I did 48h fasting every Friday-Sunday for 30 weeks + 16/8 every other day. It required some kind of stubborness and perseverance 😊 but the effects are stunning. Strict keto was the key to make it possible (15-20g of carbs a day). Now I do 72h of "sardines" fasting every 2 week and it's very easy with amazing anti-inflammatory effect. It's like having a new body and a new brain too. I wish I had this knowledge 20-30 years ago, I could save my parents, both died too early and in pain because of metabolic diseases.
This is a fantastic plan - totally agree with your 48 hr fast and am all about the 72 hr sardines - life changer! Would love to know some specifics about your 15-20 carb meals, please?
@@VisorGirl at first I was using a MOBR method from a book written by two polish doctors: Rodzen Brothers. Basically it's what dr Westman is promoting on his channel, with extra caution about some specific foods, which you might eat too much of and which are addictive and contain carbs (eg cheeses, tomatoes, some nuts, etc). For macro nutrients calculation I used an app (use one which is specific to your food market and contains food available locally) After about a month i bought CGM and to my surprise my glucose levels were perfect so I started fasting, first 16/8, then 24h fast. After about 3 months of keto-adaptation 48h every week. It's important to check how your body reacts to certain foods. Now I'm mostly carnivore but I bake keto bread sometimes or eat some berries in a season. But what I like the most is beef and eggs or fat pork meat (I buy unprocessed). And one particular type of cheese (it's my only addiction 😀).
I dry fasted weekends besides 22 hr keto OMAD during week Lost 55# as an old fat lady, in 6 mos, no exercise needed It was pure determination except the dry fasting (that obliterated hunger) and I lost a third to half of my scalp hair Carni is much better, no fasting altho I rly should as I’ve got such slow results
@@greblus 😋 love cheese... However I'm trying to come to the acceptance that perhaps it doesn't like me, but the last that'll be able to give up will probably be parmesan or Romano because you get the nice cheesy without going too far but might still have to look at that Oh well it's a journey ....good for you 🤗 ...!
My grandparents and great grandparents lived oner 105 yrs, never fasted ate beans everyday dark coffee, dairy, meat, eggs some fruits guava, tamarindo, mango, coconut, cactus avocado and only three veggies chayote, potato and carrots they never knew what a salad was or berries they passed without health problems and good memory and teeth. They said secret for long health was walking outdoor everyday and staying active
Our grandparents did have scientists fuking with the food. I tried to find fruit with seeds i like in the supermarket, and the only things I bought were apples, red grapes, and a seeded watermelon. I'm not familiar with tropical fruits, but I'm going to learn because they all had seeds. The FDA failed every American. Bill Gates is a billionaire who eats tropical fruits.
“I don’t agree with everything, but that’s ok…”. Oh how I pray that this would become the prevailing thought in our country again! So very well expressed!
56 and have been in ketosis for over 2 years now, eating one meal a day intermittent fast between 18 to 24 hours every day. Lost well over 100 pounds of body weight. Was on prescription medications for over 25 years, and I got tired of all the side effects from meds. I slowly came off my meds within the first 3 months of starting keto.
Dr Westman cannot thank you enough for keeping it simple and translating for us who can think but can easily be overwhelmed if we listen to all the voices. Thank you as always! You brighten my day and take the burden off our shoulders by the teaching you offer that never ceases to gift us in our daily walk with our eating.
I have lost 16 lb in 2 weeks but it's my 5 week I m not loosing weight any more what should I do . I did omad . And in 3rd week 3 day water fast I lost 2 kg in 3 days but get it back after 2 days what should I do should I do 2 day 3 day fast or omad ? I m worried about my waight loss
@@mouzzamahmad2171 Don’t sweat it. Hears what I would do. Now, don’t go nuts with this, but, On a Saturday, and in your eating window, go get what you want. For me it was a Cheesesteak and fries. It’ll shock the system. Do NOT do another 3 day fast for a month. Your body is getting used to it. Lay off that for a while. And watch your calories everyday, but eat everyday for a month then try a fast again and see what happens. And make sure you take a good multi-vitamin to make sure you’re getting vitamins you may not be getting through food. Now, I’m no doctor. So do what you want. But drink at least 2 liters of water a day. Water is good for weightloss and 2 liters isn’t hard to get down in a day.
@@mouzzamahmad2171 That’s a little dangerous. The most I have ever lost in a week is 4 to 4.5 and that’s a lot. The reason that’s dangerous is if your body isn’t getting enough protein, it will go after your muscles. Mote to the point, your heart. Don’t concentrate so much on the multiple day fasting, concentrate on your caloric deficit. Eat everyday, but make sure you are at a good caloric deficit.
@@Runner2000 I eat meat around 300 to 400 and some time more and 300 gram or more carb and dates apple 4 walton 1 or 2 day a week honey and milk with chia seeds, ghee 2 3 table spoon per day in a single sitting and by eating this I m now 88 kg before I was 95 . I also take green tea . By eating this I lost this much waight but now I m not loosing I will do 3 day fat and I will try keto diet for a week to break this plateau inshallah
Ditto! Almost. Breakfast toast 10-11 am. Lunch bag of popcorn 79 calories. Lunch/ dinner high protein 4-5pm. Live yogurt & honey 🍯 before 7pm. Sugar cravings under control. Losing the stubborn belly fat. My BMI doen to 23.0 from 27.02 😅
After watching this video with Dr.Ekberg and many other doctors, I am more and more a fan of Dr.Westman! I love the simplicity of what he shares for free! Nothing new here, like many others I have tried listening to many, many other doctors and so called experts or influencers and Dr.Westman is by far the best. I love the graciousness and lack of attitude! Dr.Westman’s approach KISS! Keep It Simple Sir (I’m being kind) I cannot agree more with Dr. Westman. No special food to purchase other than what is in the grocery store. THANK YOU DR.WESTMAN!!
Hear hear! And I’m rather tired of all these other so-called doctors who aren’t medical doctors. I don’t it’s wise to listen to what chiropractors have to say about nutrition
This is just one of Dr Eckberg’s videos. He never suggests you should just eat the typical American diet the rest of the time. Many of his videos teach a daily low carb diet, specific foods and additives to avoid, as well as foods that you should include in your diet. He also teaches a lot about insulin sensitivity and fatty liver disease. In fact much of his focus is reversing metabolic diseases.
I started to address my prediabetes and weight starting with his videos first, and ended up here and other related videos; so I agree, this particular video was a bit atypical for him. It assumes that fasting is helpful, and it assumes that the low protein helps with autophagy -- the exact things Dr. Westman pointed out.
Dr Ekberg is great for figures on food and getting a plan together after helping breaking a cycle of soley counting calories! He really helped from the start educating on carbohydrate and sugar impact.
The thing I like about Westman is the keeping it simple. The thing I like about Ekberg is he explains everything. I listen to them for different reasons. Together they give me a functional education. I like knowing why this diet works.
Thank you Dr Westman I love the way you explain things in these videos You were the beginning of my 3 year journey to better health and lifestyle You bring balance without obsession Pleas keep this up
I follow carnivore, eat fatty red meat, sometimes oily fish, add butter to my coffee instead of milk or cream. I eat once per day, i dont get hungry, feel i could easily go longer between meals, as our hunter ancestors would have and gave evolutionary advantage. Lean, low BMI, good muscle mass and bone mass for my age.
@@Takuma_Sakazaki I make a bulletproof coffee that consists of 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, with a full stick of butter (cubed up). That constitutes the “liquid” for the coffee. I heat the cream and the butter in the microwave and then pour it into a single serve blender container, and add two scoops of instant coffee. Since I take powdered glycine (dirt cheap amino acid) as a supplement, I add my daily dose in as well, because it is sweet tasting, and I don’t have to worry about sugar or any other artificial sweeteners. It’s around 1200 calories total, with only 3 grams of carbs. That is the only carbs total in my diet. It really helps to add lots of calories in such a small volume of liquid, when you’re trying to do OMAD.
I have watched a lot of Dr. Ekberg's videos. I think it is important to note that you cannot look at this fasting alternative in isolation. He certainly isn't saying to do this and then go back to a SAD diet the rest of the time. This is merely an alternative to a three day water fast for those who should not or cannot do traditional fasting. He does espouse a long-term lifestyle change in eating real food.
I’m staying with my success ! Dr. Berry and this Dr. W. Have made me successful seeking my goals! If it ain’t broke, leave it alone! My goal for the last 10 years, was 265 pounds! I’m at 235 pounds, now, in trapped in a recliner! I’m sticking with what I know works! Thanks for educating me on eating habits!
I really respect Dr. Westman because he has years and years of research and actually treating patients with diet. Thank you sir for all you do. I really wish I could convince my friends and coworkers to eat this way, but it’s next to impossible to get through to people here in Tennessee, where they have been raised to eat “biscuits and gravy”.
So far I am overwhelmed by this doctor's rational approach. At last! I've been confused about so many conflicting diets that I see. I feel relieved to hear that I don't have to starve myself! Thank you Doctor ❤
Wow that’s great I’m happy for you😇But I wish you stated what was in that one meal? Or at least the usual things you eat? What? Like mostly meat with a little vegs & fats?
@@guitarsong4Jesus I would try the Carnivore Diet and I do two meals a day it's low carb easy and the weight is coming off cause the last meal no carbs so your body will burn fat stores better just some info..It's just so easy to follow btw.
I am on my 3 day of a 7 day fast now. And I am a Carnivore. Water only. If you fast, then fast. Quit pussy footing around with teasing yourself with food. The thing I like about it is everday it feels like your stomach is deflating a bit more. I dont get hungry, my little bit of fat keeps me in check.
