 I was really fearful for my life. 1538 01:11:17,065 --> 01:11:19,910 (foreboding music) 1539 01:11:19,910 --> 01:11:24,820 I actually snuck in to use a computer at a time 1540 01:11:24,820 --> 01:11:26,220 when we weren't supposed to. 1541 01:11:29,752 --> 01:11:32,669 (foreboding music) 1542 01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:49,090 And I wrote messages to personal people in my life 1543 01:11:49,090 --> 01:11:51,600 like telling them that I wasn't well and that I was afraid 1544 01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,800 that I would lose my life and that I felt more unwell 1545 01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:55,900 than I had ever felt. 1546 01:11:58,064 --> 01:12:03,064 Because I fasted too long and didn't get appropriate care, 1547 01:12:03,090 --> 01:12:07,040 I think what ended up happening was I had a lot 1548 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:08,460 of health problems. 1549 01:12:08,460 --> 01:12:10,300 I had something called moon face, 1550 01:12:10,300 --> 01:12:13,010 extreme inflammation in my face. 1551 01:12:13,010 --> 01:12:16,020 In my whole body I had edema and water retention 1552 01:12:16,020 --> 01:12:17,860 from how dehydrated I had been, 1553 01:12:17,860 --> 01:12:20,000 how off my electrolytes were, 1554 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,960 weight gain, I gained a lot of weight, 1555 01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:27,736 about 30 pounds actually or 28 pounds in two weeks! 1556 01:12:27,736 --> 01:12:31,290 As soon as I started eating salt, 1557 01:12:31,290 --> 01:12:33,140 even small amounts of cooked food, 1558 01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:36,801 it took me two years of eating regularly 1559 01:12:36,801 --> 01:12:39,720 and nurturing my body and trying to tough out 1560 01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,030 all of these symptoms, 1561 01:12:41,030 --> 01:12:42,440 I now, two years later, 1562 01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:45,590 am finally completely feeling like myself again. 1563 01:12:45,590 --> 01:12:47,079 I look like myself again. 1564 01:12:47,079 --> 01:12:49,217 Fasting needs boundaries. 1565 01:12:49,217 --> 01:12:52,108 I almost killed myself through extremism 1566 01:12:52,108 --> 01:12:56,236 with my eating disorder and all of my misuse of food 1567 01:12:56,236 --> 01:13:00,164 and then I healed myself through the right modalities, 1568 01:13:00,164 --> 01:13:03,840 finally brought myself back to health with moderate 1569 01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,850 and balanced intermittent fasting, juicing, 1570 01:13:06,850 --> 01:13:10,016 eating healthy, developing a healthy relationship to food, 1571 01:13:10,016 --> 01:13:12,450 and then took it a step too far again (chuckles) 1572 01:13:12,450 --> 01:13:14,951 and did extremism and almost died again 1573 01:13:14,951 --> 01:13:18,170 with my long water fast and making myself sick 1574 01:13:18,170 --> 01:13:23,110 for an additional two awful years only to then 1575 01:13:23,110 --> 01:13:27,660 find balance again to finally again go back 1576 01:13:27,660 --> 01:13:30,170 to a moderate way of just intermittent fasting, 1577 01:13:30,170 --> 01:13:31,970 getting the benefit without extreme. 1578 01:13:32,968 --> 01:13:34,860 Fasting needs boundaries. 1579 01:13:38,382 --> 01:13:40,965 (upbeat music) 1580 01:13:42,921 --> 01:13:45,720 - This is the brilliant part of the fasting mimicking diet 1581 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,240 is that at the Longevity Institute they did research 1582 01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,892 for many, many years and discovered how to use food 1583 01:13:51,892 --> 01:13:55,840 to fly under the radar of what we call mTOR, 1584 01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,620 the detection of food. 1585 01:13:57,620 --> 01:14:02,460 So you're actually eating food, so your body sees food, 1586 01:14:02,460 --> 01:14:04,350 but your brain sees fasting. 1587 01:14:04,350 --> 01:14:06,340 - The NCI, the National Cancer Institute, 1588 01:14:06,340 --> 01:14:08,590 gave us the funds to do that and we came up 1589 01:14:08,590 --> 01:14:12,317 with a fast mimicking diet that is as effective as fasting, 1590 01:14:12,317 --> 01:14:16,780 as water only fasting. 1591 01:14:16,780 --> 01:14:19,960 - It's five days but the five days of eating, 1592 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:21,490 the fasting mimicking diet, 1593 01:14:21,490 --> 01:14:23,760 gives you the same benefits as if you did 1594 01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:27,220 a complete water fast, nothing but water for four days. 1595 01:14:27,220 --> 01:14:29,250 - And we call it fasting with food which is 1596 01:14:29,250 --> 01:14:32,090 a fast-inating or fascinating concept. 1597 01:14:32,090 --> 01:14:36,070 L-Nutra in 2016 launched Prolon, 1598 01:14:36,070 --> 01:14:38,470 the very first fast mimicking diet, 1599 01:14:38,470 --> 01:14:40,451 and Prolon stands for promoting health and longevity. 1600 01:14:40,451 --> 01:14:45,451 - I first heard about Prolon when I asked Valter Longo, 1601 01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:50,120 Dr. Valter Longo, if I could interview him for my website 1602 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:53,088 where I write about healing naturally 1603 01:14:53,088 --> 01:14:54,020 from inflammatory disorders. 1604 01:14:54,020 --> 01:14:56,605 We had this wonderful conversation about how 1605 01:14:56,605 --> 01:15:00,550 his fasting mimicking diets can turn over up to 40% 1606 01:15:00,550 --> 01:15:02,600 of white blood cells in the immune system 1607 01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,368 which is fantastic news because for people with the disorder 1608 01:15:05,368 --> 01:15:09,360 I had which is the reason I left CNN and the BBC. 1609 01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,670 I was working as a journalist in war zones 1610 01:15:11,670 --> 01:15:14,380 for about a decade until I got really sick 1611 01:15:14,380 --> 01:15:16,370 and I couldn't work anymore and I devoted myself 1612 01:15:16,370 --> 01:15:19,761 to blogging about this, about these conditions. 