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059 Fasting · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: Today I want to talk about fasting because it pretty
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  Speaker 1: much changed my whole life. And this isn't a recommendation
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  Speaker 1: that you do it or anything like that. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to tell my story about fasting. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say fasting, I mean not eating food, drinking water, and
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  Speaker 1: allowing my body to metabolize extra weight reserves on my body.
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  Speaker 1: So as with most self experiments and other experiments, I
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  Speaker 1: tried out. This started after I was living in China
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  Speaker 1: and was working less than twenty hours a week and
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  Speaker 1: had a ton of extra time. So I was trying
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of new time consuming activities like YouTube, which
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  Speaker 1: I never really got into until finally I had all
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  Speaker 1: this time on my hands and I was like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's time to dive into this YouTube thing I keep
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  Speaker 1: thinking about. Of course, I'd watched a few videos, but
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  Speaker 1: I was not I didn't know any channels or anything.
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  Speaker 1: So I started watching a bunch of stuff. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: always been interested in stories of fasting, like in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of religions, whoever the divine one is will fast
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  Speaker 1: for a long time and it gives them some spiritual
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  Speaker 1: purity or whatever, and it's also often connected to health,
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  Speaker 1: like in religious texts, they also mention that it's healthy
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  Speaker 1: to fast in some way or another. I've always thought
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  Speaker 1: that was interesting as an offhand thing. And then if
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  Speaker 1: you go on YouTube and type and fasting, there's a
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  Speaker 1: billion videos about fasting. So I stumbled across one somehow.
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, I want to say that don't
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  Speaker 1: trust anything anybody says on YouTube or ever, but this
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  Speaker 1: was an interesting rabbit hole for me to fall into
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  Speaker 1: because I was interested in the topic in general. I
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  Speaker 1: knew absolutely zero people in real life who had ever
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  Speaker 1: done it, but it did seem supported by science that
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to eat every day, that each pound
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  Speaker 1: of fat has four thousand calories or thirty five hundred calories,
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  Speaker 1: you can go some extended time without eating, and it
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  Speaker 1: does have physiological effects on your body. So after I
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  Speaker 1: looked that up, I thought I would just watch every
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  Speaker 1: video about fasting that was on YouTube and wasn't obviously ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: and try to collect and collate useful information that I
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  Speaker 1: could verify later. So I mainly ended up watching people
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  Speaker 1: doing sort of time laps videos over a few days
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  Speaker 1: or a week, and this one guy a month of fasting,
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  Speaker 1: and again, you don't know if you can trust that
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  Speaker 1: they're really doing it. You don't want to believe any
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  Speaker 1: of their conclusions because it's just a subjective case study.
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  Speaker 1: But these people appeared to be fasting. They weren't saying
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  Speaker 1: anything crazy except I feel better or I feel too tired,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go eat a hamburger. But it was
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  Speaker 1: really interesting watching all of these people fast or apparently
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  Speaker 1: fast according to these time lapse videos. The guy who
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  Speaker 1: did it for a month lost like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred pounds, hundred something pound. He lost a lot
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  Speaker 1: of weight, and he was apparently again just water fasting.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I looked it up, there are reported
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  Speaker 1: cases of people not eating for a month because they
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  Speaker 1: have extra weight. And there's four thousand three to four
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  Speaker 1: thousand calories and every pound of fat or human body carries,
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  Speaker 1: so most people of normal weight, the numbers are over
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  Speaker 1: nine out of ten people can fast or water fast,
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  Speaker 1: not eat food, and just drink water for an extended
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  Speaker 1: period of time. That's the base that I was starting from,
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  Speaker 1: just that not eating didn't mean you were starving. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a lot of physiological processes to look
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  Speaker 1: at and go through. And that's what interested me that
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  Speaker 1: it was just possible to stop eating for a while
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't necessarily harmful for your body. If you
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  Speaker 1: stop eating all the way past all of your reserves
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  Speaker 1: of fat, yes that's starvation, and that is harmful because
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  Speaker 1: then your body starts eating critical tissue. But you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to do that. Not eating for a little while
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  Speaker 1: is not necessarily unhealthy, And importantly for me, there were
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  Speaker 1: never any scientific articles saying it was unhealthy. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you have ever dabbled with eating issues or any kind
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  Speaker 1: of body weight issues or anything like that, don't jump
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  Speaker 1: into fasting at all. Like, I'm fine with my body
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  Speaker 1: and how it came about. So I felt comfortable experimenting
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  Speaker 1: with this, and I very much considered that to make
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  Speaker 1: sure I wasn't doing this so that I could look
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit thinner like for outside approval. I
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  Speaker 1: was sure after my consideration that I was doing this
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  Speaker 1: because I was interested in the process of not eating
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  Speaker 1: scientifically without any even flirtation with starvation. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: learn more about not eating scientifically and what that did
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  Speaker 1: to the body. So when I decided to look into
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  Speaker 1: not eating scientifically, I did what I do with most
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  Speaker 1: top which is absorb as much information as I can,
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  Speaker 1: whether I understand it or not, all at one time,
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  Speaker 1: in a binge of knowledge, organize and verify the information,
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  Speaker 1: and then experiment with the known quantities and variables. So
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  Speaker 1: I watched a bunch of videos from doctors. I looked
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  Speaker 1: up do they use this as medicine a medicinal curative somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: And they do. Like in Russia and Germany, there are
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  Speaker 1: fasting hospitals and you go there and they monitor you
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  Speaker 1: very carefully and tell you the amount of time too
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  Speaker 1: fast to deal with certain maladies that seem to be
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  Speaker 1: remedied by fasting, or at least remedied by your body
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  Speaker 1: when it doesn't have to worry about ingestion and digestion
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  Speaker 1: and especially are traditionally remedied these fasting is as old
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  Speaker 1: as you know, those religious texts seven thousand years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So after I learned all the basics of ketosis and
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  Speaker 1: the calories that a pound of fat has and how
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  Speaker 1: your body does not degrade if you're not eating scientifically
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  Speaker 1: for a period of time and you have the extra
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  Speaker 1: calories within you. I decided to start at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: and read the Western Awakening to Fasting, which can kind
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  Speaker 1: of be credited to this guy named Herbert Shelton who
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  Speaker 1: wrote this really interesting book called Sunbathing and Fasting, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not a treatise on how to cure things.
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  Speaker 1: That's like his forward right in the beginning, Shelton says,
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  Speaker 1: fasting is not a curative, it's not a remedy, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a medicine. What fasting does is allow you to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the way of the natural processes of
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  Speaker 1: your body, which can effectively deal with many alms. And
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  Speaker 1: that's right up top of at least the fasting section.
