Fasting Space

Fasting space. All right.

We made it.

You made it.

I made it. We are here.

I hope you're doing well today.

How are you?

Fasting space. Here we are.

I say an opportunity to solve problems.

This is what I see
as a fasting space in the body.

We say some problem from big to small

and fasting a tool.

We open it up in the body

for a specific purpose.

Maybe that purpose is just.

I feel better when I am in that space,
and I'm going to clear out

this space
less to do take some pressure off.

This is sounding good to me today.

Say, in a world that is always trying
to sell us more stuff.

You know, I'm just going to have a coffee
and float through the space.

But maybe there is another level to it,
you know.

Is there another level?

Say, I'd like to lose some weight.

I want to burn up some blood sugar.

Is it true?

Does a fasting space
help blood pressure to come down?

I did a talk on that. Check that out.

Silencing the silent killer
on blood pressure, I love that.

Can a fasting practice help to gain
control of hormones that are driving

acid production?

Driving acid reflux?
Yeah, can do that too.

No guarantees,
no hype, just physiology in the body.

Check out The Deep

Science Dies with doctor
Z playlist on the simple fasting channel.

And, do you have other

topics like that
that you'd like to dive into?

I got a little list.

I love to dive deep for you.

We get another talk coming soon, but today
we are diving in philosophically.

Problem solving.

Okay, we've said fasting space
and opportunity

to release something in the body.

Think of that.

Releasing problems.

Maybe a weight problem is the top thing.

This is the top thing I try to lean into
in a fasting space for people,

because it's like the the first sort of,

touch point for many people say,
I have struggled to lose weight.

I'm stuck in a plateau phase.

This is the sort of thing
I want to sit in that space with you.

Okay, I really do, so much.

If we think, let's
just really have our eyes wide open

and think of the whole landscape
of the weight

loss industry I call weight loss
industrial complex, you know what I mean?

Because it's just like, what?

An apparatus
trying to sell so many things,

so much money,
and it's like a hamster wheel, right?

And so many people running on it.

And the even the points,
I think of so much of it, it's like,

What is the answer?

Something in space. I'm not a physicist.

The gravity, it's warping
space time, right.

Everything about it
just kind of warping around, which is it

just creates this whole atmosphere that
we have to spend a lot of money to do it.

And if something isn't working
immediately, then it's wrong, okay.

And it's like we we're under
all this pressure from society

and maybe family and especially ourselves
and friends and things and just

image of social media
and all these things.

Whoa.

To me, fasting space is an opportunity
to take a break.

I'm Doctor Z, if we haven't met, I'm here
hanging out with you.

Fasting space.

I just like to say, hey,
everything is okay.

We're going to sit in a space.

It's all okay.

Whatever has happened in a health space,
okay?

We see it.

We practice some radical acceptance.

Here's a book
I've been walking through with us.

We'll do some more of that.

Whatever barriers
we are facing, going to work

on overcoming them, obliterate them.

Obstacle is the way.

Ultimately, I say most of the time.

So fasting in space in the body
help us flow

through that energy fasting space
to show the mindset.

Here we are thinking deeply
how do we do it?

All right.

And then the thing I love about it
the most now really selling anything.

Okay,
you can see my links in the description.

If you happen to be in Wisconsin,
I do meet with people in Wisconsin

in my clinic or our telemedicine,

but we're kind of limited
there with that.

And if you or someone you know have type
two diabetes, man, can I help you?

I can help you.

Huge help for type
two diabetes in the doctor Z method.

And I've got a nominal monthly, little
charge for access to that community.

One of the only ways I'm
making a tiny bit of money these days.

And encourage you to swing by

type two diabetes
if you've followed along the channel.

This is, like, really where my heart is,
I think.

And,

I don't know,
just because I ran the clinical study,

my favorite thing I did in medicine,
very few things, I'll tell you

as a primary care doctor in medicine.

One of my favorite things
to do d prescribe I.

Sometimes I think if I was going to try
to really sell sell some stuff

like self services and things,
I say like I'm like a D doctor.

I like the alliteration, right?

D prescription
doctor is my favorite thing.

Medicine isn't just in fast forward
always.

We just add more things
to solve a problem.

Fasting, showing us a different path
that we're

subtracting some things here, here
I think it's an incredible parallel to see

we start subtracting some meals,
open up some space,

give the body space metabolically
to bring some things back into balance.

All of a sudden we see some things
paralleled in the body many times

no hype, no guarantees.

But like I've never seen before,
all of a sudden

we're d prescribing the blood pressure
medicines, d prescribing

antacid medications
that people been on for years

and years and years, d
prescribing blood sugar medicines.

Because when you're in a fasting space,
the sugar is the energy.

Instead of running off the next meal,
we're burning that sugar down.

So you see it's problem solving space.

This is what I want to see.

And this is what
I want to focus to be today.

Is there a

problem
that fasting could potentially solve?

If you don't know, does fasting
relate to it?

Throw it in the chat.

Let's, brainstorm it and think

if you've got
any of the things going on that

I have outlined in the body,

including the next one on the list,
if I was rattling through them, you know,

anxiety, depression,
discouragement of some kind.

Okay.

Fasting space.

We're digging
deep into our emotional center.

We're resetting hormonal things.

I have had people that said, once
we got out of the cycle

of sugar spiking and crashing

in the emotional rollercoaster
of processed food,

go back and look at that awesome interview
I did

with Michelle Peto,
metabolic psychologist.

