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Welcome back to the Chasing Eden podcast, where we rediscover
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our body's divine design. I'm your host, Carolyn Thompson, and
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today we're diving into something that affects almost everyone listening,
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whether you realize it or not, your metabolism. Now, most
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people think of metabolism as one simple thing, how fast
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do I burn calories? But that's not really what it is.
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Your metabolism is your body's entire energy system. How you
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convert food into fuel, how your cells communicate, how your
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hormones regulate, how your body either thrives or slowly breaks down.
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And here's the truth. Most people today are living with
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a slowed, damaged metabolism and they don't even know it.
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They feel tired, they gain weight easily, they struggle to focus,
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They deal with inflammation, brain fog, cravings, poor sleep, and
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they think it's just normal aging. But it's not normal.
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It's the result of a system that has been slowly
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disrupted by the modern world, modern food and modern habits.
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And today we're going to walk through what's really slowing
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your metabolism down. The hidden roll of insulin resistance, the
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toxins and processed foods working against you. Why sunlight, sleep,
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and hydration matter more than you think, and most importantly,
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natural practical ways to speed it back up, because your
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body was designed to function well, to heal, to adapt,
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and to thrive, and when you return to that design,
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everything begins to change. So let's start by clearing something up.
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Your metabolism is not just about calories. That idea that
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everything is calories in versus calories out has led millions
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of people into frustration because they eat less, the exercise more,
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and nothing changes or worse, their metabolism slows down even more.
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Your metabolism is controlled by a network of systems, hormones,
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especially insulin, cortisol, and thyroid mitochondria, your cellular energy engines,
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nervous system balance, nutrient availability, detox pathways, and it's dynamic
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and constantly adjusting. According to doctor Berg, quote, a slow
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metabolism is almost always a hormonal problem, not a calorie problem.
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That's a big shift because it means if your hormones
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are off, your metabolism will be off. Even doctor Barbara
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O'Neil says, I find that the missing link with weight loss, well,
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it's the hormones. Unquote. Most people today aren't just slow metabolizers,
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they're experiencing something deeper, metabolic resistance. Your body becomes resistant
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to burning fat, using glucose properly, responding to insulin, and
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producing energy efficiently. And over time, this leads into something
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you've probably heard of, insulin resistance. Let's talk about this briefly,
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but clearly. Insulin is a hormone that helps move sugar
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from your bloodstream into your cells, and that's a good thing.
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But when insulin is constantly elevated, your body stops listening
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to it. That's called insulin resistance. Well, what causes it
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and what's the biggest driver? Processed food and constant eating.
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According to doctor Josh Axe, he says this quote, frequent eating,
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especially refined carbohydrates and sugars, keeps insulin elevated all day long,
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eventually leading to resistance unquote. And once that happens, your
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body stores more fat, you feel hungry more often, your
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energy crashes, and your metabolism slows down. Human biologist Gary
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Brecca explains it like this quote. If your body can't
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efficiently use oxygen and glucose, your cells literally can't produce
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energy properly unquote. Now think about that, this isn't just
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about weight. This is cellular energy failure. So there is
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a problem with processed foods. So let's get real for
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a moment. Modern food is not neutral. It is engineered,
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and many of the ingredients in today's food supply is
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they're working directly against our metabolisms. For instance, refined sugar,
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it's one of the biggest metabolic killers, especially the high
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fructose corn syrup, as well as industrial seed oils like soybean, canola,
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corn oil, and others. We have artificial additives and preservatives,
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ultra refined carbohydrates like white flour and package snacks, and
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the hidden sugars in the so called healthy foods. These
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are the biggest metabolic killers now. According to doctor Stephen Gundry,
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he says this quote, the modern diet is filled with
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compounds that damage the gut lining and disrupt metabolic signaling.
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And here's where it gets deeper. There's a gut metabolism connection.
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Your metabolism is tied directly to your gut health. When
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your gut is inflamed, nutrient absorption drops, inflammation rises, and
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your hormones become disregulated. Your body goes into something called
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energy conservation mode. Meaning it slows everything down. So now
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we see the problem. Hormones get disrupted, insulin resistance rises,
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and processed foods overwhelm your system. But here's the encouraging part.