I am at the 2.75 day fast stage right now…lost 8 pounds so far… this 3 day fast ends at 5 p.m. today. But I figure…why eat at 5 p.m….just keep going…and I may get to drop 10 pounds by tomorrow a.m. making it just over a 3.5 day fast. Good luck everybody‼ I am carnivore…if I eat veggies…I will crave every carb in sight…and I will be in pain. I cannot eat what this doc Ekberg is advocating. I am sticking with doc Westman. Gladys🇨🇦Toronto🇨🇦Canada🇨🇦
@@gladysobrien1055 I never did it for weight loss, I did it for autophagy. I only lasted 4 days, going from fat burning to starvation. I am pretty lean. Just remember when you break the fast to eat a light meal and wait until the next day to eat again. I break my fast with a can of sockeye salmon sauteed in butter. I am Carnivore also.
You can't fast every day. You can for a while but eventually it will cause issues. Keto and fasting is like a hop skip and a jump. Fasting and then doing what ever after is more of 2 steps forward, one step back.
@@makaisenkiI have been Intermittent Fasting every day for over 5 years now and just had my physical a week ago and blood work was perfect. I am Insulin Sensitive with is a good thing because being Insulin Resistant is what causes many diseases.
@@alysezalazinski5599 I said you can't fast every day. I was talking about 24 hour fasts. Intermittent fasts of course you can do that every day. How else would you sleep. You'd die of sleep deprivation. Reading between the lines is important.
@@Snowsea-gs4wu It's been a long time since I read his books, but I believe in "Obesity Code" he recommends eating keto/low carb for the easiest transition to fasting. I think bc once in ketosis, it's easier on the body for fat adaptation. I think he said it, too, in some you-tube lectures tho I can't write up the footnotes if that's what you're looking for. Sound familiar? Best luck. (I thought autophagy was real from listening to Fung, & am disappointed to hear W say it's theoretical. You?)
@@mariad1151I have damage to my ankles. There were Nobel prizes when autophagy. The thing is it's really hard to measure how many cells are getting eaten and recycled. If you want evidence of autophagy watch Dr Boz. For example she has a video about 2 women who both lost weight. One did it her way with fasting, the other did it with standard treatments. Boz's patient didn't have saggy skin. The standard weight loss lady did. Now she is also going to Dr Boz to lose that lose skin. With the damage in my ankles supposedly in order to heal them I need a strict 3-5 day fast and the autophagy will go into over drive. It's supposed to be trying to fix everything in hopes that you will be able to hunt or gather in order to not die. I would be able to have salt and water and that's about it. At least I won't have to cook for a while.
I so appreciate the way you explain things, Dr. W. It gives me encouragement to keep it simple and forge ahead. On day 5 of my new carnivore life and loving it so far!
As one who has followed Elberg for years, I think he would mostly agree with you. I think he's just addressing the different popular options out there and is trying to help explain why they may work or not work.
I think all these doctors make awesome educational videos and it’s only natural they all have their own way of understanding of what they teach. At the end of the day, listen and learn and turn do what works for “your” body. I never had any interest in extended fasts but my only goal right now is fat loss. I’ve transitioned into a protein sparring modified fast three days a week and it broke my long plateau. I will continue to watch these keto/carnivore doctors and apply what works for me.
I love Dr. Eckman. He was there in the beginning for me. This video of his Dr. Westman reviewed was certainly not anything i would ever be interested in doing but i do like to do a 3 day fast a couple times a year spring and fall. I feel wonderful when i do and look forward to it
To listen to dr. Ekberg is like getting a lecture from a Quantum mechanics expert explaining what to do to get your car running better. All you need is a mechanic that advise you to change the oil and get a better fuel and drive more efficiently. He is definitely a doctor that you will depend upon, while dr. Eric is promoting freedom by providing practical and simple information that allows me to live better without having to count, measure and worry about other things then eating properly, i.e., nutrition dense food, like my uncestry used to do. Thanks dr. Eric to persist on your education path. And sorry i couldn't watch the whole video as it's very hard for me to get the other doctor.
dr chaffee said being in ketosis puts you in autophagy so its like fasting 24/7 your entire life. the design was meant for recycling to happen 24/7 which is the optimal design.
No. Ketosis does not necessarily put a person in autophagy. That is delusion. Autophagy means that certain catabolism of unwanted tissue in the body happen. Ketosis is autophagic only if there is adequate lowering of calorie intake otherwise it is just plain ketosis and often anabolic which by the way is great for physical fitness.
@@simplehealthyliving4681 you actually dont make sense. your statements contradict each other. your first statement "catabolism of unwanted tissue in the body" is autophagy. i agree with this. it is a normal regular process in the body. the sensible and logical design is your body particularly your mitochondria will repair/remove damaged cells in your body "when it detects them". you contradicted yourself(and logic) when you said autophagy only happens when there is lowering of caloric intake. that doesnt make sense, THE SENSIBLE SIGNAL FOR AUTOPHAGY(FOR THE MITOCHONRIA TO DO ITS WORK) IS WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND NOT WHEN THERE IS LOW CALORIC INTAKE. low caloric intake can trigger autophagy but the primary reason for autophagy is when there is a need to replace damaged cells and the design is it happens 24/7. mitochondria is going around in the body always looking for cells that need replacement. it doesnt make sense at all if mitochondria detects a damaged cell that needs to be replaced, and it doesnt replace or repair it right then and there and has to wait for you to lower your caloric intake lmao. so you are in autophagy 24/7 when you are in ketosis and your insulin is low because that has been the design for millions of years for humans(humans on a primarily high fat high animal protein carnivore diet and be in ketosis all the time) . the problem arises when you eat carbs/sugar because it is a scientific fact that autophagy is turned off when your insulin rises. sugar/carbs ruins the design. insulin suppresses autophagy. so if you disagree with me, please come up with a clear, coherent and logical and detailed explanation why. *and also i think it would take millions of years for humans to evolve into animals that thrives on carb/sugar diet but weve only been at it for 12 thousand years.
@@simplehealthyliving4681I don't think it's the lowering of calories. Autophagy is a bit higher level of ketosis, so it is to lower insulin. There it could be difficult to get if eating beef, or dairy because the protein can give a slight elevated bloodsugar. Still you'd be low enough to have ketone between 0.5 - 1.5 but autophagy you want a higher level of ketones. Dr Shawn Baker changed the ratio of fat and beef when he had injuries his neck and wanted to raise ketones. He ate more butter.
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 What you are describing is high grade ketosis. Autophagy, real autophagy that eats cancer cells, that eats inflammatory cells healing nagging skeleto-msucular joint pain is far, far above ketosis. Your body needs to feel it is starving in order to start eating these debris cells leftover in the body for months and probably years. You achieve basic level of real autophagy by actual water fasting with nothing but salts for at least 2.5-3 days. You achieve next level of real autophagy by first breaking the fast and eating mainly ketogenic maintenance calorie diet and then repeating the 2.5-3 day fast after a few days. Respectfully, your thinking is incorrect. The name itself says it all - auto - phagy - body eats (breaks down) the protein of its own bad cells thus getting rid of such debris. Warning - you stop fasting before body starts eating its own healthy cells from vital organs. So fast but don't do crazy long fasts. Fast, break the fast with non-excess maintenance keto diet (maybe go a little into low-carb even), repeat fasting as per your goals (reducing / removing cancer cells, inflammatory cells etc.)
16+ hrs of Fasting is necessary for meaningful autophagy. Eating beef make 16-24 hr fasts easy and natural. Not hungry anymore. Longer fasts of course boost that autophagy even more. Non fasting days be sure to eat until satiated. Don’t want to get frail.
I tried to follow Ekberg's recommendations for a while. So much calculating! I prefer - some meat, 2 cups of leafy greens, couple of eggs, and some ACV. Much simpler.
Correct! Carnivore or low carb diet IS fed fasting! I like three small meals of animal protein and eggs, with about 30 to 60 grams of non processed carbs total.
Better to cut back to 2 meals within 4 hours of each other. Less insulin spikes. Yes meat does spike insulin a little bit. Leaner meat spikes insulin much more that fatty meat.
Thank you for your take on autophagy. I found myself wondering where his data is. In 2023, due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to work physically hard over a 48-hour period of time and could not get my food. I ended up in the emergency room, and the attending physican, after listening to me, ordered a barrage of tests. I became unconscious at some point and was admitted into an acute care setting. The primary diagnosis was that of rhabdomylisis. My body had consumed all available resources and started using my heart for fuel. The treatment was aggressive and very frightening. I spent three days in an acute care unit before I could go home. So, for me, missing my meals for two days and working hard nearly killed me. Be careful who you listen to about how and what to eat.
You are not supposed to do physical demanding work. When you fast, you shoukd be in "slow motion and rest more and drink sea salt water. 8 gram per 2 Litters.
You were mostly likely dehydrated, lacking electrolytes. Perhaps you did not have enough resources in your body to begin with. There are too many factors to consider before assuming that 48 hrs of no food almost killed you.
This isnt what Ekberg normally presents. This fasting memicing diet is base on Walter Longo's diet. longo is a vegan, hence no meat. Normally Ekberg is pro protein.
Longo isn't a vegan, he eats fish, his diet is lower in animal protein but higher in plant protein keeping IGF-1 at the lower end. He's based it on a traditional mediterranean diet that was mostly plant based with some animal products.
Longo had done research on the effects of fasting on cancer / chemotherapy treatments. He created the fast mimicking diet for those who can’t go without eating. He even commercialized a product - Prolon. Similarly, Atkins didn’t create his diet. But the original was to not eat for 3 days. Then go low carb. Thinking people wouldn’t water fast for 3 days, Atkins used a 20 g daily carb limit for 2 weeks. Personally, think a 3 day (or longer) water fast is better.
Westman seems to have no time for autophagy, and I didn't note him finding metabolic value in fasting. Westman compared the mammalian body to a car, an extremely poor analogy. We are a myriad of interlocking processes that find mutual balance, homeostasis. Perturbation, knocking the system out of balance, is necessary to induce tuning of the various subsystems. Without this type of good stress it is possible--if not likely--to fall into suboptimal or unhealthy stasis. Think Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.