Okay, where we say, man,
our whole being can feel better.

I've been prescribed
a lot of antidepressants.

Also, after we get on a very solid
metabolic course,

which is okay, fasting is a slice of that.

Healthy eating,
maybe we even say is a bigger slice.

We've got to have the best food,
but we've got to bring it into balance.

Food and fasting.

When I'm talking about fasting,
I'm always talking about

the same thing food and fasting together.

It's the same thing, just like

we are a mind and a body
and we can talk about them separately.

But it is the same thing.

Absolutely.

What about the kidneys and diabetes?

Absolutely.

Like here is a key thing to talk about.

Kidneys, of course,
intimately connected in

to the diabetes spectrum
for quite a few reasons,

but not the least of which
is what's happening in diabetes,

what's happening when the blood sugar
is higher than we want.

You know, I'm wearing this continuous
glucose monitor now.

Check out my video on my experience.

I'm documenting all of my eating.

I put it in the video,

these tests I'm running
so we can see the blood sugar running.

Okay.

The monitor shows that safe zone
where the blood sugar is

running is like
the body likes to keep it in this zone.

You know, 70 ish, depending up to 130 ish.

And as soon as we start going over 100,
body is working to bring it back down.

Why is that?

Because sugar is energy
and it is a reactive form of energy.

And it is powerful
and the body can handle it

in precise measures, the precise amounts.

But as it starts going up, energy

does what energy does, it reacts okay.

And that process of sugar,

it will react with anything
including the lining of the blood vessels.

And so blood vessel lining
very sensitive can be damaged.

Right.

Think about things that we don't want
happening atherosclerosis

scarring of arteries and things like this
okay.

It's like we don't want stuff
like that happening

when the sugar is very high forms
what's called a glycosylation reaction.

It's like

gliding
on to something becoming part of it.

Right.

So where are the most sensitive blood
vessels in the body.

This is when you when you look at diabetes
you say,

oh, diabetes
just means the sugar is too high.

I like to tell people think of diabetes
as a vascular disease

because this is
what is downstream of everything.

The way the diabetes damages
the body is by damaging

the blood vessels, and it damages
the tiny blood vessels first.

So where are the tiniest blood vessels?

They're in the tiny little micro vessels
that feed the retina

in the back of the eye.

That's why diabetes can lead to vision
loss there in the tiny little blood

vessels that that feed the nerves
all the way at the end of our extremities.

That's why you can lose

sensation and fingers and toes and
and why the circulation goes.

Maybe you end up with amputations
always starting distally

and then working proximately, you see,
and then the very tiniest

blood vessels in the filter
that runs the kidneys.

And so, you know, we have an epidemic
of kidney disease in the Western world.

It parallels the epidemic of diabetes.

And, you know, we can just chart,
you know, and you can see the correlation,

right.

As the average blood
sugar of our population is going up,

the amount of kidney disease is happening.

So if you want to get out
in front of kidney disease say prevent it

from happening.

If someone already has D
if there is damage that is happening,

you know, the top causes
of kidney disease, high blood pressure

and the blood sugar being too high.

So here
fasting space is is opening up a space

where we can intersect
with both of these processes.

Just incredible for the kidney to protect
it, to help bring healing to it.

And so I love it.

This is the sort of space
kidney disease, a huge problem.

And we could go through
all the organs of the body like liver

disease is a problem
and fatty liver disease.

And we've got teenagers with fatty
liver disease now because so much food

is just poison coming into the body,
like literally has poison in it because

almost all of the food,
unless you're being very thoughtful

and working with regenerative agriculture
and at least organic products,

if not better, it's
just getting toxic stuff into the body.

Body doesn't know how to handle it.

Loading up high fructose corn sirup
that it's like normally fructose,

a tiny part of some fruit,
not like the whole thing.

And so it's meant to be in certain
proportions, the way nature intended it.

And we are nature because we're supposed
to be in continuity with the systems.

Things grow in the world,
and then we eat them and our digested

and those nutrients end up back into soil,
and then they are properly

recycled back into things.

It's all supposed to be a flow.

But look at our whole society.
So arrogant.

It has come in and said, you know what?

This is not the way it's done.

You know, forget about that.
That's the past.

We have technology now.

We can suck out unlimited amounts
of petrochemicals out of the ground,

and we can run the tractors

and create the synthetic fertilizers
instead of the natural ones.

And we can create the pesticides,
you know, to solve this problem.

And do you see that?

It is just such a mess
and then the result of it,

none of these decisions were
thoughtfully made about why society

is the way it is to promote human health.

They were promoted to make money
for people, you know what I mean?

And now we can see the downstream effects
of the same thing

we did with kidney disease.

You know, especially, you know,
we could do it with liver disease.

We can do it with insulin resistance.

We can do it with more vascular disease
broadly.

We can do it with a heart disease.

We can do it with bowel disease.

Because here's the thing. The metabolism.

What is it?

It's just it's the sum of the operation
of our entire body.

Right.

And so the body is this incredible
constellation of like,

think of it like the universe, right?

How many stars are in the universe?

And you can't even count them.

But how many cells are in the body?

It's like 30 trillion.

It's just it's a number
that's so unimaginably huge

you can't even comprehend it
yet. It's real.

Each one of these things, like a little
being, little cell and it's us.

