Dr. Anthony Youn
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So the problem is our standard American diet and our lifestyle, we are constantly snacking.
And whenever you're constantly eating, you do not allow that process to happen.
And so one of the main benefits, and I encourage people, even if you just do a 12-hour, a 16-hour fast, to try to do that where you take just a period of time, even as little as 12 hours, where you stop eating at 8 p.m.
and you don't eat again until the next morning at 8 a.m.,
That's great because it allows your body that time for your gut to rest and for your body to kind of clean itself out from the inside using this process of autophagy.
And I think the thing is, is that a lot of people don't realize, and traditional medicine is not good with this, is that I do believe that there's this thing called bioindividuality, where you may react poorly to rice, but like I've eaten rice all my life.
I grew up eating it and I'm fine with it.
But that doesn't mean, you know, because I'm fine with it, that you should be fine with it.
And traditional medicine is not really good with that part of it.
And so really I think it's important to be aware of your own body and what your triggers are, like what makes you feel healthy and good, and to follow that even if it may not completely jive with what most doctors say that in general people should do.
I mean, it is something that there is a belief that you may have an increased risk of clotting with that.
And so some people who have multiple miscarriages, that's something that GYN doctors will look at.
For us, we look at it for surgery just because of the potential risk of bleeding after surgery.
But yeah, I mean, that's, I don't know a ton.
the mother effer gene is still something that traditional doctors some of them will poo poo right and more of my functional medicine friends they talk a little bit more about that but i do think that that's a real thing that we need to pay definitely more attention to