Tony Robbins
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And you get actually new receptor sites for dopamine will actually start to form.
And the reason behind that that's really cool is that the body's now like, hey, it's been 48 hours without food.
I need you to be motivated to go find food.
So it resets the whole motivation system.
How did I find that?
Yeah.
So when I first discovered the term autophagy, I was doing so much detox in my clinic.
And autophagy basically translates into self-eating.
And I was like, wait a second, the body will detox if you take food out of the equation?
Like, could I just have teach my patients how to detox through fasting and then they don't have to spend all this money on supplements?
I mean, I'm not anti-supplement, but I'm pro-patient.
I want the patient to get well at the least expense at the best thing we have.
And our own internal healing system is the best thing we have.
Right.
So I started understanding autophagy and I started looking on PubMed, which is the site that all the peer-reviewed journals are.
And I went through a period like about 10 years ago where I literally spent 20 hours a week on PubMed researching fasting.
I did that for like three years.
I was obsessed.
every single study I could ever find.
And then I would practice with my patients.