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Losing weight should't be expensive or complicated. The ideal process would reduce our stress while driving results. Dr. Z weaves together his perspective on physical and mental health and the powerful way that fasting can connect these two spheres of our lives. Let's move toward total wellness and a holistic vision of health and healing. Learn more at SimpleFasting.com
Good morning.
Hello.
Welcome.
To Fasting Space.
So nice to be with you here.
Fasting strikes a chord.
It does with me anyway.
It has for a long time.
How about you? Does it?
Fasting space.
A place for people.
Where they say yes, fasting strikes
a chord.
Also a place for people who say, no.
I don't think so.
We can all come together.
Think about it.
You know,
just explore the ideas.
Or sink deeper into the process.
Grab a tea with me today.
I've got a beautiful little camomile tea
that I have.
Help set the tone for the week.
We want to set the tone for me. Very calm.
Settled.
Start to the week.
Get in a groove, a good groove.
So this is the thought that came to me.
Fasting, striking a chord
while I was playing a little music.
This weekend, a little jazz.
I was thinking of just,
the chords and the tones.
And I started thinking, well,
what are different tones of fasting?
And if fasting was a chord,
what would it look like?
Show you
going to hop over here by the lake.
This is the footage
I fill in the other week of the capitol
across the lake.
Just for fun,
I said F major, seven for a fasting chord
for a few different reasons.
Just filling up the space.
These are the notes.
Fassi
filling up the space and symmetry.
If we're just going to look at our treble
clef and we say, well,
these notes are balanced to me,
fasting space, trying
to bring some balance into our life.
When we think times, eating and fasting,
how do we bring all these
things into balance in a way?
That serves us best?
I had the funny thought,
you know, in med school
they teach us how to percussive things.
Do you know about this?
You got you take this joint
second finger here.
It's like that bone there.
You put it on things
you can percussive on the body.
You can hear spaces
where it's hollow, spaces where it isn't.
It's like if someone's lung is filling up
with fluid, you can tap it out.
You can know.
I was thinking about resonance.
Okay?
To me, fasting has always resonated,
at least since that beautiful day
when I really saw
the healing potential resonates.
And so we think about in music
things that resonate,
you know, think of an electric guitar,
solid body, no resonance.
Right? Think of the tone you get there.
Got to have pickups
in order to amplify it.
Think of an acoustic
guitar, the big open space,
no pickups needed.
You know,
for the immediate area.
Still need a pickup
to blast it out at a concert, but right.
The body resonates, shapes the tone.
The material of it vibrates
along with the music
helps to enrich it.
That's what I was thinking about,
about a fasting practice,
both metaphorically right in our space.
Is this something that is giving space
so that we can sing,
you know, optimize?
I was thinking, no, physically in the body
got a lot of resonance in the body
to sinus cavities, oral cavities, lungs,
like the whole body.
You think of singing.
I was like,
oh, fasting space actually bringing
a little more openness into the body,
a little more space to resonate.
I was thinking, oh, percussive stomach,
you can tell.
Is it full or is it not?
It's actually creating
an acoustic environment.
So in some ways,
literally, but mainly metaphorically.
I'm saying fasting space resonates.
And then F major seven
just for fun is like,
let's us hit the words on the line.
So I was like,
if the if there are four notes in our
standard voicing here is like,
what would they be?
So I, give you the four that came to me
yesterday when I made my little picture.
And you feel free.
Do you have other tones that are
resonating today?
Feel free to throw them in the comments.
I'd love to know.
Know number one f the root tone.
Right.
Just the the thing that was feeling
the most solid to me yesterday.
The most grounding is just that fasting
is directly
encountering energy in the body.
Where is energy?
You know, sometimes we ask that question,
why am I feeling the way I do?
The energy is not where we want or
we're trying to lose some of it, right?
How do we get this energy out of the body?
How do we unlock
space where it can flow without struggle?
So to me, when I think of a fasting space,
I think so
many ways that we are interested
in energy in the body.
This is like a key thing.
You want some space
where energy can flow out of the body.
Okay.
