Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist. He’s a world-leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carb, especially for treating people with type 2 diabetes. He has written three best-selling health books and he co-founded the Intensive Dietary Management program. I personally have been intermittent fasting for the past several months. Have you ever wondered if intermittent fasting is right for you? Well, listen to Dr. Fung.
For more about Dr. Jason Fung, simply search youtube. Dr. Fung has his own websites at idm.health and thefastingmethod.com. His bestseller book The Complete Guide To Fasting is available at his website and/or amazon.com. I'll leave a link in the show notes.
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Welcome to the expect success podcast, a presentation of George beaumont.com with your host George Baldwin. This podcast is were all things personal development. Don't expect success. If we're paying for it, please welcome your host. George balling. Welcome to expect success@georgebilac.com. Now, in addition to listening to our podcast, you could also view the video format on YouTube that George stewart.com. Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist. He's a world leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carb, especially for treating people with type two diabetes. He's written three best seller health books, and he co founded the intensive dietary management program. Now I personally have been intermittent fasting for the past several months. If you ever wondered if intermittent fasting is for you. Well, listen to dr. Foam,
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Three of the most influential human beings in the history of the world. All agreed on one thing. This is the most powerful, natural healing solution ever. One that's been used by all cultures, all over the world. And one that's virtually forgotten today. What am I talking about fast?
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What is fasting? I can feel your eyes rolling in your head right now. I get this reaction all the time. You're going to starve people. That's your solution. No, that's not. My solution. Fasting is not the same as starvation fasting is the controlled voluntary abstinence of food for different reasons. You can do it for spiritual reasons. You can do it for health reasons. You can do it as a political protest. Any reason is still called. Fasting is not the same as starvation. In fact, if you look back through all of recorded human history, people have always fasted. We can start with[inaudible], who is considered the father of modern medicine. He famously said our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food, but to eat when you are sick is to feed your sickness. What he's talking about is this idea that we have a fasting instinct. That is it's something that we instinctually do think about when you get sick. When you have a cold, when you have a flu, whatever, the last thing you're thinking about is eating at a big buffet. It's something that naturally comes to us or does it. Our bodies are designed to fast. They're designed to store food in times of availability and during times of scarcity to release it. And that's just what comes naturally to us. And it's not just us, but all animals have the same ability. So it's not something unnatural. It's not something that we're just trying to force on our bodies. This is something natural and good other that liked fasting include Benjamin Franklin, who is world renowned as one of the smartest men who had ever lived. What he said was very wise and date. He said the best of all medicines are resting and fasting. Well, that's very profound. Think about that for a second resting, which is freedom from stress, relaxation, and fasting, which is designed to cleanse the system, which is what it used to be called a cleanse or purification. Well, those are the two best medicines, not drugs, not surgery, resting and fasting, amazing Mahatma Gandhi. He also said a genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul Jesus Christ that Satan and his plagues may be cast out only by fasting and by prayer. So if you look at the Christian faith, you can see that there are many, many prescribed periods of fasting all throughout the year. Yes, there are going to be times where you are going to be feasting or you're going to be celebrating. And that's balanced by these periods where you're fasting to cleanse the body, to cleanse the soul. Buddhist monks also do the same sort of thing, but they do that on a daily basis. Very typically they'll fast from noon until sunrise the next day. So every day there's a very prolonged period of fasting. In addition to that, they also have periods through the year where they'll only have water only fast and, and the, and that will help them cleanse themselves for the year. The Muslim faith is also very profound believers and fasting. The prophet Muhammad said fasting brings us to the door of his palace. Many people have heard of the Holy month of Ramadan during that period, Muslims will fast from sunup until sundown every day for an entire month. All of these religions did not prescribe fasting to their believers because they wanted to harm them. In fact, that's something that's deeply intrinsically beneficial. And we know this from the science that there's so many benefits, benefits for weight loss benefits for insulin sensitivity and type two diabetes for heart disease, for cancer, for liver disease. And also just to feel better for mental clarity. There's so many amazing benefits. Everybody's always worried about fasting. They're always worried. Well, can I really do it well, think about this for a second. Consider all these religions, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Mormons, all of these people, all of these people, people are fasting on regular basis every year for their entire adult life. So can you do it well, millions and millions and millions of people do it. There's no reason why you can't do it. So there's lots of people who will tell you not to fast who well, there's this guy, Ronald McDonald. He doesn't want you to fast and this happy little mermaid. She doesn't want you to fast. They're not going to make any money, right? They need you to eat there's profits. There's shareholders, right? In the end, you really got to ask yourself when it comes to your health, to your wellbeing, who are you going to trust Jesus Christ for Colonel Sanders?[inaudible]
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That's awesome. Now for more about dr. Jason Fung simply search you YouTube. Dr. Fung has his own websites@idmdothealthandthefastingmethod.com his bestseller book. The complete guide to fasting is available@hiswebsiteandoramazon.com. And I'll be sure to leave a link in the show notes and remember as the late great Jim Rohn used to say, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with today. Been hanging out with dr. Jason Fung, keep up the momentum, subscribe to our newsletter. So you never miss another episode. We'll catch you on the next show and thanks a million for listening. See ya.
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