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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
Nothing is profound.
You could hear that
like a melancholy reflection
on a burnt out culture.
But here it with life in it.
Nothing is profound.
That's the type of space that we are in.
Fasting space.
Profound space of health
and healing in the body.
I would say my favorite type of space
I've encountered in my medical journey
so far.
Really, really profound.
Although it is, nothing
has the power to dissolve many things.
Dissolve blood sugar,
dissolve body
fat, and stress and confusion.
In the liquid of our lives.
Fasting cost nothing.
In fact, it'll save you money to do it.
This is why it is so accessible, right?
If fasting was expensive,
if you had to buy it
like everything else in our society.
Still might be profound,
but less so than an accessible practice
that anyone who needs
it can start immediately.
Stop eating.
Start fasting.
No barrier.
If there's a barrier,
if there's any ask of a fasting space,
it's just ask that we do the work of doing
nothing.
Not so bad
in a burnt out,
stressed out, overworked culture
with no space.
The ability to simply do
nothing is a relief.
Wouldn't you say it?
I say it is a total relief.
This is how we get into the space.
We want to kill two birds with one stone.
We want to find a health process,
a dietary
lifestyle process moving us toward weight
loss and wellness, helping us to overcome
metabolic dysfunction in the body.
At the same time, we want to
bring a space of peace
and contentment into the mind
for a little bit of time
during our day.
That is what we need a place
to bring the stress down.
And so a fasting space to me, the space
where we can do both of these things
at the same time.
So nice to have you with me here today.
Grab a coffee, grab a tea.
Let's center
our thinking on, some beautiful health
thoughts for this day.
I think there's a vibe as I was
putting this title together.
You know, nothing is profound.
I think.
I was just reflecting
on, you know, society.
We did some deep thinking on society
yesterday.
I think I've been trying to reflect
on other people's perspectives on fasting.
And some of the language I came to.
I think yesterday was just talking
about fasting as something
because it's nothing,
because it's so simple.
It's like the absence of a thing.
It's so easy to overlook.
It's so easy just to move beyond it
and to think, well,
this is something
that doesn't really matter.
But I really think that it does matter.
I think that's what I said yesterday.
I think that it is profound.
And, I just want to sit with it
a little bit, you know,
so what I thought I would do today,
just sit with it,
because this is kind of what fasting is.
And like we're saying,
if there is a barrier to it,
it is the barrier
of passing through some time
in the body, in our being,
giving the body space
to work with what it has.
We have this idea
in society
that in order to be healthy, in order
to get healthier and move forward,
we need to buy something else.
We need to consume something.
And so often there is a drive.
It's going to be the next thing
that we find, the next thing,
and we try to buy our way
to better health.
Sometimes maybe we do need to buy things.
Certainly we do need to buy healthy food.
That is the balance to the fasting space.
But our culture is pushed
so far in the other direction
that it's like consume all the time.
And what I really want
our space to be is to say,
how do we bring this into balance,
and where is the balance point?
You know, and this is something
another big thing
I want to bring into our space to realize.
So many people are saying, you know,
this is the way, this is the way.
How many, you know, fasting videos
did we look at this
week from people who are saying,
well, fasting isn't this, it's this.
There's like,
oh, you can't fast like this anymore.
Now you have to do these hours
or this study.
You know,
I say it says this, but does it really?
And it's like there is so much pressure
even brought into this sort of space,
when to me,
if we look at this space, a practice
that is nothing
that we can bring into our life.
That's why I start just with the concept.
You know, fasting starts with a concept,
the idea that there is strength
and power in the body
and that the body has healing potential
and that it knows what to do.
Fasting is abstaining from food, period.
I love that right.
And so that can be for any period of time.
It can be very small.
This is what I want to see.
Fasting when it is put out into society
in a very pressured and hyped way,
in that it so often is,
it can create barriers for people.
It's the opposite,
maybe even of what the intention is.
When we say, oh,
fasting isn't 168 anymore, now you
you aren't really getting any benefits.
That one guy said until 32 hours.
I mean, not true.
We've looked at plenty of research
that would suggest otherwise,
but do you see what a barrier.
This is?
What I found in my medical practice.