Where we shift the balance,
time where energy has stopped
flowing into the body.
Body keeps running in this,
beautiful way that it does.
We don't have to make it happen.
It just does it for us.
The heart is beating.
The breath is flowing in and out,
our mind always working for us.
Even when we're dreaming.
It just keeps right on going,
even at night.
So I love this.
And so I pick for the third
mindset.
And to me
I say F major seven, right, a major chord.
You remember the major chords,
the happier
sounding, the positive we go minor third.
Then it's a little more melancholy.
People say a little more sad.
Right?
So mindset, this is that shifting point.
Are we playing a major chord or a minor
chord?
Fasting space getting right in there?
I pick major chord
because we're starting the week
and we are trying to lift ourselves up
in the most positive way.
I so let's, to the best we can.
We try to play a major chord
with our fasting practice today.
But like to me it's also like in there
because like we did with
this footage, at the end of the week,
we did the blue hour, right?
And we said, look, we're
we're stuck in the middle of social media
culture and hustle culture
and everything, always curated feeds.
And so I just
say, look at the third, the,
it's available, right?
And it can be part of a fasting space
to little minor chord.
Embrace the challenge, the resistance.
All of this is okay, just open space.
But to me, the mindset
that is the most interesting to me
in fasting space is the
the major chord mindset
that something that is looked upon
by society that is restrictive,
even discouraging say, oh, that's
like something I would pay to avoid,
can actually be a thing that brings joy
and contentment, peace, happiness.
See, this is like beautiful music.
Do you see what I'm saying?
To use our analogy.
So I totally love it.
Do you find that to be the case?
Do you get into a fasting space?
Maybe you flow through some hunger
and then back out of it?
Isn't that where a place where
you can find some joy and positivity,
especially if you have struggled with
hunger and food cravings for a long time,
like passing through
the experience to the other side
and recognize
like you mean this doesn't go on forever.
I can get into a space where
we can flow through it.
Happy Monday!
Hello, how are you? Welcome.
So nice to have you here.
That to me is the way we really create
a lot of positive mindsets.
Start finding energy inside of ourselves,
recognizing
that we can flow through it,
that we can have a positive attitude.
Do something difficult right?
To flow out of a hunger space.
Stay in a fasting space,
feeling energy flowing in the body.
No, that's a good feeling, right?
That is the type of thing that is like,
feels like beautiful music in the body.
That's what I want for people.
I want people feeling energy.
I want people feeling encouraged.
And then I note three
the fifth.
Right, which is just a solid, supportive
note.
Right? The cost of it.
This is what I was just
reflecting on yesterday.
The idea that we can find a space.
This is the ideal space
where we can find energy in the body.
Find a mindset of positivity, peace,
contentment happening.
That it doesn't cost
anything and can in fact save money.
This is it is the complete inversion
of everything that society sells.
I think this is why I like it so much,
because, you know, we have the option
that is like this that costs $1,000
a month or whatever the co-pay is, right?
I was like, say, but here's something.
Even without side effects,
this is what I was saying.
So many side effects can happen
to so many different interventions.
Fasting is a part of normal human
physiology, like the body
is designed to do it.
We don't have to force it into any space
by altering the hormonal structure
or anything.
If, say, if there is a side effect to it,
it is like that.
We just have to experience the reality
of what it is like
to not have food for a period of time.
There's the barrier, there
is the struggle, there is the opportunity.
And this is the type of thing
that I really want to help people flow
through, embrace,
learn, practice over time
so that it can stop
feeling like a barrier.
Start feeling like
a beautiful song, starting to play.
That's what I want.
That's what it would be like.
Does fasting strike a chord?
You say, oh, now we are in a
a different relationship with it.
Now I feel
that start of that hunger experience.
I was going to have the snack
that I used to, but you know what?
This is not so bad. Actually.
There
can actually
come to be a certain comfort in it.
This is what I want to see.
Of these jazzy little tones coming.
Comforting. Interesting, right?
That's why I'm kind of dialing into jazz
with the kind of interesting, you know.
Especially
if somebody's never heard it before.