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  Speaker 1: It might be in the beginning of the book. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't read the sunbathing part, partly because of my super
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  Speaker 1: pale skin, but also I was just much more interested
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  Speaker 1: in the fasting and the fasting section does include a
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  Speaker 1: medical description of what happens to the body underfasting, as
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  Speaker 1: far as he understood a one hundred years ago or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: how fasting affected the body. But much more interestingly to
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  Speaker 1: me was Shelton presented case studies and all of his
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  Speaker 1: anecdotes from his entire forty year medical career, and he
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  Speaker 1: took apparently meticulous notes throughout his career with every patient
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  Speaker 1: he helped fast, and he wrote about every single patient
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  Speaker 1: that he allowed to be cured via fasting, that he
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  Speaker 1: educated about fasting and then monitored them as they fasted
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  Speaker 1: for a period of time for various ailments and marked
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  Speaker 1: what effect it had on the ailments, and in some
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  Speaker 1: of them he writes that it didn't do much except
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  Speaker 1: stabilize the patient, but the disease didn't go away. And
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  Speaker 1: then for quite an array of diseases like diabetes, epilepsy,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of surprising conditions did appear to be positively
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  Speaker 1: affected from fasting with zero side effects to the patient.
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  Speaker 1: Epilepsy was an interesting one, And there's actually a modern
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  Speaker 1: corollary study on fasting scientifically improving the symptoms of epilepsy
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  Speaker 1: or alleviating the more severe symptoms of epilepsy, and in
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  Speaker 1: some cases removing epilepsy, or rather removing all the symptoms
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  Speaker 1: of epilepsy. So every time I read one of his
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  Speaker 1: success stories, I would see if there was a scientific
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  Speaker 1: study in the modern times, because he wrote that book,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to check. Oh, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. It's only nineteen fifty that he wrote that book.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he had so many of these measurements that
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  Speaker 1: I was just wondering if it was in civil war times,
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  Speaker 1: did he why was he able to record so much so? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's why, because he wrote the book in nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't a huge even idea in Western medicine
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  Speaker 1: or Western culture until he wrote that book, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how a lot of people got interested in it. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would read the book. But whenever I
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  Speaker 1: saw one of his case studies and he mentioned how
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  Speaker 1: it helped some condition, I would look for a similar
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  Speaker 1: corollary study in modern times, and I didn't always find them.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it's difficult to convince people to fund
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  Speaker 1: a study for not eating. But all of the studies
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  Speaker 1: I did find seemed to corroborate what Shelton was saying,
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't dangerous for your body too fast, as
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  Speaker 1: long as you had the extra weight, and you had
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  Speaker 1: enough water and a stress free environment and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Like you weren't you weren't in any immediate danger from
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  Speaker 1: not eating for as long as you had those reserves
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  Speaker 1: in your body and again not universal. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to a doctor first, they can check your level, see
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  Speaker 1: how your sponed, quitosis, all that kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: that was again very interesting to me that modern science
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  Speaker 1: was agreeing with this guy who wrote a book seventy
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  Speaker 1: years ago who said that you could not eat and
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  Speaker 1: be healthy, and it would even help you if you
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  Speaker 1: had certain medical conditions. So I wade through his whole
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  Speaker 1: book and it was really interesting to me, and I
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  Speaker 1: compared it to all those studies I talked about, and
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  Speaker 1: just all the regular studies and the highest number of
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  Speaker 1: studies about fasting in modern times since two thousand. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say or about how it's not starvation and it's not dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not eating for a while, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: you gain fat because the fat is meant to be
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  Speaker 1: used by your body in times without food. It took
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reading, a lot of peer reviewed articles,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of videos, and a lot of dictionaries, but
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  Speaker 1: I was eventually convinced that it wasn't as dangerous as,
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  Speaker 1: especially the American culture would have me believe, because I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, if I'm not eating, then I'm starving,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not true. Starving is a very different physiological process.
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  Speaker 1: Starving means you have no more calories in reserve, and
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  Speaker 1: your body is cannibalizing its critical tissues and nutrients it
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  Speaker 1: needs for fundamental functions. Festing is simply not eating while
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  Speaker 1: your body has a reserve of calories internally that it
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  Speaker 1: can use for sustenance and nutrition without compromising any physiological functions. So,
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  Speaker 1: after I confirmed via scientific literature and textbooks that fasting
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  Speaker 1: was safe as long as you're not starving yourself, I
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  Speaker 1: contacted one of the hospitals in Germany and just asked
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  Speaker 1: them a few basic questions, like can you fast and
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  Speaker 1: it is safe? They were like, yep, it's safe. We've
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  Speaker 1: been doing it for hundreds of years. So then I
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  Speaker 1: had again anecdotal but external confirmation that just yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is a thing that people do, and modern science says
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. And everybody says the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody familiar with fasting. The first thing they say, because
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  Speaker 1: they could tell I don't know what I was talking about,
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  Speaker 1: was this is not starvation. Starvation is if you have
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  Speaker 1: no reserve calories or weight on your body, and your
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  Speaker 1: body is cannibalizing critical tissues to maintain function. That's not fasting.
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  Speaker 1: What fasting is is using internal reserve of calories, usually
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  Speaker 1: stored in fat, as sustenance during a period of not eating.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone was super clear on that. Every scientific article,
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  Speaker 1: every hospital I contacted, they wanted to make real sure
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  Speaker 1: that I understood. If you don't have fat on your body,
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  Speaker 1: don't not eat. That's not healthy. It's for the weight
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  Speaker 1: you have. Once you run out of that weight, then
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  Speaker 1: you are starving, and that's not fasting. So I liked
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  Speaker 1: that everyone was so cautious and so very clearly delineative
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  Speaker 1: between those two processes. So by this point I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty convinced that fasting could be safe. Now. I was
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  Speaker 1: jogging a lot and exercising, but I was also eating thousands,
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  Speaker 1: eating and drinking thousands of calories a day in China
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I was having buffets all the time, I
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  Speaker 1: was having barbecue nights every night or hot pot. I
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  Speaker 1: was drinking ten to twenty beers very often. And I
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  Speaker 1: was probably the heaviest I've ever been, and wasn't very
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  Speaker 1: heavy because I was jogging all the time, but I
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  Speaker 1: definitely was carrying some extra weight, and I figured, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is the best time to try out fasting. I
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  Speaker 1: certainly have enough extra weight. I'll say on the higher side,
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  Speaker 1: if I consumed twenty five hundred of those calories, and
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  Speaker 1: your body consumes less calories from each pound of fat
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  Speaker 1: the longer you fast don't eat, then I have weeks
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  Speaker 1: of calories internally in reserve. So I decided to try it.
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  Speaker 1: I decided that I would start with a twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hour fast, I would see how I felt, and I
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  Speaker 1: would go from there. And it was an interesting first
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  Speaker 1: time not eating. I don't think up until that point
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  Speaker 1: I had ever not eaten. And since I had been
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  Speaker 1: in China, I was eating constantly, fifteen times a day.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't into one meal a day yet I was
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  Speaker 1: just eating all day every day. Even when I went
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  Speaker 1: on a school trip once and got on a plane,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, they have snacks on the plane, might
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  Speaker 1: digestive tract. In twenty five years of life or however
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  Speaker 1: long it was, had never been clear of food. And
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  Speaker 1: as I went on like that first day, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get hunger pangs, but I didn't have any pain. But
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  Speaker 1: I had pangs png like oh, I'd like to eat
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  Speaker 1: right now. But the pangs came at breakfast, and then
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  Speaker 1: they went away, and then they showed up at lunch
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I'll go, oh, no, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: eating today. And then they went away again. And there
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  Speaker 1: was dinner time and they showed up and I was like, oh, goh,
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  Speaker 1: not eating. And then they went away, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's weird how strong my hunger cravings were. And then
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  Speaker 1: much more strange was how rapidly they went away. So
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  Speaker 1: I looked that up and there's a lot of data
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  Speaker 1: actually on hunger times specifically, and as far as I understand,
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  Speaker 1: they're mostly mental. You're going to be slightly hungry, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't eat for a very long time, But
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  Speaker 1: those strong feelings in the morning where you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get something in me. That's often scientifically
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  Speaker 1: because you've conditioned your body to ingest calories at certain
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  Speaker 1: times of the day. So if you eat your breakfast
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  Speaker 1: at eight am every morning, at eight am, you will
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  Speaker 1: be your most hungry, and then after eight am goes away,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get less hungry, and then you won't be very hungry.