You pluck one out, you don't notice,
but all of them together.

And the metabolism is the running of that.

And so everything is connected in it.

You know, this is what I want
for people total health and flourishing.

How do we accomplish that?

How do we experience vitality?

You know, to me,
an experience of vitality,

like we've been saying after that
talk, mitochondrial talk,

just the feeling of overabundance
of energy, you know, this is what we want.

We want energy
just flowing through our being.

And we want it to feel like

I have such a surplus of energy.

If we're sitting in a weight loss space,
maybe you're here in a plateau space.

Like I was saying,
I want to sit with you in it

because everybody else selling things,
that it's supposed to be easy

and you shouldn't

just sit with it and just buy my product
and do this sort of thing.

And it's like, all that is fine.

There's many sort of spaces.

You say,
I want people pushing through a plateau

if that's the right thing to do, is like,
here's a line.

I can't give anybody direct medical advice
on this.

See all the disclaimers?

But I'm just talking
through the archetypal,

you know, situations
because we're all dealing with this.

I've shared about my experience.

I've gone through periods of time,
lose weight, gain weight,

fasting, a tool that has helped me
so much to, you know,

keep my weight in a place where I am
happy about it.

I've sat in a large university
weight management program,

patients after patients I'm working
with now for a number of years, running

my own independent fasting based

weight management
service here in Wisconsin.

Okay, I've just spent years.

Okay.

Years sitting with people,
including prescribing

thousands of medications,
all the medications.

Check out the talk I did on prescribing
GOP ones for weight loss.

Very complex topic
I don't think it's wrong to do.

I've just decided to dive
all of my intention,

focus all of the energy that I can into

helping people use natural methods
to solve these problems.

To me, the most powerful,
sustainable ways to do it.

But I is wide open.

Nothing hyped okay, just reality because
I've prescribed all the drugs, right?

And early on I was very excited.

GOP ones.

I can't tell you how many of them I've
written, and they do have real efficacy,

but that efficacy has a wide distribution
and the tail is very skewed.

Some people have a lot of benefit
with minimal side effects.

And then there's a whole spectrum.

Some people with less benefit
and a lot of side effects.

And you know, the commercials
and the perspectives of brain

is just everybody takes these
and has incredible results

since that's the end of the story.

And that's not the reality.

The reality is some people, and especially
this middle part of the tale,

some people

take them and have some benefit,
but not quite as much as they were hoping.

And it's like we're
still sitting in this space.

So now think of it. Here's plateau space.

This is what every basically
every person wants to say is not real.

Okay?

By my product, you'll never have a plateau
do my thing that I've figured out.

They'll never be a plateau space.

Okay, well, I just tell you, I'm
very excited about fasting.

I left an entire huge medical practice.

I've started a fasting based company.

I'm sitting here every weekday
talking about fasting because I loved it.

And I've seen so much
health and flourishing come to people.

I want people to to see the power of it.

Okay.

But the power of it, it's
not a magic wand,

and it is a practice
and a process and a mindset

and a set of experiences that we have
that it's just real, you know,

and it is a tool that can help us
to unlock a situation over time,

when we approach it very thoughtfully

so that we are not burning ourselves out
so that it can become the thing.

Like we said yesterday,
I loved the session yesterday.

Trees take time to grow, right?

I was talking about this tree
I planted 13 years ago.

Now it's taller than my house
and it's been through a lot of trouble.

Big storm came through a couple years ago,
basically split the tree almost in half.

A huge thing came came down okay, but
now it is healed and you can barely tell.

In the summer, you can barely tell
when it's covered with leaves.

Now that the leaves are down,
you can see the scars

and you think of the difficulty
that it has gone through.

So I like when I put,
you know, hashtags on my stuff in here.

I often use a hashtag weight loss journey
because,

you know, if you're on a journey toward
better health.

Okay.

Think of the word journey to me.

Journey as epic journey
as big journey I'm thinking of,

you know, it came into my mind
like Frodo going, you know,

through the Lord of the rings all the way
across the world, basically on some epic,

you know, experience,
you know, took a long time, actually.

So, like, this sort of thing
or you think some real journey

that people have been on
that is like hiking somewhere.

This is the sort of thing
someone walked across the entire country.

Okay. Going to take a long time.

So when we bring something like this,
because our life is a long time, right?

Like, think about the discrepancy, okay?

Goals that we have,
we want problem solved.

Yesterday Amazon I hit the button.

It might even be delivered
by the end of the day.

We are in this incredible culture
or so much of

what we want
can be solved so quickly. Okay.

And so we come now to a weight loss space.

And I think there is a lot of expectation,

and maybe it's pressure
that we put on ourselves

because it's something
that we deeply desire.

Maybe it's pressure
that we are feeling externally, but

don't we just feel like
there should be something like this?

You know, I want to hit the button.

I want the problem solved now.

And and so it's like this

situation is compared to other situations
we face.

It's like it's very different actually
very, very different people selling it.

Like it's not different okay.

People selling know it's the same.

You've just got to do these things.

There's literally billions of dollars

trying to convince us every day
that something is wrong with you.

If you're having trouble with this, and
I'm going to solve that problem for you,

this is what the sale is by you.
Just send me some of your money.

I'm going to give you my thing,
my supplement, my program, my

this and that,
and everything's going to be fine.

Except it rarely is okay.