1613 01:15:19,761 --> 01:15:22,050 (horn honking) 1614 01:15:22,050 --> 01:15:25,920 Tried the five day fasting mimicking diet, the Prolon. 1615 01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:29,220 My first round of Prolon was pretty amazing. 1616 01:15:29,220 --> 01:15:30,540 It was the first time in my life 1617 01:15:30,540 --> 01:15:34,130 that I had had complete relief from my symptoms 1618 01:15:34,130 --> 01:15:36,100 of mast cell activation. 1619 01:15:36,100 --> 01:15:41,014 Just absolute and total remission of symptoms 1620 01:15:41,014 --> 01:15:46,014 just so quickly and it lasted for about a month I'd say 1621 01:15:49,860 --> 01:15:54,860 which is, I've understood that I need to do it once a month. 1622 01:15:55,260 --> 01:16:00,260 I was diagnosed with a very rare, only 10 to 20% 1623 01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,950 of all cases are this type of cancer, 1624 01:16:03,950 --> 01:16:07,640 with a very rare and very, very aggressive, 1625 01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:09,410 it's called triple negative breast cancer. 1626 01:16:09,410 --> 01:16:13,220 Coincidence (laughs), I had just arrived in LA, thankfully, 1627 01:16:13,220 --> 01:16:16,985 because I was told that I could join a medical trial 1628 01:16:16,985 --> 01:16:21,985 for their new fasting product which is called Chemo Leaf. 1629 01:16:22,370 --> 01:16:25,290 - And they're looking at it in cancer patients 1630 01:16:25,290 --> 01:16:29,270 to improve the efficacy and safety of chemo therapy. 1631 01:16:29,270 --> 01:16:33,270 - Fasting we find that mice and probably patients 1632 01:16:33,270 --> 01:16:36,201 become protected against chemo therapy 1633 01:16:36,201 --> 01:16:39,580 and the cancer cells instead don't, 1634 01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:42,700 when you just use fasting cycles, usually at least in my, 1635 01:16:42,700 --> 01:16:45,090 fasting cycles are as powerful as chemotherapy 1636 01:16:45,090 --> 01:16:48,810 but it is the combination of fasting and chemotherapy 1637 01:16:48,810 --> 01:16:51,190 that is really effective and that's where we see 1638 01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:56,190 20 to 60% of mice becoming cancer free in response 1639 01:16:56,370 --> 01:16:58,570 to the combination and this is true 1640 01:16:58,570 --> 01:17:00,660 for many different types of cancers. 1641 01:17:00,660 --> 01:17:02,970 - That was a number that made me think, okay, 1642 01:17:02,970 --> 01:17:07,113 so I am, I'm gonna do both especially when I was told 1643 01:17:07,113 --> 01:17:11,380 that it would protect my body, my immune system, 1644 01:17:11,380 --> 01:17:14,360 and I just thought I really can't pass that up. 1645 01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,370 The amazing thing is that I have this pre-existing 1646 01:17:17,370 --> 01:17:20,770 inflamatory condition, the mast cell activation syndrome, 1647 01:17:20,770 --> 01:17:24,150 which means that part of my immune system 1648 01:17:24,150 --> 01:17:27,630 is kind of on the fritz and it's these cells, 1649 01:17:27,630 --> 01:17:30,550 the mast cells, are constantly releasing inflammation 1650 01:17:30,550 --> 01:17:34,650 into the body and so, consequently, we're really susceptible 1651 01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:36,390 to allergy type things. 1652 01:17:36,390 --> 01:17:40,620 There's nothing more allergy inducing then chemotherapy 1653 01:17:40,620 --> 01:17:42,967 which is why they give you steroids the day before, 1654 01:17:42,967 --> 01:17:47,967 the day of and the day after and then maybe everyday 1655 01:17:48,010 --> 01:17:49,700 after that depending on how you react. 1656 01:17:49,700 --> 01:17:52,669 Let me tell you, I went through one cycle out of eight 1657 01:17:52,669 --> 01:17:56,100 without the Chemo Leaf because I fasted 1658 01:17:56,100 --> 01:17:58,480 and then there was a scheduling mix up at the hospital 1659 01:17:58,480 --> 01:18:00,570 and I wasn't able to do my treatment that day. 1660 01:18:00,570 --> 01:18:03,870 So the difference between the time that I went without it 1661 01:18:03,870 --> 01:18:05,100 and the time that I went, 1662 01:18:05,100 --> 01:18:06,933 the times that I did the Chemo Leaf, 1663 01:18:06,933 --> 01:18:10,294 I felt myself going into shock 1664 01:18:10,294 --> 01:18:13,300 while I was receiving the chemotherapy, 1665 01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:15,420 that time without the Chemo Leaf, 1666 01:18:16,737 --> 01:18:17,570 and I firmly believe 1667 01:18:17,570 --> 01:18:20,543 that I was okay the other times because my immune system 1668 01:18:20,543 --> 01:18:22,640 was being protected. 1669 01:18:24,648 --> 01:18:26,850 All the genetic testing that I did revealed 1670 01:18:26,850 --> 01:18:28,554 was that my tumor had certain characteristics 1671 01:18:28,554 --> 01:18:33,170 that respond to fasting which is amazing! 1672 01:18:33,170 --> 01:18:37,005 So I can actually switch off the genes that were expressing, 1673 01:18:37,005 --> 01:18:41,320 the troublesome genes that were found in my tumor, 1674 01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:44,390 that were driving the growth of the tumor, 1675 01:18:44,390 --> 01:18:46,820 are turned off by fasting. 1676 01:18:46,820 --> 01:18:49,267 The reaction of most people when you tell them 1677 01:18:49,267 --> 01:18:52,630 that you're going through chemotherapy is absolute horror. 1678 01:18:52,630 --> 01:18:56,690 Nowadays, we have medications that can handle 1679 01:18:56,690 --> 01:18:59,010 the side effects, people are on steroids, 1680 01:18:59,010 --> 01:19:01,660 they're on two or three different kinds of antihistamines, 1681 01:19:01,660 --> 01:19:03,590 they're on medication to stop them from throwing up, 1682 01:19:03,590 --> 01:19:05,010 they're on medication to help them sleep, 1683 01:19:05,010 --> 01:19:06,150 they're on medication, 1684 01:19:06,150 --> 01:19:08,570 they're on beta blockers to block the adrenaline 1685 01:19:08,570 --> 01:19:10,670 because they're having so much anxiety, 1686 01:19:10,670 --> 01:19:13,180 they're on Xanax, stuff like that. 1687 01:19:13,180 --> 01:19:16,601 I didn't take most of what I was given. 