I actually started in medicine, observing,
fasting with
with some longer periods
of fasting out toward 24 and beyond.
And, you know, you can see great benefit.
But as I try to tell people, okay.
Some people will take you up on it.
And for other people it is a barrier.
And so here I say, oh,
let us bring this down
and we can sit in a very small space,
basically find
the smallest space where anyone can start.
That's what I want for people,
a space of fasting.
Very profound because it can meet people
right where they are.
To me, that's like planting a seed, right?
Fasting is like planting a seed.
And we want to give that space
where it can be nourished
and grow into something strong,
that, can serve us for a very long time
so that we do not need to always
be looking for the next thing we say.
We've got some very fundamental things.
Fasting is not the only part of health,
right?
What we eat matters,
and how we move our body matters,
and how we are taking
care of our mind matters.
How we are
taking care of our spirit matters, right?
All of these things matter,
but the fasting is a part of that.
And to me, it can be like a key
that can unlock so much of the puzzle
that we are trying to solve.
We were going through the
thought yesterday, this very profound.
There's another
overarching thought in culture.
That losing weight is easy,
that you just need this simple thing.
Only three payments of 1995, you know.
And. Behind
almost every diet book,
every type of solution
is the idea of losing weight
by continuing to eat all the time.
And this creates very,
very difficult psychology.
It's very hard to do.
I'll say it's not impossible to do.
It can be done.
And this is what,
you know, people put out.
You keep eating these healthy foods,
and then you balance that out
with enough exercise
to push things over the top.
And that can work.
And if it works for anyone,
I have no problem with it all.
No problem.
But there's a lot of money behind it.
Like you are saying,
there's a lot of money behind it
because very often it doesn't work.
And that keeps people
turning on the cycle of this huge
amount of money that is coming through,
because you got to buy the next one
and you got to get the next thing.
Do you feel this?
Let me know if you've ever felt this.
You feel pressure from one side.
It's like both personally like,
okay, maybe we want to lose weight.
We want to see diabetes numbers
getting better, insulin resistance
going down, blood pressure improving.
Like these are the goals we want it.
And then maybe we have medical providers
who are trying in their overworked
way to be helpful, but then they end up
just saying you've got to work harder.
You got to do more.
Like this is not good enough.
And then we got people over here saying,
oh, it's supposed to be easy.
And it's just like, whoa!
And it's like, okay.
And then everybody gets the idea, okay,
we need to eat less.
Okay?
It's like,
this is the paradigm of cut calories.
Go on a diet. Okay.
Hope it then it is not working so well.
And why isn't it.
And then isn't that stressful?
Say people say
well you got to work harder.
You got to cut more on that.
But okay, but don't fast, okay.
Don't ever eat nothing either.
Do you see how we're getting
put into a tiny little box
where it can feel like trapped?
I'm kind of going like this
because I'm just like, okay, can't fast.
We hear from that video we did
just the other day where people say,
even skipping one meal,
you might be damaging your body.
Oh my gosh.
We looked at the science of that
and how that doesn't make any sense.
But like, you got to eat less too.
And this is why to me people say,
oh, fasting is restrictive.
This is another cultural perspective
that is putting forward.
Do you see in the context of all this
pressure
and confusion,
that fasting is a way out of that,
to say we're just going to
step out of this morass
for a little while
and confusion.
That actually the number of things
that we need to know is actually finite
and quite small.
Isn't that a relief?
It is a relief to me.
It is a super relief to me,
the type of thing that makes me
want to just take a deep breath
and have a little bit of gratitude.
If it was the case that health
was very complicated,
that you had to get a degree in it,
that you had to review
so many scientific papers and things,
you know
it just who needs one more thing
to do in their life?
It's like, not me, I don't.
I'm always looking for another thing
that I can just stop doing.
And to me,
I think this is one of the things
that fasting has been such a great gift.
It's like, oh, here is the thing
that can bring health to the body
and it's less to do.
And this just makes
me smile because it's like
coming from a place,
you know, I've,
I've worked with nutritionists
where they're just telling
almost everybody
the same nutrition advice
for every condition where they come in.
You need to like, start eating more like
this is almost the answer.