What the the absolute reality
is that no matter what path

you are on in the weight
loss space, it's going to take time.

Okay, I've, I've worked with many,
many people going through

a process of bariatric surgery
both before it and after it.

Okay.

There's a very, very long
and difficult course.

I've worked with many people who've gone
through the surgery, helped them greatly,

but then

also they flow back
over a number of years,

and now we're sitting back
in the same space,

and I go through a lot of people
who've taken a lot of medications,

including having a lot of benefit from it,
but then it also kind of fizzle.

And then we're back kind of in a plateau.

I, I worked in medical school.

I spent two months
working on a plastic surgery experience.

So I was in the clinic
with all the liposuction,

you know, the breast jobs,
like all the thing.

I felt like I was on a reality TV show,
plastic surgeons driving their Porsches

around, screaming at their stockbrokers
while they're cutting all the things,

you know.

And then I'm in the hospital
and the follow ups, you know, and people

had just a simple abdominal thing
done because they wanted the

and then they got a necrotizing

abdominal infection,
you know, and it's just like

and they're in the hospital for a month.

So like I tell you,
isn't this life, right?

That like everywhere we turn,
there is difficulty

hiding in every space.

And so one of the big things I want for us
here,

fasting space, this is actually just
a space to sit in the reality of it.

Right.

You check in here with me,
and it's a space where we can be open

and honest about the fact
this is a very difficult time in society.

So much pressure.

It's a difficult space metabolically
because of I mean, just think of inflation

on top of everything else
and that process of trying to buy

healthy food, where do you even find it
and how much does it cost?

I got a video that I'm working on right
now, just showing a lot of things

that I eat, as I've got the continuous
glucose monitor on just to show people.

I've show a couple things.

You know,
I did the live session the other day.

I drank the soda live.

We watched the sugar spike.

We had a big, deep talk about,
you know, what

what this experience is like for the body,
for the cells, you know,

to have that sugar around
and see it flow up and flow down.

I try to eat personally as many things
help the blood sugar stay stable,

keep the hormones balanced.

When we're talking about a fasting space,
as we're avoiding

spikes in sugar
that are leading to insulin and crashes.

I tell you, as

I've been watching it on the monitor
as it just helped me to feel it.

I was like, oh, I feel it.

Then I feel the brain fog.

I feel the sluggishness.

I feel the desire after it,
then to eat something else.

We're trying to create a flow state.

So everything I want here with us
is to start,

you know, as much as possible
fasting flow state is what I say.

It's like we want to get into a flow
so that the energy is moving,

things feel stable.

And as we're sitting about this space,

I don't want anybody sitting in a plateau
any longer than it has to be.

I help you as much as I can,
you know, push and testing the areas,

you know,
which is what exactly foods am I eating?

Here are some things we can experiment
with.

I'm not a believer that there's a one size
fits all policy for everybody.

You look at a thousand different types
of diets, from carnivore and keto,

all the way up
through a mediterranean diet,

and then plant based diets
and all these sort of things.

Huge spectrum.

What does all this stuff have in common?

It's cutting out the processed food.

I don't care what people are eating.

Find a flavor
of the rainbow of every type of diet

that focuses on unprocessed food,
and cut that stuff out.

You're going to be,
you know, a huge way there.

What feels best for you?

Some people feel better
having some more protein.

Some people feel better.

More of the plant based thing.
It's all beautiful.

I'm kind of
in the middle of that spectrum, and I.

I range around it
depending on what I feel like,

and that's how I get variety,
you know, in what I am doing.

And so you take that and then there's
another dial the fasting space.

I say simple fasting
because I say, how much benefit

can we get out of
just tiny bits of fasting?

You know, it's like,
I'm not too keen on huge

epic fasting experiences
as as just putting it out there.

Twice in my life.

I've done a big extended fast
and it's something

that can be done, but to me
it's much more of a personal calling.

It's like a personal, even spiritual
experience as opposed to like,

this is how we're going to sustainably
lose weight, because I've seen people

who have done just epic fasting
and then they followed through it.

They lost a lot of weight,
but then they couldn't

bring it back into a space
where it could be sustained.

And so what I really like
is build out the practice.

What is the amount of fasting,
which is to me, just saying,

how many times should a human
being eat in a day, you know,

is it three times or is to better
or is one even better?

Or is there some pattern?

Or maybe once a week we just have
a fasting day and then we eat more times.

And this can be intuitive and flexible.

And so we have that balance I'm showing.

What are we eating?
How many times are we eating?

How much are we moving in that space
around it?

What is our mindset and mindfulness
practices surrounding it?

This is how we bring all of these things
together into this comprehensive

set of practices,
what I would call our way of being.

How are we going to be in the world
that is the healthiest expression

of this one body in life
that we have here in this moment, right?

Are we going to take all of these things
together, you know,

put them into something powerful
that helps us to feel good?

This is how you feel
energy, encouragement, life, vitality.

It's how we solve problems.

This is what I want this session to be.

How do we solve as many problems

for as many people as possible
metabolically in health, right?

How do we keep problems?

Is the ideal future scenario?

How do we keep problems
from happening in the first place?

Stay healthy.

Hey, thank you for this comment.

Mutated monkey man, I love it.

I went on a little extreme

side for my weight loss when I started.

I swapped two much smaller portions
for breakfast.

How do I say it can stew for lunch?

A large dinner dance workouts

went from 340 to 216. He.