You've only heard
classical music your whole life.
And then people started playing jazz
and they're like, whoa,
that's interesting.
That's like people told their whole life,
we have to keep eating all the time.
There's damage is going to come
to the body, and then we're in this space.
It's so confused because people like,
but I need to lose weight.
And so but they're like, but
don't stop eating, but just not too much.
And then we just get stuck in this tiny
box that is a restrictive
space, say,
oh, how do you break out of that?
Oh, like, body can do
that. Body has plans.
Body actually uses the space to do
some beautiful work in the body for free.
Doesn't that
give some good vibes in the being?
You know, like to think, you know,
my body is strong.
My body here not broken.
Like we are navigating this life.
We are here in this crazy time culture.
Just a mess.
You know what?
We got this here
for at least a little while.
Gonna float through a space,
everything going to be okay.
And that kind of leads me to this
fourth note.
Major.
Seventh on the F major.
Seven if you're playing jazz. Right.
I'm not an expert jazz musician.
A dabbler,
one might say, but, a major seven chord
tonic chord is like the most vanilla chord
in jazz to me.
It's interesting.
Like even in the midst of this
totally like, normal chord.
Like, we still got where a half step off,
you know, it's like we're still
got a little dissonance,
a little tension, a little intrigue
baked into the
the root level, a little fun, you know?
And,
to me, that is
getting into this space of fasting
as a cultural critique,
fasting
as a way to push back against a culture
that, to me feels completely
out of balance and off the mark.
Like I feel like we are just careening off
into some other place as is not healthy.
Like the experience
you say of being here in this moment,
especially metabolically, say,
it just doesn't feel healthy.
We've got to struggle in this space
going on.
And to me, when I think about that
and I think about the things
that are important to me,
like minimalism and first, do no harm.
And, you know, these core fundamental
things, I say, well,
here, fasting, this is an interesting
note, easy to overlook, right?
But it's a quiet, like a quiet little
sound hanging out in the background.
But then you
hear it is like, oh, that's interesting,
I hear that that's a little different.
You know,
that sounds good to me.
That's the idea.
Fasting strikes a chord is like,
I didn't quite know what I thought
at first.
That was a little different,
but now I'm catching the melody.
I'd like to listen
to a little more of that, you know what
I mean?
Do you feel that way?
Have you found a practice?
Fasting,
like we have said over the past weeks,
can be many different things
to different people.
I've got a video. Did I post it?
I think on Sunday, a highlight video,
micro fasting.
I took the little highlight
where we just see, okay,
if we are told that
we need our three meals and we got a jam,
three more snacks like all throughout
the day, end up eating all the time.
Someone says fasting
a little too intense for me,
but I'm having trouble losing weight.
It's like we see a, advice commonly
in nutrition spaces.
Oh, add a snack, right?
It's like we're trying to lose weight.
Add a snack.
People will say that.
Keep the metabolism going
so it doesn't slow down.
Is is this working for very many people
in the big picture?
Snacking.
Not a part that I can see of human culture
in any time until this modern era.
Eating frequently.
Also not so much of a thing, you know,
actually taking away a snack, right?
If you don't like that language,
say just refraining from it, say,
this is not the thing
that I'm going to do for a time.
I'm going to flow through this space
without energy coming in.
Do you see that?
This is a very physiologic thing to do.
It's creating space.
And just look at this cord.
Think of the cord okay.
We see all these notes stacked up here.
I picked this cord
because of just the symmetry in the space.
But look at all the lines
between the space right.
There's notes in between there. Right.
And so
a meal and a space
and a meal and a space and a meal
and a space to see that
that's stacking up to a beautiful chord,
the eating that we are having.
Right.
If we never have any space,
if we're trying to build some beautiful
cord, okay, we're just going to hit
every note in one solid, solid thing. No.
Like we need space
to give differentiation, right?
We're going to be off in some real
20th century atonal stuff.
Did you ever listen to that?
See, I don't like that.
I like beautiful chords.
Wonderful intervals.
Right?
A major third, a major seventh.
Something sounds pleasing.