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  Speaker 1: If you're eating normally. If you skip one meal, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get hungry exactly at the time you usually eat, and
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  Speaker 1: then you get less hungry, and then at your next
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  Speaker 1: usual meal time noon, Let's say, like me, I'd get
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  Speaker 1: really hungry, and then after noon, like after the time
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  Speaker 1: passed by, my body was just like, all right, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get it next time. And after a few days
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  Speaker 1: those go away. So I didn't have hunger cravings at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. I'll get into that, but it was
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  Speaker 1: interesting to me because I could feel the cravings come
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  Speaker 1: up and then very swiftly go away, and I'd look
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  Speaker 1: at my body and I'd be like, well, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is like I'm holding twelve thousand calories in my hands
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  Speaker 1: on my belly so and I have plenty more where
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  Speaker 1: that came from. So I'm definitely not actually starving. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just really hungry at this one moment in time, and
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  Speaker 1: then it goes away. And like I said, I read
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  Speaker 1: some studies that say that's exactly how hunger works. If
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  Speaker 1: you eat breakfast at eight am, then you are hungry
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  Speaker 1: at eight am. If you eat breakfast at nine am
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  Speaker 1: every day, then you will get hungry at nine am.
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  Speaker 1: If you eat breakfast at eleven am, you will get
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  Speaker 1: hungry at eleven am. But after that usual timing, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't eat your hunger will go away until the
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  Speaker 1: next time you usually eat. It's very strongly correlated to
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  Speaker 1: whatever time you have given yourself to eat. And now
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  Speaker 1: I do the one meal a day and I don't
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  Speaker 1: even get hungry if I skip a day. But if
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  Speaker 1: I get hungry, it's only at the one meal a
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  Speaker 1: day time window four to eight pm usually something like that,
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  Speaker 1: or seven to eleven PM. But that's how I learned
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  Speaker 1: that hunger cravings are largely mental. You'd determine when you
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  Speaker 1: get hungry by the time that you eat. So if
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  Speaker 1: you usually have a snack before lunch, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get hungry for the snack and you'll get hungry for
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  Speaker 1: the lunch time because those are set times. You've trained
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  Speaker 1: yourself to eat food. So your body's saying, hey, where's
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  Speaker 1: the food, But your body isn't actually requiring calories at
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  Speaker 1: that point. You've trained your stomach to get ready for
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  Speaker 1: the food coming in. So that's for me anyway, That's
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  Speaker 1: what those hunger cravings are because mine went away once
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  Speaker 1: I tried the longer fasts, which let me get into that.
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  Speaker 1: Mine went away very quickly and I changed them also,
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  Speaker 1: I tried this, I ate my breakfast later and then fasted,
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  Speaker 1: and then the hunger pangs were exactly at eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: or nine thirty. They were at it some different time.
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  Speaker 1: I marked it down when I did it. But that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty interesting to find out that if you have
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  Speaker 1: enough food generally, then hunger times the times you get
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  Speaker 1: hungry are mostly a self imposed mental regimen that you
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  Speaker 1: can alter at will. And of course it's not easy
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. Some people have more difficulty moving those windows.
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  Speaker 1: But scientifically, the times you feel hungry, if you normally
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  Speaker 1: have enough food, the times you feel hungry are determined
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  Speaker 1: by the times you put food into your body when
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  Speaker 1: your body requires calories. So back to my first twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hour fast, Like I said, very interesting. I noticed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things very quickly. I usually eat snacks
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  Speaker 1: the whole day, or I did. At that time. I
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  Speaker 1: was eating snacks all day. I had three meals breakfast, lunch, dinner,
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  Speaker 1: and in between I was eating stuff. I eat snacks
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  Speaker 1: and all the time, and that first twenty four hour
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  Speaker 1: fast I did. I experienced all of the symptoms of
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  Speaker 1: fasting immediately and simultaneously, and it was very bizarre because
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'd never experienced that before. So I was like a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: little loopy. Definitely not fuzzy, because I worked that day
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and I had very clear clarity while I was working.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: But when I laid down on my bed, my body
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was just comfortably at rest. I wasn't bouncing my foot
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: or my leg and nothing. A lot of normal things,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: things that I considered normal with the body, just weren't happening,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: like bouncing my leg when I was sitting or moving
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: around while I was playing a video game or stuff
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: like that. Just my body was much calmer than usual.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I noticed things were different, but it was all happening
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: at the same time, and I'd never not experienced those
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: things happening. So I'm going to elucidate those more when
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I move on to the three day fast, which is
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: coming up next, because that's when I really noticed all
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of these things in my body that weren't happening, that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: had happened my whole life, and it was very very interesting.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I kept notes for my three day fast after I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: realized I didn't record anything during the one day fast. Anyway,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours comes and goes. I get hungry at
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: my three meal times, my main meal times, and then
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of hungry, but I played a video game,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I watched YouTube videos, and I made it the twenty
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: four hours pretty easily. I didn't eat from one morning
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: at eight am to the next morning at eight am,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and the next morning at eight am, I woke up
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my gosh, it's been a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: full day since you have eaten anything. And I felt
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: completely fine. I like felt good. I felt like I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: just woke up from a nice sleep. I did notice
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it was very easy for me to sleep also, so
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I went outside for a walk and I was like, wow,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I don't feel hungry. I feel fine, like I'm not
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't believe I didn't eat for
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a day. No, my body was totally okay. I just
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: felt like the next day was there, here's the next day.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And even though my body was like, hey man, we're fine,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I intellectually thought, no, it's been twenty four hours. I'm
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: going to eat something. I should eat something because it's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: been so long since I've eaten. And you know, I
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: had the exact same amount of slightly extra weight that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I had before, and nothing about my body seemed different.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And I, like I said, I felt totally fine, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I psyched myself out and out of anxiety, I went
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to a bakery and bought I remember it very clearly,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: this small box of sugary pineapple filled pastries that are
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: very popular snacks in China, and I had got them
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a couple times before. And I bit into it and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, that is way sweeter than I remember.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And then I just ate the whole thing and then
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I was sick almost immediately, and my body was like,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: oh God, why did you Why did you eat that?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Why did you choose that instead of something healthier to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: start with, Like this is a lot of sugar, real quick,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and like I sweat, like I had a body sweat
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: real quid. It wasn't a huge thing, it wasn't dripping,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: but I just felt all my pores like whoa, wake
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: back up. And I felt like a rush of goose
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: flesh run down my body. And then I just felt
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: this shitty sugary treat sitting heavy in my stomach, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, I have to process that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: It struck me that I must have recalibrated my taste
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: buds because that pineapple thing instead of tasting pineapple tart,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: instead of tasting a little sweet tasted shockingly, absurdly offensively
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: sugary and unhealthy. I ate it and I was like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that doesn't taste good because there's way too much sugar.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And then my body was like, this is barely even food.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That was especially fascinating to me. I could hear what
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: my body was saying so much more clearly than when
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I eat food. Usually, if there's food and it smells
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: good in front of me, I eat it, and all
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I can hear is if my belly is full, And
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: then my belly is like, hey, I'm getting kind of full,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but if it's good, I'll just keep eating it like