This sounds like an awesome success.

Congratulations for that experience.

Thank you for sharing.

Yeah, you know I
I'm I'm leaning into that first part

went a little extreme
on things when it started, but then

it sounds like
am I reading your thing right.

Then you swapped it out into something
more sustainable.

Right.
And so that's a really nice transition.

You know, everybody
have a different type of mindset.

You know if somebody comes in there
like really fired up, this is like okay,

it's like I never want to douse somebody's
enthusiasm.

You know?

And if you can hit something really hard,
it's like you can open up that space.

But, you know, so many times in the
nutrition space and all of these things,

it becomes like a set of rules
that is very rigid and dogmatic.

And especially
if you get in a habit of something,

then you can start to feel like,
oh, now if we deviate from it now,

that was wrong.

And we can bring guilt and judgment
on ourselves.

People do

this in the fasting space, someone,
because they start to identify with it

so much, say, oh, like they were doing 168
but then they did some OMD.

Right
then we're just eating one meal a day.

Now you identify as like an
O, or people will do that

and then they feel boxed in by it and say,
oh, we can't go backwards.

Like that is a sort of practice
that I don't like at all, because to me,

fasting is openness.

Fasting is like dietary freedom.

It means we're not restricted
by this crazy consumption mindset

that says we just have
to keep eating all the time.

And if you ever stop, you're
probably doing something bad for yourself.

Like that just doesn't seem at all to be.

The case is the opposite to me.

There is flourishing,
especially if you need to lose weight.

You know, you take the the small
percentage of people in our country,

it's like in the world that have an eating

disorder, right, who are actually
underweight and malnourished.

And it says, look, these people
not eating are in a terrible place.

I was like, yeah, this is fasting
very inappropriately applied.

Like we need to protect people
from doing that.

It's like, absolutely right.

But but don't throw
the other 99% of people under the bus

and say that they can't access, something
that is a normal part of the physiology.

Listen, energy flow
is part of the physiology of the body.

Energy comes into the body.

If there's more than we need, we store it.

And the body is literally saving it for
spaces without food so that we don't die.

You know, I mean, it's just
this is what the physiology is.

And so all of a sudden to open up
some space voluntarily, peacefully,

calmly, while we're taking a deep breath
without any judgment, punishment,

negative self-talk of any kind
to to have an attitude of overflowing

abundance and tell the body like,
hey, this is a gift for you.

And even if it is

a little difficult for us to do
because we might feel hungry, right?

This is the barrier to a fasting space.

But to say, do I love myself so much?

I want my body to have this space.

I don't want the blood sugar
to be too high.

I don't want metabolic problems.

I don't want fatty liver accumulating.

I don't want,

you know, the beautiful nephrons
in the kidney to be getting sclerosis.

Right.

So I'm going to open up this space.

Just use it okay.

Very gently
I'll tell the body use this space.

Right.

And so as we bring in all these
thoughtful things this is our mindset.

This is what can help us
to actually do it.

Because if we reinterpret that signal,

we've been told by consumer culture,
don't feel hungry.

That's bad by my product to fix it. Right.

This is the message.

But if we open up the space now,
we say, I want to give a gift to my body.

It's okay for me to experience
a little bit of discomfort

because I'm a human being here.

A human being is strong and powerful.

I have human spirit within me,
and you can't shut it down.

All right.

And I'm going to open up this space.

I'm not going to stop that.

For this reason.
Okay, listen, here's the line.

Never push yourself.

I'm trying to give you a little pep
talk, okay?

So that you can realize it's okay for
people to go through something difficult.

Think of lifting, await you. Lift
some weights. It's difficult.

Maybe the muscles a little sore,
but then you get stronger, right?

This is fasting, okay?

It's like you can open up the space,
the experience of hunger.

Have you experienced this?
It doesn't go on forever.

It is finite, right?

You go into a fasting space.

Hunger happens
because this is hormones in the body.

Hormones are expecting
when we think we're going to eat

so that it can organize the production

of the acids and the amylase and lipase
and all the digestive things

to help run the system
so we don't feel bloated.

So everything can be efficient.

And, and people say,
listen to your body, okay?

And say, I feel hungry,
so I have to eat. Okay. Whoa.

Take a break.

Okay.

Because this physiology happening here,

body has a lot of things
that run on clock cycles.

What time is it and what are patterns
brains trying to predict.

Keep everything organized.

It takes about half an hour
to make a lot of these digestive enzymes

that are very powerful.

Think you eat a steak,

and within a couple hours,
this thing is blown into atomic particles.

What's a steak is just like your muscle.

It's just like you.

You know these things.

This is why people can develop
an ulcer, right?

Because it'll burn a role in you.

It'll eat you up. It's dangerous stuff.

And so there's no acid tank in the body,
right?

If there's an acid tank,
it could just dissolve through it.

So it's made on demand.

We got acid
pumps right in the lining of the stomach,

and they'll get everything ready so that
the acid can be just properly controlled.

Blast up the food,
but not ourselves, okay?

And because all this is tightly controlled

predictive algorithms trying to anticipate
when this is happening.

And so when the body thinks
we're going to get hungry

because we normally eat
at this time, then we will

get all that ready.

When everything's ready,
body thinks we're going to be eating.

It's sending hormonal signal.

Grayling hormone makes you feel hungry.

The message is the body is telling.

We're predicting
that we're going to be eating now.