Note that he asked people to sign up for his webinar. Sounds more like a salesman type doctor the ones which you usually find in your hospitals paid by pharma. Dr Eckbergs is far beyond qualified and certainly could teach this gentleman a trick or 2. It is clear that he missrepressented the whole video of Mr Eckert even disqualifying him to then sell us a webinar.
What exactly do you disagree with Dr Sten Ekberg on? What science do you think he's got wrong? Don't just say vaguely that you think he's wrong on something. Show comparative evidence. He shows a lot of science on every video and he's a very good communicator so easy to understand even though English is probably not his first language.
Too many people here are saying Dr. Westman's words are understandable while Dr. Ekberg is too technical. I find it funny that people prefer dumbing down instead of basic good knowledge that still does not violate the philosophy of simplicity.
Remember, Dr. Westland runs an obesity clinic and his goal is to get overall compliance and better health for a group of people not doing muscle strengthening and cardio every day. The more time consuming you make it, the less overall success.
Autophagy does work. When I fast my skin gets clearer. The only issue when you go back to eating , you must go slow and not gorge yourself. I fasted for 14 days before and never lost any muscle that I could tell. Your body becomes very efficient.
@@InTheMiddleOfAForest I had a friend back in the day when I was in the Navy that would fast for 30 days and jog most of those days. A little too crazy for me. I don't do more than 7 to 9 now.
@@mariad1151 Once you get past third or fourth day it's fine. I don't do 14 any more. If you drink black coffee you can do the first two days drinking coffee with your water and you can use electrolytes in your water. Then easy sailing.
@@andredaedone5 IDK I did 48 hrs once ...helped w the ketones anyway. Idk bout more than that but maybe w fasting mimicking I could. The benefits are apparently not known....
I see two problems eating this low protein diet as prescribed by Dr Engberg is you can't just but 25g of leeks ect ect. The waste on this diet would be enormous, unless you ate the same thing day in day out. Secondly if you are like me who is trying to actually put on muscle mass this would greatly hinder this. I personally prefer to eat two meals a day between 2pm and 6pm. I tend to do my cardio in the morning and then do my resistance training around 1 Pm for an hour, so break my fast with protein rich foods (but low carb) then have my main meal of low carb high protein around 6pm then nothing until the next day at 2pm. This works for me. I have lost 85Lb and reversed all my metabolic markers and I'm off virtually all my meds. I am never hungry and have been doing this lifestyle for about 18 months now and feel so much better for it.
Impressive that you do muscle training and cardio daily. You must spend your day preoccupied with exercise and diet. Does an 8 hour and day job fit in?
@@susanthomas5167 I still do an eight hour work day even at 66 years old. Up at 5.30 either walk 1 hour 45 mins or 40 mins on the Spin bike. resistance training at night 40 mins diet as normal low carb. this is for 5 days a week weekend for Friends and family
This would be incredibly difficult. After 2-3 fasting, my appetite disappears. But if I just have a bite of something to "take the edge off," the hunger comes back. The other problem is this is too much protein - it takes a tiny amount of leucine or glucose to shut down autophagy.
They are doctors of chiropractic. Just like medical doctors, there are good ones and there are bad ones. Chiropractors kept my husband able to function with his lower back issues and also kept him from having to have knee surgery after an injury. ❤
Thank you so much saying it's okay to eat less, i have tried getting all the correct macros right and getting enough calories according to what the standard is, some days i eat more and some days i eat less. I'm gonna stop worrying about calories.
I quit listening to Berg and Ekberg after transitioning to carnivore because I don’t easily get hungry every 20 hours now. I just Eat fatty meat to satiety, add salt to taste and drink clean water to hydrate.
Plants are good for you esp with meat. Those edited and processed plants are as bad as the edited and processed meats the vegans are using against meat eaters.
@@margaretbreuer2528 we need to remember that Dr. Westman is not a carnivore. He advocates a very low carbohydrate diet For myself I look up low oxalate and low carbohydrate vegetables, and fruits and have a few of them.
Thing is people need to use their brain more often, and think, not just accept "influencers". Since humans haven't really figured out how our bodies work, even though some pretend they do, just use the information you get, and sieve through it and find what fits you best.
Be careful with Thomas DeLauer. Dr. Westman criticized one of his videos. DeLauer entirely botched the interpretation of a study. Have found Westman, Sten Ekberg, Eric Berg, Jason Fung, Boz, and Mindy Pelz to be solid.
@@aieahi1 Yet, use your own brain to analyze the information you get, to understand what may be inconstant with chemical facts, and opinions even when they coincide with your own.
How long one can fasting safely depends on (1) cardiovascular pre existing conditions (2) pre existing thymus gland/immune system conditions (3) pre existing gut microbiome conditions (4) current glucose and lipid/fat stores in the body. (5) electrolyte/mineral levels at the end of a fast when breaking a fast.... to handle hunger pains - fiber and fat levels must be increased - to trigger ketosis - one has limit starch/sugar/carbohydrates all of the time
Dear Dr Eric, with greatest of respect, your commentary just constantly interrupts Dr Sten's own excellent thesis, yet doesn't usefully clarify our understanding of Ekberg's own excellent commentary. I'll wait to watch the original, thanks.
Ya, I bet in Dr Ekberg’s opinion our ancestors are super human calculators. It’s the very reason keto gives the impression that it’s very hard to do. Eating carnivore is simple straightforward no calculations needed, just a simple yes/no question to answer, is what I’m going to eat meat?
@@LittleRadicalThinkerno you just ate what you found while chasing around wild game through migratory patterns and 6+ months of the year there wasn't much to find. Stuff goes in season and out of season and droughts etc.
Going on the ultimate elimination diet /lifestyle change choice of eating mainly meat from ruminant animals, with electrolytes supplementation is the way to go. You can, at your own discretion add in things after a couple months strictly like this, to get a feel of what foods you may or may not be sensitive to. It won't correct itself overnight, but you will get results in days.
I do use Chronometer app to track my food intake, trying to stay lower carbs, that is far as I want to go. I do watch this Doctor occasionally when I want to fire all neutrons in my brain, this diet is a stretch to adopt. Thank you Dr. Westman for your clear cut methods.
@@pcread I'm glad I fell asleep then before Eckberg started talking about plants! The video was finished when I woke up! Phew! Good timing! Right, so he's on about plants again huh what a crazy idea! I haven't any fruit at all for 6 months, & the only veges I eat are garlic & onion for flavour, & a baby carrot a coupla times a week. Well, the other day I ate a can of baked beans (from my post WWIII storage) cos I couldn't be bothered cooking. I have 2 slices of tasty cheese & 1 or 2 'twiggy' sticks (salami, 40g) early morning, as a 'snack', or early lunch. I eat nothing else until dinner time. So I fast 16 hours a day as it is. Is white coffee × 3 a day included as breaking my fast, or dropping me out of ketosis? I dunno, I don't have a cgm. But yeah, garlic & onion only, eat twice a day only. So yeah, as well intentioned as Eckberg is, I'm glad I dumped him off my carnivore diet doctor list like a shitty rag!
@@pcread If you have good gut bacteria or are repopulating your gut with specific strains you want that literal crap to feed your gut bacteria. Is it completely necessary? No. Is it further optimization for people who want it? Yes.
Ok, I've got to put my $0.03 in here! 7 years ago my traditional medical doctor offered me an option for lowering my LDL cholesterol. Because he knew I wouldn't take statins. He asked me if I would consider a fast mimicking diet. The one he gave me just in a nutshell is about 500 calories a day of coconut milk. I could have safe non caloric sweeteners and basically anything that was just fat but not from a animal. So I put cocoa powder in my coconut milk with some safe sweetener and made a shake everyday for my break fast around 1:00 or 2:00 and then I did a curry coconut soup. We were allowed two small handfuls of high water content vegetables a day so I put those in my soup. And I altered soup with a salad meal every other night. I used avocado oil on my salad and I cheated with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. So celery cucumbers broccoli peppers were probably okay but I hate them. I did that three times in a year and my LDL cholesterol went from extreme high to low. I thought it was really amazing! I always lost weight but gained it back pretty quickly and that was fine I didn't do it to lose weight. I'm sure if I had really wanted to keep that weight off I could but I was pretty skinny. I've been able to maintain a healthy level of cholesterol. I do try to do the cleanse once a year but sometimes get a little lazy. But I actually really like it.
Drinking some heavy whipping cream is low protein and hign fat. It's super cheap, so I'll try it for a week and get back with y'all, lol. EDIT: it gave me terrible diarrhea, I do not recommend it.
I thought I remember the other Dr recommended to drink coffee with dollop of cream . drinking heavy whipping cream for a week? that would be a lot like drinking castor oil and yes! diarrhea 😮
If we keep on reducing protein intake then we end up with muscle wastage i read the clinical trials saying out body needs between 1.8 to 2 G pr kg body weight pr day. am i wrong ?.
I like the comment about eating = stress at the end, Dr. Westman, about digestion basically being stressful for our body and I fully agree. Also there is something that is pointing to true fasting being a healthy thing: Thinking about whenever you were really sick, hunger goes to basically zero(Ghrelin gets downregulated), our body wants to fast naturally but thanks to faulty "knowledge" we often still force food down the hatch, likely making the healing process for our bodies harder.
