WEBVTT - Fasting: deadly or what? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.520 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:16.319 from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.720 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and with me is Charles W. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:25.520 Chucker's Bryant. I'm hungry, are you? I just had a 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.320 six of a slice of pizza pizza. Yeah, you better hurry. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.360 That's all right, it's pretty good. I got off pizza. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.040 The cheese gets gets to my stomach. In our Digestion podcast. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.239 You've got a lot of great support I did for 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.960 people anything work. I am going to uh make an 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.960 appointment with a specialist for the gird good and get scoped. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.560 I think they call it when they drop a camera 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.720 down in there and they find out that I have 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.080 a small dragon living in my stomach and then the 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.360 scope drops a film canister into your stomach. Asked him 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.520 to be retrieved later and developed. Yeah, so thank you 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.120 for that support people. I'm definitely gonna go get that 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.440 checked out. He's going to the specialists, going to a specialist. Um, 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.600 I'm not gonna quit drinking red wine? Is that the problem? Well? No, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.280 I mean I get heartburned from anything, which is so 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.840 that means I've definitely got a real issue. But obviously 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.880 things like red wine and chocolate and Margarita's and citrus, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.040 all the best stuff, all the best stuff. Margarite is 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.320 you could go either way. I like him. During the 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.039 right time of year, you need to just drink like 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.600 white Russians all the time. It has a lot of 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:40.080 milk in it. Chocolate though that's a black Russian. Oh right, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.600 white Russian. Or just drink of vodka mm hmm, yeah, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:50.920 just drink milk, okay and pretend you're wasted and be healthy. Chuck. Yes, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.240 have you ever fasted? Uh no, I've done the little 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.120 Master cleans thing, but which is sort of a fast. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.840 I guess so that the lemon juice one. Yeah, okay, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.640 we've talked about this before. I've done that as well, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.000 and this is kind of like gives you shingles. Yeah, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.960 I'm not gonna do it again. You're not. So I 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:15.280 fast like all the time. I know that, um all 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.320 the time? Maybe hyperbole because I actually do eat. Sometimes 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.280 you just say to the pizza the sixth of Us, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.360 um what I I? And so I have a pretty 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.560 good understanding of what fasting can do and what it 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.240 feels like. But what I did not know is that 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:37.639 it comes from an old Anglo Saxon word fastin. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:44.280 that's the the fact of the podcast for me. Well, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.040 that's that's remarkable, facing fast and fasten fasting. There's an 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.080 f A E S T E N fasting. Yeah, so 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.600 people have been doing it for a while. Then that's 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.040 what you're saying. Well, yeah, apparently, um, fast and means 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.120 to hold oneself from food, and yeah, people have been 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.800 doing it for a while because it's a firmly rooted 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.640 in a lot of religious traditions that have been around 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.640 for many, many years. Um. And then there's other reasons 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.040 that people fast, more modern ones see medical fasting. Yeah, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.760 which we'll talk about, political statement fasting, Yeah, hunger strikes. Yeah, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.800 there's a lot of that. In the twentieth century it 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.760 was big for hunger strikes. Of course still is. But 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.880 let's let's talk about fasting, shall we. Okay, Um, let's 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.280 talk about specifically religious fasting. Chuck, great place to start. Um, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.440 it's been going on for thousands of years in religion. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.080 So you answered your own question. Yeah, I knew eventually 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.000 that's been coy uh. A lot of times they initiate 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.520 a fast to um. Someone will do that too, maintain 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.160 contact with the divinity. And some say that if you 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.720 fast for long enough, you will hallucinate, and that that 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.480 might be uh. They might interpret that as communicating directly 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.160 with God. Right. And I looked that up. I couldn't 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.280 find out exactly why you hallucinate when you fast. I mean, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.160 that is corroborated all over the place. The best I 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.160 can find, you're dying. Well, the best I can find 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.560 is that it's a it's a vitamin deficiency leads to 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.160 hallucinations for some reason, but I don't I don't know why. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.680 But no, not necessarily. Also came across some articles that 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.320 suggested that hallucinations are a lot more natural than we 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.919 would think because we associate them with mental illness or 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.720 drug use. UM in the West way of a lot 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:41.080 of negative connotations for hallucinations UM that aren't necessarily spiritual, right, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.720 when in fact other cultures might believe it's a form 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.359 of enlightenment. Right. So hallucinations may not be bad. It 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.159 may not be that you're dying, and it may not 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.760 be that you're mentally ill. It may just be that 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.680 you're hungry. Yeah, all right, that's a good point. Um. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.599 A lot of times religious fast are are undertaken because 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.039 you're toning for since is punishment, you're asking God for 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.039 your forgiveness for your misdeeds. Yeah, these are the big 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.480 two basically, like you fast religiously either to get closer 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.760 to God or to tell God you're sorry and thus 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.680 get closer to God. Yeah, yeah, I know what you 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.560 mean though. Thanks. So let's you know, you want to 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.160 talk about some of the religions and and why and 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:32.240 when they fast. Yeah, Buddhists. Buddhists fast on full moon days, holidays, um, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.360 and they do it mainly for purification and to um 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.400 free the mind. Apparently you know your butt will follow 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.039 if you free the mind. That's an old Buddhist adage. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.160 I had not heard that, I think so. Um, they're 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.960 fasting is mostly it's not a full fast. You can drink, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.719 so I guess you could have soup, maybe just a broth. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.680 God help you if you have noodles in it, but 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.360 you have to abstain from solid foods, right, Um, you 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.640 can live on broth yeah forever. Yeah, he probably wouldn't 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:10.479 have a very productive life. G Hi system, But yeah, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.400 you can live on broth. Catholics they fashion on fast 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.440 on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday. Um. Actually they can eat 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.159 a small meal without meat on those two days. Yeah, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.800 so it's not exactly a fast. But they on Fridays 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.880 during Lent, they're not really supposed to eat meat at all. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.960 That's why we have the filet of fish and for 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.920 a little while in the sixties of the Hula burger, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.000 right because Crock was like, man, there's a mess of 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.279 Catholics out there and they're not eating burgers on Fridays, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.320 but we need to get them in the store anyway. See, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.600 I'm thankful for that because I love a filet of 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.440 fish every now and then, like once a year. Uh. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.400 They fast to Catholics fast to show their control of 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:53.360 their flesh, fleshly which one of my favorite words, fleshly desires. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.880 So Catholic to do penance, to show solidarity with the 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.320 poor and people who might not have food. So I 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.400 went to a Atholic school for the first couple of 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.560 years of school, our Lady of Perpetual Help and um, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.280 every once in a while they would serve rice with 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.680 a pad of butter for lunch, and it was kind 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.160 of this fast, but it wasn't really fast because we're 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.760 still having rice. But basically the whole idea was, this 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.280 is what poor kids in Bangladesh have to eat every day, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.560 and you're just this spoiled kid, So eat some rice 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.920 instead and kind of get in the mindset. And I 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.120 never did it because I got the point. But some 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.920 of my friends would eat the rice and then eat 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.360 their own lunch from home as well, which even even 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.800 in like second grade, I'm like, that seems wrong. Yeah, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.680 I don't think you're supposed to be doing it like that. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.200 Yeah they I mean that didn't even have to be 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.360 a religious space. You could do that in school today 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.800 and just say as a hunger awareness like in Australia. Yeah, Australia, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.400 what what is that? The forty hour Fast? Do you 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.280 know anything about that? I know that I think they 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.720 have it once a year and many many Australians take part, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.400 and basically the whole thing is to like they raise 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.240 awareness of poverty, of the state of the poverty stricken 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.800 and um also to raise money to the forty Hour Famine. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.400 Excuse me, which is a fast? Boy? We headed that 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.520 one off the past. Good going, chuck, uh Eastern Orthodox 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.880 Church members they will fast on Lent. They observe the 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.560 Apostles fast and the Nativity fast, and they think, um, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.760 that it could strengthen your that your resistance to gluttony 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.079 is obviously one of the seven deadly sins. And they 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.480 eat no meat, dairy, eggs, or fish during these fasts. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.360 So it's my understanding. They can also eat a little something, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.480 just not those things the carbs. They can eat bread, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.080 that'd be nice, and bread and broth. But now you're talking, yeah, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.600 that's what else you need. I can't think of it. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.800 Fruits and vegetables and stuff like that. Well, no, it 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.000 says no meat, dairy, eggs, or fish. So you could 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.760 have fruits, vegetables, broth, bread. That's like, that's a good 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.800 kind in a fast right there. I wouldn't even call 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.000 that a fast. No, you couldn't actually get gluttonous on that. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:10.440 You could. Uh. The Jewish folks they fast on Yam Kapoor, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.920 which is the day of Atonement, and they are doing 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.559 this to a tone first sins obviously like the Catholics, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.160 and special requests from God. I know, it's so funny. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.520 It's like, hey, I'm not gonna eat for twenty five 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.360 whole hours. But I have a huge favor to ask 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.400 you right sun up. The sundown is that the deal 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.280 which and they have one of the tougher fast because 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.599 they don't eat or drink anything for twenty five hours. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.880 That's like no nothing, that's a real fast. Mormons stay 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.280 fast on the first Sunday every month. This is kind 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:45.760 of a week fast. If you ask me, this is 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.600 like a Tuesday for me. They have to skip two meals. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.000 They skipped two meals and they think it helps them 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.720 obviously get closer to God like many of the religions do, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.480 and just basically just focuses their minds on God. Well, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.160 the cool thing about the More and Fast, in my opinion, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.640 is that they're also required to give food and money 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.280 to the needy, right what they would have spent perhaps 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.840 on those meals. It's probably a good one. You should 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.400 do one on Mormons as a whole. We've had that 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.640 requested a lot. I've read about this one guy UM 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.920 named Paul Kingston, and he is the head of a 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:25.000 an accused alleged crime family that's a Mormon sect also UM. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:31.520 And he does forty day fasts. Yeah, wow, forty days man, 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.360 can you imagine it's good? Did it? He does it? 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.920 I bet his breast stink so bad. Um, we'll get 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.480 into that. Muslims uh that obviously they fast on for 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.679 the observance of Ramadan, the ninth month on the Muslim calendar. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.160 And many of you might not know what Ramadan is. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.600 Do you want to tell him? I'll tell him. It 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.960 commemorates the month when the Koran was first revealed to Mohammed. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.120 That's what Ramadan is all about, is right. So they 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.199 don't have food, they don't have drink, they don't smoke, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.880 they don't curse, they don't have sex from sunrise the sunset. Yeah, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.839 for a month, every day for a month, that's right. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:17.600 And millions millions of people do this during Ramadan. Which 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.960 is when is it? Like? Does it take place roughly 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.200 in November on the Grigorian calendar? I think is it? 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.360 I think it is. And we've been asked to do 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.600 one on Ramadan too, So we're gonna we got a lot. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:35.640 We haven't explained hardly anything, have we we still? Uh. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.600 Ramadan is a very famous fast obviously because um of 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.880 the length of time, and it is supposed to teach 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.320 Muslims patients and modesty spirituality. You ask Allah for forgiveness, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.400 pray for guidance, and you purify yourself and then it's 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:58.160 really effective, man, like getting this, uh, this mindset of 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.240 I want this, so I'll have it right now, um 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.320 out of your head for a little while. Even a 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.520 day really kind of opens your eyes a little bit 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:13.880 beyond that one single day denial, aren't you? It never 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.760 it never leaves you, does it? Well? I have to 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.760 say that, like, um, the further I've gotten away from Catholicism, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:23.040 the more into self denial I've gotten. Ironically. Yeah, alright, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.520 well let's talk about medical fasting. That's an overview of 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.920 religious fasting. You can get a lot more detailed but 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.120 nice transition than you. Well, medical fasting, Um, a lot 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.280 of people have probably engaged in. If you've ever had 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.360 some sort of test done, A lot of times they're like, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.559 don't eat the night before your your appointment, um, sometimes 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.760 twenty four hours if it's like certain kinds of blood tests. Yeah. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.920 The reason for this is pretty straightforward and logical. With 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.120 blood tests in particular, Um, they want your body to 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.400 have metabolized all the food, so they have a pretty 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.800 good idea of what your baseline levels of things like cholesterol, blood, sugar, um, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.679 all of these things are in your system normally. If you, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.760 you know, ate a handful of chicken fat right before 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.120 you went in for your cholesterol test, it's gonna skew 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.079 the results a little bit. Yeah, that fat's gonna be 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.160 in your blood. But if you haven't eaten in twenty 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.640 four hours and your blood shows uh, the same levels 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.720 of lipids that as if you had just eating a 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.360 handful of chicken fat, your physician is going to be like, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.000 we have to save your life right now. Well, yeah, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.600 if your baseline indicates something that scary, then no more 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:38.360 chicken fat um. And the same goes with if you 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.120 were going to go under for surgery, yeah, which apparently 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.000 this one's becoming outdated. We both had surgery recently. You 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.240 went all the way under it into I went into 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.240 twilight sleep for my tooth. I went all the way under, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.680 and I don't know what my oral surgeon used, but 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.400 she brought me out like totally was wide awake within 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.480 an hour of being put under, Like she did the 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.959 procedure and then I was wide awake. I still need 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.839 to ask her you weren't like I was just right back. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.359 I love the Twilight. Actually yeah, it was pretty rocking. Um. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.480 I mean I still wasted, but it was like like 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.240 I was awake. It wasn't like huge time loss or 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.520 anything like that. Anyway, I wasn't supposed to eat. I thought, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.800 just eat, but it's eat or drink And they had 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.520 to delay my surgery like three hours because I was 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.880 a jass and drank some coffee. Um. And the whole 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.160 reason I didn't understand why until I read this article. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.000 But the whole reason they tell you not to um 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.960 eat or drink anything for you know, the night before 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 you're put under, because they're worried you're going to puke 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.080 and choke on your vomit like John Bottom. I didn't 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.720 know that. I thought it was just it could make 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.040 you nauseous. Until I read this, I didn't realize that 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.320 was a deal. No, But they may be phasing it 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.480 out because it can make you nauseous if you don't eat, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.160 if you have if you take all those drugs on 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.480 an empty stomach, um, you may be likelier to be nauseated. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.920 And it's also really rare that they found, so I 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.800 think it's not uh, I mean they still did it 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.680 with me, but the article says that it may be 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.520 phased out because it's such a rare thing to choke 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.200 like that, right, And they're saying, well, a lot more people, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.760 um are having trouble with dizziness feigning because they haven't 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.320 eaten anything, and we just pumped them full of drugs. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.160 So we're gonna go ahead and let people eat. And 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.080 in the UM, I want to take a minute to 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:39.760 explain the difference between nauseous and nauseated. You know this, Yeah, 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:45.280 So nauseous means that, um, you're causing nausea, right, so 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:52.600 I'm making you nauseous. I'm nauseous to you, Okay. Nauseated 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:57.680 means that you're feeling or suffering from nausea. So I'm 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:03.440 making you nauseated. I'm nauseous to you. Know, I'm nauseated, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:08.120 is what you would say, unless you are aware that 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:13.200 you're making other people no nauseous And that's with behaviorally speaking, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.120 what do you mean, well, like you're nauseated with someone's 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.760 actions or does that mean literally you're nauseated with somebody's 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.680 actions that would make the other person nauseous. They have 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.480 the ability to cause nausea and other people got you. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.040 I never knew that. It's a big, big deal. The 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.720 more you know, thank you worldwide words. By the way, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.720 is that where that came from? Yeah, that's a great thing. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.320 I haven't seen it. Uh So what happens when you 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:43.760 stop eating? Your body is going to start burning. You know, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.800 if you don't have any protein, your body's gonna break 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.840 down your muscle. It's gonna start eating that because that's protein. Yeah, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.560 it's a scary notion, it is, which is why if 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.160 you're on a low calorie diet you want to eat 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.480 lean protein. And it's also why you'll feel weak if 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.960 you're on like a hunger strike, like to the point 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.520 where you can't get out of bed, if it's you 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:09.119 haven't eaten for three weeks or you're hallucinating um. A 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.440 long term fast can damage your heart because your heart 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.680 is a muscle, and what what your body is doing 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.520 is going after your muscle because your muscle is made 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.160 of amino acids, which is the building blocks of protein. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.760 So it's saying, well, basically, we have a bunch of 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.439 store of amino acids here where your brain is Like no, no, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.359 I used that to lift things where I used that 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.080 to pump blood. Your body's like, no, it's a bunch 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.040 of amino acids and I need it right now. If 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.800 you feed your body lean protein, logically speaking, um, it 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.199 will go after other things e g. Fat because it 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.200 has protein. Right. So aside from the heart though, liver 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.120 and kidneys can also decrease in size if you don't 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.080 have enough protein and damage those as well, which is 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.880 not good. It is not good. Um that at least 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.560 it is pretty clearly too fasting for weight loss. Right, Yes, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.280 there's a weird catch twenty two for fasting for weight 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:06.080 loss where your body, uh, if given few enough calories 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.920 or if on a fast, enters what's called starvation mode. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.720 And when you enter starvation mode, it goes. It does 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.359 things like going after your muscles, which is bad, but 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.600 it also lowers your metabolism to preserve calories. So the 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.560 fewer calories you take in, the fewer calories you end 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.320 up burning. It's weird. It's not weird. It actually makes 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.000 perfect sense, but it's also extremely unhealthy. It is, and 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.640 there's uh. I've dug into web m D for this 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.000 UM and they say that there's a lot of controversy 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.919 on this people say, you know, some people say it's 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.880 can be effective. Other people say it can't. But they say, 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.080 if you really weed through all this stuff that most 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.280 medical experts say that it is not healthy at all. Um, 