434: Dr. Alan Goldhamer on the Incredible Healing Power of Water Fasting

<p>Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: <a href= "https://bit.ly/dralangoldhamer434">https://bit.ly/dralangoldhamer434</a></p> <p>Dr. Alan Goldhamer is one of the world’s leading experts on medically supervised, water-only fasting.</p> <p>He's an author and frequent lecturer and speaker on fasting, diet and treatment of chronic diseases to achieve optimum health.</p> <p>In 1984, Alan founded and became Director of <a href= "https://www.healthpromoting.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">TrueNorth Health Center</a> in Santa Rosa, California; since then, he has supervised the fasting and care of more than 20,000 patients.</p> <p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Who can benefit from water fasting?</li> <li>The 5 categories of adverse events</li> <li>The process of healing at TrueNorth Health Center</li> <li>Education is a critical part of making radical changes</li> <li>Prepping, adapting and what to expect during the fasting process</li> <li>Visceral fat causes inflammation</li> <li>Intermittent fasting limits your feeding window</li> <li>What is the SOS Diet?</li> <li>Recommendations for weight loss</li> <li>The psychological and emotional healing responses to fasting</li> <li>How Alan became interested in fasting</li> <li>Alan shares his 1st fasting experience</li> <li>Alan's personal fasting routine</li> <li>How the fasting landscape has changed over the years</li> <li>Alan's thoughts on dry fasting</li> <li>What type of water is recommended?</li> <li>Don't supplement minerals during a fast</li> <li>Preventing the leading causes of death</li> <li>The importance of a diet high in prebiotics</li> <li>How much fiber is there in beef?</li> <li>Pooping and water fasting... what’s happening here?</li> <li>Good bowel preparation and refeeding after fasting</li> <li>Why it’s important to eliminate caffeine before fasting</li> <li>There's no reason to include highly fractionated, refined oil in your diet</li> <li>Alan's thoughts on the Mediterranean Diet</li> <li>In the long run...