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Well, hello. This is Dr. August Stunning and I did these interesting little beach walks talking about dry fasting. And today it's welcome to dry fasting part two. Why it is you really want to consider dry fasting as opposed to any other kind of fasting. I guess what uh it's really interesting is that when you start a dry fast, you've got your normal amount of glycogen and all the stuff you usually have every day for about 12 hours and then it starts to wear out a little bit. The key to this is that about hour 14 and hour 16, some really interesting hormonal changes happen because of the reduction in insulin to the point where growth hormone is released. Growth hormone is not to just build muscles in a dry fast. You're not feeding the muscles to be able to replicate. So what it does instead is it mobilizes fat. It tells the body to start using muscles to activate fat. The body knows how to go into these things correctly. The fact that when you don't eat and don't drink, just like sleep, you end up activating growth hormone because growth hormone is there to protect your muscles. It's there to protect skeletal muscle mass. And that's why it is so increased at about that time. What's see really interesting is at about hour 18 growth hormone goes up significantly autophagy begins significantly and brain derived neurotropic become produced by the brain to start rewiring the brain. So all before you even get into the drive fast itself as you prepare for getting into this position your body knows what to do. And your body is saying, "Okay, we're running out of glycogen. We better get the pro the fat going to the muscles because we're going to have problems with the heart, which is a muscle and needs, you know, food for its mitochondria to beat." So, the body knows what to do. When you finally get into ketosis and you turn on the muse at stem cells immediately, they go into the vascular system. and they repair the vascular wall because they can differentiate into any kind of cell. These are fluoropotent stem cells. So wherever they're needed, they just turn into a cell. Your main stem cells go into interphase so that they get repaired. This is a phase where the genetics untwist that the helixes untwist. The repair enzymes come in, repair any kind of damage, code violations, replacing primes, all that kind of good stuff. But what really starts happening is because you're protecting your muscle, you know, you're able to go into these fasts and not lose body mass. Body mass is a critical thing. If you look at this 2019 or 2018 study by Brown University, water fasting causes this much reduction in physical body mass and skeletal muscle over days. you're losing parts, man. That's not good because the way that works is if you had the hydration, the pituitary isn't instructed to do its work to turn all these things on. When you're dry fasting, you're dehydrated. What happens in the pituitary is that when blood gets thick enough, when the blood solids build up enough, osmo receptors in the hypothalamus are stimulated. These now are stimulated to produce antidiuretic hormone out of the pituitary gland. And that the antidiuretic hormone is designed to stop the peeing, stop the water loss. It also stops sweating. It also constricts your blood vessels so you get better blood pressure during this period. But what it really does, it hits the renal medulla and it releases epinephrine. Epinephrine goes into the bloodstream, goes into the clusters of fat cells, goes into the fat cells, knocks on the door of glucagon, and turns on lipes to cleave triglycerides back into glycerol and free fatty acids, which is the critical thing about this. If you've got glycerol for the liver to make plasma glucose and free fatty acids coming out of the fat cells like crazy, then you got your ketones. You've got your free fatty acids to run the ATP production in the mitochondria. You have the plasma glucose from the glucose glycerol going into the liver making your plasma glucose. The reason that's important is because your liver and your brain live on sugar. So you have to have plasma glucose. Water fasting other on the other hand doesn't stimulate this series of secretions and instead there is a weak lipolysis action to basically make ketones and your muscles are being ground up you can see in the image on the right to make ketogenic amino acids like alanine. Meanwhile, your muscles are being digested to make any kind of sugars for your for your liver to make plasma glucose. It's really hard on the body. During all this time, a lot of people have problems sleeping. And why is that? Well, cortisol wakes you up in the morning. And because you're in a state of metabolic sleep, it keeps trying to wake you up. So, your cortisol goes up. But that's okay because high cortisol would normally cause visceral fat formation, but you don't have any sugar in the system or insulin to be able to deposit the fat in in visceral fat. So even that's kind of protected. You know, dry fasting is so interesting because it protects the body during the dry fast. It knows what to do if you know how to do it correctly. And this is why I like dry fasting so much. It's easy to do the three days and the hard part of it, which are when you're in ketosis, or five if you do a 7-day dry fast. It's just so much easier than you really built up in your mind about this idea. You know, there's so many phony ideas about not being able to drink water for three days, you'll die. Well, your body makes water every day when it makes ATP. You know, water fasting is not water fasting. It's water diet. It's a very poor source of nutrition