Dr Westman, I'd like to know your thoughts about putting children on carnivore. My daughter is 12y and weighted 70 kg (163 cm) 😢. I started with her carnivore 60 days ago and she's lost 6 kg! But I am afraid of our ped's reaction... I don't know what to do... she needs another 6 kgs to drop to get into normal range
One problem with this so-called fast-mimicking diet is that it won't sate you. So you'll feel starved, and it will be very hard not to fall off the wagon. I prefer a keto/Atkins diet, and then just normal fasting (water fast) for any kind of cleansing purposes. Any period where you actually eat, but can only eat non-sating things, would be very frustrating, and demand a rigorous regime of measuring/weighing everything. Not my cup of tea. FMD Kit: It's just typical how they have to add some kind of sweetener even to these things. The first thing anyone doing any kind of healthy diet must do is to get rid the constant sugar taste addiction!
Exactly my thought, too. I am sitting here, listening to Dr. Ekberg's complicated chart, my yaw drops, and I am thinking "Who the f-word does this if you could just as well do carnivore?". Besides, if I ate cauliflower and shit like that, I could get issues, for sure.
This reminds me a lot of the 1944 Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Obviously not the same makros and not as long, but stil a strange world in between eating and not eating. I remember, in my childhood, when people talked about fasting, they never ment dry fast or water fast, but only eating veg. soop. One big problem for me with this fasting mimiking diet would be the high carb content. With this I would feel hangry all day long and could probabely not sleep. So, I might last half a day. For 55 years I was unable to fast longer than 2-3 hours, I even interrupted sleep in order to eat. Once I discovered low carb / keto all changed for the better. It allows me to do 2 or even only 1 meals a day easily, as long as I don't do breakfast before 11AM. An earlier breakfast seems to bring me into a feeding mood. But usually on low carb I can even go up to a 30 hours fast. However, with 50gr of carbs (even, if spread over the day) my body and mind would scream for a full day of sugar binge eating. I guess everbody is a bit different. By the way: 200$ buys 5 days of this strange sugar diet or for me at todays conversion rate roughly 42 pound of good quality minced meet, which gives me roughly 1 full month of 2 meals a day, all in ketosis and probabely with more autopagy than with this starvation sugar diet, which was discussed in this video. Thanks for all Your videos. I learned a lot each time.😊 👍🏻
It's an interesting theory and it's a good hypothesis, but how do we even measure autophagy? How do we measure success? This is kind of out for me right now to even test because the foods I eat are basically fat + protein and I don't eat plants because for me they seem to cause issues, but still testing that so maybe in the long run they don't. At the moment though my severe hives and joint pain has disappeared, and I no longer snack. I would love to see an actual scientific paper on this though, seems like it might be worth doing as cleanse after you have gotten yourself healthy. I am kind of with you, leaning into long term success over a quick fix -- but it is interesting, and Dr. Ekberg is a knowledgeable man.
In theory you cannot (at least not much) but there are many reports of people having lowered their scores. Bear in mind that if you have a non-zero CAC then you likely also have soft plaques. If you start a protocol that can improve your arterial health, there may be some hardening of those soft plaques and your CAC may increase. That is probably a good thing because soft plaques are unstable and calcified plaques more stable. After that CAC increase, you may subsequently see a decrease even if not to zero. Potentially can take a long time, possibly years.
Cut out all the sugar and artifical sweeteners you can possibly find from your diet. Then cut way back on your carbs. Eat only organic carbs in small amounts. Do this for a year and see what happens. N my opinuon, That's the best you can do.
I am muscular, healthy five ten, 190 lbs. 31 inch waste, flat stomach. Today I ate: Breakfast: 745 am 3 eggs (1 yoke) 5 oz of ground beef 1 slice of cheese, cofee no sugar Lunch: 1pm 3 eggs (1 yoke) 4 oz of ground beef water Dinner: 530 pm serving of baked tuna, 4oz Ezekiel bread grilled cheese cup of cooked green beans cup of arugula water
Me neither, @cassieoz1702 , but he's really active! If I ate 1/2 lb of ground beef in a day, I couldn't find room for anything else, but I also don't work off as much
That happened to me i was fasting 14 hours and i lost all my muscles in my legs i was so weak i couldnt even make it up my steps and then i started losing my balance and falling
What does it mean when I start eating animal based and i just struggle to eat at all food is so bland and almost impossible to finish my meals cause after a couple bites it becomes revolting how am I suppose to get my calories an protien in? Should I just not worry and assume my fat is making up for it
As a rule no need to count calories on an animal based diet. Almost all people will feel pretty full and not crave anything. This assumes no carbs and sugars! For me I’m not huge on meat either, but love dairy, and properly prepared ground meat, eggs, seafood, and butter. Seasoning and proper prep helps a lot. I eat some nuts and salad also, and will add the meat to the salad.
New subscriber. I agree with you, Doc. Just eat smart and exercise, cur out stress, limit Alcohol intake, cut out all the process foods, sugars, sodas, cakes, (rare occasionally love one birthday etc if you choose not a must) low carb if necessary (working out at gym then decide how much is needed to stay active plus you need your protein you can monitor that too. You can fast as I am now its my 2 day water fast im going 3 full days.. it was not to lose weight but just a maintenance and other/spiritual connection. Just enjoy life with balance.
I am eating low carb 50-77 net carbs, 50-75g protein, and 70-90g fat daily. I avoid starches, wheat and sugar. I have stage 3b kidney disease and can’t go extreme keto. I have lost 37 lbs in 1 year. Have 10 lbs to go to get to 160-165. I am not putting down any approach to losing weight. Do what works for you. I use MyNetDiary and keep track of carbs. I even have an afternoon protein fruit smoothie using 1/2 cup frozen fruit and two tablespoons Halo Top ice cream with unsweetened almond chocolate milk, 1 1/2 tablespoons plant based protein powder. .Exercise 3 times a week on my Total Gym. I am a 69 year old male, retired. Choose what makes you feel good. Don’t starve yourself. I have a hard time now consuming more than 1,200 calories a day.
I did 48h fasting every Friday-Sunday for 30 weeks + 16/8 every other day. It required some kind of stubborness and perseverance 😊 but the effects are stunning. Strict keto was the key to make it possible (15-20g of carbs a day). Now I do 72h of "sardines" fasting every 2 week and it's very easy with amazing anti-inflammatory effect. It's like having a new body and a new brain too. I wish I had this knowledge 20-30 years ago, I could save my parents, both died too early and in pain because of metabolic diseases.
Wonderful! I am beginning this also.
This is a fantastic plan - totally agree with your 48 hr fast and am all about the 72 hr sardines - life changer! Would love to know some specifics about your 15-20 carb meals, please?
@@VisorGirl at first I was using a MOBR method from a book written by two polish doctors: Rodzen Brothers. Basically it's what dr Westman is promoting on his channel, with extra caution about some specific foods, which you might eat too much of and which are addictive and contain carbs (eg cheeses, tomatoes, some nuts, etc). For macro nutrients calculation I used an app (use one which is specific to your food market and contains food available locally) After about a month i bought CGM and to my surprise my glucose levels were perfect so I started fasting, first 16/8, then 24h fast. After about 3 months of keto-adaptation 48h every week. It's important to check how your body reacts to certain foods. Now I'm mostly carnivore but I bake keto bread sometimes or eat some berries in a season. But what I like the most is beef and eggs or fat pork meat (I buy unprocessed). And one particular type of cheese (it's my only addiction 😀).
I dry fasted weekends besides 22 hr keto OMAD during week
Lost 55# as an old fat lady, in 6 mos, no exercise needed
It was pure determination except the dry fasting (that obliterated hunger) and I lost a third to half of my scalp hair
Carni is much better, no fasting altho I rly should as I’ve got such slow results
@@greblus 😋 love cheese... However I'm trying to come to the acceptance that perhaps it doesn't like me, but the last that'll be able to give up will probably be parmesan or Romano because you get the nice cheesy without going too far but might still have to look at that Oh well it's a journey ....good for you 🤗 ...!
My grandparents and great grandparents lived oner 105 yrs, never fasted ate beans everyday dark coffee, dairy, meat, eggs some fruits guava, tamarindo, mango, coconut, cactus avocado and only three veggies chayote, potato and carrots they never knew what a salad was or berries they passed without health problems and good memory and teeth. They said secret for long health was walking outdoor everyday and staying active
Our grandparents did have scientists fuking with the food. I tried to find fruit with seeds i like in the supermarket, and the only things I bought were apples, red grapes, and a seeded watermelon. I'm not familiar with tropical fruits, but I'm going to learn because they all had seeds. The FDA failed every American. Bill Gates is a billionaire who eats tropical fruits.
Sounds like they ate whole foods too!
They ate fresh. No preservatives, no fake food.
I'm glad to hear they had a healthy life. 👍
❤ Am quite sure that our grand parents ate lot of meat
But with a huge leaky gut. That’s not health. It’s survive.
“I don’t agree with everything, but that’s ok…”. Oh how I pray that this would become the prevailing thought in our country again! So very well expressed!
56 and have been in ketosis for over 2 years now, eating one meal a day intermittent fast between 18 to 24 hours every day. Lost well over 100 pounds of body weight. Was on prescription medications for over 25 years, and I got tired of all the side effects from meds. I slowly came off my meds within the first 3 months of starting keto.
With the intermittent fasting, do you have loose skin?
Wow! Impressive sir!
No! @@GladsomeHeart
Dr Westman cannot thank you enough for keeping it simple and translating for us who can think but can easily be overwhelmed if we listen to all the voices. Thank you as always! You brighten my day and take the burden off our shoulders by the teaching you offer that never ceases to gift us in our daily walk with our eating.
Amen to that. 🎉
I’ve been on OMAD for 5 months, fast 1 to 3 days a week.
Have lost 70 pounds.
I have lost 16 lb in 2 weeks but it's my 5 week I m not loosing weight any more what should I do . I did omad . And in 3rd week 3 day water fast I lost 2 kg in 3 days but get it back after 2 days what should I do should I do 2 day 3 day fast or omad ? I m worried about my waight loss
@@mouzzamahmad2171
Don’t sweat it.
Hears what I would do.