Or I think of the analogy.
We need some space.
How many times do you eat in a day?
What is the interval?
We have a root level
the first time we eat.
That's the tonic note. Wonderful.
What are the colors that we bring in?
Is it a third?
Is it a seventh. Right.
It's like how much space
helping the music of our metabolic lives
to sound as pleasing as possible.
Those were the analogies
that I came up with on my walk yesterday.
I was walking around.
I'm filming a video for you on a request,
a hooked up one of these
jobbers, continuous glucose monitor
the lingo.
This video
is not sponsored by this or any product.
Okay, I bought it.
They didn't send it to me or anything,
but I'm trying it out.
You know, I've had so many people that
I have helped on a weight loss process.
I've found a continuous glucose monitor.
Not not with any blood sugar problem.
Of course,
if you're trying to solve a blood sugar
problem is just such an invaluable tool.
Just trying to lose weight.
You're trying to understand, okay,
I see your your cord.
You know, I want to hear it, but
maybe I'm not quite hearing it, you know.
But can you feel energy in the body like.
Well,
like if you're having trouble with it?
I'm kind of a minimalist.
I wanted to do this for a long time.
But also, I hate, like, doing things.
I don't like getting poked with, things
I don't like, you know,
thinking of,
like, technology into my body, you know?
But I'm like, okay,
I see that it's helped a lot of people.
I really want to understand it.
So, anyway, I filmed a all
putting it on and going through the
process, and then I've been,
filming what I am eating and
what I am doing, and we just see
the impact on the blood sugar.
I'll tell you already,
I am learning some things.
Like yesterday
I had an oatmeal with fruit,
no added sugar, just an ample in a banana.
I had the oatmeal yesterday.
I was surprised
how much my blood sugar went up.
And so the little personal experiment
that I ran yesterday, I ate the oatmeal.
And then I sat and I did nothing.
I just did some work
for a couple hours.
We could just watch what happens.
And now I'm going to eat the exact same
oatmeal today,
and I'm going to go for a bike ride.
And I'm just going to see, like same food.
Like how does the exercise impact it.
And then we're going through the
fasting space and see how it settles out.
87 right now blood sugar.
So we'll see.
So, what experiments do you want to see?
I've been
I was joking with my kids last night.
They're like, because they were laughing
that my blood sugar went up higher
with the oatmeal.
They were like,
what would it do with the soda?
Because they, you
know, they give me a trouble.
That I never drink soda.
And because I encourage everybody
not to do it.
Not a metabolically good thing.
I haven't had a soda in just years.
Right. Years and years. And I just don't.
I don't want to,
but I am kind of curious, you know?
What? What would it do?
I don't I don't want to do it though, but
I don't know.
It'd be interesting.
One time when we got the monitor on.
So I'm going to compare my,
you know, my current plan.
I'm doing a couple oatmeal days exercise.
No exercise.
I'm going to do,
you know, then like a keto sort of day,
I'm going to just make a couple eggs
with a little avocado and
and then would just
to compare, I probably also,
do a little late night
snack, which is not the thing I like to do
either, but I'm gonna one day
I'm gonna make some popcorn,
I'm going to eat it before bed and just
and then just, you know, watch the sugar.
So just trying to create experiences
that are helpful
for people where we can see like, oh,
like here is what is happening.
And then I'm going to make my current,
thinking, well,
I won't tell you all my thoughts.
It's going to be fun.
I'm going to have a little fun with it.
So see what you think.
Are there experiences like that
that you are curious
about within reason?
A probably a do it,
but I probably I'll probably
have a root beer
for the soda that I can get the local one
that has a real sugar.
My, my kids are like, you've got to have a
Coke, you got to have a Coke.
I'm like, not suicidal, man.
It's like I'm not having high fructose
corn sirup here.
No high fructose corn
sirup test will be done.
I do not want to do it.
Have you used one of these?
What is your experience been?
Have you found it
helpful or are you curious?
Or do you say, no way?
Let me know what your experience is.
Just feeling it.
I would say, you know,
you know, it, it pinches a little bit.