But smaller little meals,
it's like six little meals a day becomes
the answer to every medical problem
for certain people.
And,
maybe there are certain times
when that could help.
Okay, I'm not saying it could never help,
but it's not a weight
loss process and it's not a process
to make things easier.
It's not a process of less to do,
like trying
to plan and prepares, eating all the time,
all the cooking and preparation
and shopping and dishes and things.
And I'm just like, whoa!
This is why fasting is profound.
Because we can we can just
step out of it, you know, and we're done.
I guess just it
when I feel better while fasting,
that's all I need to know.
I really like that.
Let us just think on that for this.
in the interview or discussion
that I linked to Jay and Company
that we discussed the other day,
they actually run into this,
I thought kind of interesting point
where they just kind of stumbled
into the fact that people feel better
when they're fasting, you know, they're
spending this whole time discussing.
It's like, oh, fasting is,
stressful,
and no one would ever want to do it,
but then they're just bringing up
right in the space,
like so many people feel better doing it.
And why is that?
And they kind of in a twisted place.
I don't want to put words in their mouth.
I hope we can connect.
I sent, you know, messages.
I'd love to just engage, you know?
But like, isn't it
the case that so many times, in
so many ways,
you open up some fasting space
and once you get through
the barrier of it, that's why we say
be so gentle to it so that you can have
a positive experience.
Some people,
you know, I've experienced have,
you know, the first fasting experience.
Maybe it was an experience
that was forced upon them.
You missed a meal when you didn't want to,
and then that created
a negative experience.
I remember when that happened.
You know, I got a flat tire
and I couldn't get there,
and it was like a day of struggle
and suffering and stress.
Okay?
I was like, that's not fasting.
Okay, that is not nice.
And I wouldn't like that anymore
than anybody else.
Okay.
Voluntarily
chosen only in the space where it feels
curious, like an exploration and positive
and then under control
so that it can be stopped
any point where it doesn't feel stressful.
This is something that I'm experiencing
right now.
It's like I have fasting space
in the morning.
It feels good to me.
I feel light, you know?
I just don't feel bogged down.
Like, see, I know that if I'm going
to go exercise, which I am going to do
after this beautiful session ends,
that I'm going to feel good,
you know,
I'm not going to be lugging around
a stomach full of food,
and that is going to feel good to me.
And it feels good right now.
I just have the feeling that I know
I could get up and run now
and it wouldn't be so bad.
Have you ever done a big exercise
after you ate a big meal?
And it's just like, I mean,
it makes you kind of go like this, right?
And probably
that's from like ischemia, like
the oxygen isn't making it because now
we're having conflict in our body.
Muscles need the oxygen.
Digestive system needs the oxygen.
We thought we were in rest
and digest mode, but then
all of a sudden
we got to pull the energy away.
And the systems are in conflict,
fasting space,
bringing a piece to that space.
That we're
giving all the resources to the body
so that it can do beautiful work,
you know,
so we can get the things done that we need
and that we can feel light
and that we can have energy.
I think this is the most profound.
We want to say fasting is profound, that
a space of nothingness is profound.
How about the space when you can have
more energy without eating?
I mean, it's it's wild.
This is a paradox.
I put it on the photo health paradox
that nothing is profound, that
by giving space
we can have more energy,
an incredible space to sit in.
If you have a continuous glucose monitor,
I'll just throw that out.
We are in an incredible
period of time in health.
I do want to say that
and just have gratitude for it.
I think a continuous glucose monitor
is the most revolutionary piece
of medical technology that we have
for diabetes, for weight loss,
for preventing weight gain.
If you're just trying
to get a window into the body,
what an incredible opportunity we have.
You know, you can get these things
without a prescription now.
It's like something like 100 bucks or 80
bucks
for a month or two, two weeks.
Sensors.
This is what you do.
Let's say you don't even have diabetes.
You pop one of these on your arm,
and all of a sudden
you can write on your phone.
You can start to see the physiology
of energy flowing in the body.
And you can feel this,
maybe seeing the numbers
and seeing it as the type of thing that
can actually help you to feel it more.
But we're sitting here in a space where
we're like, okay, if you eat something.