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter to me at all. With and my
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: taste buds too, they're like, this is very salty, I think,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: or this is very sweet, I think. But after just
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the twenty four hours that pineapple tart, my body immediately knew, oh,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: this is bullshit. Don't eat this. This isn't something you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: want in your body. And I pretty much listened to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that clear message. I must have had them at some point,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: because they were occasional treats, but I don't really remember
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: eating those again. And that's the point that I started
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: eating less sugar. Up until that point in my life.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: For whatever two and a half three decades, I just
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: ate sugar ease. I bought a Snickers now and then,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: or a Twix, or in China whatever they were selling
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the candies yan Yan candy or whatever they had, chocolate
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: filled Koala bears or something I think they liked in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: China at the time, I was buying candy all the time.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: After I fasted, and I became fascinated by the fact
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that my taste buds had completely recalibrated after only twenty
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: four hours, I was like, oh wow, that, like that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: was such a strong message from my body declaring it
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: did not like that much sugar, and it didn't even
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like sugar that much. That from that point on, I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have steadily eaten less and less sugar, except right now
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I'm eating a bunch of ice cream because I live
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: like right next door to these guys that saw ice cream.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: So I do eat ice cream one scoop of ice
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: cream generally every day. I mean, in Laos it was
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: really bad. I was eating like six coops of ice
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: cream every day. But that that's not even that wouldn't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: have even entered my mind before I had fasted. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: would be like, this much sugar is fine because it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: fits in my belly, and it didn't taste weird to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: me because I was eating that much sugar all the time.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: But when I finally gave my taste buds a break
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and then they ate some sugar, they were like, oh
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: my god, gross. And it got even more interesting when
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I moved on to the three day fast. But before that,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I just want to say that after I ate that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: pineapple pastry, I not only had that full body sweat,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I also sneezed almost immediately, and I was like, what
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the hell, where did that come from? I hadn't felt
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sick the entire day before, and then I like pretty
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: violently sneezed and my nose started running, not it started running,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And I was like, did that just happen? Because I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: ate a ball of pure sugar basically, And that was
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: also very very interesting to me that something so apparently physical,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: like sneezing or a runny nose appeared to be directly
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: linked to the food I ate. You were already familiar
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: with the fact that once you eat determines how your
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: body reacts. You were way ahead of me, like I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was finding this all out for the first time. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: with all the stuff that happened, the recalibration, taste buds,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the physical symptoms, and just how I felt completely fine,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I decided to go one week and then after one
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: week of eating normally how I regularly did, I would
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: try a three day fast. So during that week long break,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I gave my body in between just out of caution.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: My body felt healthier than it had in a while,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: but I didn't want to do a back to back
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: fast just in case. I didn't, yeah, just in case really,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: So I waited one week and in those seven days,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I ate normally, which was my three meals a day,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: plus snacks yak jerky or stinky tofu or gandhi and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: dojiao beers, you know, every day basically seven to eleven sushi.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I just ate a bunch of food, drank a bunch
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of beer, drank a bunch of water too. I've always
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: drank a lot of water, and my stomach kept reporting
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to me, yeah, we don't need that. That food's unnecessary
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: or it's not healthy. But I didn't listen to it,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and I didn't even know I was supposed to listen
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to it, because hearing such clear feedback from my stomach
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: was new to me, but I paid very close attention
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to the times that I sneezed and the times I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: blew my nose, and when I sweated, and especially sneezing
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and coughing and a runny nose, and when I was
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: blowing my nose or when I had I could feel
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the phlegm always right after I ate, every single time.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It was within a few minutes to maybe ten minutes,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: but usually within like one to three minutes. I would
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: get a running nose or something like that after I ate,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't always a sugary food or an obviously
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: unhealthy beverage like beer. Sometimes it was just the jiouds
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of the potstickers I ate, and then I would sneeze
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: while I was eating them. I'd be like, is that
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: too much food? What the heck? And it did turn
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: out for me to just be the simple amount of
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: extra food that seems to cause my symptoms. That whole
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: seven days in between fastings, I was paying a lot
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of attention to the physical symptoms of my body, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I noticed that I had they all were normal. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: had those my entire life, Like I would have to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: blow my nose every now and then, and I would
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: sneeze sometimes sometimes I would cough, and sometimes I'd get
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a runny nose, and sometimes my nose would get stuffed,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and I'd had flem in my throat. Like all of
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: these things are completely normal body things, and I had
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: them my whole life. But I tried to remember back
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to that twenty four hours I wasn't eating, and I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was like, did I have a runny nose during that time?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Did I sneeze that whole day? I'm not sure because
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I hadn't really taken meticulous notes, and by really I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: mean at all taken any notes. I was just wanted
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to see what it was like to not eat, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: it was totally fine. So the next time I fasted,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: after those seven days were up and everything was back
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to normal, and I was carousing with twenty beers a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: day and all my chicken wings. I fasted for three days,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and these are water fasting, but that is fasting. Water
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: fasting has become popular to say, but fasting, I drank
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: water during those three days. I taught my classes, I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: went jogging, I exercised, I rode my bike, and I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: watched YouTube food videos. That one where the Irish people
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: try foods and are grossed up by them. I was
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: like watching those that YouTube channel for three hours. Then
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, am I watching this because it's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: all about eating food. But I was having a great
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: time watching it, so I don't really worry about it.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: But I didn't feel very hungry again that first day.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I did feel hungry at the time I was eating
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: that week, like at eight am when I got up,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't get my gmbing, and then I was hungry
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: right then, and then it went away at eight thirty.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And then I was hungry again at twelve because I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: didn't get my supermarket sushi, and then it was gone again.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: And then dinner came around and my body was like,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: let's go get barbecue, and then fifteen minutes later it
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was like whatever, and it was gone. So I proved
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: to myself anyway that hunger gravings really are just a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Pavolovian response to the time I usually put food into
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: my mouth and body. But I was paying really close
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: attention all three days, especially the first day, on how
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: my body sneezed, coughed, ached, itched, just all of those
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: normal body things, and I was shocked. I didn't sneeze.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't cough. I didn't have a runny nose. I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: didn't have a stuffed nose. I didn't itch, which I
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: just mentioned because I just remembered it. But I didn't
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: itch my I didn't get itches on my body, which
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: every now and then, you know, you get an itch
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on the bottom of your arm or whatever. The heck.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I wasn't itchy during those three days that I wasn't eating.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there was something like I must have brushed
