Dr. Joel Kahn is founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Michigan and owner of GreenSpace Cafe. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University of Michigan. He specialty is the prevention and reversal of heart disease (heart attacks, stroke) using lifestyle therapies. He is the author of over 150 scientific articles, hundreds of health articles, and 5 books. His first book is a national public TV special, Your Whole Heart Solution. His latest book is a #1 Amazon seller, The Plant Based Solution.
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Hi everyone its Reena Jadhav and today we’re talking about fasting why?
Because it’s everywhere you can’t read the news today without coming across something around fasting whether it’s intermittent fasting or of course a couple of different kinds.
So here to tell us the truth about fasting is Dr. Joel Kahn
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Joel Kahn:
It’s a very very exciting topic that wasn’t part of my language 510 years ago and never has been a part of cardiology
language to this day but woah strong science I mean this is not new age science …..is like NIH funded research that
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We can improve our life extend their life avoid heart disease and other illnesses using fasting including cancer diabetes so if the NIH just announced this weekend they’re putting an extra ten million dollars into a fasting program at University of Southern California may be we can talk about it right now
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Reena Jadhav
So what are the different kinds of fasting and why does it work well?
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Dr. Joel Kahn
You know if you’re a
scientist you say fasting is not eating
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for more than 36 hours that but most of
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us are not talking about that kind of
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period in some well there is a tradition
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going back a hundred years of using
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water fasting not a lot of published
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data but actually nothing but water
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lying in bed not very active there are
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centers that use this to treat all kinds
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of serious illnesses from heart disease
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the diabetes obesity to cancer to
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connective tissue
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lupus kind of cases take a look at a
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place called True North in Santa Rosa
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California if you want to learn more
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about that I’ve had no experience doing
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it for long water fast or being part of
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one but I know people that have and feel
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quite remarkable during it there are
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people are used it as a weight-loss tool
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have to be very careful you may get weak
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you may lose muscle mass if you’re
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elderly I would be very cautious so what
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else is there there’s something called
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time restricted feeding that’s an idea
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that from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. my
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kitchens closed my pantry is closed
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some people extend that beyond 12 hours
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you know a league dinner at 7 p.m. I
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again to 11 a.m. so that stretches it
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out to about 16 hours and try to eat 2
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or 3 meals within eight hours these can
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seem to Duan drop the number of calories
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a day you eat which is consistently in
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animal models the fewer calories a day
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you eat to a point the longer you live
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if you’re an animal if you want to take
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a rabbit or a mouse or a earthworm and
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you want it to live longer than its mate
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in the cage you just feed it less a live
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longer why because we think when we are
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stressed by decreased calories body
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turns on protective and reparative
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mechanisms that extra make our bodies
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younger and more able to heal and
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deal with stress and that’s really why
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all this excitement is going on about
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fasting in England there’s something
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called the 5:2 diet or the fast diet by
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dr. Michael Mosley two days a week
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Monday and Thursday you don’t eat much
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maybe 500 calories a day the other five
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days a week you eat a healthy
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Mediterranean or plant-based or maybe
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even a paleo clean diet and that’s
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helped a lot of people but here we go
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the real excitement
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it comes from an author and a scientist
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is a book I’d recommend anybody consider
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reading I have it all over my office
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many copies dr. Longo is a PhD at the
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University of Southern California book
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came on in January 2018 longevity diet
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he’s been studying both why we age get
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sick get old and Ken fasting interrupts
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that and he’s gone with a unique diet
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plan called the fasting mimicking diet
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FMD so five days in a row this is
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totally different than anybody anything
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else in the world is doing five days in
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a row once a month that means 25 days
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you eat your healthy Mediterranean plant
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may be familiar that I’ve enrolled you
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drop your calories the first days 1100
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the second day through 50 or 800
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calories a day if you have to calculate
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it you don’t because all the foods in a
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box you literally buy this program from
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the University of Southern California
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it’s called PROLON and the
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ingredients in the Box happen to be
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plant-based which was a victory
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having to be real food not candy rip mix
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that you might get insured a hospital
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and our very low and protein low in
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sugar and relatively high in whole fats
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from olives and nuts in complex
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carbohydrates very carefully researched
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and picked my doctor Longo to slow down
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aging pathways and turn on reparative
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pathways
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he started to experiment with this more
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than a decade ago
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every animal model lives longer every
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animal mile show signs of healing you
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study this in cancer panels there’s
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better recovery from chemotherapy and
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response in animal models I stressed
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brain diseases multiple sclerosis
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dementia on in that a year ago a hundred
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patient human trial was published doing
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this show that you get thinner around
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the waist
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it was fat around the waist you don’t
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lose muscle blood sugar blood pressure
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blood cholesterol calm down inflammation
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comes down and maybe most remarkably
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something called your stem cells start
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coming out of your bone marrow to go
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anywhere in the body and look for places
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to heal a bad hip a bad brain whatever
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it is so I learned to this I’ve done
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this many months over the last 15 months
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now I’ve had parts of my body they were
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aching like plantar fasciitis just
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stopped aching less water on us plus
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blood values plus blood pressure down
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and many of my patients have seen the
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same it’s actually literally at a
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commercially available box it’s a little
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pricey but we tend to spend on average
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thirty to forty dollars a day on food in
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this country this Food Program which a
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science base is just a touch more than
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that oh boy the results have been
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pleasing so the fasting mimicking diet
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by dr. Valter Longo I think it says
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right there fasting mimicking dies is
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known as prologue again if you’re in a
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rut and you’re trying hard and you’ve
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changed your diet you’re trying to work
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out you’re trying to sleep you’re trying
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to breathe I know men think and you
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still feel like you’re up against the
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wall and want to break through fasting
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in general maybe there’s time restricted
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feeding or going 1314 12 hours without
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eating every day is a good schedule but
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this five-day program whether you do
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just one month or as dr. Londo would
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recommend three months in a row
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and see what the filtered them in three
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months could be the thing that you know
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put you where you want to be weight wise
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information wise energy wise blood
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pressure-wise general health wise not
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exactly a detox program much more
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science than a detox program this is
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literally the hottest and most supported
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science oozing food truly is a tool to
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make our bodies better almost sounds
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like a reset diet right like it’s
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literally getting your body look like
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that he was actually dr. Longo will say
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this really does reset your metabolism
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and you’re not just getting benefits for
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five days you’re getting benefits for
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much longer their study their research
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study checked people six months after
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finishing the program there still were
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measurable improvements now how many
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diseases will we be able to treat with
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this right now none and we don’t talk
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about treating disease or this program
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when it’s being studied so there are
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ongoing trials in cancer multiple
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sclerosis dementia type-2 diabetes until
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the studies are done this is really just
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a regeneration rejuvenation sort of play
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but maybe one day
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not that long down the road we’ll talk
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about using this particular program
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actually treated disease rather than
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pills rather than intravenous
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