Now, don’t go nuts with this, but,
On a Saturday, and in your eating window, go get what you want.
For me it was a Cheesesteak and fries.
It’ll shock the system.
Do NOT do another 3 day fast for a month.
Your body is getting used to it.
Lay off that for a while.
And watch your calories everyday, but eat everyday for a month then try a fast again and see what happens.
And make sure you take a good multi-vitamin to make sure you’re getting vitamins you may not be getting through food.
Now, I’m no doctor.
So do what you want.
But drink at least 2 liters of water a day.
Water is good for weightloss and 2 liters isn’t hard to get down in a day.
@@mouzzamahmad2171
That’s a little dangerous.
The most I have ever lost in a week is 4 to 4.5 and that’s a lot.
The reason that’s dangerous is if your body isn’t getting enough protein, it will go after your muscles.
Mote to the point, your heart.
Don’t concentrate so much on the multiple day fasting, concentrate on your caloric deficit.
Eat everyday, but make sure you are at a good caloric deficit.
@@Runner2000 I eat meat around 300 to 400 and some time more and 300 gram or more carb and dates apple 4 walton 1 or 2 day a week honey and milk with chia seeds, ghee 2 3 table spoon per day in a single sitting and by eating this I m now 88 kg before I was 95 . I also take green tea . By eating this I lost this much waight but now I m not loosing I will do 3 day fat and I will try keto diet for a week to break this plateau inshallah
I use the 8 hours of sleep ,+ not eating after 7 pm and not having my first meal before 9 am. That gives me 14 hours a day of fasting
Ditto! Almost. Breakfast toast 10-11 am. Lunch bag of popcorn 79 calories. Lunch/ dinner high protein 4-5pm. Live yogurt & honey 🍯 before 7pm. Sugar cravings under control. Losing the stubborn belly fat. My BMI doen to 23.0 from 27.02 😅
After watching this video with Dr.Ekberg and many other doctors, I am more and more a fan of Dr.Westman!
I love the simplicity of what he shares for free!
Nothing new here, like many others I have tried listening to many, many other doctors and so called experts or influencers and Dr.Westman is by far the best.
I love the graciousness and lack of attitude! Dr.Westman’s approach
KISS!
Keep
It
Simple
Sir (I’m being kind)
I cannot agree more with Dr. Westman. No special food to purchase other than what is in the grocery store.
THANK YOU DR.WESTMAN!!
Hear hear! And I’m rather tired of all these other so-called doctors who aren’t medical doctors. I don’t it’s wise to listen to what chiropractors have to say about nutrition
This is just one of Dr Eckberg’s videos. He never suggests you should just eat the typical American diet the rest of the time. Many of his videos teach a daily low carb diet, specific foods and additives to avoid, as well as foods that you should include in your diet. He also teaches a lot about insulin sensitivity and fatty liver disease. In fact much of his focus is reversing metabolic diseases.
Precisely, I love dr eckberg video’s!
I started to address my prediabetes and weight starting with his videos first, and ended up here and other related videos; so I agree, this particular video was a bit atypical for him. It assumes that fasting is helpful, and it assumes that the low protein helps with autophagy -- the exact things Dr. Westman pointed out.
I love how you listen to your patients and check out their information learn from them and then teach us from your insights.
Oh, hey, congratulations on cracking the 200K subscriber count! 🎉🥳
Dr Ekberg is great for figures on food and getting a plan together after helping breaking a cycle of soley counting calories! He really helped from the start educating on carbohydrate and sugar impact.
He’s a chiropractor, in the uk, we don’t call them doctors
I eat a low carb dinner (usually around 15 carbs) once every 24-26 hours. No snacks. Been doing it for over 5 years. It works for me.
The thing I like about Westman is the keeping it simple. The thing I like about Ekberg is he explains everything. I listen to them for different reasons. Together they give me a functional education. I like knowing why this diet works.
Thank you Dr Westman
I love the way you explain things in these videos
You were the beginning of my 3 year journey to better health and lifestyle
You bring balance without obsession
Pleas keep this up
As always you have given a balanced and fair science-based review. Thank you,
Yes take your science based safe and effective clot shot. Science is captured by big pharma. I don’t trust big pharma or science.
I follow carnivore, eat fatty red meat, sometimes oily fish, add butter to my coffee instead of milk or cream. I eat once per day, i dont get hungry, feel i could easily go longer between meals, as our hunter ancestors would have and gave evolutionary advantage. Lean, low BMI, good muscle mass and bone mass for my age.
How much calories you ate in that one meal? I really want to do omad but i can't stuff 1700 calories in one sitting.
Don’t be concerned about calories
Eat to satiety
@@threadfix but sometimes i only eat like 1200 a day and feel full. Is it ok to ignore?
Have you noticed that you don't feel eating poultry and drinking wine as well? To me it was revolutionary...
@@Takuma_Sakazaki
I make a bulletproof coffee that consists of 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, with a full stick of butter (cubed up). That constitutes the “liquid” for the coffee. I heat the cream and the butter in the microwave and then pour it into a single serve blender container, and add two scoops of instant coffee. Since I take powdered glycine (dirt cheap amino acid) as a supplement, I add my daily dose in as well, because it is sweet tasting, and I don’t have to worry about sugar or any other artificial sweeteners. It’s around 1200 calories total, with only 3 grams of carbs. That is the only carbs total in my diet. It really helps to add lots of calories in such a small volume of liquid, when you’re trying to do OMAD.
I have watched a lot of Dr. Ekberg's videos. I think it is important to note that you cannot look at this fasting alternative in isolation. He certainly isn't saying to do this and then go back to a SAD diet the rest of the time. This is merely an alternative to a three day water fast for those who should not or cannot do traditional fasting. He does espouse a long-term lifestyle change in eating real food.
This guy said they can disagree... Please don't present these 2 great teachers as adversarial. Thank you❤
He has helped me a lot!
I have been eager to understand fasting and autophagy better. Thank you for this video Dr Westman
I’m staying with my success ! Dr. Berry and this Dr. W. Have made me successful seeking my goals! If it ain’t broke, leave it alone! My goal for the last 10 years, was 265 pounds! I’m at 235 pounds, now, in trapped in a recliner! I’m sticking with what I know works! Thanks for educating me on eating habits!
I really respect Dr. Westman because he has years and years of research and actually treating patients with diet. Thank you sir for all you do. I really wish I could convince my friends and coworkers to eat this way, but it’s next to impossible to get through to people here in Tennessee, where they have been raised to eat “biscuits and gravy”.
So far I am overwhelmed by this doctor's rational approach. At last! I've been confused about so many conflicting diets that I see. I feel relieved to hear that I don't have to starve myself! Thank you Doctor ❤
I eat most one big meal a day, with a lot of protein, then I’m full. My weight is dropping fast. I like it this way. Not hungry, still loosing weight.
Wow that’s great I’m happy for you😇But I wish you stated what was in that one meal? Or at least the usual things you eat? What? Like mostly meat with a little vegs & fats?
Wish my weight was dropping fast! Have a HS reunion in Sept 2024 to go to & id love to be slimmer🙏
@@guitarsong4Jesus I would try the Carnivore Diet and I do two meals a day it's low carb easy and the weight is coming off cause the last meal no carbs so your body will burn fat stores better just some info..It's just so easy to follow btw.
Don't loose to much weight it will inevitably drop of be careful
I am on my 3 day of a 7 day fast now. And I am a Carnivore. Water only. If you fast, then fast. Quit pussy footing around with teasing yourself with food. The thing I like about it is everday it feels like your stomach is deflating a bit more. I dont get hungry, my little bit of fat keeps me in check.
It's therapeutic 😌
Car full of muscle loss . Very important to get the protein after the fast .
Fasting is not necessary when you’re on the carnivore diet because your insulin is always stable. Check out Dr. Anthony Chaffee.
I am at the 2.75 day fast stage right now…lost 8 pounds so far… this 3 day fast ends at 5 p.m. today.
But I figure…why eat at 5 p.m….just keep going…and I may get to drop 10 pounds by tomorrow a.m. making it just over a 3.5 day fast. Good luck everybody‼
I am carnivore…if I eat veggies…I will crave every carb in sight…and I will be in pain.
I cannot eat what this doc Ekberg is advocating. I am sticking with doc Westman.
Gladys🇨🇦Toronto🇨🇦Canada🇨🇦
@@gladysobrien1055 I never did it for weight loss, I did it for autophagy. I only lasted 4 days, going from fat burning to starvation. I am pretty lean. Just remember when you break the fast to eat a light meal and wait until the next day to eat again. I break my fast with a can of sockeye salmon sauteed in butter. I am Carnivore also.
I don't see the bother with this "autophagy" diet. I'd rather just not eat for 24 hours.
You can't fast every day. You can for a while but eventually it will cause issues.
Keto and fasting is like a hop skip and a jump. Fasting and then doing what ever after is more of 2 steps forward, one step back.
I just keep doing intermittent fasting, like fasting about 16 hours a day. Easy peasy.
Autophagy happens with fasting
This won’t have autophagy as ur eating
@@makaisenkiI have been Intermittent Fasting every day for over 5 years now and just had my physical a week ago and blood work was perfect. I am Insulin Sensitive with is a good thing because being Insulin Resistant is what causes many diseases.
@@alysezalazinski5599 I said you can't fast every day. I was talking about 24 hour fasts. Intermittent fasts of course you can do that every day. How else would you sleep. You'd die of sleep deprivation. Reading between the lines is important.
Jaaon Fung called keto a fasting mimicking diet a thousand years ago...
Really, when? I have followed him extensively, read two of his books but don’t recall any mention of that. Thanks in advance!