1688 01:19:16,601 --> 01:19:21,340 I was kickboxing for an hour at a time, three days a week. 1689 01:19:21,340 --> 01:19:22,890 I was doing yoga. 1690 01:19:22,890 --> 01:19:25,048 I was standing on my head, I was doing headstands. 1691 01:19:25,048 --> 01:19:28,601 I was almost doing acro-yoga. 1692 01:19:28,601 --> 01:19:31,530 I was running up to 45 minutes a day 1693 01:19:31,530 --> 01:19:35,460 but the cycle that I didn't do the fasting, 1694 01:19:35,460 --> 01:19:36,675 I struggled to exercise. 1695 01:19:36,675 --> 01:19:39,340 I maintained my weight throughout the whole thing. 1696 01:19:39,340 --> 01:19:42,623 People keep telling me things happen for a reason 1697 01:19:42,623 --> 01:19:44,550 and it's kind of what kept me going through 1698 01:19:44,550 --> 01:19:48,310 the whole cancer thing and thinking, (exhales) 1699 01:19:48,310 --> 01:19:50,939 I need to tell everybody about the fasting. 1700 01:19:50,939 --> 01:19:53,970 I need to tell everybody because I think it's gonna 1701 01:19:53,970 --> 01:19:54,980 save sanity. 1702 01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:56,296 I think it's gonna save lives. 1703 01:19:56,296 --> 01:20:01,296 Sometimes something is so life changing that you can't help 1704 01:20:02,980 --> 01:20:05,780 but want to shout it out to absolutely 1705 01:20:05,780 --> 01:20:07,930 everybody you meet because what you experienced 1706 01:20:07,930 --> 01:20:09,010 was so profound. 1707 01:20:11,310 --> 01:20:13,030 - One of the problems with fasting 1708 01:20:13,030 --> 01:20:14,450 and fasting mimicking diets 1709 01:20:14,450 --> 01:20:16,670 are what you're essentially selling is nothing. 1710 01:20:16,670 --> 01:20:19,220 You're selling the idea that your body can fix itself 1711 01:20:19,220 --> 01:20:21,984 if we remove all of the outside stimuli. 1712 01:20:21,984 --> 01:20:24,527 So monetizing that can be a real challenge. 1713 01:20:24,527 --> 01:20:27,050 Getting people to care and invest money in something 1714 01:20:27,050 --> 01:20:29,960 where essentially the benefit is other people get better 1715 01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:33,760 is the ultimate goal but it's not a very good business model 1716 01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:35,140 for the most part. 1717 01:20:35,140 --> 01:20:37,210 That's one of the challenges in getting people 1718 01:20:38,083 --> 01:20:39,710 to care about this is how, what's in it for me? 1719 01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:41,090 - It's a little tricky. 1720 01:20:41,090 --> 01:20:43,570 What do you do with drugs and it should be handled 1721 01:20:43,570 --> 01:20:45,350 by people that spend a lot of time, 1722 01:20:45,350 --> 01:20:47,450 so I encourage anybody that's thinking 1723 01:20:47,450 --> 01:20:49,880 about a clinical trial to contact us 1724 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,930 and have our contribution in developing 1725 01:20:52,930 --> 01:20:55,430 the clinical protocol for the trial. 1726 01:20:55,430 --> 01:20:57,830 The fasting mimicking diet has been published 1727 01:20:57,830 --> 01:21:00,960 in the top scientific and medical journals 1728 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,420 such as Cell, Cancer Cell, 1729 01:21:03,420 --> 01:21:04,950 Cell Metabolism, 1730 01:21:04,950 --> 01:21:06,080 JAMA which is the Journal 1731 01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:07,942 of the American Medical Association 1732 01:21:07,942 --> 01:21:10,250 and Science Translational Medicine. 1733 01:21:10,250 --> 01:21:12,450 - Recently published just a few months ago 1734 01:21:12,450 --> 01:21:16,152 a major paper in Cell showing that fasting mimicking diet 1735 01:21:16,152 --> 01:21:20,459 some five to six cycles are able in mice models 1736 01:21:20,459 --> 01:21:23,530 to reverse Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. 1737 01:21:23,530 --> 01:21:26,390 This is the first time in history that the reverse 1738 01:21:26,390 --> 01:21:29,070 of Diabetes could be done and, again, 1739 01:21:29,070 --> 01:21:31,370 it's due to the stem cell rejuvenation. 1740 01:21:31,370 --> 01:21:33,715 The stem cells in the body, when the body is starved, 1741 01:21:33,715 --> 01:21:37,190 they actually specialize in beta cells in the pancreas 1742 01:21:37,190 --> 01:21:39,680 and allow the pancreas to reproduce insulin 1743 01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:41,940 and decrease glucose in the blood. 1744 01:21:41,940 --> 01:21:44,720 - Beta cells in the pancreas are rejuvenated, 1745 01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:45,553 regenerated. 1746 01:21:45,553 --> 01:21:47,070 - There's nothing in medicine today 1747 01:21:47,070 --> 01:21:49,310 that can induce these effects. 1748 01:21:49,310 --> 01:21:52,250 - We think it's a very old program 1749 01:21:53,451 --> 01:21:55,332 that is not that different from what happens 1750 01:21:55,332 --> 01:21:56,165 when you cut yourself. 1751 01:21:57,079 --> 01:21:59,553 So you cut yourself and within a few weeks 1752 01:21:59,553 --> 01:22:01,430 everything goes back to almost a perfect state. 1753 01:22:01,430 --> 01:22:04,410 So the body really knows how to repair itself 1754 01:22:04,410 --> 01:22:08,678 is that probably fasting has always been used 1755 01:22:08,678 --> 01:22:13,678 as a way to get rid of bad cells, turn on stem cells, 1756 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,420 regenerate for tens of thousands of years 1757 01:22:17,420 --> 01:22:20,273 and now in the last 100 years or so, 1758 01:22:20,273 --> 01:22:23,670 we eat so much all the time and most patients 1759 01:22:23,670 --> 01:22:26,470 that we talk to have never gone more than a day or so 1760 01:22:26,470 --> 01:22:27,680 without food. 1761 01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:29,690 - So it turns out that once you get to about 1762 01:22:29,690 --> 01:22:31,721 the third day of not having any food, 1763 01:22:31,721 --> 01:22:34,340 then your body has to go into action. 