Check out my video "Can Fasting reverse Kidney Disease?" - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia-PlpRnksXIoas.html

If anyone is interested or needs more motivation: l was a fat, sick, very old-looking woman in Feb 2023 with a BMI of 34.5 (dangerously obese for my height), now I am getting IDd at bars again :D I shed 76lbs in 6 months last year using fasting (between 24-76 hours most days of every week for the whole 6 months) and intense endurance exercise. I went from an XL to an XS :) All the obesity-related health-issues I was enduring had a total reversal. My skin shrank to the extent I am _constantly_ accused of surgery from randoms who see my transformation on the internet (it’s all documented). I also built muscle, fitness, and endurance from the bodyweight HIIT exercises and walking I was doing! At almost 36 years old I am now getting ID’d again 😊 (Also I’m a mother of two teenagers! My belly looks like I haven’t had babies or ever been obese) Anyway part of what I’m here to say is that most days I drank strong dark coffee (the plunger kind), with cream in during my fasts :o usually just one big cup with a splash of cream. So this confirms what Dr Fung has said in other videos that cream may not have a negative affect on autophagy ^_^ (though it may depend on the individual! I’m talking real cream from a cow, not artificial creamer) Also it’s been a year since I shed the weight and have effortlessly maintained - my “set point” seems to be somewhere between 116-120lbs now?? I’m 5’2”, I eat OMAD as a lifestyle, and also do carnivore a lot of the time. I do running for exercise. I’d prefer walking but I’m often busy so I get the exercise done faster if I run. Also I did all this in poverty!! People have told me I’m lying because I’d have to be rich for all the surgeries I’ve had 😅 But my front tooth is broken and badly coffee stained because I can’t even afford a dentist lol (not begging here, I don’t accept money or donations, I’m just trying to emphasise what’s possible even with no resources!! Hopefully this can help give you hope and motivation if you see it :D

Jason is the best thing that ever happened to human health.

Thank you for making these videos and NOT charging for the info Dr. Fung!

The great thing about fasting is it actually increases the metabolism when you do fasts 96h and under. It also regenerates organs like the thyroid at the end of the fast due to growth hormone generation. Hormons like testosterone slowly wane with age but in both men and women, growth hormone reduces by 2/3 as soon as we are adults and stays that way forever for most people. The many benefits of occasional extended fasting and lowering dietary carbs: Your body recycles up to 1/3 of all immune cells in a 72h fast, rejuvenating your immune system. This helps with autoimmune disease, cancers and cytokine storm. Reduces B cells by over half in a single fast, greatly reducing allergic and other autoimmune responses. Fasting and low carb help with POTS, which is driven by high insulin and blood sugar. Fasting reduces cortisol over time and improves your circadian rhythm. Fibrosis aka scarring is reversed over time, including in the heart, lungs and clots. Clotting and fibrin are inhibited, stopping any 'unusual' clots. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of proteins, pathogens and plaques by macrophages and other immune bodies. This will remove spikes quicker, whether natural or unnatural in origin! Fasting restores NAD+, reduces NADH and increases nitric oxide release to open blood vessels. Reflexes and short term memory are increased. Fasts from 36-96 h increase metabolic rate due to norepinephrine release!. Blood sugar and insulin are lowered when fasting, reducing inflammation and allowing the immune bodies to move freely through the body. T cells are cruciall in fighting cancer, autoimmune disease and infection. With age, the thymus generally stops making them but fasting releases stem cells, which then can become new T cells. It also releases growth hormone, which regenerates the thymus! When insulin is high, vit D stays locked in the blood cells but fasting quickly lowers it. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased as fasting improves metabolic health, and D in turn increases autophagy. Fasting increases anti-aging Yamanaka factors and increases average telomere length in stem cell pools. Fasting increases interferon, which shuts down the ability of viruses to replicate. Clots and plaques are removed over time due to accelerated phagocytosis. The hunger hormone ghrelin also lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting. Fasting does not reduce testosterone over time. Iraises it when the fast is broken by increasing lutenizing hormone. Fasting also increases insulin sensitivity, which helps with muscle building. And removes fat, which also increases estrogen in men. Fasting activates autophagy (literally self eating). This recycles damaged proteins and foreign matter such as viruses. Fasting can help with MS, Depression, BPD, Autism and seizures. Weight loss from daily caloric restriction has 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight lost as lean tissue while many studies show fat loss from 36 h fasts without losing any lean tissue! The obese will lose loose skin while fasting, but the frail will have increased growth hormone release, which helps to make more lean tissue and reduce frailness. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mtDNA. Mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism, fighting infection and cancer prevention! 24h of fasting reduces leptin levels by half! This reduces leptin resistance, which impairs immune function. Over time fasting normalizes stomach acid levels and during the fast acid levels go down to allow for the healing of ulcers. Fasting reduces pain and anxiety by stimulating the endocannabinoid system, just like the effect of CBD oil Your brain prefers to burn ketones at a rate of around 2.5 to 1 when equally available to glucose. Except for brief periods of very intense exercise, your body mainly burns free fatty acids. When not in ketosis, the brain can only burn glucose, which produces a great deal of damaging ROS the brain has to deal with. Fasts of 36-96 will not affect short term female fertility or affect menstrual cycle. They also may increase long term fertility for some women. Fasting releases BDNF and NGF in the blood, creating new nerve and brain cell growth. This helps a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. Fasting stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells, destroying them. Senescent cells are responsible for many of the effects of aging and are a root cause of the development of cancer. Glycine and trimethylglycine (TMG) can also be useful supplements while fasting that won't break ketosis and have many benefits. A fasting mimicking diet for 3-5 days in a row provides many of the same benefits as water fasting. FMD has about 200-800 calories, under 18 g of protein and zero net carbs. What breaks a fast? Anything with protein or carbohydrates in it will break a fast but most teas and herbs are OK. Supplements and meds usually break ketosis directly or contain a filler that wil, or irritate the stomachl. Many meds are dangerous to take while fasting. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. They also help with dementia and many other issues even if you take them while not fasting! Children, expecting or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors that excrete insulin or certain rare forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all or only with doctor supervision. T1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis and done under doctor supervision. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness or tremors, then simply break the fast with a low carb meal. 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Feel free to copy and paste this anywhere you like, no accreditation needed!