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: my hair out of my face or something, but it
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: was noticeably less, like I didn't have to blow my
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: nose for those three days. I didn't cough. I yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it was so bizarre, not sneezing and not having a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: stuffed nose. Which it was winter in Beijing at the time,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: or it was fall maybe, but I during cold weather,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I'll just have phlegm in my nose. My nose will
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: get stuffed very easily, and it will run pretty easily.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: And for those three days I had none of that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: There was no running nose, and my nose was not stuffed.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I actually I was. I remember clearly being shocked by
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: how much air I was taking in through my nose
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: because it's usually less air like. I was breathing very
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: easily through my nose, and I was like, this is
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: so great and bizarre because it seems to be tied
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to how much I eat, and is just eating inflaming
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: parts of my tissues enough that I can breathe in
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: air less easily. I also was breathing more slowly because
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: my body was like chilling out, you know, it didn't
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: have to go to any work metabolizing processing any food,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: so it was slowing down. It was metabolizing everything slower,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and my whole body felt calmer, and I was like, yeah, okay.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And after on the third day that I didn't blow
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: my nose. I didn't sneeze, cough, have a right nose, itch,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't itch. Oh, I didn't fart, I didn't burp.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I won't say at all, but I'll say near zero
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: for those three days. On the third day, I was like, Okay, well, clearly,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: at least some of those normal bodily functions are due
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to what I'm putting inside me. I would have sworn
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: that a stuffy nose is a stuffy nose is a
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: stuffy nose. It's a thing that happens if you got
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: a nose, But if you're not, if I'm all say,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: if I'm not putting food into my system, I don't
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: get stuffy noses and I don't sneeze, and I don't
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: have to blow my nose. So one of the things
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I noticed was that I could smell my underarm odor
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: very strongly, and I ended up taking like five showers
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a day while I was fasting, because right after I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: took a shower, more smell would come out. And if
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just with my arms closed, just watching YouTube, I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: could start to smell it. As it got stronger. My
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: sense of smell was definitely more sensitive, and I was like, okay,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and I just went and took another shower, and I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: would just take a bunch of showers until the smell
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: went away, which it did go away and didn't come
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: back as strongly or as frequently. Very interesting. I don't
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: know about that. I'm just talking about what happened. But
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I did notice that that smell more and I took
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: more showers. As a consequence. I felt a little high
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: still thut loopy, I said, like in the first one,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: but it felt the exact same. I didn't get more
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: high by the end of the third day than I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: did in the first twelve hours of not eating. It
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: was just like, I don't want to say fuzzy, because
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I was so clear. It was comfortable. A body high
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: is a very good way to put it. My entire
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: body was just a little energized, like my skin was
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: all just a little excited, like it was just happy
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to be skin, and everything felt a little little bit nicer,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and it was really interesting. So I felt like I
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: had a little bit of a body high, but I
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling sick or nauseous or uncomfortable in any way.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: After that first day of a few hunger things, I
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: think I also wanted breakfast the second day, like even
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: less briefly, briefly, you know, eight o'clock I wanted to eat,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: And then eight five, eight ten, and I was totally
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: forgot about eating again. Didn't have any physical, normal human
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: symptoms like blowing your nose. I was just hanging out
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: with a very comfortable body high, but super minimal. My
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: mind was perfectly clear. I would teach a few classes
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a day, I'd feel sort of a rush when I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was moving. I noticed when I was in the class
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: moving around, my body was like, heck, yeah, let's do it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Let's move around. And it was like kind of excited
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to me moving around, and then as soon as I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: would stop and sit down, my body would be like,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, let's relax, now, let's stop moving. This is great,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Like it was just really excited to be in whatever
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: state I was doing. It was a very interesting feedback
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: process from my body that I wasn't used to whatever
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: it was doing. It was like into it. When I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: was running around corraling my students, it was like, this
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: is so much fun. And then when I would sit
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: down and watch YouTube, it was like, oh, let's just
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: watch YouTube for three hours and it was and I
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: was totally the video. So it was a great time.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And just having this body high just tingling all over
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: like super minimal, you know, microdosing a body high was
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: very comfortable and fun for me. And after school I
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: hung out with people like normal. I just didn't eat
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and didn't drink beer and they asked me. I just
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: told them I was like I'm trying fasting. I'm just
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: seeing how it goes. And they're like, okay, cool. And
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the evening was totally normal after that, and they just
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: asked what I had seen so far, and I was like,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I haven't farted in like sixty hours, it's crazy. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I haven't like spit. I haven't had phlegm in just
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: as long. So they were interested, but it didn't really
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: kill my social life, and I was only doing it
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: for a few days anyway, so it was just this
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: interesting thing. I just hung out, smelled the good smells.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Felt like I was getting sustenance from just the smells,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Like the Roman gods are supposed to you cook the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: meat for them on a spit and they imbibed the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: odor and that's enough sustenance. I just inhaled the scent
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: of hot pot. So three days passed very easily, and
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: after three days I was like, okay, that's seventy two hours.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: It's done. And that whole day I was like looking around.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, what do I eat? And as
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I was looking around, I was like, I I don't
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: really want to eat anything, and I was looking at
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: all stuff and I just couldn't decide on what I
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: wanted to eat exactly. And I still had normal extra
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: American body fat that I was like, I definitely have
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: more calories here. But it's been three days i'm introducing
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: my body to fasting, I'll eat something, and so I
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: think I decided on a gmbing or something, but I
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: ate it, and my body was like, yeah, that's cool.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't start with a huge sugary thing. But my
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: body was also like, we don't need it, though, that's fine,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh shoot, I didn't need it,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: And as soon as I ate it, I wanted to
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: have gone further with fasting. My body was instantly reassuring
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: me that I hadn't really needed food again yet. But
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I started eating again and my body got used to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: me forcing food into it all the time again. But
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: now I was even more so less interested in sugary snacks.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't the strength of the flavor either, which
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I found interesting because I like strong flavors a lot.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: So I ate some dishes that are particularly strong, like
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: gondi and doja ou very salty, just very strong flavor
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Sichuan peppercorn, and I loved that that tasted great. It
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: tasted like too much food, but it tasted very good.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: But every time I would try a candy again, my
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: body was like, Nope, you don't need this anymore. And
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: there was no time. It was just like, we don't
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: really need to do sugar anymore. If you don't want
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to shove it into your mouth, there's no reason to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: eat any of those sugary snacks. That's about the time
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I stopped drinking soda, which I would have it now
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and then during lunch, but I quickly realized that I