1764 01:22:34,340 --> 01:22:36,671 - After two days either on a complete fast 1765 01:22:36,671 --> 01:22:38,550 or a fasting mimicking diet, 1766 01:22:38,550 --> 01:22:40,625 now the body starts really entering 1767 01:22:40,625 --> 01:22:42,440 a starvation response mode. 1768 01:22:42,440 --> 01:22:45,150 - The body then starts shedding elderly cells 1769 01:22:45,150 --> 01:22:47,080 and cells with DNA damage 1770 01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:48,470 because these are consuming calories, 1771 01:22:48,470 --> 01:22:50,920 they're not doing their job right though 1772 01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:53,180 and then the body starts pushing the stem cell, 1773 01:22:53,180 --> 01:22:55,790 the young cost effective from (inaudible) cells 1774 01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,040 pushes them to actually replace those 1775 01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:02,700 and now you have new cells in the body replicating 1776 01:23:02,700 --> 01:23:04,190 and taking action. 1777 01:23:04,190 --> 01:23:06,170 This is what we call part of the rejuvenation 1778 01:23:06,170 --> 01:23:08,760 in the body due to the consecutive 1779 01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,170 or longer period of fasting, 1780 01:23:10,170 --> 01:23:13,100 what we call today prolonged or periodic fasting. 1781 01:23:13,100 --> 01:23:16,146 - In terms of stem cells, you will not stimulate stem cells. 1782 01:23:16,146 --> 01:23:19,110 You won't get brain derived neurotrophic factor increase 1783 01:23:19,110 --> 01:23:22,740 unless you fast for at least three to four days. 1784 01:23:22,740 --> 01:23:25,580 - You need to realize that stem cells are the repairmen 1785 01:23:25,580 --> 01:23:26,413 of the body. 1786 01:23:27,689 --> 01:23:29,360 They're all over your body and they're constantly working 1787 01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:32,100 to repair little bits of damage that happen everyday 1788 01:23:33,921 --> 01:23:36,636 but think what would happen if those stem cells 1789 01:23:36,636 --> 01:23:38,775 stopped doing their job 1790 01:23:38,775 --> 01:23:41,840 and that's what happens in a lot of patients 1791 01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:44,159 who really aren't living a healthy lifestyle, 1792 01:23:44,159 --> 01:23:48,511 is those cells can get hurt and they're not doing their job 1793 01:23:48,511 --> 01:23:51,000 so injuries stack up. 1794 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,200 In 2004, I was reading an animal study on a rabbit 1795 01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,820 that showed that you could take Mesenchymal stem cells 1796 01:23:56,820 --> 01:23:58,130 and regrow a disc. 1797 01:23:58,130 --> 01:24:00,320 Obviously that caught my attention 'cause we had 1798 01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,020 a lot of back pain patients with bad discs. 1799 01:24:03,020 --> 01:24:06,206 So I sought out some researchers that were using 1800 01:24:06,206 --> 01:24:09,383 Mesenchymal stem cells to treat injuries 1801 01:24:09,383 --> 01:24:11,667 and they were doing it in horses 1802 01:24:11,667 --> 01:24:14,740 and so we ported that over to humans. 1803 01:24:14,740 --> 01:24:19,740 So, today, we've published 50% of all of the patients 1804 01:24:20,290 --> 01:24:22,150 in the world literature who have been treated 1805 01:24:22,150 --> 01:24:24,742 with stem cells and who have orthopedic problems. 1806 01:24:24,742 --> 01:24:29,170 What we can say at this point is that the environment 1807 01:24:29,170 --> 01:24:33,500 that your stem cells are in can have a dramatic impact 1808 01:24:33,500 --> 01:24:36,511 on their ability to grow, proliferate, 1809 01:24:36,511 --> 01:24:38,490 and do what they're supposed to. 1810 01:24:38,490 --> 01:24:41,080 That environment can be affected by diet, 1811 01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:42,824 it can be affected by exercise, 1812 01:24:42,824 --> 01:24:45,434 it can be affected by medications. 1813 01:24:45,434 --> 01:24:48,420 - Everything in the body has multiple functions, 1814 01:24:48,420 --> 01:24:49,990 multiple sites of action. 1815 01:24:49,990 --> 01:24:52,380 So when you give a drug that you think is working 1816 01:24:52,380 --> 01:24:53,430 in one site, 1817 01:24:53,430 --> 01:24:55,640 it's working and doing things all over the body 1818 01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,510 in ways that we may not even comprehend. 1819 01:24:58,510 --> 01:25:00,470 That's why when you look at pharmaceuticals, 1820 01:25:00,470 --> 01:25:03,660 the list of side effects are huge and often including death. 1821 01:25:03,660 --> 01:25:05,830 If you've watched television and you see the commercials 1822 01:25:05,830 --> 01:25:07,670 from any of the pharmaceuticals, 1823 01:25:07,670 --> 01:25:10,130 they actually show people having a wonderful time 1824 01:25:10,130 --> 01:25:12,720 and then they say, and by the way, this drug may kill you. 1825 01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,990 That is one thing that does not happen when you eat 1826 01:25:15,990 --> 01:25:17,030 the right foods, 1827 01:25:17,030 --> 01:25:20,579 when you exercise, when you incorporate periodic fasting. 1828 01:25:20,579 --> 01:25:23,269 - So what we found was that high blood pressure medications, 1829 01:25:23,269 --> 01:25:24,770 cholesterol medications, 1830 01:25:24,770 --> 01:25:27,210 these are common things taken by many, 1831 01:25:27,210 --> 01:25:31,740 many different Americans but they hurt their stem cells' 1832 01:25:31,740 --> 01:25:33,832 ability to grow and culture. 1833 01:25:33,832 --> 01:25:35,520 So that's not a good thing. 1834 01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,756 If you think about the fact that these medications 1835 01:25:37,756 --> 01:25:41,542 are impacting your body's own stem cells 1836 01:25:41,542 --> 01:25:45,132 and their ability to maintain and repair that body, 1837 01:25:45,132 --> 01:25:47,890 that's a big problem. 