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that have died in clinics

that do fasting have died

from a combination of insulin

and fasting.

So something and even when

I talk to diabetologists,

endocrinologists and they

say, "Your patient could die."

Immediately their answer is like, come on,

it's not possible.

These are doctors, right?

These are experienced doctors.

They don't realize how

combining drug with fasting

can turn to very innocuous

things into something

that can even be lethal.

For example, metformin, very

safe, very widely utilized,

well metformin happens to be

a gluconeogenesis inhibitor

and guess what?

Fasting requires gluconeogenesis.

Now, you take a blocker of gluconeogenesis

and something that requires to survive,

if you don't have gluconeogenesis,

gluconeogenesis refers to

the liver making new glucose,

if you block it on one

side and you require it

on the other side,

you can see you have a

very problematic situation

and now think about the fact

that 100 million Americans

are either diabetic or pre-diabetic

and so all of them are eligible.

So one American in three or

so is eligible for metformin

and pretty soon will be on metformin.

You see how now the

combination of fasting,

or the improvisation with fasting

could be extremely dangerous.

- This was the scariest thing

that I've ever experienced

and I really thought that

I was gonna lose my life

at one point.

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I decided to do my 35

day extended water fast

in a fasting clinic outside of Canada.

I was fasting alongside other people,

about 30, 40 people I

think we were in total,

and there,

it turned out actually that

there was a significant issue

with the water and so even with that,

even with poor quality water,

everybody at the center

from what I witnessed

did really well in general

up until about three weeks,

so up until about 21 days and after that

things sort of started to go down south,

not just for me but for

numerous other people as well.

By about day 26, I was really,

instinctively I felt a

powerful urge to end my fast

and I ignored that urge

and my ignoring that urge,

I got really sick.

My roommate almost got raped.

There was a guy with

psychosis who slit his wrists

and had to be rushed to the hospital.

It turned out he had

hyponitremia so it's where

your sodium levels crash so much

that your potassium levels skyrocket

and you actually go

into a mental psychosis.

One girl was so dehydrated

she went to the hospital

and had to be on IV and

the other girl almost died.

I felt helpless.

I felt sort of desperate and

terrified, like terrified.

There was a woman who was there

and her mother came to the center

and was terrified because

her daughter had been so ill

and dehydrated and she

had all the symptoms

of renal failure.

I felt certain that she was

gonna die and I remember

being up all night thinking

this poor girl came here

to save her own life, to heal, and repair,

and she literally almost died.

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Her mother took her to

the hospital against

our fasting supervisor's

directive and she was told

that she was in such bad renal failure

and so dangerously

dehydrated that she was,

they weren't sure she was gonna make it.

What I discovered a little bit late

is that it's very important

to research a fasting facility

and make sure that you're

in the care of people

that really can medically supervise you.

Make sure everything's okay.

When things turned for me on day 28,

I was really fearful for my life.

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I actually snuck in to

use a computer at a time

when we weren't supposed to.

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And I wrote messages to

personal people in my life

like telling them that I wasn't

well and that I was afraid

that I would lose my life

and that I felt more unwell

than I had ever felt.

Because I fasted too long and

didn't get appropriate care,

I think what ended up

happening was I had a lot

of health problems.

I had something called moon face,

extreme inflammation in my face.

In my whole body I had

edema and water retention

from how dehydrated I had been,

how off my electrolytes were,

weight gain, I gained a lot of weight,

about 30 pounds actually

or 28 pounds in two weeks!

As soon as I started eating salt,

even small amounts of cooked food,

it took me two years of eating regularly

and nurturing my body

and trying to tough out

all of these symptoms,

I now, two years later,

am finally completely

feeling like myself again.

I look like myself again.

Fasting needs boundaries.

I almost killed myself through extremism

with my eating disorder and

all of my misuse of food

and then I healed myself

through the right modalities,

finally brought myself back

to health with moderate

and balanced intermittent

fasting, juicing,

eating healthy, developing a

healthy relationship to food,

and then took it a step

too far again (chuckles)

and did extremism and almost died again

with my long water fast

and making myself sick

for an additional two

awful years only to then

find balance again to

finally again go back

to a moderate way of just

intermittent fasting,

getting the benefit without extreme.

Fasting needs boundaries.

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- This is the brilliant part

of the fasting mimicking diet

is that at the Longevity

Institute they did research

for many, many years and

discovered how to use food

to fly under the radar

of what we call mTOR,

the detection of food.

So you're actually eating

food, so your body sees food,

but your brain sees fasting.

- The NCI, the National Cancer Institute,

gave us the funds to

do that and we came up

with a fast mimicking diet that

is as effective as fasting,

as water only fasting.

- It's five days but

the five days of eating,

the fasting mimicking diet,

gives you the same benefits as if you did

a complete water fast, nothing

but water for four days.

- And we call it fasting

with food which is

a fast-inating or fascinating concept.

L-Nutra in 2016 launched Prolon,

the very first fast mimicking diet,

and Prolon stands for

promoting health and longevity.

- I first heard about Prolon

when I asked Valter Longo,

Dr. Valter Longo, if I could

interview him for my website

where I write about healing naturally

from inflammatory disorders.

We had this wonderful

conversation about how

his fasting mimicking diets

can turn over up to 40%

of white blood cells in the immune system

which is fantastic news because

for people with the disorder

I had which is the reason

I left CNN and the BBC.

I was working as a journalist in war zones

for about a decade until I got really sick

and I couldn't work anymore

and I devoted myself

to blogging about this,

about these conditions.

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Tried the five day fasting

mimicking diet, the Prolon.

My first round of Prolon

was pretty amazing.

It was the first time in my life

that I had had complete

relief from my symptoms

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