FASTING MISTAKES This Is When People Take Fasting Too Far! | Dr. Mindy Pelz

 

okay resetters so I get that so many of

you love fasting I get it I love it I'm

with you but many of you are taking

fasting too far and hopefully in all my

teachings you're understanding that I'm

a big fan of cycling fasting I don't

believe that we should just fast fast

fast and we are meant for feast famine

cycling and women I really encourage you

do it to your homeownal profile this was

What fast like a girl was all about so

we really need to have this conversation

about when do you know you're taking

fasting too far because I want you to be

safe and I want you to get the best

results out of fasting that you possibly

can so there are seven things that I

want you to pay close close attention to

and if these seven show up I want you to

step out of fasting for a moment and

then go back in and it's the cycle in

and out the metabolic switch in and out

where the miracles happen so always keep

that in mind so the first one are heart

palpitations so and this really ties

into the adrenal gland so I want you to

remember that that your adrenals there

is a cortisol surge that happens when we

fast every length fast creates a little

different cortisol Surge and that's okay

A little Spike of cortisol is like you

know there's cortisol surges and

exercise so a little Spike's not

horrible but when we start feeling a lot

of heart palpitations or you go from

sitting to standing and you get really

dizzy weather in the fasted state or

when you eat there's a large chance

you're fasting too much and your

adrenals are starting to respond in a

negative way so we need what the

adrenals do really well with pulsing in

stress the adrenals don't do well with

chronic stress over and over and over

again so if you have a very stressed out

life and you're continuing to fast fast

fast fast fast and you're getting these

heart palpitations you're standing up

you're dizzy your adrenals are saying

I'm maxed I don't know how to how to

turn off your nervous system saying it's

not flipping back into parasympathetic

mode and so that is a sign you need to

slow down down on the fast maybe eat

breakfast for a week just don't fast for

a moment and then go back in nourish the

body give the adrenals a break take some

chill out around around your stress

maybe it's vacation you decide when you

go on vacation you're not going to fast

so you can nourish those adrenals so

that when you come back into a fasting

lifestyle it works for you okay second

sign hair loss so we saw this a lot when

my when I first started my channel is

that so many people especially women

were losing hair now I want you to

remember that your hair takes a lot of

vitamins and minerals and so when you're

fasting you're not bringing in vitamins

and minerals so what you want to make

sure is that when hair loss starts

happening it's actually a sign that

you're becoming vitamin and mineral

depleted so there are a lot of I've

brought you a lot of minerals here that

we love that you can start to upregulate

and drink in your fasting window element

is one of them I've done podcasts

talking about minerals I'm mildly a

little um maybe more than a little

obsessed with minerals I think it's like

the Forgotten nutrient so but when we

start fasting you have to remember

you're not bringing in vitamins and

minerals so it's really important that

um you if hair is falling out you start

to see that you may be fasting too much

and you can step out and start building

up your mineral balance and really pour

into the mineral content of your body

and then go back okay the third one is

mood changes so here's the thing about

mood

um I did a video on on ketones and what

ketones do for us and one of the things

that ketones do for us is they

upregulate dopamine and serotonin and

Gaba those three neurotransmitters keep

us really happy and calm they're juicy

and wonderful and when we go into a

fasted State we should have all three of

them at working at their best and we

should be happy in a fasted state

if you start going into a fasted State

and you're depressed that is two things

one that can be a sign you are losing

like amino acids and and vitamins and

minerals because you need those to make

neurotransmitters that keep you happy so

if you start noticing like every time

you get into a fasted State you're

getting more and more depressed but also

when you're when your sympathetic

nervous system gets constantly on

overload and you've been fasting too

much and cortisol has been too high for

too long you move into a new nervous

system called the freeze nervous system

and the freeze nervous system is where

we withdraw it's where we become uh

depressed it's where we stop caring I

can tell you you know the people in my

reset Academy I shared this as I've been

launching fast like a girl out into the

world I traveled so much I'd done so

many interviews I started to notice that

I I was withdrawing I was going into a

state of depression which is not my

normal State and I use that as an

indication my nervous system had now