1838 01:25:47,890 --> 01:25:48,860 So as an example, 1839 01:25:48,860 --> 01:25:52,190 we've treated lots of patients through the years with 1840 01:25:52,190 --> 01:25:55,686 tendinopathy due to taking a specific type of antibiotic. 1841 01:25:55,686 --> 01:25:58,301 - I literally became debilitated. 1842 01:25:58,301 --> 01:26:01,987 I had shoulder pain, neck pain, leg pain. 1843 01:26:01,987 --> 01:26:03,690 I could barely walk. 1844 01:26:03,690 --> 01:26:05,470 I even had a hard time breathing. 1845 01:26:05,470 --> 01:26:09,318 Two of my discs had completely herniated into my spine. 1846 01:26:09,318 --> 01:26:11,300 I really felt I was dying. 1847 01:26:11,300 --> 01:26:13,060 - Now this is a known problem. 1848 01:26:13,060 --> 01:26:16,070 They'll take this antibiotic 'cause they have a common cold 1849 01:26:16,070 --> 01:26:17,062 and the next thing they know, 1850 01:26:17,062 --> 01:26:19,340 they're in chronic pain all over their body. 1851 01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:20,280 Why? 1852 01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:22,786 Because that particular antibiotic reduces 1853 01:26:22,786 --> 01:26:27,467 the stem cells ability in their body to repair their tendons 1854 01:26:27,467 --> 01:26:29,622 and we all get tendon wear and tear everyday 1855 01:26:29,622 --> 01:26:31,820 that needs to be repaired. 1856 01:26:31,820 --> 01:26:33,201 So one of the things we started realizing 1857 01:26:33,201 --> 01:26:36,540 is that when we were going to use the patient's 1858 01:26:36,540 --> 01:26:38,174 own cells to try to repair something, 1859 01:26:38,174 --> 01:26:41,160 we had to have patients clean up their lifestyle 1860 01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,235 including their diet. 1861 01:26:42,235 --> 01:26:45,030 We make sure that they're fasting when they come in 1862 01:26:45,030 --> 01:26:47,800 because we know that fasting can increase 1863 01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:50,365 the body's ability to help repair itself. 1864 01:26:50,365 --> 01:26:52,814 - For the next several weeks after each time I do 1865 01:26:52,814 --> 01:26:54,245 a fasting mimicking diet, 1866 01:26:54,245 --> 01:26:57,516 I end up with significantly reduced pain 1867 01:26:57,516 --> 01:26:59,330 in all of my joints. 1868 01:26:59,330 --> 01:27:00,840 - Polycystic ovary syndrome. 1869 01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:02,150 That's one of my niches. 1870 01:27:02,150 --> 01:27:03,990 I deal a lot with hormones. 1871 01:27:03,990 --> 01:27:07,120 If you take an unhealthy woman and you trick her body 1872 01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:08,020 into getting pregnant, 1873 01:27:08,020 --> 01:27:10,750 often it will be rejected and if it's successful, 1874 01:27:10,750 --> 01:27:13,800 it's not usually very successful because she often will have 1875 01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,540 very severe complications later on towards the end 1876 01:27:16,540 --> 01:27:19,610 of pregnancy like high blood pressure and toxemia, 1877 01:27:19,610 --> 01:27:21,860 pre-term labor, a lot of Diabetes, 1878 01:27:21,860 --> 01:27:24,000 many, many complications in these women 1879 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,350 when they do not get them healthy but trick them 1880 01:27:26,350 --> 01:27:27,630 into getting pregnant. 1881 01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:30,176 So then she came to me and she just said, 1882 01:27:30,176 --> 01:27:32,536 "I've tried the conventional route. 1883 01:27:32,536 --> 01:27:35,135 "I've spent thousands of dollars trying to get pregnant 1884 01:27:35,135 --> 01:27:40,135 "and I've heard that there's this integrative approach. 1885 01:27:40,590 --> 01:27:42,120 "So what can you do to help me?" 1886 01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,040 She did everything I asked. 1887 01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:47,620 So she had a large breakfast, she had a medium lunch, 1888 01:27:47,620 --> 01:27:48,980 she had a tiny dinner. 1889 01:27:48,980 --> 01:27:50,990 She didn't eat after 7 P.M. 1890 01:27:50,990 --> 01:27:52,320 She began exercising. 1891 01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:54,732 She ate no processed foods. 1892 01:27:54,732 --> 01:27:56,690 She did everything right. 1893 01:27:56,690 --> 01:27:59,403 Then after a month, I put her on Prolon. 1894 01:27:59,403 --> 01:28:02,495 After three cycles, she got pregnant. 1895 01:28:02,495 --> 01:28:06,010 That was almost a year ago 1896 01:28:07,150 --> 01:28:09,350 and she recently delivered her baby. 1897 01:28:09,350 --> 01:28:11,445 She has a beautiful, healthy baby. 1898 01:28:11,445 --> 01:28:14,060 She's in her late 30's now. 1899 01:28:14,060 --> 01:28:16,637 She's been trying for all these years. 1900 01:28:16,637 --> 01:28:17,630 - Depending on the therapeutic use, 1901 01:28:17,630 --> 01:28:20,420 you have to really understand this and use it 1902 01:28:20,420 --> 01:28:22,086 to your advantage. 1903 01:28:22,086 --> 01:28:24,680 So, for example, when we do it for metabolic syndrome, 1904 01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,220 Diabetes, and cancer, 1905 01:28:27,220 --> 01:28:29,640 we do between four and five days fasting 1906 01:28:32,141 --> 01:28:33,142 together with various therapies. 1907 01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:34,142 That's sufficient. 1908 01:28:34,142 --> 01:28:37,460 When we look at auto immunities instead we go to seven days. 1909 01:28:37,460 --> 01:28:38,360 Why do we do that? 1910 01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:42,990 Because we now wanna do more destruction of damaged cells. 