So it's, but it's not bad.
I've talked to some different people
that say, like,
most of the time
people say you can't feel it.
And then I say, sometimes I don't know
if it just every once in a while
does it hit some tiny
cutaneous little nerve or something.
And sometimes people say,
oh, one bothered.
But then the next one didn't
T is striking a chord to me today.
I can say that
I kind of flow
in and out of a caffeinated space.
What is your experience or preference?
Caffeine.
You know, it, is a natural appetite
suppressant.
Fasting.
Of course the barrier hunger.
This is why I hit coffee in the morning.
Many people find it so pleasant,
and I still do.
And if I'm ever, you know,
wanting to do some fasting in the morning,
especially even through lunch,
if I'm having trouble with it. Man,
to me, coffee can be like a super fire
extinguisher on.
That's like really pleasant, but
like, tea also is like the caffeine.
I go back and forth
because it does amp me up a little bit.
I go half calves
most of the time when I have coffee.
I just don't like too much,
and sometimes
I do even feel it in the evening.
Still,
if I had a lot of coffee in the morning
and then that's not too pleasant either.
So to me, a fasting space.
With the tea and herbal tea is like,
like a next level chill, you know,
like.
A lot of hunger that we experience
actually thirstier,
the tea helping you to stay hydrated,
not amping you up in any way.
So like, it's a really resonating with me
today
I bought this loose leaf tea.
Amazing time that we're in.
This camomile tea is from Croatia,
all the way from Croatia to Madison to a
bless my fasting space with a
pleasant little.
Calorie free a
this is
this is like fasting comfort food, right?
Delicious little tea.
Such a calm, simple, beautiful way to
start the day.
For me.
I want this to be a very productive day.
I have a huge list of things
that I want to do.
Some days
a fasting space to me
is like productive space.
A some bad he mode.
Love it!
How are you doing?
Thanks for checking in.
Hope you are well.
I've got a couple of videos,
put a little,
you know, got a playlist on the channel
where I've organized different sessions
and videos into playlists.
I got one that is fasting
productivity sessions.
And,
To me, if I got a lot to do,
I want to be dialed in as productive
as possible.
See, fasting space is that for me?
Like, I'm going to free up all the time
spent preparing food
and cleaning up after it,
and the time where you kind of sit there
and feel like little,
you know, I don't feel like doing quite
as much sometimes
it's like I'm just gonna open up
more space for working.
And then the actual
physical space of working.
I am, most of the time
much more
productive, especially in the morning
if I just keep a fasting space going.
Like, I think there's real
physiologic reasons for that in the body.
When we eat something, we're shunting
blood flow into the stomach.
We're running like other processes.
It's taking real energy in the body.
That's like taking a
like,
I loved that mitochondrial talk.
We're talking about the energetic buffer.
Like how much capacity for work
do we have in this system.
You know, it's like if we're siphoning off
some of our energetic buffer
down in the digestive system,
don't you just feel
it takes a little horsepower away
from our focus sometimes?
And then to me, sometimes caffeine,
you know, having a coffee can like,
really ultra dial that space in for me.
A certain type of way.
And then on a different day,
sometimes it's actually
the opposite.
Maybe it's just if I overdo it,
but too much caffeine
and I feel jittery,
then I can also find it harder to focus.
Today
felt like it could be a day like that.
So today's combo for me
be fasting and a little herbal tea.
Com focus.
That's going to be my day.
Let the energy flow.
We'll watch it on the glucose monitor
up until well,
I guess it'll be an hour or something.
And then I'm going to hit the oatmeal.
I forgot about that.
I'm going to do the oatmeal test
for the video and then hit
an exercise.
Well, it felt good.
It's felt like striking a chord to me
this morning.
Really nice to have you all here with me.
Share ongoing thoughts in the comments
and if you have specific
situations, exercise foods,
let me know.
I'll be putting this together. But yeah.
And then you'll see the video on Friday,
see what we get.
And then I'll especially want people's
comments for week two.
Hope you have a beautiful day.
Thank you for sharing this space.
We talk again soon.