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: didn't want soda. I was just drinking it out of habit.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Drinking soda didn't make me feel good and gave me
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: symptoms like a runny nose or sneezing. And that's the
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: time I stopped buying candy bars when I wanted a snack.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: If I wanted a snack, I would get something savory,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: but I stopped. I largely stopped eating sugar and ice cream,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and China is terrible, so I wasn't lulled by ice
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: cream as I am in other places. Hey, if anyone
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: knows good ice cream in China, hit me up. I
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: want to travel back there, and I would try a recommendation.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: But I have tried ice cream across China for a
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: long time, almost a decade, and I haven't said wow
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to any of them yet. So hit me up with
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a recommendation if you have one, but that three days.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure after twenty four hours, but definitely after
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: that three days, I was like, Okay, things have recalibrated.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: My taste buds are going back and they're telling me
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: things way more strongly. My stomach is letting me know
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: what it wants in it. My taste buds right away
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: are telling me that's not something you need to eat,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that's not something you want to eat. Eat something else.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: It felt like a reset. I also, speaking of my stomach,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I wasn't as interested on eating past my sense of
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: being full, which was so clear, the clearest I had
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: ever consciously been aware of it. After those three days
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of fasting, when I went to eat hot pot the
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: first time, I ate and it was like there was
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a percentage counter, and I hit a very clear red
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: line in my stomach, and my body almost said, in words,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that's enough food. You don't need to eat any more
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: food for an indefinite period of time. You have plenty
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: of food in your stomach for us to work with
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: right now and metabolize into energy. It was so strange
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: how clearly I heard that from my stomach and my body.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I think I just kept eating because it tasted so good,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: but it was very clear to me that I didn't
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and I did stop. For the first time, I think
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: in my life, I saved leftovers before I was too
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: full to eat any more. Because there's this thing called
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a robing and it's a meat pie, a Chinese meat pie,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: and I always ate that, all of it, every single
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: time I ordered one. Just like every time I got
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: a pizza in the States, I ate the whole pizza
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: instead of putting it away unless I was so full
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I was gonna throw up. Then I would save leftovers.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: But for the first time in my life, I was
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: eating until I hit that very clear line. My stomach
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: was like, you're full of food. And then I put
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: it in a container and put the container in the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: fridge and saved food. And I was like, that is weird.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: It's weird. You've never done this before, but it feels
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: weird saving food that you could eat, but you know
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: you don't have to. It was such a bizarre reset
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: for my stomach, and that red line was just right there,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: so I just didn't have to guess, like, well, maybe
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I should go In case I go jogging, my body
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: was like nope, you don't. You don't need that. That
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: made me start paying attention to the amount of calories
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: that was in the food I was eating, because I
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: was eating thousands of calories a day. If the crape
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: that I had was let's say three hundred calories absolute minimum,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: probably double that. And then I was having a lunch
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of a big meat pie for myself plus a coke
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: seven to eleven soush. She probably had that after my breakfast.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: If my friend went to eat, I'd get a bowl
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: of soup after class from the little mom and popshop.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I love the tomato egg soup they have, and that's
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: shavings of dough that become noodles when they cook it.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, that's like three thousand calories
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: by lunchtime for me, Like that's not a crazy thing.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: And then at dinner we would all start drinking beer,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: which are easily one hundred and fifty calories each, and
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Chinese beers are all six hundred milliliters, so very likely
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: more than two hundred calories each one, and I was
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: having ten of those a day very regularly, So that's
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: two thousand calories just from the beer in a day.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: And I had another two to three thousand in the
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: first half of the day. And that's not even mentioning dinner,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: which is another who knows how many calories. But let's
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: say it was like a regular day and I just
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: had my breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the beers, which was
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: very normal. I had a crepe in the morning and
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: then the meat pie for lunch, and then I went
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to Hot pot At Hot pot I was known for
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: eating just constant. I just eat it. I just eat it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just said eat it. That's staying in.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I just ate until the night was over. Bring one
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: more plate of lamb meat or pig meat. No, it
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: was usually beef in that time. So zailai pan you roll,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Zailaii pan bosi. Bring me one more plate of beef,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Bring me one more plate of spinach. And this was
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: very well known. If I went to Hot pot I
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: after everyone else had stopped eating, I would just every
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty minutes order one more plate of beef and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: one more plate of spinach until everybody was like, Okay,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: it's time to go, and that's when I would stop eating.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: That was normal for me. So I don't know how
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: many thousands of calories I was eating every day, but
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: after that three day fast and then I could feel
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: that hard red line. I was just flabbergasted by how
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: much extra food I was eating every day. And that's
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: when I looked up how many calories were in beer.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: That's how I know the number now of generally one
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty for a three hundred and thirty milliliter
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: can of beer. And like I said, Chinese beers are
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: not three thirty like American beers. Chinese beers are six
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: hundred milileters a lower alcohol content, but that's almost double
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the volume of a malted beverage. I was shocked doing
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: research on beer when I came across the phrase liquid bread.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I was drinking my daily calories just from beer very often,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: and then thousands of calories on top of that. So
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: when I would eat the crape after that three day fast,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I felt the crape hit the red line and it
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: was halfway done, like being processed by the time I
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: got to lunch time, and I was like, well, really
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: do I I only need to eat a little bit
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: more for lunch to be like at my full capacity,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: which I found out was normal full, and my entire life.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: I had always eaten until overflowing. That's what I was,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought full, was eating until I literally
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: could not anymore. I was like, oh, yeah, now I'm full,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: because I was actually volumetrically full. It's funny to think
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: about that now. So I would say, oh, so half
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the crape is still there, but just to check, I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: would get a full plate of the tomato egg soup,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: and when I would drink that, I felt it go
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: over the red line. I was like, yeah, okay, so
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I know exactly how much my body wants to eat,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and like, if it's a superclorically dense food like the crape,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: my body's like that's definitely enough. And if it's maybe
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: less dense like that soup, the line will go up
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: a little so I can have more volume. Like it was.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: It was just so stunningly clear feedback from my body
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: of how much of what it wanted to ingest. That
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: still blows my mind just thinking about that first revelatory
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: experience where I was like, oh my god, I don't
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: think I've ever listened to my body before, and now
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I can listen to my body. So it felt like
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: a total reset for me. And I was like, wow,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I haven't burped or farted or sneezed or coughed for
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: three days. I haven't itched for three days. The itching
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: was really interesting. I was like, then, what is itching?