during however many days or weeks you try to do these things. Whereas dry fasting is fast. It's easy. It's simple. You go into it, you stop eating for, you know, five to seven days. You end up recovering from it and reestablishing your electrolytes and everything is just fine. It's not this laborious achy, headachy water fast experience. I mean, you could do what you like. You know, I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you what dry fasting is all about and why I prefer it. Why I've been doing it for the past eight or nine years, why it is I am able to walk these beaches at this age and deal with all this stuff. So, look, saying, you know, you might consider dry fasting for all the above reasons. It protects your muscles. It gets rid of the fat because you will lose five to 18 pounds of fat depending on if you do a five or a 70 dry fast because it's taking off subcutaneous fat. If you're too thin, eat some bread and butter for a week or two. You'll get some fat on you, you know, and you'll use that during a dry fast to keep yourself going because that's how your body's designed. It's a beautiful thing. Anyway, look, that's it for today. Stay tuned for part three. And God, it is so beautiful. Anyway, I will see you later. Yes, >> we have a message. Can you remind people to subscribe, please, sir? >> What now? >> Please. >> Oh, very well.

Well, hello. This is Dr. August Dunning. I like to do these nifty little beach walks talking about dry fasting. And this one is about what dry fasting is all about. If you're new to this channel and you've never heard about dry fasting in detail before, this is where we get into it. I do these beach walks, I talk about different aspects and health and longevity and strength and all these sort of things. But the first thing to do is to dry fast because it'll catch you up metabolically. What happens as we age is there's an enormous amount of accumulated folded proteins and proteins in cells that don't get digested at night cuz you're just not long enough in sleep. But believe it or not, you dry fast every night because I bet you don't drink or eat while you sleep. Which brings up the question, why is there sleep? Well, sleep is basically the time when you heal, when you rest, when your body's not digesting things. Digesting takes an enormous amount of energy. And when you stop that, your body can heal and that's why you sleep. You sleep to try to fix what's happened during the day. And there's a lot that I get into it in my books. The idea here is that when you sleep, there's three phases of autophagy. And you can see in this image, there's macroautophagy that takes parts of cells that are broken, takes it over to a lysosome where it gets ground up into a energetic peptides and amino acids and things to make new cells. Microautophagy where bacteria inside the cells are encapsulated and brought to a lysosome and dissolved and digested and debris is expelled from the cell and exocytosis. And the last one which is chaperone-mediated autophagy where these big proteins get hooked with a protein a peptide and dragged over to a lysosome so they can be dissolved as well. There's another form of chaperone-mediated autophagy called ubiquitination where ubiquitin is tagged onto these proteins and taken over to a proteasome and ground up like a big wood chipper. That's what you miss every night because chaperone-mediated autophagy only starts at about 8 to 10 hours into sleep. And as soon as you eat that stops because the chemistry changes. So when you dry fast the only really difficult part getting started cuz you're not going to be thirsty you're not going to be hungry because you've got plenty of sugar in your muscle and liver. It's here about 36 hours until you start transitioning to where you run out of that glycogen sugar and you start processing fatty acids out of your fat cells. That's why I like to start a dry fast in the evening because by the 2-day mark it's time to go to bed and I sleep right through it. In the morning you get up cuz you're going to lose some energy in that phase. In the morning you're going to have your energy back because the fat cells are being used for mitochondrial ATP production. And for plasma glucose. I'll get into that later. But during this phase you're starving the body of water you're starving the body of food and cells stop dividing but stem cells start going into interphase where unlike your somatic cells the stem cells start getting repaired. And they're opened up, they activate the parp and sirtuins and base enzyme repair process to repair the DNA in your stem cells, so they're perfect again. Cuz every cell gets damaged. But when you actually activate stem cell regeneration with a dry fast, you get a brand new crop of stem cells after they've been perfect, and then they can replace the somatic cells that are being digested and taken down during the dry fast. So, it just plugged the holes with practically immortal cells. Pretty cool. Also, because you're starving the body of water, the parasites that need water can't survive. The toxins building up in the body from all this autophagy makes it very difficult for them to find any place to live, so they're expelled and they're they're dead. You end up with some blood pressure changes, some blood pressure increases, decreases, depending on what's going on because you're trying to flush out your capillary beds in your skin and clean them out. And then, after it's done, there'll be a little bit of sleepiness or lack of sleep on some nights. Some people have experiences, I don't. But after you're done, you just take some electrolyte minerals to put your potassium, magnesium, and