gone into this freeze nervous system and

it was time for me to start to rehab

dinner nervous system so if that's you

with fasting please vary your fast more

step out of the fasted State okay number

four talked about this before but I'm

going to bring it back up those of you

who are gaining weight when you're

fasting and you're trying harder and

harder and harder to lose weight or to

fast more to be able to lose weight you

might have to step out and feast for a

week and then go back into your fasted

State now interesting enough I'm finding

that the gaining weight is happening

more to women than to men just based off

of what I see here on my YouTube channel

so it for those women if you're a woman

and you're gaining weight and you're

fasting more and more and more make sure

you're fasting like a girl so we have to

fast with our hormones but I I saw early

on here on my YouTube channel what would

end up happening is that a lot of the O

matters the one meal a day people that

had fallen followed Jason Fung from with

his obesity code book A lot of them what

they were finding is that they lost a

ton of weight but then all the O matters

what ended up happening is there they

stopped they didn't vary their fast and

they started to gain weight and that was

actually the birth of my YouTube channel

here is a lot of them found me over here

as I was teaching the science behind

varying fast through fasting variation

and through women for cycling so if

you're gaining weight you got to vary

your fast you might need to step out

okay number five thyroid problems

so this is big especially for women

especially for women going through

menopause 50 of women going through

menopause are going to end up with a

thyroid issue every cell in your body

has a receptor site for T3 your your

bioactive version of your thyroid

hormone so one of the things that the

thyroid needs is calorie it's not that

fasting tanks the thyroid it's that if

you're fasting so much you're only

eating one meal a day and not getting

enough calories that tanks the thyroid

so you need about 1200 to 1500 calories

a day for your thyroid so please please

please make sure this is the only time I

encourage you to look at calories but if

you're an O matter and you're fasting a

lot and you got one meal a day going for

you make sure it's not 800 calories make

sure you're getting enough calories if

thyroid problems show up when you're

fasting it's because you're not getting

enough food you're fasting too long not

leaving enough time for fish so be aware

of that okay number six also a very

controversial one which is you start to

lose muscle so remember when we go into

like a 3 or five day water fast it's

common to feel like your muscles shrink

but then that's just the cleaning out of

all of that glucose but then when you

actually go back into a Fed state if you

follow the principles I've been teaching

here where you actually start to eat

more protein you can actually see your

muscle grow stronger so if you are

noticing over time that you're getting

less muscle and less muscle and you're

fasting more and more you want to make

sure you're eating enough protein so I

think the biggest challenge we have uh

with taking fasting too far is that what

we start to to feel is all these

incredible benefits and we don't want to

step out of fasting believe me I I'm I

can be in that position often but if

we're starting to wait muscles starting

to break down that's not good because

muscle is the organ of longevity we need

to pay a close attention to muscle so I

don't want you to lose sight of the fact

that fasting too much and taking too far

can be at the detriment of muscle so

make sure you're eating more protein

make sure you're having some feast days

you're not always fast okay I gotta

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Right In okay and the last one number

seven is when you just stop getting

results like you just everything you're

trying to fast your mental Clarity your

energy your moods your weight loss like

fasting just feels like it's not working

for you anymore you took it too far you

didn't vary it you need to stop with it

you just took it too far so if that is

you and you want to get your results

back you're going to have to step out of

the fasted State and then go back in and

your results will start happening again

so make sure that you pay close

attention to your intention behind why

you're fasting because a lot of us come

to fasting to lose weight and that's

awesome but I'm going to ask you to stay

for all the other benefits metabol

health is the most important part I

believe of our entire health and I

actually think a lot of experts believe

this we got to bring our metabolic

Health back so if you came to fasting

because you wanted to lose weight I'm

going to ask that you stay for all the

wonderful metabolic health benefits that

will improve your immune system will

help mental Clarity it will slow down

aging will help your performance in life

will balance your sex hormones all the

incredible things that fasting can do

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