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Is it just a nervous tick or is it a
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: localized inflammation from a snicker's? Like? Why do I not
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: itch if I don't eat? What is causing the itching normally?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: And not frantic scratching, but just the regular everyday a
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: little itchy right here? You scratching goes away? But I
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: didn't have any of those during those three days, and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I was less congested for about twenty four hours after
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I started eating again. So after those three days, I
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: ate and I still felt like I was fasting. I
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: was getting most of those benefits, except my stomach felt
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: like heavier. It was like, hey man, I was like, yeah,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I know. I don't know, there's hop in front of me.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Sorry, But I still
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: was clearly less congested than normal, like no phlegm or
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: blowing my nose or anything for a whole day. I
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: didn't sneeze after I ate or anything. So I waited
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: a week and then I tried it again. For seven days.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I fasted for seven days straight and that is still
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the longest I've ever fasted. Because I moved on to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: one meal a day after that, and that I get
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: to eat more that way. I'll do a different thing
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: about one meal a day. Some people call it an
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: episode who work in podcasts, but me call it a thing.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I'll do a separate episode about one meal a day,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: which is what I'm still doing today. But here I
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: was on a seven day fast for the first time,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: and again during that week that I was eating normally.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Between the three day and the seven day fast, I
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: was burbing and farting obviously, you know, digestion, sure, but
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I was also sneezing a lot, and I was coughing
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: a lot, and I was itching every now and then,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: and my nose was getting stuff. I had runny noses again.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I was getting all the normal oh, I have to
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: blow my nose a few times a day, just like
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: all those normal human things that I didn't have the
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: first or second time I fasted. And I, you know,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I had all those I wasn't sick. I just had
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: those normal body functions that people have that I have
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: when I eat. The running noses and sneezes didn't start
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: up right away for the first day of beer and
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: hot pot, but they did start back up as the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: days went on and I started eating how I used to.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Then I started fasting again for the week. After seven
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: days of normal eating, I was like, started my week
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: long fast and same thing. I felt good. I felt
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: pretty much normal. I had that super minimal body high
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: for seven days straight. I worked the entire week. I
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: was worried about that the first and second time I fasted,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have the energy to work if I
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: was fasting, but that never turned Nope. I always had
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: plenty of energy. So I worked I think five days
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: that week, and that was during a weekend two Saturday
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and Sunday, which are the heaviest times, so that's like
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: an eight hour day. But I was fine the whole time.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I hung out with friends afterward. I started getting random
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: compliments on my skin and eyes. I know how that sounds.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: One parent stopped me after class, and we usually talked
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: after class, like his son was pretty good and he
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: spoke pretty good English, so we got on. We just
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: chatted after class sometimes and during that week, I think
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it was like the fourth or fifth day, and he
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: was talking to me and he cocked his head to
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the side real quick and then said, wow, your eyes
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: look like really clear today, and no one's ever said
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: that to me in my life. And I was like, oh,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: what do you mean. He was like like, it's all
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: there's completely white around and then very bright eyes. And
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I looked in the mirror. They did
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: look better than usual. They weren't red or tired or
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: anything like. They looked good. But also I want to
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: note that Chinese people definitely notice skin flushing, the whites
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: of your eyes. They notice a lot of those basic
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: physical signs that a Western society does not pay any
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: attention to. So it does make sense that he would
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: notice if there was that kind of difference, especially since
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I was like drinking every day usually and my eyes
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: were probably bloodshot half the time because I was partying
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: all night and then teaching in the morning. But that's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: the only time I ever got that compliment, and it
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: was so apparent that a normal parent guy that I
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: talked to all the time felt the impetus to remark,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: your eyes look very clear and bright today. And I
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: definitely felt bit physically better, like my body, like, my
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: skin felt way smoother. That was a big one. The
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: skin on my face, like the pores closed up from
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: potholes into a cross stitch. Is that a good analogy.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Probably not, because there's needles there. My skin felt very
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: very smooth, like much smoother than it ever had been,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: especially on my face on the on the cheekbones. I
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: was like, well, it's not bumpy at all, it's just
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: it's as smooth as the skin on my underside of
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: my forearm, like very smooth skin. So that was really interesting.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: How rapidly my skin became smoother and more healthy. I
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: had the same thing. My smell was a little stronger.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I could smell my underarm. I just showered more and
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: that went away. But it was, Yeah, it was a
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: very interesting week because again I felt good the whole time.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I could work, I could do my projects. I had
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: fun exercising or relaxing. I was not sneezing, I was
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: not blowing my nose. I was not burping, coughing, itching
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: stuffy nose. You know, I didn't have to breathe in
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: through a stuffy nose or anything. It was just all fine,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: like it was. Yeah, it was great for a week.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: After a week, I was like, Okay, it's been a week,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: let's start eating. Except I knew like you're gonna eat,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and then and it happened. I ate something, and again
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I felt you could have just kept fasting. You're fine.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: I still had the plenty of weight on my stomach
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: because the amount of calories your body uses, like the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: amount of calories your body processes while you're fasting, decreases
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: the longer you fast. So we'll just say the first day,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: your body metabolized two thousand calories from your reserves of fat.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: The second day, it'll be more efficient and harvest twenty
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: to fifty calories from that same amount of fat. The
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: next twenty one hundred, it'll just become more efficient at
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: metabolizing fat. The longer you fast, you'll still drop weight quick,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: but you'll be losing less fat per day because your
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: body is more efficiently metabolizing calories from your weight reserves.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: It gets more efficient at processing the energy from fat. Apparently,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: is what the articles say that I read. So I
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: still had plenty of fat even after a week, because
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: that's mean after a week, if I took two thousand
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: calories a day, like you know, a normal body, fourteen
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: thousand calories. That's that's a little over three pounds of fat.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: That's not a lot of fat. I easily had fifteen
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: twenty extra pounds of fat and probably more. But I
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: easily had that at the time, and I only used
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: up three of them over the week. I'll say I'm
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: guessing because I'll say I used two thousand calories but
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: three and a half pounds of fat out of the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: fifteen I had. Was a week of fasting. It was
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: very interesting and it was cool to lose a few
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: pounds like my body. I did notice that I could
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: because I had so rapidly lost weight that walking upstairs
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: felt a little easier for me. Like I remembered in
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: high school, I could just like bounce upstairs, and then
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: when I was an adult, I couldn't bounce upstairs. But
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: when I was fasting and a few of those pounds
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: dropped away, I was when I was going up the stairs,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I felt like the spring in my step again, and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe that's because I'm carrying a
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of that weight on my waist, and that's
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: why I don't spring in my step anymore. So I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: did feel like I didn't need to eat after I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: broke my fast. After those seven days, I was like, yep,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: you could have gone two weeks or three weeks, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt healthy already. I had established that fasting
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  Speaker 1: definitely did something positive for my body, and that I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go crazy with it, that I could control it,
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  Speaker 1: and that I felt much better feedback from my body.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly feel that I understand my body better because
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  Speaker 1: I decided to fast, And again that's not an endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just sharing what showed up for me. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: glad that I understand my body better. And I'm a guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with the insane pressure on
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  Speaker 1: a woman, so I cannot imagine the stress that comes
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  Speaker 1: with being just having images of impossibly literally impossibly shaped
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  Speaker 1: when and thrown at your face all the day and
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  Speaker 1: having a woman's body. So yeah, don't take this as
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  Speaker 1: any kind of endorsement on what everyone should do by
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  Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination, and especially if you're not
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  Speaker 1: a guy. Do not think that I am endorsing anything
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  Speaker 1: that women should do, because fasting is whatever the heck.
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  Speaker 1: This is just my story, my journey through fasting that
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  Speaker 1: I learned from personal lessons. I liked fasting. I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of benefits from it. I learned, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I love learning. I learned so much about my body
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  Speaker 1: and I could hear my body talking to me for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. It just changed so much for me.
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  Speaker 1: I like the body high too. If I stop eating
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  Speaker 1: for like, I don't know, twelve fifteen hours or something,
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  Speaker 1: I get that little like tingly, like feeling the whole
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  Speaker 1: body high thing, and that just stays until I eat again.
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  Speaker 1: So I do like that a lot. I liked that
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  Speaker 1: it was totally safe. I liked that fasting reset my
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  Speaker 1: tastes and appetites. I liked that it was safe and
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  Speaker 1: like the scientific known thing also, and I could be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: did you know fasting? I did like having that little
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  Speaker 1: secret piece of knowledge. I should admit to that. I
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  Speaker 1: loved no burping, farting. I loved loved no sneezing, no phlegm.