sodium back in place, so you don't get edema. And after two or three days, you drink bone broth, and you much better. You'll feel better. Universally, any aches and pains you once had will be gone. You'll lose about 5 to 18 lb, depending on a 5-day or 7-day dry fast, in fat. So, that's really the the best way to start your weight control program is with dry fasting. Because it gives you this oomph. It gives you this look in the mirror like, "Wow, I just lost a bunch of weight. And you did. It's subcutaneous fat. Because your visceral fat is a different issue based on your eating habits, your sleeping habits, stress habits, all that stuff when I get into later on. But that's the way to start. You know, we on this channel have selected dry fasting as a way to start the return to youth and health. Because you can't drag about around a thousand albatrosses of metabolic waste and ever get young again. Because if food was the thing that caused the problem, how can eating anything else solve the problem? So, that's where we sit with this. There's a really cool thing with dry fasting. It's free, you know. And uh there's a whole bunch of books on this stuff that I've put out. You'll see them at the end. You can get a little brief synopsis of what they're about. But right now, welcome to dry fasting. If you've decided to select this as your way of getting back to health and getting your weight under control and all that good stuff, check below to the videos because I've got lots of videos to talk about dry fasting and may answer a lot of your questions. But it's pretty easy. Just get the book, The Feeding Protocol, Dry Fasting, Rapid Healing and Radical Life Extension, and learn how to do it. I mean, it it's almost that simple. For the price of a book, you can return to health. And that's my message. So, if this is your first time to this channel and first time considering dry fasting, please do it. Because your body will thank you for it. Do something now your body will thank you for in the future. My name is August Dunning. And I'm a Hippocratic doctor, which means I don't prescribe medicine, I prescribe health. Love you guys for tuning in. For my normal viewers, it's good seeing you again. I'm sure you're probably watching this. 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Well, hello. This is Dr. August Dunning and I do these interesting beach walks talking about dry fasting. And this is part three of how to dry fast. And this one is about recovery after you end the fast. What's just happened? What you need to do to protect the benefits. So the first thing is when you dry fast, you know, after you've finally digested your food, in about two or three hours, autophagy turns on and that's all fine and good. But what happens at like hour 12 is you've lowered your insulin to an enormous amount. So that such as there basically no insulin in the system at that point. And then the the body responds because the body knows what to do. And what the body does is the body calls on human growth factors, human growth hormone in particular, because it has two jobs at that point. It's run out of glycogen, which usually operates the muscles, and the glycogen is is getting lower and lower and lower, and so the body makes HGH to pump that out to do a couple of things. One is to protect your muscles, like I talked about yesterday. Two is to stimulate the reduction of visceral fat, that hard to get fat deep inside your body. It doesn't do it immediately. It still has to take a certain amount of time to reach the plateau of hormone balance, which means it has to reach a point where the insulin is so low that the HGH can be increased and then it decreases by about 500% over the next couple of hours. about hour 18 into a dry fast, you've got tons of HGH, you've got all this muscle being protected and you are attacking your fat cells, subcutaneous and visceral. You lose both during a dry fast. Visceral fat is a hard one because the visceral fat is the thing you really have a hard time losing during the eating cycles which I'll talk in a minute probably tomorrow because I'll do a good video on this on how to lose all this fat quickly. So, what you want to do is you've lost all this fat and you want to keep it off knowing that insulin is what stimulates fat deposition and it's sugar that stimulates insulin. When you stop a dry fast, you need to really control the sugar because those vessels, those small little capillaries that have been servicing these fat storage areas for years will die off if there's no reason or no ability to store fat in those fat stores again because you're not eating too much sugar. Your body readjusts. The most amazing thing is that your stem cells which have been quiescent during the dry fast but not totally quiescent they've been in in in a zero phase where the an interphase where the genes have opened up. All the stem cells have been repaired. You've got a huge bunch of stem cells that are now perfect a perfect match to when you were an embryo, which is where your stem cells come from, by the way, before they can replicate. And there's a reason for this. Because during the dry fast, you've eliminated tons of damage and nearly dying and ridiculous cells that had to go anyway and were sacrificed on the altar of dry fasting to make new parts. That's why it's called the Phoenix Protocol. Your body can naturally digest its proteins and amino acids and rebuild them into new proteins. It is the feathers uh regrowing after burning on the phoenix and becoming the new phoenix. It's the coolest thing. But what happens after you actually enter into nutrition is that your stem cells go into massive replication because