Good reminder Dr. Fung. I got my fasting groove back. I have reestblished a 36 hour fast today. Today as I was feeling hunger I thought of you and reminded myself that this is just my ghrelin getting turned up.

Hi Dr. Fung, I followed your advice about intermittent fasting. I lost 15 pounds in 3 months. My A1C from 6.3 to 5.8. I appreciate your time and effort to make these videos on KZfaq ! Thank you for your help 🎉

Post menopausal, Intermittent faster here, now for 28 months. I lost 19% of my body weight in the first six months however my set point wanted me to weigh slightly more and I now accept that my body is happier at a slightly higher weight. I’m at goal and weigh about 16% less from the time I started intermittent fasting. I’m down three pants sizes and I take my body measurements once a month. Thank you for your channel Dr. Fung intermittent fasting actually is pretty easy to do. I think of it as a light switch, on or off, eating not eating.

I see why everyone loves you. Is it your boyish good looks? Your sweet way of explaining things? Yes-- and your knowledge. I can say these things because I'm old enough to by your grandma. Thanks for all you do for us.

🎉 I get too excited when I get a notification of a new video of yours.

Thank you Dr. Fung. Your analogies are so helpful.

You are my favorite person. In the recent video, you said you made people fat and didn't know better, and now you know and are correcting your error and HELPING people. 💚 I love you! Thank you. The only doctor I trust.

People can say whatever they want. I water fasted for 92 days and cured my stage four cancer. Not only that but I lost a ton of weight with no loose skin. Got off ALL my medication and look younger than I am by 20 years. It works. I was morbidly obese. I’m still fat but I’m not dying and continue to lose through OMAD and keto diet

Thank you Doctor. You are a saviour. A1c from 9.6 to 5.2 in 3 months. Weight loss 12% Intermittent fasting 12hrs a day Carb moderation walking / cycling 3 times a week

2 things adjust the body thermostat aside from excersising. 1 intermittent fasting. 2 adjusting the kinds of foods you eat and ratios. This means ditching seeds oil, minimizing carbs as much as you need on a individual basis, upping protein. If that isn't enough, up fat intake with healthy fats like animal fats, butter, ghee, olive oil or alvacado oil as long as not heated, coconut oil, sesame oil. Nuts, seeds, alvacado, olives, cocoa nibs, cheese, eggs, fatty meats as well as lean meats, are all good fats to have. Focusing on mostly whole foods helps too. Adding in fermented foods helps reset things. These are the best ways to reset metabolism. Not saying everyone has to even eat a ketogenic or carnivore diet though I did for almost 2 years. But some form of low carb, primarily whole foods, seed oil free, antiinflammatory diet does the trick. That can be keto, ketovore, carnivore, Paleo, Mediterranean, or any form of low carb you create individually. I'm doing my own version of low fodmap general low carb no real guidelines but below 100 g carbs a day, usually between 60-70 g total but under 50 g net currently. Some people do well on less, some on more. Hense my individual needs comments.