Especially carbs, especially simple carbs,
you can watch the
the sugar go up, right?
And then you can know what is happening
to insulin in your body,
that it's responding.
And then you can see the various ways of
the body will respond to that over time.
And then the space that is even more
fascinating is to think, what
on the other side, right.
Maybe you took a morning
and you ate an oatmeal,
and you watch the blood sugar go up,
and then you watched it come back down,
and especially maybe you took a walk
and then, you flow in that space
and it normalizes.
Now the next morning fasting space,
what happens?
And there's a couple different
things that can happen.
I love this suggestion.
Thank you. I want to do it.
I think I'm curious to know
I talk about this
and I help other people to do it,
but I I'm I'm a penny you know Pincher.
I haven't actually done it
I, I should do it though
I also I hate needles
and it's not even a needle.
And you. Right. You can't even feel it.
I tell people, but you can't.
I was helping some people with it
yesterday.
They're like, no, I can't feel it.
I'll get over it.
I'll do it.
I will do it.
Fasting space.
Then you can see this is
what is so amazing to see.
You see a couple different things
in the fasting space
because there are different
things happening in the body.
But you get up in the morning.
Most people, especially
you don't have any blood sugar impairment.
You're going to see
just a rock solid glucose level. And.
Rock solid glucose level,
and then you're going to be working.
You're going to be doing things.
And what if you see that number
the same okay.
But no energy is coming into the body.
How are we using energy
numbers staying the same.
No energy coming in.
It's because the body is releasing
the energy.
It's releasing the energy
in exactly the amount that you needed.
So everything comes stable.
That is the place
where you can really see it
in that fasting physiology
and just to to flow through a space
of total balance in the body
where the energy is flowing
and we're working
and everything is staying in alignment,
that is an incredible space just to see
and to be able to see it on a monitor.
Maybe you don't see that.
Maybe you see something else.
Maybe you see the blood
sugar higher in the morning.
So this is something that many people
with type two diabetes will see.
You'll go to bed.
Maybe you were even fasting in the evening
and blood sugar was some number.
And then you get up and it's higher.
Are you familiar with this physiology?
It's because hormones
and things are happening in the body.
Cortisol driving gluconeogenesis
meaning
creating sugar and energy in the body.
Still nothing was eaten.
That energy was coming from
within the body.
And that same physiology
that someone that it's easier
to see in type
two diabetes is happening in everybody.
Right?
This is the physiologic process of how
the body balances
the energy flow whenever we need it.
It's someone without insulin resistance.
It gets
perfectly matched in someone
with insulin resistance.
It can blow out a little high.
But the fasting process, the space
and a monitor to see
it is actually the process to unwind that.
And that's why it's so profound.
Because look what happened.
How did it get into that space?
The energy was within
the body, locked up within the cells.
Then the blood sugar started
going down overnight.
The body said,
we got to get this energy out.
And it's just there's
so much of it. It's an abundance.
And now the blood sugar is higher.
And now we have a fasting space
and it's just showing us what is that
energy is food that we have had
in the body that the body is not needing.
It's dissonant right back up for us.
Why dish up another meal when the energy
is right there flowing in the bloodstream?
And then the monitor shows
you can watch it,
and then we can just use that energy.
And now it's gone.
See the fasting space?
That's why I say dissolve it
like, isn't that incredible?
And you don't need a monitor
to have that physiology, but
like to see it in your own body
and see that it is happening,
can really be profound
and definitely to get to,
Just the feedback,
you know, to make it real in our own body.
I have just found a tremendous amount
of value in helping people to do that.
Do a video.
When I get mine, I will do it.
I will do it.
I've I've pictured different videos
that I would do of like
try to like have like the same
if I did the same eating pattern
and then very like the activity
like around it to see it
and then eating a day, fasting a day,
doing the same things just to build out
an interesting collection
of data with it,
I think would be fun.
Yes, it's a very interesting thing to do.
You know, as far as the amount of value
you can get out of it
for the amount of money,
it is a high yield thing to do because,
you know, you can order one
a box of these things, two
monitors, you can do it for two weeks.