Just letting you know
we've gotten everything ready here

so that you can eat now.

Everything will be ready for it,
you know what I mean?

But it's not demanding it, right.

It can feel like it.

We might be telling ourselves a story
that it's demanding it.

But listen, there's
a lot of energy in the body, right?

Especially if we're trying to lose weight.

It's like it's it's there to patch it up.

We don't really need it. Right.

But then we feel that way

and we tell ourselves a story
that this signal means that.

But we can change the story.

Big thing
I want to share on this channel.

We can change the stories we tell about
ourselves in the big picture,

about who we are and what we do
and how we are being in the world.

And we can reinterpret the experiences
that we're having physiologically

into something that I would say
is actually much more grounded

and true in the body,
but certainly much more effective

as a way to cope with it
and flow through it.

If you're understanding, okay, the body is
trying to do something interesting here.

It's trying to predict the future.

It's trying to keep my digestion running.

But listen, when it says, oh,
we don't really need it.

Okay, listen, I love to personify this.

It's like we're talking to the cells.
What are they doing?

You say, okay, hey, actually,
we're not doing that now.

It's like CEO is on the line.

The boss up here, brain is like,
you know, we're like,

we're not actually going to do it now.

They'll be like, oh, okay. Right.

Then we shut it back down.

Okay.

And have you gone through an experience
like that?

Hunger was ramping up.

Normally we would have been eating.

But you see now what I don't think
this is a priority right now.

I've kind of got some open space here.

What if we just took a deep
breath, maybe grab a coffee, maybe flow

through the space and then you experience
the hunger die back down?

Have you experienced this? Right?

If you experience it

even once in your life, you know that
this physiology exists because it's like,

oh, I was gonna eat and then I didn't,
and then everything was okay.

And to me, I think this is actually
one of the most profound experiences

that we can almost have

because like in the whole society
and culture that is telling us

we have to eat all the time or something
bad is going to happen.

But you're like, wait a second.

Except for that time when I didn't.

And then actually everything was okay.

And like all of a
sudden that's opening up the possibility,

all that this is a practice
that can come into my life,

that it can become more routine.

I like to talk about
how fasting is flexible, and it is.

On the other side of it

is if we have a pattern
that is really serving us, and if we start

eating at the same times and not others,
then the prediction things change.

You know, I used to struggle
so much to not eat before bed, right?

But I always did it right.

And so then you're used to doing it
and then you don't do it

and then you're like, where is my stuff?

You know, I was like,
you try to go to bed and you feel hungry.

You say it's unpleasant, but then you
build the discipline of staying with it.

And then you notice over a couple weeks

to a month, it just fades away.

Right?

And now I never I

now I don't want to do it because I'm
like, now it doesn't feel good anymore.

I'm like, I don't want to go to bed
with all this stuff in there,

you know,
because then that doesn't feel good.

And so do you see that
our experience can change

so much.

Love these thoughts.

Thank you for sharing this. Yes.

Trying to add in some more exercise.

So here's the balance right.

Want everything to come into balance.

We have all these tools
and all the tools free basically you know

you can get a gym membership
if that supports you.

But you can take a walk
and you can do some body

weight squats
and push ups in your own house.

And you can get just some dumbbells
and you can you no body doesn't care

if you're in a gym.

Body just cares if it's moving, you know?

And every time we're moving the muscles,
how do they do what they do?

They're running on energy.
And every time we're using them,

they're like sponges
just soaking up the energy.

And so you start mixing these things
together.

You open up some fasting space.

Now there's no energy coming in.

Now we start adding some exercise
into that space.

Where is the energy going to come from?
Right.

It's going to come from within.

The body doesn't come from nowhere.

And that is its own type of strength.

Fasting strength.

How trained is the body at accessing

and releasing the energy the first times
you do something like that,

the most difficult because the body is
like, hey, we are not used to doing this.

That's why you ease into all these things.

I always say an exercise walk
before you can run

and then with fasting exercise
I say sit before you can walk, okay?

Like just make sure
that you're comfortable in a fasting space

and then ease into it.

Yeah,
I always say thank you for this comment.

I stay away from the word cheat days
because I don't like how it just kind of

brings in some guilty sort of thing.

But if, if, if you don't have that,
I love this way of doing it.

Take meals that you like,
just make them at home.

Make them the healthiest that you can be.

You know,
that's that's a fun way to do it.

Here's another reason I really started
making my own fasting content.

Personally, I want people to have
a beautiful relationship with food.

Okay?

And, you know, there's a lot of fasting
content out there.

One of the reasons
within the medical system

that fasting is not appreciated,
which I can relate to,

is people say it's like,
oh, is this restrictive?

Are you restricting things is too much.

We don't like that mindset
for the wrong person.

It's not good.

Listen, I'm like a food lover.

I love eating food as much as anybody
else, and the most, the most beautiful way

that I can frame this came from a patient
that I was working who is an incredible

guitarist, toured in this band

and came in for a weight consult and

was, you know,

kind of skeptical on the fasting at first,
but came back to me after a couple

months, had been on the road and he said
this fasting, he was like, I love it.

It is helping me in so many ways.

And he described it
as it's like the space between the notes

that helps the music to be beautiful
when you are eating all the time.

He's like, what if I just play
the same note again and again?

And it never stopped. There'd be no space.

It would not be beautiful.

