Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Let's talk about the mistakes people make when they do prolonged fasting.

Out of all the things you can do prolonged fasting is probably one of the most important things

you can do for your health, for your ability to avoid cancer, for anti-aging,

for strengthening your immune system, for your brain to grow new brain cells,

for any type of chronic health condition that involves inflammation, like autoimmune disease,

like celiac and digestive inflammatory diseases. So, hands down, prolonged fasting,

just takes your health results to the next level. It's way more powerful than even regular

intermittent fasting. And whether you're doing a 48 hour fast or 72 hours or even seven days,

this video is going to give you some insights on some big problems you can avoid if you just

have the data. Now, there's two main things that you need to know when you do these prolonged

fast. Number one, insulin becomes very, very sensitive, okay? If you had insulin resistance,

now you're going to have insulin sensitivity. So, insulin is going to be very, very sensitive,

and that means if you do carbohydrates to break your fast, you are going to make a huge mistake.

So, let's talk about mistake number one, breaking your fast with carbohydrates. And I'm also

including fruit and berries. You don't want to do that because here you are, you generated

these stem cells, right? Ready to turn into things to help repair your body, maybe you want to repair

your immune system. If there's too many carbohydrates, especially when you break the fast,

guess what that stem cell could turn into? A fat cell. And that's the last type of new cell that

you want in your body. We want to reserve these stem cells for very important recovery and repair

tissue, like your joints or your bone marrow or your thymus gland, things like that. So,

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