You can get a bunch of data,
you can flow through it,
and then you can use the other one
and come back and,
you know, work on it a bit, and then maybe
two months later, use the other one.
And then we see where is this process at,
you know, how low
does the blood sugar get?
What a great thing to know.
How high does it get after something?
Just something that you,
want to know.
And that'd be like the the
the poor man's insulin resistance gauge.
If you are seeing that fasting
glucose level is,
like maybe higher than you wanted,
and then you work on it
a bit and then you come back
and you see it better.
Like,
you know, insulin resistance
is getting better in that space.
And some people like sticking with it
more.
Some people turn it into a little video
game.
You say how to, you know, there's
a little dot in the middle of the monitor
and you can watch it going along,
and you can pretend that it's Pac-Man
and you're just trying to keep him walking
in that little green zone, you know?
And that can be very good fasting space.
Profound way to move through that.
Fasting space.
I say it is a space of patience.
It's just the ability
to sit with something.
And you don't have to just sit
when you're fasting, okay?
You do, especially as you build up.
You can exercise, fasting.
I've done huge
amounts of exercise, fasting,
but not right away
when I was just learning to do it.
I have found it
very, intimidating and difficult.
And so I say, of course
the saying you got to walk
before you can run and then in fasting.
So you got to be able to sit
before you can walk, you know,
especially if you have medications
on board, blood sugar,
blood pressure issues like the worst case
scenario, which I have never seen.
Okay.
In all the people that I've worked with,
I've never had anyone
pass out or anything like it,
but I'm paranoid of it.
So I'm always telling people, sit
before you can walk,
give plenty of space,
don't push yourself in anything.
Let the strength, the fasting strength
of the body grow and expand.
This is why I love the weightlifting
analogy.
Like you don't walk into a gym and just
start bench pressing hundreds of pounds.
Like you start with the mini weights,
you know
and you allow the body to strengthen.
This would be like
you don't have no fasting practice
and then go out and, you know,
try to do sprint intervals or something.
Fasting, you know, it's like
like have some grace.
Let the body build out the channels
and the the practice
of accessing this energy.
But then you will probably find
as you do that, that
the body strengthens,
like we did, that mitochondria talk.
Was that just at the beginning of the week
where we were looking at, okay,
these mitochondria,
the actual parts of our cell
that make the energy that
give us the energy to live and do things,
you know, these are dynamic structures
you can actually measure in research.
You can't do it on yourself,
but you can see the mitochondrial density
in the cells.
How many of them changes,
and then the function of them
can change from very efficient
to very poor.
Here's something profound.
Fasting can help to regenerate
these things give us more energy
and ability to do things,
but it doesn't happen instantly.
You know, it takes some time
and practice to work on it.
But this is the thing that you want more
energy, right?
I loved that talk.
Just the thought about what creates
the human experience of vitality.
And that came out of that paper
that I read, which I love it, you know,
which is like, isn't it
the feeling of just having much
more energy than you need, you know?
And, how do you create that?
Right?
It's like multifactorial
eating the healthiest foods,
moving the body and strengthening
the body so good that's affecting it.
And fasting space in the mix,
you know, as part of it.
Because that fasting trigger
my g.
And helping these beautiful bacteria
like things in us
to proliferate and grow and strengthen.
And there's a building
that energetic buffer.
That's what it was saying.
Like if if we are,
if we have just enough capacity
in the system to make it up
the stairs, right, then you feel like.
And that's how I felt over
the last couple of months.
For a while I was like, man, I'm like,
just going to get the next air
and the next air.
No energetic buffer.
So I just love that concept to me.
Profound,
space that fasting can help that.
I'm going to write a note
while we're here.
I'm looking at it
because I got to tell you, for, months
and probably even more than months,
I've had the idea
of ordering one of these monitors,
and I'm going to take it off the computer,
and I'm just going to do it.
I gotta write it
down and
I'm going to put a little checkbox
so I will actually do it.
Just to sit in a space.
This is fasting space.
It's a practice of patience.
This is the type of thing that almost,
I mean, when do you ever hear this
in society?
I don't know, I don't feel like
I ever hear it, that it's okay, even.
Do we need to give ourselves permission?
Hey, you can just sit here.