Any treatment for obesity that doesn't treat the body fat thermostat is doomed to fail over the long term.

Dr Fung is a brilliant doctor and has helped so many people. Keep doing what you're doing, doctor. Much respect.

It would have been useful to go into more detail with regard to how to reduce your body's thermostat. I've lost a lot of weight, I read The Obesity Code but for others who haven't, going into some detail on that would have been beneficial. There is a prior video by Dr Fung, "weight loss (controlling body set weight)" from couple of years ago. That video has more of an explanation as to how to reduce your body's thermostat, for anyone wanting that information go watch that video. I can't provide a link to it but it's about 3 years old of years old from 2021 and you can find it under his channel. That video has a link from Dr Fung to another video of his that helps with losing weight. It's listed in the first comment to that video. I hope this information is helpful for someone.

Hi Dr Fung! Thanks for posting this video. Really important information for weight loss and maintaining weight loss. I'm 61 and lost 160 lbs by finding and following your videos, interviews, lectures and books. It reversed ALL my health issues. I'm maintaining well but I found it challenging to learn how to maintain once I met my goal weight. Maybe a video about maintenance? I feel the best I ever have and I'm loving my fasting lifestyle! Thank you so much for all you do for us! 🙏😀💪

Your book “The Obesity Code” is changing my life!! I am so thankful to you & my best friend for making certain I read it.

Thank you for your informative videos. I fast 16/8 . To date I lost 25 pounds. I have another 10 pounds to go.

Back in 2018, I read The Obesity Code as I started my Keto journey. I have referred many people to it because of the information on body set weight. For those wondering the how to reset your body set weight, you should read Dr. Fung's book. He also talks about it on previous videos. I'll give you a hint. It involves intermittent fasting. 😊

Dr. Fung makes everything understandable and I really enjoy his info. Gotta get the book The Obesity Code!!! Thank you.

Can't wait to hear more about how to change our set weight. Great topic!

Can’t wait to hear the HOW now !!!!

Whoah..amazing content. This explains a lot..i am grateful for this channel Dr. Fung!

You’re the best teacher and a phenomenal doctor!

Another great video from the GOAT Dr J Fung!

Thank you for all your videos. I follow the intermitting fasting and i feel so much better with my weight loss. Your advise has probably extended my life.

I started with Dr. Fung at the beginning of Covid doing IF ,low carb and daily exercise. I also did longer fast of 3-7 days. Sixteen months later I had lost 100 pounds! I was just below my green zone marker and kept it off for a year and half. Then went to Europe for a month visiting family during the holiday. I got away from my routine of food, exercise and fasting. Gained 25 pounds. Came home and got right back to all the healthy stuff. Lost 7 pounds but that last 15 pounds has been stuck like glue! It’s been over a year and half without a budge. It’s so frustrating but I guess my body is very happy to be at this weight. I’m still healthy. My health numbers are good! But man, sometimes it’s maddening to do the same things I did to lose the 100 pounds but not to drop even a pound. I’m looking forward to his next video to see if I can shock my body back to my original goal weight. Haha

I sort of knew rbis but not really understood it til this video. Thank you, explains a lot.

Love these videos! Please post as much as you want!

Great video Jason, thank you. 👍

Dr. Fung- will you please do a video on the impacts of fasting for certain lengths of time and how it impacts the metabolism. Ex. The impact of a 24-36 hour fast vs a 10-12 hour fast and how it impacts over time.

Many thanks for all your hard work Dr. Fung. I've learned alot and improved my health substantially since coming across your books and KZfaq channel.

Fasting is the ultimate tool for hormonal control for the body fat thermostat. Brilliant video, Dr. Fung!

Thanks, Dr. Fung! Please focus on the HOW next time :)

Hi Jason . Please make a video on what you eat on an average day. You and Dr Berg have turned me from being chubby grumpy and miserable human into a happy fit thriving man. Cheers

Thank you for all you do❤

Sure look forward to learning how to reserve my fat thermostat. Thank you.

Thank you Dr. Fung! You saved my life

It still a pleasure to listen to Dr Fung 💙💙

Great topic!!!