@@Snowsea-gs4wu It's been a long time since I read his books, but I believe in "Obesity Code" he recommends eating keto/low carb for the easiest transition to fasting. I think bc once in ketosis, it's easier on the body for fat adaptation. I think he said it, too, in some you-tube lectures tho I can't write up the footnotes if that's what you're looking for. Sound familiar? Best luck. (I thought autophagy was real from listening to Fung, & am disappointed to hear W say it's theoretical. You?)
@@mariad1151I have damage to my ankles.
There were Nobel prizes when autophagy. The thing is it's really hard to measure how many cells are getting eaten and recycled.
If you want evidence of autophagy watch Dr Boz. For example she has a video about 2 women who both lost weight. One did it her way with fasting, the other did it with standard treatments. Boz's patient didn't have saggy skin. The standard weight loss lady did.
Now she is also going to Dr Boz to lose that lose skin.
With the damage in my ankles supposedly in order to heal them I need a strict 3-5 day fast and the autophagy will go into over drive. It's supposed to be trying to fix everything in hopes that you will be able to hunt or gather in order to not die.
I would be able to have salt and water and that's about it. At least I won't have to cook for a while.
Jason Fung looks good for a thousand years old ... 😳
It was more like 3000 years ago
I so appreciate the way you explain things, Dr. W. It gives me encouragement to keep it simple and forge ahead. On day 5 of my new carnivore life and loving it so far!
U r one of the most reasonable doc around about food, diet
As one who has followed Elberg for years, I think he would mostly agree with you. I think he's just addressing the different popular options out there and is trying to help explain why they may work or not work.
No one wants to do all those calculations!🙄
I think we should Eat Less! & Avoid Sugars.
I seem to be one of the nobodys realy interested in all these details about how to get healthy 😊❤🕊.
me too
If you are really ill you will want to check
I think all these doctors make awesome educational videos and it’s only natural they all have their own way of understanding of what they teach. At the end of the day, listen and learn and turn do what works for “your” body. I never had any interest in extended fasts but my only goal right now is fat loss. I’ve transitioned into a protein sparring modified fast three days a week and it broke my long plateau. I will continue to watch these keto/carnivore doctors and apply what works for me.
I love it. You listen to your body and do what works for you.
@@karenlantz1438 That logic always worked for me! 😁
I like Dr. Ekberg's style and Dr. Westman’s even more. Dr. Westman makes it simple:
Doesn’t it make more sense to do a real fast and spend zero dollars on no food ?
😂
Agree. He's adding so many unnecessary steps to get autophagy. I think it would be better to have a plan to ease into fasting
100% - an _eating_ fast is a _cheating_ fast.
Cool, we love Dr Ekberg. Sten is cool. Dr Berg and Dr Westman are my three favorite keto RUclipsrs.
Same !
I love Dr. Eckman. He was there in the beginning for me. This video of his Dr. Westman reviewed was certainly not anything i would ever be interested in doing but i do like to do a 3 day fast a couple times a year spring and fall. I feel wonderful when i do and look forward to it
You and Dr. Elkberg are awesome!
To listen to dr. Ekberg is like getting a lecture from a Quantum mechanics expert explaining what to do to get your car running better. All you need is a mechanic that advise you to change the oil and get a better fuel and drive more efficiently. He is definitely a doctor that you will depend upon, while dr. Eric is promoting freedom by providing practical and simple information that allows me to live better without having to count, measure and worry about other things then eating properly, i.e., nutrition dense food, like my uncestry used to do. Thanks dr. Eric to persist on your education path. And sorry i couldn't watch the whole video as it's very hard for me to get the other doctor.
dr chaffee said being in ketosis puts you in autophagy so its like fasting 24/7 your entire life. the design was meant for recycling to happen 24/7 which is the optimal design.
No. Ketosis does not necessarily put a person in autophagy. That is delusion. Autophagy means that certain catabolism of unwanted tissue in the body happen. Ketosis is autophagic only if there is adequate lowering of calorie intake otherwise it is just plain ketosis and often anabolic which by the way is great for physical fitness.
@@simplehealthyliving4681 you actually dont make sense. your statements contradict each other. your first statement "catabolism of unwanted tissue in the body" is autophagy. i agree with this. it is a normal regular process in the body. the sensible and logical design is your body particularly your mitochondria will repair/remove damaged cells in your body "when it detects them". you contradicted yourself(and logic) when you said autophagy only happens when there is lowering of caloric intake. that doesnt make sense, THE SENSIBLE SIGNAL FOR AUTOPHAGY(FOR THE MITOCHONRIA TO DO ITS WORK) IS WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND NOT WHEN THERE IS LOW CALORIC INTAKE. low caloric intake can trigger autophagy but the primary reason for autophagy is when there is a need to replace damaged cells and the design is it happens 24/7. mitochondria is going around in the body always looking for cells that need replacement. it doesnt make sense at all if mitochondria detects a damaged cell that needs to be replaced, and it doesnt replace or repair it right then and there and has to wait for you to lower your caloric intake lmao. so you are in autophagy 24/7 when you are in ketosis and your insulin is low because that has been the design for millions of years for humans(humans on a primarily high fat high animal protein carnivore diet and be in ketosis all the time) . the problem arises when you eat carbs/sugar because it is a scientific fact that autophagy is turned off when your insulin rises. sugar/carbs ruins the design. insulin suppresses autophagy. so if you disagree with me, please come up with a clear, coherent and logical and detailed explanation why.
*and also i think it would take millions of years for humans to evolve into animals that thrives on carb/sugar diet but weve only been at it for 12 thousand years.
@@simplehealthyliving4681I don't think it's the lowering of calories. Autophagy is a bit higher level of ketosis, so it is to lower insulin. There it could be difficult to get if eating beef, or dairy because the protein can give a slight elevated bloodsugar. Still you'd be low enough to have ketone between 0.5 - 1.5 but autophagy you want a higher level of ketones. Dr Shawn Baker changed the ratio of fat and beef when he had injuries his neck and wanted to raise ketones. He ate more butter.
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 What you are describing is high grade ketosis. Autophagy, real autophagy that eats cancer cells, that eats inflammatory cells healing nagging skeleto-msucular joint pain is far, far above ketosis. Your body needs to feel it is starving in order to start eating these debris cells leftover in the body for months and probably years. You achieve basic level of real autophagy by actual water fasting with nothing but salts for at least 2.5-3 days. You achieve next level of real autophagy by first breaking the fast and eating mainly ketogenic maintenance calorie diet and then repeating the 2.5-3 day fast after a few days.
Respectfully, your thinking is incorrect. The name itself says it all - auto - phagy - body eats (breaks down) the protein of its own bad cells thus getting rid of such debris. Warning - you stop fasting before body starts eating its own healthy cells from vital organs. So fast but don't do crazy long fasts. Fast, break the fast with non-excess maintenance keto diet (maybe go a little into low-carb even), repeat fasting as per your goals (reducing / removing cancer cells, inflammatory cells etc.)
16+ hrs of Fasting is necessary for meaningful autophagy. Eating beef make 16-24 hr fasts easy and natural. Not hungry anymore. Longer fasts of course boost that autophagy even more. Non fasting days be sure to eat until satiated. Don’t want to get frail.
I tried to follow Ekberg's recommendations for a while. So much calculating! I prefer - some meat, 2 cups of leafy greens, couple of eggs, and some ACV. Much simpler.
Atkins!!! Yep
Correct! Carnivore or low carb diet IS fed fasting! I like three small meals of animal protein and eggs, with about 30 to 60 grams of non processed carbs total.
Better to cut back to 2 meals within 4 hours of each other. Less insulin spikes. Yes meat does spike insulin a little bit. Leaner meat spikes insulin much more that fatty meat.
Thank you for your take on autophagy. I found myself wondering where his data is.
In 2023, due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to work physically hard over a 48-hour period of time and could not get my food. I ended up in the emergency room, and the attending physican, after listening to me, ordered a barrage of tests. I became unconscious at some point and was admitted into an acute care setting. The primary diagnosis was that of rhabdomylisis. My body had consumed all available resources and started using my heart for fuel. The treatment was aggressive and very frightening. I spent three days in an acute care unit before I could go home. So, for me, missing my meals for two days and working hard nearly killed me. Be careful who you listen to about how and what to eat.
You are not supposed to do physical demanding work. When you fast, you shoukd be in "slow motion and rest more and drink sea salt water. 8 gram per 2 Litters.
You were mostly likely dehydrated, lacking electrolytes. Perhaps you did not have enough resources in your body to begin with. There are too many factors to consider before assuming that 48 hrs of no food almost killed you.
@arieladelinechoo9845 I understand..I only did so out of duress and threats
@@kathylong2513 I am alive because an emergency room doctor knew what he was doing.
@@datanation17 that's terrible. Please take care. Do not fast long hours and do hard work....🙏
This isnt what Ekberg normally presents. This fasting memicing diet is base on Walter Longo's diet. longo is a vegan, hence no meat. Normally Ekberg is pro protein.
Longo isn't a vegan, he eats fish, his diet is lower in animal protein but higher in plant protein keeping IGF-1 at the lower end. He's based it on a traditional mediterranean diet that was mostly plant based with some animal products.
Longo had done research on the effects of fasting on cancer / chemotherapy treatments. He created the fast mimicking diet for those who can’t go without eating. He even commercialized a product - Prolon.
Similarly, Atkins didn’t create his diet. But the original was to not eat for 3 days. Then go low carb. Thinking people wouldn’t water fast for 3 days, Atkins used a 20 g daily carb limit for 2 weeks. Personally, think a 3 day (or longer) water fast is better.
Thank you for sharing this valuable content. well done . I will improve on extended fasting
Yes keeping it simple thank you
Dr Eckberg is a sweetheart. I don't agree always either but the man is wonderful. 😊
Your the best, thanks for the imformation
I’m very disappointed with how Dr. Westman misinterpreted and misconstrued Dr. Ekberg’s message.
