Fasting Resources
Resources
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Websites
- Intermittent Fasting 101 – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
- Intermittent Fasting 101
- Intensive Dietary Management Blog – Dr. Jason Fung’s blog site
- What is Keto Eating?
Research/articles on Fasting
- Health Effects of a Diet that Mimics Fasting
- Alternate-day Fasting and Chronic Disease Prevention
- The Scientific Evidence Surrounding Intermittent Fasting
- The Research May Compel You to Give up Your Bedtime snack
- Intermittent Fasting has benefits Beyond Weightloss
- A History of Fasting, Part 1 by Dr. Jason Fung
- Researchers Work on Getting Intermittent Fasting FDA Approved as Adjunct Cancer Treatment to Improve Long-Term Survival Rates
- Fasting Cures Type 2 Diabetes by Dr. Jason Fung
- Jason Fung: The Perfect Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes – The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes – Fasting Cures Type 2 Diabetes
- Intermittent Fasting Results (before and after) from “All Things Keto” website
- A Beginners Guide to Biohacking
- How to Intermittent Fastt by Dr. Jason Fung
- Intermittent Fasting and Human Metabolic Health
- Fasting: Awakening the Rejuvination from Within, Dr. Faltor Longo
- Why Fasting doesn’t cause muscle loss and (Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss) by Dr. Jason Fung
- How long should you fast?
- How to Maximun fat burning by Dr. Jason Fung, Part II
- Refeeding Syndrome (Rare, but it can happen – I take potassium and magnesium during fasts longer than 1 day.
Fasting and Cancer
- Fight Cancer with Fasting
- Benefits of Intermittent Fasting for Cancer Patients
- Researchers Work on Getting Intermittent Fasting FDA Approved as Adjunct Cancer Treatment to Improve Long-Term Survival Rates
- Episode 16 – Dr. Thomas Seyfried “Water Fasts” as a Potential Tactic to Beat Cancer
- Fasting diet ‘slows ageing and prolongs life’: Cutting calorie intake by half for five days a month slashes the risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes
- Fasting and Autophagy – Fasting 25
- Healing Cancer on Time: How intermittent fasting may help
- Fasting 3 Days Can Reset Your Immune System
Fasting and Dementia/Alzheimer
- Fasting at Least Twice a Week Seen as Alzheimer’s Hedge
- Hungry stomach hormone promotes growth of new brain cells
Recommended Books
- The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
is the book that started it all for me. Great book.
- The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
by Dr. Jason Fung. This book has a lot of science in it and information about insulin resistance and the prevalence of obesity.
- Ketogenic Diet :The Step by Step Guide For Beginners: Ketogenic Diet For Beginners:
I really like detail and the step by step explanations in this book by Jamie Ken Moore
- Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking, my review of this awesome cookbook
Fasting Tools
Videos to Watch and Learn
- Intensive Dietary Management for Diabetes Care with Dr. Jason Fung. Learn about the flawed traditional treatment for diabetes.
- How to Intermittent Fast with Dr. Jason Fung. Learn IF by listening to this.
- Podcast (Jimmy Moore, Dr. Fung and Megan Ramos talking Fasting). * downloads slow
- Ray Cronise on Cold Thermogenesis, Intermittent Fasting, Weight Loss & Healthspan
Low Carb/Keto Eating
- What is Keto?
- Ketogenic Diet :The Step by Step Guide For Beginners: Ketogenic Diet For Beginners : Ketogenic Diet For Weight Loss : Keto Diet : The Step by Step Guide For Beginners
- Ketogenic Diet Food List: Everything You Need to Know
- Complete Keto Diet Food List: What to Eat and Avoid
- Not Losing Weight on Low Carb? Try Carb Cycling
- 10 Annoying Things Your Friends & Family Will Say About Your Low Carb Diet
- 16 Ways Keto for Women is Different + Doesn’t Need to Suck
- WickedStuffed.com great keto website!
Order Tee-Shirts (Low Carb and Keto)
Link for women and men’s shirts (Don’t Blame the Butter for What the Bread Did”
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Helpful Downloads
Definitions
- Autopaghy: The word autopaghy is derived from Greek words “auto” meaning self and “phagy” meaning eating. Autophagy is a normal physiological process in the body that deals with destruction of cells in the body. Autopaghy Process; Autopaghy Function
- Biohacking: Biohacking refers to the application of IT hacks to biological systems – most prominently, the human body – but also the entire biosphere. Biohacking encompasses a wide spectrum of DIY IT projects and ideas. Watch a podcast on biohacking by Dr. Manuel Lam
- Thermogenesis: Also known as the thermic effect of food, dietary thermogenesis, or diet-induced thermogenesis, DIT, is the process of energy production in the body caused directly by the metabolizing of food consumed. Speed up weightloss with thermogenesis
- Metabolic Syndrome: Metabolic syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. It affects one in five people, and prevalence increases with age. Some studies estimate the prevalence in the USA to be up to 25% of the population.
- Neurogenesis: the process of brain cells dividing and multiplying.
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