This is okay.
You know,
I say it's a profound skill.
It's a it's a very deep thing.
Like in a culture that is always like
we have a five
second attention span,
and then it's like, on to the next thing.
It's like,
step out of
that for just a second
and just sit with something here.
Can you feel that
this is what we're doing?
You know, fasting space.
This is what we're doing.
We're not rushing on to the next thing.
We're not stuck in some hype
cycle of it has to be the next thing.
I think I just feel like for me
personally, how I feel about the practice.
You know, I've just been leaning
into fasting as a path
for health and wellness,
healing for people, for,
you know, I
over a decade,
you know, whatever the exact thing is,
just feel the more I think is like,
we got our finger on something really
deep, you know, really profound.
I just want to sink
more into this word. Profound.
But it is
it's not flashy.
You know, this is the thing.
It is subtle.
If I were to pick a word, I would
I would pair a profound
with subtle.
Yeah.
I really like these words.
Resting a path to sanity in a crazy world.
This is a beautiful phrase.
This is maybe the biggest part
that is missing
from every
other type of standard dietary process.
Every standard dietary process.
It's just like a list of foods, right?
It's a collection of recipes.
And it's like.
It's not tapping into any kind of deep
philosophical presence,
which is what I feel like
we are tapping into with it.
I don't really give people diet books.
I did write a little book that I have
in my doctor Z method of some different,
you know, meals that I like
and things that tend to help people.
But I don't do a lot of that because
almost
any unprocessed
food that comes naturally from the Earth
in a natural way,
is going to serve you very well.
Probably not
chewing on raw sugar cane all day.
Okay, we could make an exception,
but really it's the deeper philosophy.
It's the deeper perspective of recognizing
we can take,
you know, different foods,
serving different people.
You know, this is a great interest to me,
such a wide variety of dietary practices
that people have.
And some people feel better,
you know, a little more protein,
a little less of a little more of this,
a little more of that.
And I was like,
I don't think we have to peg
everybody into like, oh,
this is the diet for every single person.
You know, that is not a path to sanity.
I want people to eat food that they like.
You know, I'd say find the unprocessed
foods, like, what are the core
parts of your diet,
the things that you enjoy eating
that are really healthy and nourishing,
and then how do you balance that out
with a fasting space and a movement space
that helps you move forward?
Just don't think that it has to be much
more complicated than that.
No rules.
I loved love that thought.
No rules about things,
just things that serve us
and things
that work and things that don't.
And if someone is feeling good,
if you are moving toward your goal,
slow and steady wins the race.
A much better than than the thought of,
like, completely overhaul
your life in six weeks.
I'm not opposed to anybody doing that.
If you can do an incredibly intense thing
for six weeks, okay.
But then the thing that happens after
six weeks
is you still got to move forward, right?
And you've got to find a way to transition
out of that sort of intensity
into something sustainable.
And, for most people,
it's my experience
is that it's better to start building
something sustainable from the start
and then from a foundation.
Then you are strengthened, then
turn up the intensity
when you really feel called to it.
You know when you get some energy
to do it, then hit it, as opposed
to walloping yourself and then trying to
like pick up the pieces in the aftermath.
Hey, that sounds like a beautiful thought,
a childhood memory.
We had a rhubarb in our yard
growing up, and
I remember some some memories
just like that.
Less is more.
I love that to less is more.
Do more with less.
The same sort of idea.
And this is exactly the sort of space
that we're in with this.
This society of course, says more is more.
And you can see
you can see the appeal of thinking that.
But hasn't that run its course?
I just feel like it's run its course.
I don't know what your experience is,
but I literally do not want another thing.
Like I don't want another thing like I, I,
you know, would almost pay money
just to take things away.
And I've done a couple sessions
in our thinking
on minimalism in general as a philosophy.
Just the idea of it
really resonates with me.
It's a very adjacent
idea, the idea of,
not that we don't have things or that
things are not of value, but that we
that we just have things of value
and that,
that it's giving space
to things of values, like when,
when there's,
when there's so much stuff around,
you can hardly find the thing of value
that you need.
And it's just, it's just stress
upon stress.