1911 01:28:42,990 --> 01:28:45,240 The auto immune cells in this case. 1912 01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:46,628 So if you do a shorter fast, 1913 01:28:46,628 --> 01:28:48,840 you're not really gonna benefit that much 1914 01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:53,463 because you don't have enough time to destroy 1915 01:28:53,463 --> 01:28:58,279 the damaged cells and also you have less rebuilding 1916 01:28:58,279 --> 01:28:59,669 using the stem cell. 1917 01:28:59,669 --> 01:29:02,380 So this is why it's so important to understand 1918 01:29:02,380 --> 01:29:05,220 the mechanism behind it and for each purpose, 1919 01:29:05,220 --> 01:29:10,100 really using a different fasting base intervention. 1920 01:29:10,100 --> 01:29:12,240 - I was working on a documentary for the BBC, 1921 01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,180 What if We Could Stay Young Forever? 1922 01:29:15,592 --> 01:29:17,680 We were looking at diet and exercise and lifestyle. 1923 01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:20,680 I met Dr. Valter Longo to talk about his work 1924 01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:21,610 and it was at the time 1925 01:29:21,610 --> 01:29:23,857 he was preparing for his clinical trial 1926 01:29:23,857 --> 01:29:25,620 and suggested that I might like to be 1927 01:29:25,620 --> 01:29:27,900 one of the volunteers in that trial. 1928 01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:30,220 So the trial involved what is known 1929 01:29:30,220 --> 01:29:34,543 as a fasting mimicking diet over five consecutive days 1930 01:29:34,543 --> 01:29:36,870 and that was repeated three times. 1931 01:29:36,870 --> 01:29:38,740 - One of the things that our large clinical trials 1932 01:29:38,740 --> 01:29:40,280 have shown is that at the very least, 1933 01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,313 we know that fasting mimicking diets are safe 1934 01:29:42,313 --> 01:29:43,760 for the average person. 1935 01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:45,501 - Probably the number one thing that I noticed is 1936 01:29:45,501 --> 01:29:47,000 is weight control. 1937 01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,900 - The past year I have prescribed the Prolon diet 1938 01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:54,210 to about 120 or 130 patients. 1939 01:29:54,210 --> 01:29:57,340 A lot of them come to me saying I tried all the diets 1940 01:29:57,340 --> 01:29:59,320 and I can't lose weight. 1941 01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:01,410 Well, I tell them, well let me prove them wrong. 1942 01:30:01,410 --> 01:30:02,730 Let's try this diet and you will see 1943 01:30:02,730 --> 01:30:04,030 that you will lose weight. 1944 01:30:05,007 --> 01:30:05,840 All of them have lost weight. 1945 01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:07,320 - The other things we saw is that 1946 01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:08,590 you do have to train the body. 1947 01:30:08,590 --> 01:30:10,130 It's a little bit like working out. 1948 01:30:10,130 --> 01:30:11,990 If you just do this once for five days, 1949 01:30:11,990 --> 01:30:13,420 you'll get a lot of the benefits: 1950 01:30:13,420 --> 01:30:14,920 quite a bit of weight loss, 1951 01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,224 a number of other metabolic markers may be affected as well 1952 01:30:18,224 --> 01:30:20,930 but you will eventually return to normal 1953 01:30:20,930 --> 01:30:23,460 if you make no other lifestyle changes 1954 01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:25,650 over the period of the next several weeks to months. 1955 01:30:25,650 --> 01:30:29,070 If you do this consecutively for three months in a row 1956 01:30:29,070 --> 01:30:31,090 of five days at the beginning of each month, 1957 01:30:31,090 --> 01:30:33,850 we see that you maintain a much more significant amount 1958 01:30:33,850 --> 01:30:36,360 of benefits over a much longer period of time. 1959 01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:41,212 - I find Prolon to be a breakthrough in the care 1960 01:30:41,212 --> 01:30:43,400 that I give to diabetics. 1961 01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:45,304 - Ideally, once a quarter is about the, 1962 01:30:45,304 --> 01:30:48,237 what appears to be the kind of set point to keep that 1963 01:30:48,237 --> 01:30:51,880 sort of cellular muscle tone, as you will, 1964 01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,820 to keep the body in the, in shape for nutrition. 1965 01:30:55,820 --> 01:30:57,500 Dr. Longo actually did a study where he did 1966 01:30:57,500 --> 01:30:58,920 two groups of mice, 1967 01:30:58,920 --> 01:30:59,753 one group ate, 1968 01:30:59,753 --> 01:31:01,920 they both ate the same total calories during the study, 1969 01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,283 one group had fasting mimicking mixed in 1970 01:31:04,283 --> 01:31:07,930 and then overate and the other group ate the same amount 1971 01:31:07,930 --> 01:31:10,446 the whole time and the group that overate 1972 01:31:10,446 --> 01:31:12,810 with fasting mimicking diet was still skinny 1973 01:31:12,810 --> 01:31:14,280 and the other group of mice was obese. 1974 01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:16,850 So it is really about training the cells 1975 01:31:16,850 --> 01:31:17,683 how to use nutrition. 1976 01:31:17,683 --> 01:31:21,410 You can take in even potentially less good for you foods 1977 01:31:21,410 --> 01:31:24,000 if your body is in shape and it'll do the right things 1978 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:24,833 with them. 1979 01:31:24,833 --> 01:31:27,955 - They'll say they've lost up to eight pounds a week, 1980 01:31:27,955 --> 01:31:30,540 they have more energy, they feel better. 1981 01:31:30,540 --> 01:31:32,570 - I've been trying to convince this patient 1982 01:31:32,570 --> 01:31:33,930 for months and months, 1983 01:31:33,930 --> 01:31:36,491 maybe a year to try to give up his soda. 1984 01:31:36,491 --> 01:31:40,330 It just took five days with Prolon for him to stop. 1985 01:31:40,330 --> 01:31:42,920 - This is the brilliance of the fasting mimicking diet 1986 01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,439 that we get to harness our inner powers to heal 1987 01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,540 while simultaneously enjoying food. 1988 01:31:48,540 --> 01:31:49,740 So what could be better? 