How WATER Fasting Could Reverse Your 'INCURABLE' Disease | Dr. Alan Goldhamer EP 689

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0:56What are the insane benefits of water-only fasting? Because you've been doing this for 38 years with over 20 ,000 patients that have done water-only fasting. What are the main benefits? Well, you know, one of the first things that we look at is that there are certain conditions that are really common today. So cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes type 2, autoimmune diseases, where the immune system itself is attacking the body, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, the ankylosing spinylitis, the psoriasis, the eczema, these conditions where it's your own body that's kind of working against you.

1:31And also certain types of cancer like lymphoma. And these conditions that are so common now are really thought to be unmanageable. Because I mean, if you go to a physician with high blood pressure, they're going to give you a medication that might be a diuretic or a beta block or whatever, a combination of medications. And they're going to tell you right from the beginning, if you do what I tell you, you'll never get well. Really? You'll be on these meds for the rest of your life. Absolutely. You'll never get off these meds. You'll be on drugs forever because they know that they're not actually dealing with the reasons that you've developed high blood pressure.

2:08The root. You're dealing with trying to manage the consequence of the root. And so our approach is a little different because we're not interested in trying to come up with a pill, potion, or powder and tell you, well, that's it. Just take these drugs and suffer the consequences. Keep eating the same way, keep living the same lifestyle, keep lacking sleep, being stressed, eat all the processed foods, and you'll be on these drugs for the rest of your life. Well, live normally. Yeah, right. Normal the way it is today. Well, two-thirds of people are now overweight or obese. Yeah. So being overweight is normal.

2:41It doesn't mean it's healthy. Right. You don't necessarily want to be normal if you want to be healthy because normal or average right now is in trouble. And it's in trouble because people are under the influence of the pleasure trap. There's this hidden force that's undermining people's health and happiness, and they don't even realize it in many cases. Yet delayed gratification is the key. That is the way, in my opinion. Not living in the instant pleasures of today, but how can I distance myself from it as long as possible to be rewarded in other healthier, happier ways? The problem, I think, is, though, that you are biologically designed for short-term pleasure-seeking self-indulgent behavior.

3:22Those hits, those dopamine hits. Absolutely. The brain rewards the body every time it engages in behavior that favors survival and reproduction. And those primary dominant behaviors are feeding behavior and sexual behavior. Because it's food and sex that are necessary for the species to survive, to get enough to eat, to not get eaten, live long enough to reproduce. And that dopamine-driven short-term response worked great through most of human history. but more recently it's become a bit of a trap and it's become a bit of a trap because we've changed our environment from an environment of scarcity where it was really hard to get enough to eat people's friends to abundance and now we live in an environment abundance and these highly processed foods are so appealing because they they play off those ancient mechanisms the salt the sugar the process nature of it it's just delicious but it's not good for you well you have to override that biology if your goal is to survive long and well.

4:21Yeah, not survive unwell, which is what we've trained our society to do. It's like, how can we extend our life on machines? That's not a well-lived life, but how can we be happy, healthy, fulfilled, and then have a quicker death, right? It's like, not suffer for as long as possible, but live as long, happy, and healthy, and then turn off the lights. Well, we talk about having a good life, good, hopefully long life, but also a good death, the death where one night you go to sleep and you don't wake up rather than spending the last 9.6 years unable to talk or move, lying in some nursing home bed waiting for people to come and change your diaper because you've had a stroke or you've had other debilitating illnesses that prevent you from actually making the last decade or two perhaps the best, most enriching time of your life rather than the worst, dependent on others around you, unable to really function properly.

5:13And that's the price we pay for short-term pleasure-seeking self-indulgent behavior that doesn't necessarily cause an immediate problem, but definitely causes longer-term problems. So what are these crazy benefits of water-only fasting? What are the main things you've seen people transform of these 20 ,000-plus cases? One of the biggest things that fasting does, it's an efficient way of undoing the consequences of dietary excess. So people spend a long time accumulating the consequences of dietary excess, and they can very rapidly reverse many of those consequences. Such as what? What are the main things you see?

5:47So the conditions like they're caused by dietary exercise, so high blood pressure, for example. We did a study with 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure and 174 people were able to lower their pressure enough to eliminate the need for medications. Medications for blood pressure cause chronic cough, fatigue, impotence, and premature death. And yet they're routinely used because it's not recognized that blood pressure is a reversible and containable process. Fasting is an effective and efficient way of reversing and normalizing blood pressure. Now, the problem is you can't fast forever.

6:18You have to feed, so you also have to learn to eat a health-promoting diet in order to sustain those results. But in terms of eliminating the risk factors, eliminating the need for medication, normalizing blood pressure, you can do that very predictably with medically supervised water-only fasting.

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