now they can't. They've been starved just like the sematic cells. So, they can't really replicate. You need energy to do that and food to do that, but that's not what happens during the dry fast biochemically. So, you've had this huge infusion ready to go and then you get it. How you treat that has a lot to do whether it has the ability to do a lot of good or not. Too much sugar, too much fat, too much stuff. You can even turn stem cells into fat cells. I mean it is so critical that at this point you're just very gentle with your body like you're coming out of starvation because you are and hydra starvation it's quick it's fast it's effective but you have to exit it correctly Dr. Shashenov in Russia noted this specifically that getting out of a dry fast is more important than getting into it and how you do it. And that is a couple of things you need to realize. You've run out of critical minerals. You've been operating your muscle, your heart, your potassium's low. You've been making ATP because you've cut into the fat cells and the the free fatty acids are making plenty of ATP. And ATP requires magnesium to get out of the cells. So you're running out of magnesium, potassium. Also, you've used your sodium too because the sodium is essential for opening up the aquaporins on cells to get things in and out like exocytosis of of of debris and and toxic poisons and stuff to get it into the extracellular matrix which takes it in lymphatic system and which strains it into the arteries which takes it to the kidneys and filters that out. So yeah, you've got a situation where if you do it just right and you do at least 2 to 400 milligrams of magnesium, 2 to 400 milligrams of potassium, and that drink to end the fast, that sodium bicarbonate drink, you get the sodium, the potassium, the uh magnesium, and then if you just eat some sea salt, you'll get 93 different minerals from the ocean, like the wet sea salts, the stuff from Normandy. And control your eating. You know, I used to do a just chug a great big quart of coconut water and all this stuff and and got back to where my weight was and I understood later on that this was the issue. You want to sip that stuff. You don't want to force too much insulin into the system at one time so that it forces the pancreas to work. See, that's what you've got to think about about eating now. Now that you've been through this, now that you've lost the weight, now that you're feeling better, you're thinking better. how you eat determines what you become. So look at eating as a penalty on the pancreas. High carbohydrates causes a high penalty on the pancreas on the beta cells to make insulin. In a dry fast, the alpha cells are making glucagon along with HGH. You cut that stuff up. But afterwards, you want to just, you know, slowly introduce foods. your your entire GI tract has been completely replaced by brand new cells. It isn't every day every every week anyway. It's about seven days to replace these cells, but you got a brand new intestinal tract at once, a brand new immune system at once. All these wonderful things. So, you want to gently take care of that. Kind of like a baby. You don't want to introduce a lot of solid foods at all at first. bone broth with collagen peptides or branch chain amino acids, anything that just keeps the protein coming in with low carbohydrates to rebuild tissue and rehydrate you. You have to be rehydrated. You know, the first couple of days of dry fasting when you're living on your glycogen and your sugar, you're peeing out a lot of water and you're going to use lose that that volume in weight. It's not the fat weight, it's the water weight. That has to come back because the water hydrates your DNA so that it can operate and that it can have the magnetic field that the rest of the body tunes into to operate the body in all these distal locations. I get into that in this book. Okay? But for now, with dry fasting, you've really done the most amazing thing. So, limit your food. Bone broth for a couple of days. I use Zup or Kettle and Fire or any of those kind of products. I don't support anybody. They don't pay me anything. But at the same time, that's the best thing for your body. You can do stews and you can do chicken broths and stuff and chicken soup broth. You can use the broth, not the noodles. You know, you got to control the carbs. And that's about it. I mean, you do these things in the order of these three videos here, and you'll understand how this works, why it works, why it's so reliable. But the good news is this, at the end of your first dry fast, and this is almost universally accepted, is the either the comment, "Yeah, it was a little tough or no, it wasn't tough at all, but you know what I do want to do is do this again." That's why I'm showing you this stuff. I'm showing your body through your eyes, through this video, that your body will thank you for this. in the future for knowing how to do this and it'll tell you when to do it next. Listen to it. It's not going to guide you wrong. Everything we have, like Hypocrates said, is in the body. It's just knowing how to turn it on, turn it off, and utilize it for longevity. Anyway, thanks for tuning in to this this trio of videos. And uh now I think this is the night between 8:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. the loggerhead sea turtles come ashore on this beach. And I just saw a couple of new nests from last night. So yeah, high tide moon set. Okay, so it's going to be a really interesting time. High tide and turtles. God, I love this planet. Yes, >> we have a message. Can you remind people to subscribe, please, sir? >> What now? >> Please. >> Oh, very well.