Fasting like the space
that makes the notes beautiful.

So this is what I want for our, life
to bring in the amount

of fasting into our day,
into our experience that helps things,

to feel beautiful.

Like a beautiful song.

Love it.

Hey, I like this recommendation.

One thing I had to train myself to
understand in the beginning don't panic.

I love it when you feel hungry.

It is okay to be a little hungry.

It isn't an emergency
the second you feel it.

Okay, I want to dive in and read something
for you from The Obstacle Is the Way,

and this is really the perfect segue
for it.

Here we are in a chapter

titled Control Your Emotions.

They go through actually a story here.

Don't panic.

And I wasn't going to say that,
but they tell a story in here about,

the Apollo program
and sending people to the moon

and how crazy it is, people
in this spaceship that would probably,

you know, fit in a little room.

People just locked in this little box
hurtling through space.

What is the most important thing to do?
Don't panic.

That's what this is.

Panic in space, you die.

And so think about how intense that is.

And so then saying how
how did they do it?

They're talking to John Glenn here
and all these people.

They just basically put them
through a lot of the exposure training,

helping them to practice, not panicking.

Okay.

We can take such an intense experience
from somebody like that.

Okay. We're not flying to the moon, okay?

But we are navigating our own experiences,
a fasting space.

To me, this is practice.

It's a practice space.

I always like to have a plan B
if I'm going in a fasting space,

I say I got plan B if I'm not feeling it
right now, if the energy is not flowing,

we can always stop.

C wouldn't do it, didn't sign a contract.

We're not forcing anything.

Eating healthy, nourishing food
so good for the body.

So as a plan B have always knowing hey,
if if I want this fasting space to be done

now, here's where I'm going to go

eat some beautiful thing
that's going to help my body.

And so then we're just flowing between
beautiful things.

Then we can be practicing, right?

Not panicking like you are saying,

this is the big picture that I want

fasting as a practice
to help us find peace and contentment.

So many times
when we don't have any fasting space,

what's the next thing going to be?
And the next thing?

And we're eating all the time.

Do you see? It's not very settled, okay.

Fasting space can become a very,
very settled and calm

space merges very much with this chapter.

Controlling the emotions.

It starts with this quote

Publius serious?

Who is that?

Some early Roman Stoic philosopher.

I didn't look it up, says,
would you have a great empire

rule over yourself?

What a quote.

I don't know about you.

I don't want any great empire, okay?

But I resonate over the last part of it.

When you think, you know, when I hear
the quote, I picture ancient Rome.

Have you been to Rome or you've seen it?

You picture the emperor standing,
you know, in the palace,

looking out over the Colosseum
and all the stuff and

ruling
over a great empire rule over yourself.

Can you take that mindset?

Can we take that mindset into our own
life,

rule over our emotional state?

I think that's kind of an interesting way

to frame it.

Here's

how the author of this book, Ryan
Holiday,

here's how he writes about it.

Obstacles make us emotional.

Like, isn't isn't that
just a great place to start?

And wouldn't you resonate with it?

I know I do, like when I look
at your don't panic when you feel hungry.

I mean, I've been in the space,
you know, where I've felt that way.

It's like, this is why I want people
to be very gentle with themselves,

starting out into it.

Because like if, if the first time
you encounter a little bit

of discomfort and it's panic,
like all that didn't feel good were gone.

Okay, okay.

That's expected. Right?

Like we we're seeing in the beginning,
there's a journey is happening.

We're going through a period of time.

It's a process.

Like a tree takes a long time to grow
a sustainable dietary process.

It is also part of our life
and our journey.

It takes a while to happen.

You need to build it.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

We're back with a mindset
that helped them do it right.

Stoic.

Thought

obstacles make us emotional,
but the only way we'll survive

or overcome

is by keeping those emotions in check.

If we can keep steady,
no matter what happens,

no matter how much external events me
fluctuate, right?

This is how we overcome.

I put the note to myself
what is the first problem to solve?

I say this is a problem solving session.

Focus all your energy on this.

Here we're bringing all of the thought
together.

First problem to solve finding

mental and emotional clarity, right?

Doesn't this become before
almost every other problem that we have

to find a space of stillness?

So that we can perceive

clearly the problem so that we can see

without all the emotions into it,

the path
that we can take, the options before us.

Right? So many times
when we're acting out of emotion.

We did the session last fall.

If you didn't catch it, go back
and watch the playlist.

Thinking fast and slow.

Incredible thoughts from Nobel Prize
winning sociologist Daniel Kahneman

about the two different modes
of our thinking.

Have you experienced this in your life?

That we have the rational,
what we perceive as like ourself,

the logical path that makes decisions,
and then we have that subprogram, the

emotional state where flow is happening
and we just trip into something.

And it's like all of a sudden
things are happening.

And we didn't really think of it
so many times.

It's the emotional,
the difficult situation.

We flip in to that.

Or is it type
two thinking how he labels it right?

Because that's the fight or flight
mode, right?

We don't have time to be logical
and rational if we are under attack.

Right?

Do you see how evolutionarily,
historically, if we literally

are human beings who grew up in a, a time
where

we might be attacked by ferocious animals,
like we just got to react.

And so, like,
this brain is set up to be able to make

instantaneous decisions, bypass the logic,
and just get what needs to be done, done

with the best available assessment, okay,
so that we can stay alive.

Okay.