Last, things you know,
in the house means less things
to clean, less things to think about.
Stress coming down.
And that's feeding right
into the physiologic space in our body
that this is like leading
to the cortisol, the chronic stress,
not the physiologic cortisol
like we reviewed in the study
just the other day, that see
Sol and its natural space
to help regulate our blood sugar.
And it's part
of the normal functioning of our body.
But the stress that is coming externally
that is pushing it from so many things,
see minimalism
helping us push back against that fasting.
I say minimalism in the body, right?
I was like,
you want to dust off the shelves
and get rid of some knickknacks, okay?
It's like beautiful.
That's gonna help
make our environment better.
Okay.
And then let's do that in the body, too.
You know, that's basically like, bust up
some dysfunctional mitochondria
that we don't need and ribosomes
and all that stuff.
It's like burn up
some extra sugar that we don't need.
And then.
Internal cleaning, external cleaning
do both.
I say how body and mind think about
all the talk we've done in atomic habits
is is about creating the environment
for our success.
So all the cues
and things that are hitting us are cues
that are calm and peaceful,
centered and grounded.
Right.
It's isn't it hard to feel centered
and grounded if like,
the house is a mess
and there's stuff everywhere,
don't
you just bet that the body feels that way?
And this is why I think fasting space
can feel like a cleansing,
a rejuvenation,
because it's like a house cleaning.
I think the cells got a little more space
somehow,
however they do it
and then they can just be like, oh yeah.
Good.
That is a gift to the body.
So more space is a gift to the body.
Maybe
this is my favorite reframing of fasting.
I think people in culture,
it's just coming into my mind
how many doctors I've talked
to, where I've tried to share,
you know, the vision
that I have of fasting,
especially for diabetes to realize
it's like the
the very thing the body is just here,
the sugar is elevated.
It is just right there.
I just feel like the body is just
basically begging the system to say,
okay, please use this energy.
We have it.
We don't have anywhere else to put it.
And so all of a sudden
you give a fasting space
and the body is like, oh, look at this.
It's like we just use the energy, right?
I just
say, don't you see that
this is like the the perfect thing to do?
Shouldn't this be like
the very first sort of approach
that we have, just help people
and not saying that it's easy
help people to do it
and to see it to have like a,
an incredibly supportive system, to
just help people, to see the physiology.
Blood sugar is right here.
Like, can we help you to use it?
And of course we tell people
the opposite.
We tell people this is a stressful thing
and you should never do it now.
Now you have diabetes.
Now you're in a stressed state.
Now you need to keep eating all the time.
It's like just it's exactly wrong.
I just think the way I reframe it to say
this is a gift, right?
Not only is it
not bad, it is the complete inversion.
This is how I feel. It is a gift.
It is truly a gift to the body
when we can see it that way.
Just can't you just feel
that it is imbuing the whole thing
with meaning?
Like.
Like, how would you give a gift
to your body if you want to?
You can't really by as much say
we can buy it the healthiest food
we can buy.
What else?
But you can give some space to
the body might be the thing
it really needs.
Hey, excellent.
In the middle of fall cleaning.
Yeah, this is the season for it.
I have been engaging in some of it,
and it just,
it can feel like a chore.
Sometimes you say, oh,
it feels like a chore to do, like I don't.
What did I do the other day?
Moved the bed and vacuumed under it
and cleaned all this stuff.
You know,
it was like, on the secondary checklist.
And I was like, oh, I don't want to do
that, you know, why can't we put it off?
But then I've also
been putting it off for two months
because I haven't felt like it, you know.
Finally feeling better, I was like, oh,
we're going to get back on top of stuff.
But then you do it
and it's like just standing in the room.
It just feels so good,
you know, when you're done with it.
It's like, oh man, things are cleaner.
It's like we got rid of some stuff like.
And it is better.
Isn't this in
a way just kind of a metaphor
of of a fasting space in general?
I know, you know,
sometimes I set out like like I said,
I used to do
a lot more fasting in the past
when I had a bunch of weight
that I wanted to lose.
And as I dialed that down, I got my body
weight in a space that I really like.
Now I do less of it.