Dr. Fung, I am new to your work. I would ask that as you continue on this excellent topic, please make clear when you "adjust the thermasat" what does increasing/ deacreaing the thermostat mean? Is it increasing/ decreasing weight, respectively? Great job teasing this topic!

Good to know but you didn't tell us HOW to adjust it.

I will keep my eyes open for part 2

Thanks. Enjoyed that.

This was an enlightening lecture Dr. Fung. Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thank you for compiling such a comprehensive list of great fasting facts!

Thank you.

Awesome!

Thank you for these videos and helping people. What I noticed about this topic of the thermostat is it reminds me of a concept about becomming comfortable in a certain body condition. So in your example about hormones where it involves the nervous system, it reminds me about how when your body physically doesn't have a cerain range of motion is that you gradually train/adjust your body top get used to that range of motion and that becomes your new normal ROM. With that in mind, it seems like it is all about getting your body to be in a non-stressed state, physically and hormonally toward the condition you want your body to be in.

Thank you Jason you have and are still helping my lose weight and control my diabetes, surgar level is fantastic.. Thank you.. Ray from UK

Great video! I am very excited for the follow up video in which you talk about how to lose weight in a way that avoids this bounce back to bodyweight setpoint. I have heard that losing weight at a rate of something like 10lbs over six months - and then maintaining that weight for six months before going down another 10lbs over six more months etc - but the amount of discipline required over such a long period of time in order to not lose weight faster than that seems impossible for someone who is not being monitored by six people in lab coats.

Very interesting. I'm looking forrward to your follow up video about the specific hormones that affect one's body fat thermostat. Some years ago, I was excercising heavily, lots of cardio, spinning classes, etc. Hardly lost weight, and what I did lose I gained right back. I know now that what I was eating was just as critical as how much. I never had a fasting insulin test then, but I'm sure it would have been high as I was not only under a lot of stress, I was eating proabalby 3500-4000 calories a day of high carb foods.

Good video. Just a note for the editor, at the end youtube pops up an overlay for another video of the channel but it blocks his face. You might center the doctor during the outro part of the video so it's in the middle so we his face clearly.

Ok! VERY helpful

Thanks.

Thank you🌷🌷🌷

Thank you

*I had very high blood sugar I only managed to improve my health⭐ when I found a WONDERFUL treatment,❤❤ if you want to know about it, I left the video in the comment reply*

Great info Thank you When will your new clinic in Toronto open and is there a link you can share?

Thank you 🎉 ... Now I just need to know how to lower it 😅

So can a One meal a day ketogenic diet, along with exercise can decrease the levels of the body fat thermostat? A lot of will power is required

Hello Dr. Fung. ❤

Brilliant ❤

Hi Dr. I was wondering did melatonin will break the fast? Thank you so much for your time and help 🙏

Great information!! What fast would you recommend for a menopausal woman ( 49 YO) with hypothyroidism? Before I went into menopause I was always able to keep the weight off with IF … even with hypothyroidism! But struggling to lose weight now I’m in menopause … what should I prioritise … my thyroid or menopause? Is it possible to lose weight with IF anymore?

Hi Dr. Fung. How do we change our internal thermostat? I need to lose 50 pounds. Will intermittent fasting help change the internal thermostat? I was thinking of doing a 3 day water fast and then immediately starting a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule. Will this lower my internal thermostat?

The thermostat is set by the unsaturated to saturated body fat ratio. The more saturated your body fat is the less fat cells respond to insulin signaling, and thus the less fat they accumulate. The key here is to make fat cells more insuline resistant (physiological not patological), while keeping the rest of the body insuline sensitive.

Dr. Fung, i must stay that your thumbnail game is getting strong. Mr. beast is taking notes...lol

This makes sense! Need more info on how to adjust that thermostat.

So, how do we adjust the thermostat? Please advise

Tack!

I hope you can do a video on getting into ketosis. Some say 18 hours others say 2 days. Also how it varies individually. So more info regatding this would be nice.

HOW do you adjust the thermostat???

Ok but you didn't tell us anything?.... how do we adjust the thermostat ????????

Can u please tell us what the best artificial sweetener to use?

Dr. Fung…… what a tease you are!!!! Now I’m gonna get this book finally so I can understand how to lower my set point!! I’m on OMAD at only30 grams of carbs trying to lower my A1C and loose weight. You’re amazing and my great health today is due to your videos….. you help thousands and thousands of people! What a soul you are! ❤

Dr. Fung all good but you still didn't tell us HOW TO ADJUST BODY FAT THERMOSTAT ?