1989 01:31:54,970 --> 01:31:59,140 - What we've been teaching here since 1956 is that people 1990 01:31:59,140 --> 01:32:01,646 ought not to be eating solid food until approximately 1991 01:32:01,646 --> 01:32:03,616 10 o'clock or so in the morning. 1992 01:32:03,616 --> 01:32:06,340 We wind down in the evening. 1993 01:32:06,340 --> 01:32:09,270 Ideally, you don't eat after five but the latest 1994 01:32:09,270 --> 01:32:11,940 would be six or seven o'clock at night, 1995 01:32:11,940 --> 01:32:15,210 providing you go to bed then three hours later. 1996 01:32:15,210 --> 01:32:16,938 Now this is something we've observed with hundreds 1997 01:32:16,938 --> 01:32:20,854 and hundreds of thousands of people for over 60 years. 1998 01:32:20,854 --> 01:32:24,007 This is no longer a theory or a philosophy 1999 01:32:24,007 --> 01:32:27,270 and the scientific community now has validated 2000 01:32:27,270 --> 01:32:29,745 what we've been observing in a clinical setting. 2001 01:32:29,745 --> 01:32:33,920 So all of our guests here are encouraged to do at least 2002 01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:35,307 a one day a week fast. 2003 01:32:35,307 --> 01:32:38,760 - I had the privilege of directing one of the most 2004 01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:41,339 renowned fasting clinics in Europe in Sweden. 2005 01:32:41,339 --> 01:32:45,810 So the government realized they needed to do research 2006 01:32:45,810 --> 01:32:48,356 and they spent about $2.5 billion to find, 2007 01:32:48,356 --> 01:32:53,356 it was like 90% success rate and we actually got certified 2008 01:32:54,121 --> 01:32:58,360 and by doing that to us, any physician that thought, 2009 01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,008 well, you have an inflammatory problem, 2010 01:33:01,008 --> 01:33:05,160 because fasting was definitely something that worked 2011 01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,880 as an anti-inflammatory with arthritis, 2012 01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:13,880 rheumatoid arthritis and gout and asthma, emphysema, 2013 01:33:14,803 --> 01:33:18,790 psoriasis, eczema, you name it, 2014 01:33:18,790 --> 01:33:22,590 everything just about under the sun, Diabetes, 2015 01:33:22,590 --> 01:33:26,870 cardiovascular, obesity, Crohn's, colitis, 2016 01:33:26,870 --> 01:33:29,600 then actually 80% of their fee 2017 01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,430 would be paid by the government. 2018 01:33:31,430 --> 01:33:36,150 So this was back in the mid-70's and ran until 2019 01:33:36,150 --> 01:33:37,577 the beginning of 80's. 2020 01:33:37,577 --> 01:33:40,860 It disappeared when a new group came into the government. 2021 01:33:40,860 --> 01:33:43,680 The problem is it wasn't replaced by something 2022 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:45,160 that was even better, 2023 01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:47,657 it didn't have 90% success rate. 2024 01:33:47,657 --> 01:33:50,990 I think those people were influenced by money, 2025 01:33:50,990 --> 01:33:52,340 as simple as that. 2026 01:33:52,340 --> 01:33:56,770 - I was driving and all the cars were disappearing 2027 01:33:56,770 --> 01:33:58,820 into like an abyss, into a mirror, 2028 01:33:58,820 --> 01:34:03,820 and the white lanes were going up and down and my head 2029 01:34:04,791 --> 01:34:09,791 was pounding so bad that I felt like someone 2030 01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:13,900 was taking a crowbar and pulling apart my head. 2031 01:34:13,900 --> 01:34:17,363 I pulled over on the side of the turnpike. 2032 01:34:17,363 --> 01:34:21,893 I had a four pound brain tumor that were surgically removed 2033 01:34:21,893 --> 01:34:24,261 at the National Institutes of Health. 2034 01:34:24,261 --> 01:34:29,261 It was the biggest ordeal that I ever went through. 2035 01:34:29,350 --> 01:34:34,310 They drilled six holes into my head and 47 staple scar. 2036 01:34:37,999 --> 01:34:41,404 When I was diagnosed with two more brain cancers, 2037 01:34:41,404 --> 01:34:45,350 I just, I fell apart. 2038 01:34:46,380 --> 01:34:50,365 I could not handle having surgery. 2039 01:34:50,365 --> 01:34:52,690 I couldn't handle chemo. 2040 01:34:53,730 --> 01:34:56,833 - Here at Hippocrates, ever since 1956, 2041 01:34:56,833 --> 01:34:59,493 we've been dealing with tens of thousands of people 2042 01:34:59,493 --> 01:35:01,460 who have cancer. 2043 01:35:01,460 --> 01:35:06,460 - In October of 2012, I found a lump in my breast. 2044 01:35:06,990 --> 01:35:08,700 - It was cancer. 2045 01:35:08,700 --> 01:35:12,563 This cancer had grabbed ahold of everything behind my knee 2046 01:35:12,563 --> 01:35:16,340 and bundled it so they couldn't do anything 2047 01:35:16,340 --> 01:35:20,490 but cut my leg off above the knee. 2048 01:35:20,490 --> 01:35:23,290 - And the last three oncologists that we consulted with, 2049 01:35:26,303 --> 01:35:27,480 second and third opinions, all said the same thing 2050 01:35:30,341 --> 01:35:31,450 that she has to have the leg removed or she's gonna die, 2051 01:35:31,450 --> 01:35:32,944 no mistake about that. 2052 01:35:32,944 --> 01:35:35,740 - Of course, fasting has always been a big part, 2053 01:35:35,740 --> 01:35:39,600 a significant part of the caloric intake and dietary part 2054 01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:44,300 of our program but those who condone water fasting, 2055 01:35:44,300 --> 01:35:47,150 in the case of people who are in the conquest 2056 01:35:47,150 --> 01:35:48,669 of all forms of cancer, 2057 01:35:48,669 --> 01:35:50,830 we don't think it's really prudent. 2058 01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:52,690 You need caloric intake. 