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The body can recover and when it does, the metabolism
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doesn't just improve, it begins to wake up. Now, before
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we talk about supplements, before we talk about advanced strategies,
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we need to talk about the foundations, because if you
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ignore these, nothing else will work the way it should.
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Sunlight is your metabolic switch. This one is massively underestimated.
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Sunlight is not just about vitamin D. It's about circadian rhythm.
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Your body runs on a clock, and when that clock
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is off, your metabolism slows down. Now I follow Justine Stanger.
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She is a cellular health expert. She says this about sunlight.
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We've ignored the actual regulator of metabolism, and that's sunlight.
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When you cut yourself off from the sun, get you
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cut off communication with leptin. That's spelled l e P
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as in paul tin, and that breaks the leptin milano
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cortin pathway. This is the signaling loop between your fat
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cells and your brain. It actually tells you when to
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stop eating So there is a connection between sunlight and
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the communication of something called leptin and mello melano cortin,
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and it's a pathway, and it's a signaling loop between
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your fat cells and your brain, and it tells your body,
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it tells you when to stop eating. So if you're
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not getting enough sunlight, just think about that. You could
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just eating all day long and never getting satisfied because
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you're not getting that signal because it's been disrupted, because
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you're ignoring something that is natural and a part of
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the body's natural rhythms and needed, and it's one of
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the main things that keeps us eating properly. It's a
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very important component of our health that is taken for granted.
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And with so many people being inside, including children on
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the internet playing games and not getting out in the
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sun as much, and especially adults who might work inside,
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work on their computers, work in an office building and
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not getting enough sunlight, this explains a lot of problems
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that could be solved just simply by intentionally getting more
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sun Now. Doctor Barbara O'Neil says this quote, the body
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was designed to rise with the sun and rest with
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the dark. When we break that rhythm, we break our health. Unquote.
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Morning sunlight helps regulate cortisol properly, It improves insulin sensitivity,
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it boosts mitochondrial function, and it increases energy naturally. Now,
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another important component of metabol health is sleep. And this
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is a tough one because so many people have trouble sleeping.
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If you're not sleeping well, your metabolism is struggling. Period
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Poor sleep leads to increased cortisol, increased insulin resistance, increased
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hunger hormones, and decreased fat burning. Even one night of
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bad sleep can reduce insulin sensitivity significantly. Another impotent and
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poor component of metabolic insulin and metavolcon and student resistance
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is hydration. So many times we get too busy and
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we don't drink enough water throughout the day, or we
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don't drink the right kind of water, or we're not
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sure what kind of water to drink, or we're drinking
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sugary drinks. So that one that's I can really get
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into this whole thing about what we're supposed to drink.
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I know doctor artists his family likes to drink distilled water.
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A lot of health experts will tell you to drink
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spring water. Then there's ozonated water, and there's all these
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different types of waters. You know, you can do your
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own research and decide which one you want to do.
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I know that I will just take filtered water, input
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doctor Berg's electrolytes in it. Sometimes I will put some
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Baja salts in my mouth and just drink planet old
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filtered water with that. There's all different ways to get hydrated.
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I like to keep distilled water around. I'm kind of
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one of those people that thinks, Okay, look, if there's
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all these benefits and there's so many different experts out
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there giving me a case for drinking each one of
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these things, then I'm just gonna rotate all of them
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because I don't know which one to drink, So, you
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know what, I'm just going to rotate them. So I
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have spring water and glass that I like to drink,
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and I just kind of think, Okay, you know, maybe
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for a few days I'll drink distilled water, and then
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for another few days I'll drink some spring water because
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there's some good things in that. And so you can
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just kind of figure that out for yourself, because the
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problem is is it's information overload when it comes to water,
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Like you just get to a point you're like, I,
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I just have no idea what to do. Now. There's
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too many options, and there's too many good things about
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each one, and there's too many experts out there touting
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which one you should be drinking and insisting that's the one.
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So the hydration part, it sounds simple, but it's powerful.
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Your metabolism depends on water and every cellular process requires hydration. Now,
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according to Jordan Reuben, he says this quote, dehydration slows
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every metabolic process in the body, from digestion to detoxification unquote.