So, how to you control the thermostat?

Question with GLP-1's. If you intermittent fast and eat low carb/keto while you are using them, are you still lowering your body thermostat?

Cold plunging has to do something to the body fat thermostats it’s been a rough summer since I quit.

Then how you adjust your fat termostat down? Does anybody know where can I find that video?

Most people I know, including myself, blow that statistic about gaining one pound per year, to bits. When I gain weight, it isn’t a slow process at all and I certainly isn’t just one pound.

I will be here waiting for the next part

How heritable is the body set weight?

Hi Dr. Jason Fung. Thank for your advise i lost 11 kgs in 3 months. Maintaining daily green tea intakes and just eating fruits as part of my diet and at most eggs. After 11 kgs lost from total weight without exercise. I now found out that my weight does not reduce. I need to do some slow steep hill walk daily(500 meter) for a week in order to drop another 1 kg. It seems that the fasting works for the first 11 kgs but to loose more kgs you need to exercise and fasting does not work.

I need to know how to set my thermostat to like 150lbs LOL. Release the knowledge Dr. Fung 🙏🏾!!! Fasting has allowed me to shed weight and clean up my relationship with food like NOTHING ELSE!! I've been obese since I was a child. And to think it was in the bible the whole time!!!!

I lost 160 pounds naturally through IF, low carb/ whole foods, exercise, stress management, sleep routine... unfortunately, I am slowly regaining weight at about a pound every 6-8 weeks staying strict to the protocol. It's been 3 years in maintenance and I am still slowly regaining (20lbs+) ... not lots of information out there. Approximately, how long does it take for the body to adjust?

Apologies in advance for nitpicking the analogy, but you can't move cold into a room; you can only remove heat. Just like you can't apply darkness to a room; you can only turn off the lights. This just rubs wrong people with an understanding of thermodynamics.

It hit me in 2023. At some point, after great success with keto, I still gained weight again. Now I walk for 60 minutes a day with a weighted vest so that my body thinks I'm already 20kg heavier. Since then I've been less hungry and lost weight again. Unfortunately, I can't judge whether it's the more difficult sport or the more weight on the bones.

Thanks Dr you safe lots of lifes i see your video and resreve my dm my hba1c 14.9 two month ago last 48 days my fasting under 100 and Random under 130 i have no medicine only change my diet my weghit loss 6kg in 45days and after 4 month my hba1c under 6 . thanks great man

Dr. Fung. Can you help me to understand the following? I am a type two diabetic, working on managing my blood sugar through IF and reducing carbs (125 or less per day), and sugars (25 or less per day). We recently had a loss in our family and because I was so upset, I didn't eat more than 100 calories daily for about four days. On the fourth day, a friend used a glucose monitor to check my blood sugar - which read 200 - much higher than my previous read at 129. I was shocked! Can you please explain this phenomenon in a future video? Thanks!

Do you recommend intermittent fasting in conjunction with a Mediterranean diet?

have been trying to get an answer for this question. I have seen a lot of videos by the amazing Dr. Fung but I don't seem to get the answer. During prolong fasting such as 3-4 days, What Minerals or vitamins do you have to take? Or assuming that you're healthy with no medical conditions, you don't take anything? Have you guys seen this, have you guys seen him answer this question before?

Yessir! Gotta recomp your set "normal" fat level. Only way to lose fat and keep it off. The general media NEVER mentions this.

An interesting discussion. Lowering the body fat thermostat using hormones like GLP1 explains why hormone mimicking substances like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) are so effective for weight loss. I’m wondering if losing weight slowly and staying on weight loss plateaus for extended periods may permanently reset the body fat thermostat lower? I’ve lost 30 pounds on Ozempic over 8 months. I want to lose another 15 and am already thinking about maintenance and how to avoid a weight gain rebound. I’ve stayed on a low dosage (1. 0 mg or less) hoping to acclimate my body to anew weight set point and to minimize symptoms of gastric discomfort. I’ve paired this with dedicated strength training, cardio, Pilates and yoga. I’m feeling so much better and really want to sustain this loss. I’m also thinking of tapering the medication very slowly once I’ve achieved my weight loss goal and intermittently cycling semaglutide if I start to put the weight back on. I’m interested in Dr Fung’s ideas about how to permanently reset the body fat thermostat after weight loss.

How to do or should I do fasting if I have high Uric Asid or gout