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  Speaker 1: I love not blowing my nose. I don't like having
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And until I started fasting, I would
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  Speaker 1: deal with a running nose for hours or days. Now
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  Speaker 1: I can get rid of them after a couple hours
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  Speaker 1: by fasting. And if I fast for a day. They
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  Speaker 1: usually don't come back. If they do it, just fast
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  Speaker 1: for another day and then they're gone. I do not
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  Speaker 1: want to deal with runny noses. So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I got to keep experimenting with my body because if
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  Speaker 1: there's a way that I can eat what I want
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  Speaker 1: to and not sneeze and have to blow my nose
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  Speaker 1: all the time, I got to figure that out, which
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  Speaker 1: eventually I did one meal a day. That's the I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to keep you in suspense. One meal a
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  Speaker 1: day does that for me. But for fasting, I liked
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  Speaker 1: that I could exercise and work and relax without any
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  Speaker 1: apparent loss of function. I liked the compliments I got,
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  Speaker 1: Like I got that compliment on my eye, but those
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  Speaker 1: days everyone said something like I know. Another one of
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese assistants told me how smooth my skin looked,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when I noticed my skin the first time
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  Speaker 1: during fasting. I was like, holy cow, it is super smooth.
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  Speaker 1: It's never looked that smooth before. So I liked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things, like a lot of the physical
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  Speaker 1: things about fasting, the positive developments, and I also just
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  Speaker 1: loved learning about it, and like learning about my body
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  Speaker 1: and listening to my body more, and that got me
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  Speaker 1: trying out other diets like Atkins, which I also liked,
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  Speaker 1: very restrictive than one meal a day, which is where
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  Speaker 1: I currently sit what works for me now. I don't
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  Speaker 1: generally fast unless I'm sick anymore. If I get sick
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  Speaker 1: and it's bad, you know, not even bad if I
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  Speaker 1: have a running nose, which is the thing in my
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  Speaker 1: life I hate the most. Also, I haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: running nose that doesn't respond to fasting. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a decade, I don't know a long time
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  Speaker 1: I fast. If I ever start to have a running
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  Speaker 1: nose or a cold, I'll just fast and then that
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  Speaker 1: cold goes away. And especially the running nose, the runny
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  Speaker 1: nose stops running, which is such a valuable trick to
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  Speaker 1: have in my back pocket. Sometimes I don't fast and
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  Speaker 1: I just let it go because one meal a day
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  Speaker 1: pretty much deals with all that stuff. Anyway, I'll still
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  Speaker 1: have maybe a stuffed nose when I'm doing one meal
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  Speaker 1: a day if I drink way too much beer or
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  Speaker 1: eat way too much sugar, or just eat way way
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  Speaker 1: way too much for a long time. But as long
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  Speaker 1: as I'm eating normally, and I don't drink twelve beers
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  Speaker 1: in a row. I still get to eat all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff I like, and I don't have a runny nose
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  Speaker 1: or all the other I'm not sneezing all the time
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  Speaker 1: like I do. I'll talk about one meal a day
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  Speaker 1: in another episode in detail, excruciating detail. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is the longest episode so far. So if I'm sick,
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  Speaker 1: I will still do total fasts, and that deals with
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  Speaker 1: all of the symptoms immediately, and it seems to deal
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  Speaker 1: with common colds and anything like that pretty rapidly. Also,
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  Speaker 1: if I feel really bad for whatever reason, I will
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  Speaker 1: fast until that problem is alleviated. I mean I haven't
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  Speaker 1: I haven't really had that in a very long time now.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had a cold that's bummed me out, or
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  Speaker 1: a stomach virus that's debilitated me or anything in years.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I've had a cold while I was on
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  Speaker 1: a bender, Like I got a cold after I drank
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  Speaker 1: twenty beers a day and ate constantly on a break
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  Speaker 1: while I was on vacation. And by vacation I mean
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  Speaker 1: drink too many beers for several days and eat food constantly.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, of course, you're getting sick.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what you're doing to yourself. But it was
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  Speaker 1: really fun. But in terms of like normal every day,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I was like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, a cold is coming on. There's nothing I
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  Speaker 1: can do about it. Yeah. No, I It's been a
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  Speaker 1: really long time since I've had a fever or a
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  Speaker 1: runny nose, at least one whose symptoms doesn't immediately respond
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  Speaker 1: to fasting as in years. I did break this down
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  Speaker 1: in my notes. I ate a bunch of sugar one
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  Speaker 1: day that was probably maybe that was in Laos, where
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  Speaker 1: I was eating like the six friggin' ice creams during
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  Speaker 1: my one meal a day. But then I fasted for
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  Speaker 1: a day and after a couple hours, the running nose
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  Speaker 1: stops when I fast, so it stopped, and then the
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  Speaker 1: cold was totally gone the next day and I went
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  Speaker 1: to night ice cream again. I have that written down
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  Speaker 1: in my journal that I did take for the seven
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  Speaker 1: day fasting, but I just have this little I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where the original one is. I just have a
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  Speaker 1: few notes here. The running nose, I know imagined. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a big one for me. If you are furious
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  Speaker 1: at a running nose, that will not stop. But you
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  Speaker 1: were like, I'm totally healthy, why won't this running nose stop.
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  Speaker 1: You can give it a try. I mean it works
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  Speaker 1: for me so fast. I just stop eating and a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours later, at most my running noses go away
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent every single time. That works for me.
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  Speaker 1: Other people tried fasting after I went the full week,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the people who tried it was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is pretty easy. If you like video games,
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  Speaker 1: you just have water next to you at all times.
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  Speaker 1: Throw on the witch or wild hunt, like, throw yourself
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  Speaker 1: into the game. If you like video games, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. You'll emerge seven days later having fasted,
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  Speaker 1: and he got a lot of the health benefits. He
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  Speaker 1: was on the can all the time. He had a
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  Speaker 1: really bad digestive tract anyway, and this vastly improved his
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  Speaker 1: time on the toilet. He was also remarking, he was like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe, like I didn't blow my nose for
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  Speaker 1: a week. And he's a smoker too, so he was
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  Speaker 1: smoking and drinking coffee. But he still reported pretty much
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  Speaker 1: all of the same alleviation of symptoms normal human symptoms
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  Speaker 1: that I have talked about so many times already in
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  Speaker 1: excruciating detail. Thanks for sticking with me. It was great
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  Speaker 1: talking about this again. I do like fasting and I
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  Speaker 1: do use it. If I ever feel a runny nose
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  Speaker 1: or if I sneeze, I'll be like, oh, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should need today, But with one meal a day, that's
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  Speaker 1: not really an issue anymore. So keep an eye out
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  Speaker 1: for the one meal a day episode. I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: how I basically get all the benefits except the body high,
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  Speaker 1: which I do miss, but I still get to eat
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  Speaker 1: every day. If I just have an eating window with
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  Speaker 1: one meal a day, have a great rest of your day.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely let me know if you have any stories about
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  Speaker 1: fasting or one meal a day or any dietary stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always interested in that stuff. I have mine that
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  Speaker 1: work for me, but I'm interested in hearing healthy ways
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  Speaker 1: people eat. As long as you're healthy and it's having
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  Speaker 1: a positive effect on your body, I'm keen to hear
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  Speaker 1: about it. Thank you for listening. You can reach me
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a rambler at gmail dot com or
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  Speaker 1: any social media and I will talk to you soon.