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And here's something most people miss. Many hunger signals are
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actually thirst. Now there's another component that Barbara O'Neill will
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talk about and Jordan Reuben and doctor X, and that
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is also the hormone component of metabolic health. Jordan Ruben.
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He will list out things like sleep, exercise, resistance training,
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eating a diet of healthy fats, and then he mentions
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a if you're having hormonal problems, there is a supplement
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called shot Tavari s r I DASH eighty one and
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that is spelled s h A t A v a
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r I s r I DASH eighty one Sha Tavari. Now,
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if you want to know more about that, you could
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just you know, look it up on the internet, do
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a little Google search or whatever. And or maybe if
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you're on Instagram, type in Jordan Rubin our doctor axe
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hormone health, and chances are you're probably gonna see them
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talk about it and what it does for your health.
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So we're just getting started, and when we come back,
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we're going to talk about intermittent fasting, detox pathways, natural
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ways to actually speed up your metabolism, not just to
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maintain it. So stay with us, we'll be right back.
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Welcome back. Now that we've laid the foundation, let's talk
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about one of the most powerful tools available today, intermittent fasting.
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When you eat constantly, your body never gets a break,
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Insulin stays elevated, fat burning stays turned off. But when
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you fast, everything shifts. According to doctor Eric Berg, quote,
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fasting lowers insulin and allows the body to finally access
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stored for energy unquote. And not only that, fasting triggers
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something called a tophagy. Your body begins to clean out
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damage cells, repair tissues, and improve efficiency. It's kind of
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like the body's garbage guy coming through. Autophagy coming through
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and cleaning up all the junk and getting rid of it.
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So that and helping to repair the cell tissues and
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helping them to function more efficiently. Now, there's lots of
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metabolic benefits to fasting, as I'm sure you've probably already know.
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It improves insulin sensitivity, it increases fat burning, it boosts
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growth hormone, and it enhances mitochondrial function. Human biologist Cary Breca.
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He has a perspective on this. He says this quote,
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the body thrives in cycles of feast and famine, not
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constant consumption unquote. And that's exactly how we were designed. Now,
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you don't need to go extreme. You can start with
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a twelve to fourteen hour overnight feats and then gradually
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move to a sixteen hour fast with an eight hour
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eating window. That's my favorite one. I think that's the
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easiest one, is the sixteen hour fast with an eight
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hour eating window. And you can just do it like
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wake up in the morning and go, okay, if I
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maybe I'm not hungry, toll eleven. That means my eating
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window is eleven to seven. It's pretty simple. Eleven to seven.
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That's pretty good. So now that starts to help activate
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your system. But we're not done because one of the
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biggest missing pieces in modern health is this detoxification. Your
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body is constantly detoxing through the liver, the kidneys, skin
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lymphatic system, but today those systems are overloaded. So what's
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overloading the body pesticides, heavy metals, plastics, food additives, environmental toxins,
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and according to doctor X quote, he says this toxin
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build up can impair metabolic pathways and lead to fatigue,
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weight gain, and inflammation. Unquote. There's a lot of detoxing
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going on out there in social media everywhere I look.
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Now everyone's talking about parasites and detoxing heavy metals and
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the plastics and the pesticides, and they're looking for different
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ways to detox but they oftentimes will forget that if
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you're going to start the detoxing, you also need to
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be taking a binder. And so you could be knocking
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out all of these things, you know, like you could
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be knocking out the parasites in your gut, but then
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you've got a bunch of dead parasites floating around your gut.
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So you're going to need something like a binder, like
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a charcoal capsule that you take before bed that can
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grab onto these like a magnet and pull them out
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of your body. And then you I've got to drink
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a lot of water, so and you want to do
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it carefully and you don't want to be too drastic
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because you can cause too many things to go on
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at once. You could end up with a lot of
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detox symptoms. The die off can make you feel sick,
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it can give you headaches, it can cause skin rashes.
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So this is something you want to enter in cautiously.
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I would think if you could see a nature path
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that would be a great start because they can walk
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you through that detox process. There's natural ways to detox,
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like sweating through a sauna or exercise. There's also just
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simply going on a clean, whole foods diet. This one
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I like it's bitter herbs because I love the fact
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that it helps to detox your liver. And our liver
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does so much and it's so busy, and most people