Westman seems to have no time for autophagy, and I didn't note him finding metabolic value in fasting. Westman compared the mammalian body to a car, an extremely poor analogy. We are a myriad of interlocking processes that find mutual balance, homeostasis. Perturbation, knocking the system out of balance, is necessary to induce tuning of the various subsystems. Without this type of good stress it is possible--if not likely--to fall into suboptimal or unhealthy stasis. Think Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.
Note that he asked people to sign up for his webinar.
Sounds more like a salesman type doctor the ones which you usually find in your hospitals paid by pharma.
Dr Eckbergs is far beyond qualified and certainly could teach this gentleman a trick or 2. It is clear that he missrepressented the whole video of Mr Eckert even disqualifying him to then sell us a webinar.
@cheesecake4youaren’t you an idiot. The webinars are totally free and informative only. He sells nothing
What exactly do you disagree with Dr Sten Ekberg on? What science do you think he's got wrong? Don't just say vaguely that you think he's wrong on something. Show comparative evidence. He shows a lot of science on every video and he's a very good communicator so easy to understand even though English is probably not his first language.
Too many people here are saying Dr. Westman's words are understandable while Dr. Ekberg is too technical. I find it funny that people prefer dumbing down instead of basic good knowledge that still does not violate the philosophy of simplicity.
Remember, Dr. Westland runs an obesity clinic and his goal is to get overall compliance and better health for a group of people not doing muscle strengthening and cardio every day. The more time consuming you make it, the less overall success.
Autophagy does work. When I fast my skin gets clearer. The only issue when you go back to eating , you must go slow and not gorge yourself. I fasted for 14 days before and never lost any muscle that I could tell. Your body becomes very efficient.
14 days!!!!
Annually, I fast for 40 days, like Jesus.
@@InTheMiddleOfAForest I had a friend back in the day when I was in the Navy that would fast for 30 days and jog most of those days. A little too crazy for me. I don't do more than 7 to 9 now.
@@mariad1151 Once you get past third or fourth day it's fine. I don't do 14 any more. If you drink black coffee you can do the first two days drinking coffee with your water and you can use electrolytes in your water. Then easy sailing.
@@andredaedone5 IDK I did 48 hrs once ...helped w the ketones anyway. Idk bout more than that but maybe w fasting mimicking I could. The benefits are apparently not known....
I see two problems eating this low protein diet as prescribed by Dr Engberg is you can't just but 25g of leeks ect ect. The waste on this diet would be enormous, unless you ate the same thing day in day out. Secondly if you are like me who is trying to actually put on muscle mass this would greatly hinder this. I personally prefer to eat two meals a day between 2pm and 6pm. I tend to do my cardio in the morning and then do my resistance training around 1 Pm for an hour, so break my fast with protein rich foods (but low carb) then have my main meal of low carb high protein around 6pm then nothing until the next day at 2pm. This works for me. I have lost 85Lb and reversed all my metabolic markers and I'm off virtually all my meds. I am never hungry and have been doing this lifestyle for about 18 months now and feel so much better for it.
Impressive that you do muscle training and cardio daily. You must spend your day preoccupied with exercise and diet. Does an 8 hour and day job fit in?
@@susanthomas5167 I still do an eight hour work day even at 66 years old. Up at 5.30 either walk 1 hour 45 mins or 40 mins on the Spin bike. resistance training at night 40 mins diet as normal low carb. this is for 5 days a week weekend for Friends and family
This would be incredibly difficult. After 2-3 fasting, my appetite disappears. But if I just have a bite of something to "take the edge off," the hunger comes back.
The other problem is this is too much protein - it takes a tiny amount of leucine or glucose to shut down autophagy.
Reverse diabetes
Also why not js lift weights to use up those proteins?
They are doctors of chiropractic. Just like medical doctors, there are good ones and there are bad ones. Chiropractors kept my husband able to function with his lower back issues and also kept him from having to have knee surgery after an injury. ❤
Thank you, Dr Westman.
Thank you so much saying it's okay to eat less, i have tried getting all the correct macros right and getting enough calories according to what the standard is, some days i eat more and some days i eat less. I'm gonna stop worrying about calories.
Just eat beef. Don’t need to do calculations.
I only follow Dr Westman because he backs everything up with science.
That's why I follow Dr. Jason Fung, author of obesity code
Dr. Elbert is probably the best doctor, online Only other than dr. Westman
Absolutely agree!!!
Hmm he didn't really impress me
Ekberg?
Only of you want to be plant based.
Dr Ken berry and Dr Ford also , all are excellent
I quit listening to Berg and Ekberg after transitioning to carnivore because I don’t easily get hungry every 20 hours now.
I just Eat fatty meat to satiety, add salt to taste and drink clean water to hydrate.
Same here. Both these Bergs helped me find the path in the beginning but once I found better guides I left the Bergs behind.
Me too, and at that point it's really easy to do a 24hr fast. A mimicking diet seems to be a lot of work, and all that veg !!
Same here, both Bergs got me on the journey and helped me immensely and they led me toward Dr. Westmen and Dr. Berry.
Clean water to wash toxins from meat?
I've just got rid of the toxic vegetables!
Right? Right! Stay carnivore! 🏆💪
Plants are good for you esp with meat. Those edited and processed plants are as bad as the edited and processed meats the vegans are using against meat eaters.
Great!!!
@@margaretbreuer2528 we need to remember that Dr. Westman is not a carnivore. He advocates a very low carbohydrate diet For myself I look up low oxalate and low carbohydrate vegetables, and fruits and have a few of them.
Good for you! I hope your oxalete dumping wasn't too bad
Great stuff.
Thing is people need to use their brain more often, and think, not just accept "influencers". Since humans haven't really figured out how our bodies work, even though some pretend they do, just use the information you get, and sieve through it and find what fits you best.
Yes!🩵
Be careful with Thomas DeLauer. Dr. Westman criticized one of his videos. DeLauer entirely botched the interpretation of a study.
Have found Westman, Sten Ekberg, Eric Berg, Jason Fung, Boz, and Mindy Pelz to be solid.
@@aieahi1 Yet, use your own brain to analyze the information you get, to understand what may be inconstant with chemical facts, and opinions even when they coincide with your own.
BLA BLA ok
@@susanargyle1357 Is that all you can say, sad, proves me right.
How long one can fasting safely depends on (1) cardiovascular pre existing conditions (2) pre existing thymus gland/immune system conditions (3) pre existing gut microbiome conditions (4) current glucose and lipid/fat stores in the body. (5) electrolyte/mineral levels at the end of a fast when breaking a fast.... to handle hunger pains - fiber and fat levels must be increased - to trigger ketosis - one has limit starch/sugar/carbohydrates all of the time
Dear Dr Eric, with greatest of respect, your commentary just constantly interrupts Dr Sten's own excellent thesis, yet doesn't usefully clarify our understanding of Ekberg's own excellent commentary. I'll wait to watch the original, thanks.
ok
“Reacts”. Guess you didn’t see that part
Hello, learning from your videos . Thank You. Can you do a video about Dr. William Li?
Maybe I'm stupid, it just seems so complicated to keep up, too much calculation to think of for me.
Same here way to many carbs
Ya, I bet in Dr Ekberg’s opinion our ancestors are super human calculators. It’s the very reason keto gives the impression that it’s very hard to do. Eating carnivore is simple straightforward no calculations needed, just a simple yes/no question to answer, is what I’m going to eat meat?
@@LittleRadicalThinkerno you just ate what you found while chasing around wild game through migratory patterns and 6+ months of the year there wasn't much to find. Stuff goes in season and out of season and droughts etc.
@@makaisenki Well, I just trying my best to not eat carbs now.
Truing to comprehend your words, I accidentally read "droughts" as "donuts".... twice. @makaisenki ....Have mercy 😂 my subconscious wants a donut!
Going on the ultimate elimination diet /lifestyle change choice of eating mainly meat from ruminant animals, with electrolytes supplementation is the way to go. You can, at your own discretion add in things after a couple months strictly like this, to get a feel of what foods you may or may not be sensitive to. It won't correct itself overnight, but you will get results in days.
In the”New Atkins for a New You” which you co-authored, recipes include canola oil. What is your current position on the various oils?
traditional fasting in many cultures including eating limited foods (especially religious fasts) and excluding specific food categories
"...and you can clean the house Every Day".....i like that plan. Thanks Dr. Westman
Again, thank you so much!
I do use Chronometer app to track my food intake, trying to stay lower carbs, that is far as I want to go. I do watch this Doctor occasionally when I want to fire all neutrons in my brain, this diet is a stretch to adopt. Thank you Dr. Westman for your clear cut methods.
Thanks Dr Westman , this was very interesting and informative. Appreciate your insight!
fiber? leafy greens? pass.
Fiber is bad for chrones and ibs
You can have plenty of fiber and leafy greens in keto
@@makaisenki keto technically yes. But leafy greens are oxalate laden and fibre is literally sh1t. Just indigestible bulk.
@@pcread I'm glad I fell asleep then before Eckberg started talking about plants! The video was finished when I woke up! Phew! Good timing!
Right, so he's on about plants again huh what a crazy idea!
I haven't any fruit at all for 6 months, & the only veges I eat are garlic & onion for flavour, & a baby carrot a coupla times a week. Well, the other day I ate a can of baked beans (from my post WWIII storage) cos I couldn't be bothered cooking.
I have 2 slices of tasty cheese & 1 or 2 'twiggy' sticks (salami, 40g) early morning, as a 'snack', or early lunch.
I eat nothing else until dinner time. So I fast 16 hours a day as it is. Is white coffee × 3 a day included as breaking my fast, or dropping me out of ketosis? I dunno, I don't have a cgm. But yeah, garlic & onion only, eat twice a day only.
So yeah, as well intentioned as Eckberg is, I'm glad I dumped him off my carnivore diet doctor list like a shitty rag!