Now we have taken this whole situation out

and it's like now we're on social media
and someone said a thing and the cupboard

was there and all of a sudden
it's like we can be eating things.

I've done this.
Have you ever found yourself doing this?

You were eating a thing

and you didn't even like thinking like,
how did this happen?

Okay,

how do we break cycles like that?

How do we get out of ourselves? Right?

Keeping the emotions in check
have to be very thoughtful to do it.

This is why we need to flow.

Focus all our energy on this problem.

First.

Stillness.

Space so that we are not reacting
in that type two thinking

so that we are making the choices
that are keeping us on our path.

Hello, so nice to have you here.

Welcome, welcome.

Grab a mug and join us.

I put that in the chat.
Oh, I haven't said it in a while.

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We can have a coffee together
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Many people have said, hey, it's
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Says fasting on is helping my mindset to,

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I put my email in the chat.

I speak it out.

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Have a coffee or tea
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If a thousand people show up,
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Okay, but for now

we got seven and seven we can accommodate.

The Greeks had a word for this,
he says apathy,

which sounding to me like apathetic.

We bring a little negative to it,
but apathy

to the root of it, just much more neutral.

Okay, says here a calm equanimity.

Isn't that a beautiful word?

Don't we need some of that equanimity

that comes with the absence of irrational
or extreme emotion?

Wouldn't
you like to excise some of that from life?

I know I would.

It's not the loss of feeling altogether,
just the loss of harmful

and unhelpful feelings.

That's what I like that.

I really want that for myself,
for everybody

like that.

Thinking of a surgical approach,
excise the harmful and unhelpful

feelings, the things that are keeping us
trapped in negative cycles.

Don't let the negativity in.

Isn't this encouraging?

Isn't this encouraging?

The obstacle is the way.

Here it is, Ryan Holliday.

It's like an intro primer
to stoic thought.

And I think it is
is just loaded with thoughtful stories

and,

Thoughts like this.

I share more of them.

Mutated Monkey Man is heading off to work.

Hey, thanks for checking in.

Nice to have you here.

Heading. Working as a blacksmith. Hey.

That's awesome.

Making custom knives today.

Hey, that is very cool.

Look forward to seeing you again soon.

Thanks for being here.

Don't let the negativity.

And that's what Ryan Holiday
is telling us.

Like we've been saying, right?

We got only so many slots.

Our Ram, you know, of our mind,
however that works.

How many things can
we load into our thoughts?

Only so many in a day. Okay.

And so we need to be very thoughtful
about how we are protecting our mindset.

Doesn't mindset drive everything?

Like, would you say this in your life?

Doesn't the mindset that we bring thing
drive all of our decision making?

And if we have problems that we have,
if we have obstacles

and difficulty that we face,
how are we going to overcome them?

Doesn't it take the mindset to do it
right?

And shouldn't that mindset
be a combination of both?

The most powerful, intense,

part of the human spirit
that we can bring to it, paired

with the most gracious
and kind and loving attitude for ourself?

These are

the things I always want together
because things that are difficult to do,

it takes energy and to do it right.

But if we only go pure intensity
on ourselves, then we burn out

and we can have the mindset
of punishing ourselves.

And then then it's hard to find joy
on the journey and the way that things

become sustainable so that we can grow it
like a tree takes 20 years to grow,

is that we are enjoying it
and it is bringing a comfort even right?

This is the thing
and helping good energy to flow

and say
this is the way of being that I want.

Don't

even let negative emotions get started.

I love this thought. Just say no
thank you.

I cannot afford that right?

This is the skill that must be cultivated.

Freedom from disturbance
and being perturbed

so that you can focus your energy
exclusively on solving problems

rather than reacting to them.

Isn't that awesome?

This is the show today, right?

Think of the thoughts that we have gone
through.

The potential, the canvas
where fasting can touch into our lives

metabolically, that the metabolism
is actually the summation

of the whole of our being in activity,
and so fast in getting

very much into the root
as one part of every other good thing

that intersects with it
our healthy food, our movement practices.

But then especially the mindset
that we bring every good mindset here, the

the breathing, the taking of some space,
some time for a meditation,

contemplation,
let some thoughts ruminate a little bit

so that
we can gain clarity about our experience

so that we can see the things
that are truly important, right?

So many times
things that are urgent are coming in

like think social media, think like
everything, think of advertising,

all these things and that the urgent
can overwhelm the important.

So we create some space

so that we can find clarity

so that we can do what this says, actually
focus all the energy of our being.

We've cleared out the slots

of everyone who's trying to sell us things
and put their thoughts in our mind,

and we're clearing all that out and say,
I'm going to take the entirety of my

being every bit of love and intensity
that I can into this.

Thoughts. I'm
going to pour it into the journal

to get some perspective,

and I'm going to let that journal read
back to me.

And I'm going to think,

and I'm going to breathe,
and I'm going to come the fasting space.

Come chat about your experience
with doctor Z.

We all step forward on the path together
that we're going it every day,

every weekday, come check in,

receive some encouragement.

I wish you the very best in this day has
been lovely to share this space with you.

Thank you for being here
and I look forward to connecting

with you again to morrow.

Body mode checking in right at the end.

Hey, good morning to you.

So nice to have you here.

Been watching from the floor.

Have to pop up to chat.

Thank you for doing it.

Encouragement to me having you here.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

I look forward to talking with you again
soon.

Be well everybody.