2059 01:35:52,690 --> 01:35:55,917 You need the protein that literally comes from 2060 01:35:55,917 --> 01:36:00,464 the juices we suggest here which are non-sugary juices 2061 01:36:00,464 --> 01:36:03,900 made out of green vegetables, green leaves, 2062 01:36:04,995 --> 01:36:07,680 and most important, sprouts that have very high amounts 2063 01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:11,100 of amino acids and these amino acids are something 2064 01:36:11,100 --> 01:36:14,860 that the body requires to maintain the strength 2065 01:36:14,860 --> 01:36:16,480 and the viability of the cells. 2066 01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:17,861 Now we're made of cells. 2067 01:36:17,861 --> 01:36:21,347 You have a hundred trillion cells that make up your body 2068 01:36:21,347 --> 01:36:23,341 and this tends to breakdown, 2069 01:36:23,341 --> 01:36:27,165 the emaciation you see from cancer 2070 01:36:27,165 --> 01:36:29,779 basically is a protein degradation. 2071 01:36:29,779 --> 01:36:34,560 - I ended up doing it for three months and when I went back 2072 01:36:40,525 --> 01:36:42,462 to the oncologist, I did the MRI with contrast, 2073 01:36:42,462 --> 01:36:44,012 we got the results - no cancer. 2074 01:36:45,170 --> 01:36:50,000 - I maintained this lifestyle very strictly for a full year 2075 01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:53,720 and at the same time continued to see that lump diminish 2076 01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:55,590 until now it's gone. 2077 01:36:55,590 --> 01:36:56,470 - I'm 91. 2078 01:36:56,470 --> 01:36:58,350 This little girl is 90. 2079 01:36:58,350 --> 01:37:03,350 - For 21 years, I have been cancer free! 2080 01:37:03,540 --> 01:37:05,180 We are great dancers. 2081 01:37:05,180 --> 01:37:08,670 We now teach people at Golden Lakes to dance. 2082 01:37:09,730 --> 01:37:11,109 - How 'bout a kiss? 2083 01:37:11,109 --> 01:37:14,340 Yay! (laughs) 2084 01:37:15,730 --> 01:37:18,590 - I get these horrible skin rashes on my face 2085 01:37:18,590 --> 01:37:19,620 and my body. 2086 01:37:19,620 --> 01:37:22,690 Coming to a place like Hippocrates would make my life 2087 01:37:22,690 --> 01:37:26,850 and just the fasting experience a lot easier. 2088 01:37:26,850 --> 01:37:31,850 - For me, just doing water fasting wasn't going to work. 2089 01:37:32,060 --> 01:37:34,300 Even more than a day was very difficult, 2090 01:37:34,300 --> 01:37:35,450 just for me personally. 2091 01:37:37,554 --> 01:37:39,339 I can only speak from personal experience 2092 01:37:39,339 --> 01:37:41,182 but if I were to do the juice fasting, 2093 01:37:41,182 --> 01:37:43,116 it was easier because I was still able 2094 01:37:43,116 --> 01:37:43,970 to have that intake of food. 2095 01:37:43,970 --> 01:37:46,390 - And today is actually the fourth day that I'm coming out, 2096 01:37:46,390 --> 01:37:49,550 I'm easing myself gently out of the fast. 2097 01:37:49,550 --> 01:37:51,110 My skin just smoothing out. 2098 01:37:51,110 --> 01:37:53,780 I didn't have the red marks I usually have on my arms 2099 01:37:53,780 --> 01:37:55,480 and on my face. 2100 01:37:55,480 --> 01:37:57,280 - I didn't always feel this way about fasting. 2101 01:37:57,280 --> 01:37:59,820 In fact, I was pretty opposed to it. 2102 01:37:59,820 --> 01:38:01,750 - Dr. Mercola and I have been together eight years, 2103 01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:04,740 my significant other, so we did the program in 2012 2104 01:38:04,740 --> 01:38:08,070 here at Hippocrates and I think it inspired him. 2105 01:38:08,070 --> 01:38:10,930 - I've come to the conclusion that there is no single 2106 01:38:10,930 --> 01:38:14,940 more powerful metabolic intervention that can be used 2107 01:38:14,940 --> 01:38:15,773 than fasting. 2108 01:38:15,773 --> 01:38:17,350 In fact, when people, friends or relatives, 2109 01:38:17,350 --> 01:38:19,984 come to me now with heart attack or cancer, 2110 01:38:19,984 --> 01:38:23,610 in almost every case that is the first step 2111 01:38:23,610 --> 01:38:25,394 I'll have them do because it's gonna jumpstart 2112 01:38:25,394 --> 01:38:28,210 their ability to build fat for fuel 2113 01:38:28,210 --> 01:38:30,200 and increase all the metabolic benefits 2114 01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:31,460 that you get from doing that. 2115 01:38:31,460 --> 01:38:35,644 - I lost 40 pounds in 90 days on a juice fast 2116 01:38:35,644 --> 01:38:36,940 and never gained it back. 2117 01:38:36,940 --> 01:38:40,920 - So the problems we have today that 2/3 of Americans 2118 01:38:40,920 --> 01:38:45,920 are obese, 5% morbidly obese, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, 2119 01:38:46,009 --> 01:38:49,712 all of this should never have happened. 2120 01:38:49,712 --> 01:38:52,505 We had the solution in the 70's. 2121 01:38:52,505 --> 01:38:55,600 We really need to realize there's nothing new 2122 01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:56,530 under the sun. 2123 01:38:56,530 --> 01:39:00,220 Get back on the track with your own lifestyle. 2124 01:39:00,220 --> 01:39:03,185 Whatever religion, whatever country you come from, 2125 01:39:03,185 --> 01:39:05,108 I think you will agree with this. 2126 01:39:05,108 --> 01:39:08,811 We have to take our responsibility in our own hands 2127 01:39:08,811 --> 01:39:12,630 and have the life for our family, for our children, 2128 01:39:12,630 --> 01:39:15,941 our grandchildren, that they deserve. 2129 01:39:15,941 --> 01:39:19,950 They deserve an amazing life and I think most of us 2130 01:39:19,950 --> 01:39:23,138 are looking right now at the future and saying, 2131 01:39:23,138 --> 01:39:24,860 how are they gonna deal with this? 2132 01:39:24,860 --> 01:39:26,390 How are they gonna deal with the diseases? 2133 01:39:26,390 --> 01:39:29,340 How are they gonna deal with food that's not nutritious? 2134 01:39:29,340 --> 01:39:30,470 With all the chemicals, 2135 01:39:30,470 --> 01:39:32,550 the pollution in our water and our air, 2136 01:39:32,550 --> 01:39:33,800 how are they gonna deal with it? 2137 01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:35,700 Well, it's time we deal with it. 2138 01:39:46,532 --> 01:39:49,282 (dramatic music) 2139 01:40:21,581 --> 01:40:25,164 (dramatic inspiring music)