@@pcread If you have good gut bacteria or are repopulating your gut with specific strains you want that literal crap to feed your gut bacteria.
Is it completely necessary? No. Is it further optimization for people who want it? Yes.
I only eat food I prepare. Dr Westman is logical in dietary advice.
Dr Eric Westman, Happy 4th !! 🎉🎉
I love Dr. Ekberg
Ok, I've got to put my $0.03 in here! 7 years ago my traditional medical doctor offered me an option for lowering my LDL cholesterol. Because he knew I wouldn't take statins. He asked me if I would consider a fast mimicking diet. The one he gave me just in a nutshell is about 500 calories a day of coconut milk. I could have safe non caloric sweeteners and basically anything that was just fat but not from a animal. So I put cocoa powder in my coconut milk with some safe sweetener and made a shake everyday for my break fast around 1:00 or 2:00 and then I did a curry coconut soup. We were allowed two small handfuls of high water content vegetables a day so I put those in my soup. And I altered soup with a salad meal every other night. I used avocado oil on my salad and I cheated with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. So celery cucumbers broccoli peppers were probably okay but I hate them. I did that three times in a year and my LDL cholesterol went from extreme high to low. I thought it was really amazing! I always lost weight but gained it back pretty quickly and that was fine I didn't do it to lose weight. I'm sure if I had really wanted to keep that weight off I could but I was pretty skinny. I've been able to maintain a healthy level of cholesterol. I do try to do the cleanse once a year but sometimes get a little lazy. But I actually really like it.
Awesome. Thank you for sharing. People who live in coconut available regions are really lucky if they follow a similar cleanse from time to time.
This doesn’t make sense to me. I thought he was gonna say to eat only protein.
Same!!!
Drinking some heavy whipping cream is low protein and hign fat. It's super cheap, so I'll try it for a week and get back with y'all, lol. EDIT: it gave me terrible diarrhea, I do not recommend it.
I thought I remember the other Dr recommended to drink coffee with dollop of cream . drinking heavy whipping cream for a week? that would be a lot like drinking castor oil and yes! diarrhea 😮
If we keep on reducing protein intake then we end up with muscle wastage i read the clinical trials saying out body needs between 1.8 to 2 G pr kg body weight pr day. am i wrong ?.
I like the comment about eating = stress at the end, Dr. Westman, about digestion basically being stressful for our body and I fully agree. Also there is something that is pointing to true fasting being a healthy thing: Thinking about whenever you were really sick, hunger goes to basically zero(Ghrelin gets downregulated), our body wants to fast naturally but thanks to faulty "knowledge" we often still force food down the hatch, likely making the healing process for our bodies harder.
Did like you're reality approach
Can’t believe there are still people that think calories are significant…..
Dr Westman, I'd like to know your thoughts about putting children on carnivore. My daughter is 12y and weighted 70 kg (163 cm) 😢. I started with her carnivore 60 days ago and she's lost 6 kg! But I am afraid of our ped's reaction... I don't know what to do... she needs another 6 kgs to drop to get into normal range
Feed her keto she will loose fat and be less hungry, ensure sunshine and being active
One problem with this so-called fast-mimicking diet is that it won't sate you. So you'll feel starved, and it will be very hard not to fall off the wagon. I prefer a keto/Atkins diet, and then just normal fasting (water fast) for any kind of cleansing purposes. Any period where you actually eat, but can only eat non-sating things, would be very frustrating, and demand a rigorous regime of measuring/weighing everything. Not my cup of tea.
FMD Kit: It's just typical how they have to add some kind of sweetener even to these things. The first thing anyone doing any kind of healthy diet must do is to get rid the constant sugar taste addiction!
Counting carbs too complicated carnivore my way no carbs!
Exactly my thought, too. I am sitting here, listening to Dr. Ekberg's complicated chart, my yaw drops, and I am thinking "Who the f-word does this if you could just as well do carnivore?". Besides, if I ate cauliflower and shit like that, I could get issues, for sure.
What would you eat if you have atrophic gastritis, low stomach acid? Need healed.
This reminds me a lot of the 1944 Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Obviously not the same makros and not as long, but stil a strange world in between eating and not eating. I remember, in my childhood, when people talked about fasting, they never ment dry fast or water fast, but only eating veg. soop.
One big problem for me with this fasting mimiking diet would be the high carb content. With this I would feel hangry all day long and could probabely not sleep. So, I might last half a day. For 55 years I was unable to fast longer than 2-3 hours, I even interrupted sleep in order to eat. Once I discovered low carb / keto all changed for the better. It allows me to do 2 or even only 1 meals a day easily, as long as I don't do breakfast before 11AM. An earlier breakfast seems to bring me into a feeding mood. But usually on low carb I can even go up to a 30 hours fast. However, with 50gr of carbs (even, if spread over the day) my body and mind would scream for a full day of sugar binge eating. I guess everbody is a bit different.
By the way: 200$ buys 5 days of this strange sugar diet or for me at todays conversion rate roughly 42 pound of good quality minced meet, which gives me roughly 1 full month of 2 meals a day, all in ketosis and probabely with more autopagy than with this starvation sugar diet, which was discussed in this video.
Thanks for all Your videos. I learned a lot each time.😊 👍🏻
It's an interesting theory and it's a good hypothesis, but how do we even measure autophagy? How do we measure success? This is kind of out for me right now to even test because the foods I eat are basically fat + protein and I don't eat plants because for me they seem to cause issues, but still testing that so maybe in the long run they don't. At the moment though my severe hives and joint pain has disappeared, and I no longer snack. I would love to see an actual scientific paper on this though, seems like it might be worth doing as cleanse after you have gotten yourself healthy. I am kind of with you, leaning into long term success over a quick fix -- but it is interesting, and Dr. Ekberg is a knowledgeable man.
Thank you 🙏
How many ounces of meat is 15 to 20 g of protein ?
Are not is
3 oz of 93% ground beef is 17grams protein for example. Many use an app to figure out grams.@@kathybrown3184
Surely you can type that into Google? 1/2-3/4 oz.
About 7 grams per ounce of protein
@@Desertflower743not quite. A steak is not all protein. You have to subtract the water and fat content to arrive at the amount of protein.
I would like to know if cardiac artery calcium score can be reversed
In theory you cannot (at least not much) but there are many reports of people having lowered their scores.
Bear in mind that if you have a non-zero CAC then you likely also have soft plaques. If you start a protocol that can improve your arterial health, there may be some hardening of those soft plaques and your CAC may increase. That is probably a good thing because soft plaques are unstable and calcified plaques more stable.
After that CAC increase, you may subsequently see a decrease even if not to zero. Potentially can take a long time, possibly years.
Cut out all the sugar and artifical sweeteners you can possibly find from your diet. Then cut way back on your carbs. Eat only organic carbs in small amounts. Do this for a year and see what happens.
N my opinuon, That's the best you can do.
Search for RUclips videos on that, there are several.
I am muscular, healthy five ten, 190 lbs. 31 inch waste, flat stomach.
Today I ate:
Breakfast: 745 am
3 eggs (1 yoke)
5 oz of ground beef
1 slice of cheese,
cofee no sugar
Lunch: 1pm
3 eggs (1 yoke)
4 oz of ground beef
water
Dinner: 530 pm
serving of baked tuna, 4oz
Ezekiel bread grilled cheese
cup of cooked green beans
cup of arugula
water
yolk
I'm very happy for you. I just cannot eat that much protein food because I've tried
Good for you
Me neither, @cassieoz1702 , but he's really active! If I ate 1/2 lb of ground beef in a day, I couldn't find room for anything else, but I also don't work off as much
I eat similar but without the dinner
Sounds what i ate as a vegan and it gave me the worst health
Just either eat or don’t
Starving is horrible for body
Fasting is healing
Eating is nuturing
That happened to me i was fasting 14 hours and i lost all my muscles in my legs i was so weak i couldnt even make it up my steps and then i started losing my balance and falling
Can you take suppliments during fasting? Drink lemon and ginger?
What does it mean when I start eating animal based and i just struggle to eat at all food is so bland and almost impossible to finish my meals cause after a couple bites it becomes revolting how am I suppose to get my calories an protien in? Should I just not worry and assume my fat is making up for it
As a rule no need to count calories on an animal based diet. Almost all people will feel pretty full and not crave anything. This assumes no carbs and sugars!
For me I’m not huge on meat either, but love dairy, and properly prepared ground meat, eggs, seafood, and butter. Seasoning and proper prep helps a lot. I eat some nuts and salad also, and will add the meat to the salad.
New subscriber. I agree with you, Doc. Just eat smart and exercise, cur out stress, limit Alcohol intake, cut out all the process foods, sugars, sodas, cakes, (rare occasionally love one birthday etc if you choose not a must) low carb if necessary (working out at gym then decide how much is needed to stay active plus you need your protein you can monitor that too. You can fast as I am now its my 2 day water fast im going 3 full days.. it was not to lose weight but just a maintenance and other/spiritual connection. Just enjoy life with balance.
I am eating low carb 50-77 net carbs, 50-75g protein, and 70-90g fat daily. I avoid starches, wheat and sugar. I have stage 3b kidney disease and can’t go extreme keto. I have lost 37 lbs in 1 year. Have 10 lbs to go to get to 160-165. I am not putting down any approach to losing weight. Do what works for you. I use MyNetDiary and keep track of carbs. I even have an afternoon protein fruit smoothie using 1/2 cup frozen fruit and two tablespoons Halo Top ice cream with unsweetened almond chocolate milk, 1 1/2 tablespoons plant based protein powder. .Exercise 3 times a week on my Total Gym. I am a 69 year old male, retired. Choose what makes you feel good. Don’t starve yourself. I have a hard time now consuming more than 1,200 calories a day.
I love mimicking fasting and intermittent fasting!