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.560 it'll come back quickly if you fast to lose weight, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.400 it's really just liquids. Beyonce made a lot of headlines 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.520 when she did the Master Cleanse and lost twenty pounds 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.960 for Dream Roles. Awesome movie. Did you see that? No, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.240 I don't know if you'd like, it might not be 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:14.560 your thing. Okay, health risks that we already covered, um, liver, kidney, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.920 and heart. And this doctor says, you know, people try 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.000 all these weird diets and there's a hundred thousand different 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.080 books on odd diets. When everyone knows the way to 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.480 lose weight is lower your fat, eat five fruits and 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.800 vegetables a day, drink a lot of water, and do 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.800 some exercise and get plenty of sleep. Uh. If they 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.919 say I want to fast, let's say you want to 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.040 fast and do a good enema just to clean yourself out, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.720 Very very dangerous to do that. What not to do 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.600 an enemo while you're on a fast. It's not a 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.680 good one too. Punch web MD says, what you're gonna 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.479 do is you're gonna flush your intestinal attract of your 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.600 good bacteria and put your health it too sarious risk um. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.399 And this is the whole detoxification thing. There's one camp 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.040 that says, you know, your body detoxes itself, there's no 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.520 scientific evidence that any of these cleanses do any good. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.160 Then there's another camp that says, well, if you're eating healthy, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.000 then your body is doing a great job of detoxifying itself. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.600 But most people don't eat healthy, they eat packaged, processed foods, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.159 and so your body could actually use some help detoxifying. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:28.600 I mean that makes a lot of sense of the 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.000 same thing with saunas, like they're like, well, yeah, I 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.919 mean you might only sweat like a very small amount 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.600 of toxins out of your body, but you're still sweating 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.600 that amount out. Why why how could that hurt if 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.919 you're doing it properly. There's definitely two camps on this. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.399 It is very controversial. Yeah, same with a calorie restricted diet, 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.760 which I know we've talked about before. There's two camps 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.080 on it. The fact of the matter is it's neither 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.160 one knows for certain whether they're right. That's a lot 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.360 of it's just based on the common sense and logic ketosis. 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.400 If you go without eating for a couple of days, 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.639 your body is gonna enter a stage called ketosis, and 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.399 that is, um, what your goal is. If you do 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.360 the Atkins diet, they preach ketosis and that's what happens 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.000 when your body runs out of carbs to burn for energy, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.560 so it burns fat, which sounds like a good thing. Um, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.520 but the breath I mentioned earlier, be prepared for really 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.359 awful halitosis. Is that right? Tell me about it, Chuck. Well, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.040 it's that's just one of the side effects of of 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.960 fasting and ketosis is you're you're gonna have rank halitosis. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.560 I don't know the science behind it, but it's true. 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.600 And uh so, you know, carry around if you're gonna 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.960 be doing that kind of thing. Just take care of 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:44.960 your mouth a little more. Get a tongue scraper. Um. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.800 I think probably while we're on this, we should take 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.520 the time to debunk the whole idea that you should 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:54.520 be drinking eight glasses of water a day. Debunk. Well, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.640 you should definitely drink water. It's not it's good. It's 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.960 good to drink water, but that whole eight glasses of date. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.280 Think there's people who rigidly drink eight glasses of water 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:10.120 a day, totally arbitrary, and um, yeah, there's a guy 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:14.240 named Tim Crow who's a professor nutrition at Deacon University 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.359 who's kind of gone to the trouble of debunking this. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:23.600 Apparently back in the US, um recommended, uh two point 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:29.840 five liters of water a day, I would imagine. So, um, 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.120 so this this, this whole uh this, this is where 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:40.040 this whole eight glasses came from. Right, um, but there 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.879 there's also been this whole Um it has to just 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.320 be water idea, Like it can't be coffee, it can't 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:48.400 be so that one guy said liquids, water and other 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.840 liquids right, at least on web m D. Technically you 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.679 could get it all from cokes, which is you know, 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:58.000 it's gonna have all these other side effects. But there 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.879 it's water, you know, one of the main ingredients, and 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.600 coke is water. Same with coffee, same with tea, all 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:08.080 this other stuff. So, um, if you're drinking water, drink water. 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:10.800 But that whole eight classes a day thing is apparently 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.840 not true, says that one guy. There's Well, the problem 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:22.040 is water intake varies by body size weight. It's two individuals, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.280 say eight classes a day. Yeah, but let's put it 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.720 this way. It's never gonna be bad for you, is it. Yeah, 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.919 there's um you can die of water toxicity. Well not 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:35.960