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Synopsis: Fasting is a documentary on the original human diet and shows how it may serve as the solution to solve our epidemic of chronic illnesses today. This documentary explores 7 different methods of fasting.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Year:
2017
100 min
68 Views


This is what we call

part of the rejuvenation

in the body due to the consecutive

or longer period of fasting,

what we call today prolonged

or periodic fasting.

- In terms of stem cells, you

will not stimulate stem cells.

You won't get brain derived

neurotrophic factor increase

unless you fast for at

least three to four days.

- You need to realize that

stem cells are the repairmen

of the body.

They're all over your body

and they're constantly working

to repair little bits of

damage that happen everyday

but think what would

happen if those stem cells

stopped doing their job

and that's what happens

in a lot of patients

who really aren't living

a healthy lifestyle,

is those cells can get hurt

and they're not doing their job

so injuries stack up.

In 2004, I was reading an

animal study on a rabbit

that showed that you could

take Mesenchymal stem cells

and regrow a disc.

Obviously that caught my

attention 'cause we had

a lot of back pain

patients with bad discs.

So I sought out some

researchers that were using

Mesenchymal stem cells to treat injuries

and they were doing it in horses

and so we ported that over to humans.

So, today, we've published

50% of all of the patients

in the world literature

who have been treated

with stem cells and who

have orthopedic problems.

What we can say at this

point is that the environment

that your stem cells are in

can have a dramatic impact

on their ability to grow, proliferate,

and do what they're supposed to.

That environment can be affected by diet,

it can be affected by exercise,

it can be affected by medications.

- Everything in the body

has multiple functions,

multiple sites of action.

So when you give a drug

that you think is working

in one site,

it's working and doing

things all over the body

in ways that we may not even comprehend.

That's why when you

look at pharmaceuticals,

the list of side effects are

huge and often including death.

If you've watched television

and you see the commercials

from any of the pharmaceuticals,

they actually show people

having a wonderful time

and then they say, and by the

way, this drug may kill you.

That is one thing that does

not happen when you eat

the right foods,

when you exercise, when you

incorporate periodic fasting.

- So what we found was that

high blood pressure medications,

cholesterol medications,

these are common things taken by many,

many different Americans but

they hurt their stem cells'

ability to grow and culture.

So that's not a good thing.

If you think about the

fact that these medications

are impacting your body's own stem cells

and their ability to maintain

and repair that body,

that's a big problem.

So as an example,

we've treated lots of patients

through the years with

tendinopathy due to taking a

specific type of antibiotic.

- I literally became debilitated.

I had shoulder pain, neck pain, leg pain.

I could barely walk.

I even had a hard time breathing.

Two of my discs had completely

herniated into my spine.

I really felt I was dying.

- Now this is a known problem.

They'll take this antibiotic

'cause they have a common cold

and the next thing they know,

they're in chronic pain

all over their body.

Why?

Because that particular antibiotic reduces

the stem cells ability in their

body to repair their tendons

and we all get tendon

wear and tear everyday

that needs to be repaired.

So one of the things we started realizing

is that when we were

going to use the patient's

own cells to try to repair something,

we had to have patients

clean up their lifestyle

including their diet.

We make sure that they're

fasting when they come in

because we know that fasting can increase

the body's ability to help repair itself.

- For the next several

weeks after each time I do

a fasting mimicking diet,

I end up with significantly reduced pain

in all of my joints.

- Polycystic ovary syndrome.

That's one of my niches.

I deal a lot with hormones.

If you take an unhealthy

woman and you trick her body

into getting pregnant,

often it will be rejected

and if it's successful,

it's not usually very successful

because she often will have

very severe complications

later on towards the end

of pregnancy like high

blood pressure and toxemia,

pre-term labor, a lot of Diabetes,

many, many complications in these women

when they do not get them

healthy but trick them

into getting pregnant.

So then she came to me and she just said,

"I've tried the conventional route.

"I've spent thousands of

dollars trying to get pregnant

"and I've heard that there's

this integrative approach.

"So what can you do to help me?"

She did everything I asked.

So she had a large breakfast,

she had a medium lunch,

she had a tiny dinner.

She didn't eat after 7 P.M.

She began exercising.

She ate no processed foods.

She did everything right.

Then after a month, I put her on Prolon.

After three cycles, she got pregnant.

That was almost a year ago

and she recently delivered her baby.

She has a beautiful, healthy baby.

She's in her late 30's now.

She's been trying for all these years.

- Depending on the therapeutic use,

you have to really

understand this and use it

to your advantage.

So, for example, when we do

it for metabolic syndrome,

Diabetes, and cancer,

we do between four and five days fasting

together with various therapies.

That's sufficient.

When we look at auto immunities

instead we go to seven days.

Why do we do that?

Because we now wanna do more

destruction of damaged cells.

The auto immune cells in this case.

So if you do a shorter fast,

you're not really gonna benefit that much

because you don't have

enough time to destroy

the damaged cells and also

you have less rebuilding

using the stem cell.

So this is why it's so

important to understand

the mechanism behind it

and for each purpose,

really using a different

fasting base intervention.

- I was working on a

documentary for the BBC,

What if We Could Stay Young Forever?

We were looking at diet

and exercise and lifestyle.

I met Dr. Valter Longo

to talk about his work

and it was at the time

he was preparing for his clinical trial

and suggested that I might like to be

one of the volunteers in that trial.

So the trial involved what is known

as a fasting mimicking diet

over five consecutive days

and that was repeated three times.

- One of the things that

our large clinical trials

have shown is that at the very least,

we know that fasting

mimicking diets are safe

for the average person.

- Probably the number one

thing that I noticed is

is weight control.

- The past year I have

prescribed the Prolon diet

to about 120 or 130 patients.

A lot of them come to me

saying I tried all the diets

and I can't lose weight.

Well, I tell them, well

let me prove them wrong.

Let's try this diet and you will see

that you will lose weight.

All of them have lost weight.

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