And the times that I do it
now, especially dialing in like fast
for a day, I will do just occasionally
for something like this, a fall cleaning,
you know, just to take a break and reset
and then just feel the body,
take a deep breath
and just do that deep clean.
And I launch on a space like that.
I think, like anybody else,
sometimes I have a little hesitancy
because it's like you pass
through a little space.
I know I'm going to get to lunch
and I'm used to eating lunch, so
then I'm going to feel a little hungry
and then but I'm going to flow through it.
And then just like doing the deep
cleaning in the room,
I'm going to get done
and I'm going to be like,
That was a sweet time, actually.
That was a space.
It's like flexing the muscle, you know?
It's like just
putting the car
through a little test drive,
just like opening it up a little bit.
I was like, here, that's how I feel.
I was like,
we're just keeping that faceting.
Muscle tuned up
is how it feels to me.
Feels to me.
Wanted to share,
I thought I save it way for the end.
I have a little passage
I thought I would share out of this book.
Dear artist Jaya John,
I'm stepping up, stepping through it
and I liked this one.
Just sitting in this space.
Okay, we're spending time sinking into,
we say, not just a dietary space,
a philosophical space
where we're really trying to get into,
like our being
and how are we being in the world,
what is our mindset
and how are we feeling,
and what is the experience of it,
and what is the meaning
of the things that we are doing? You know,
I love it.
And so and as we were thinking about,
you know, all these thoughts this week,
mitochondria and energy and vitality
and taking the pressure off
and all the things
that people are saying and,
and how we're just trying to create,
you know, our little bubble,
our little space where we can take
some small steps forward every day.
See, this is just the journey.
Joy on the journey,
no pressure, just flowing through it,
engaging in some practices that are full
to make the rest of our life better.
I thought this little passage
felt to me like the kind of thing
I want to be feeling.
Well, I'm doing it.
See if you feel this way
can almost feel
as it's almost like a prayer.
You can.
This.
This gentleman has so much,
you know, emotion that he writes with.
You can just.
I feel him just speaking to me like he's
sending through these words.
So many good wishes and.
Can just feel the intensity,
see if you feel it, the intensity
of his care and compassion.
You think in a world like, you know
these days, have you just noticed?
I feel like everywhere I go,
words that I run into you can't
you just feel that they're machine words?
You know that.
That people are spitting out thoughts
from a large language model.
And I,
I increasingly have an aversion to it.
I don't want to read it.
If I see another garbage,
you know, paragraph,
it is like, it's not this, it's this.
You know, it's just like the same cliche
sort of turns of phrase.
I read something like this, obviously
human being, you know, wrote this.
You can feel the connection. I can anyway.
May grace overflow your heart.
A runaway river
and soak your whole life
in the abiding peace of a sacred
reciprocating kindness.
Oh, may you forgive yourself.
With a great and heaving wave of mercy.
May you permit
joy to have its way with you.
My passion.
Grow unkempt
in the garden of your affections.
May tranquility fill your mind.
May love recite it.
Sonnet
in the orchestral chamber of your soul.
And may you, precious one in grave.
The sweet poetry of your life.
On all that you touch.
That it may dance.
And that you may dance.
And this world may shrug off its malaise.
And dance and dance and dance renewed.
Isn't that a beautiful.
Piece of writing?
Oh, man,
I find it moving to read it.
I want people to experience
that sort of thing.
Passionate, you know, love of life
and just the the engagement
and the encouragement
just to lean into such a beautiful mindset
of love and grace for ourself
and for other people.
Take that sort of mindset
into our health space,
giving us strength
in the midst of struggle and difficulties
so that we can overcome barriers, things
that are standing in our way.
Things that have troubled us
in the past,
and that we can step forward
in just a new and positive way.
I love how he leaves it.
Just dance renewed, you know?
And, it can be an overwhelming time.
There's a lot of confusion in the world
and a lot of difficulty and strife and,
grounding ourselves
in something like this, nourishment
from these words.
I hope that can be a great encouragement
in your day.
Really nice to share this space with you.
Thank you for being here.
I really loved this session
in the discussion.
I hope you have
a beautiful rest of the day,
and I will look forward
to connecting with you
on the channel again soon.
Be well everybody!