Insane Water Fasting Secrets That Will Change Your Life
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EPISODE 57: NATHAN GERSHFELD, DC Insane Water Fasting Secrets That Will Change Your Life Insane Water Fasting Secrets That Will Change Your Life – with Nathan Gershfeld, DC The following transcript is an approximation of the interview Nathan Gershfeld, DC: That was an interesting turning point because I re- fed… They keep you there for a couple of days after a short fast. So, I was there for five days of fasting and three days of reintroducing food, but I went home and what was interesting is the healthy food actually tasted good, and it tasted so good that I could actually tolerate eating it and I craved nothing but the healthy food. Swiss chard tasted salty to me, potatoes were like incredible, carrots were candy that was like… It was a big turning point because I stopped craving these junk foods. Cyrus Khambatta, PhD: Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. We’ll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy and get your best A1c following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the Mastering Diabetes Program. Robby Barbaro: Our program teaches you how to reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity, using food as medicine. Cyrus Khambatta, PhD: We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people. We're glad to have you joining us. Robby Barbaro: Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen. We have an eye opening episode for you today. If you're a longtime listener, you may remember Episode 36, with Dr. Alan Goldhamer, where he talked all about water fasting. Today, we have one of his students on the Podcast, Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, and he now has his own fasting facility, and he's going to talk about the benefits of water fasting, which is just an absolutely fascinating topic. I've actually had the pleasure of witnessing people go through this process. I did an internship during college at a fasting retreat in Costa Rica, and I saw 12 people drink nothing but water and rest for 26 days and that was an incredible experience. I could tell you, it's very rejuvenating, people see amazing results. It's just incredible to see that their skin change, their eyes change and how they regain their weight and they regain their energy. It's really interesting. So on today's episode, you're gonna hear some more details about water fasting, and you might just want to do it yourself. Now, before we get into the episode, I would like to read a few reviews that people have left for us on iTunes. We really appreciate these reviews, we read every single one, it helps us have this Podcast reach more people, so we really appreciate it. CatherineM999, she writes, “This is a wonderful podcast, highlighting evidence-based information on diet as it pertains to diabetes and other chronic conditions. They interview well respected doctors, researchers and other experts, in addition to having personal testimonials of people who have improved their health by changing what they're eating”. It's a great review, thank you. One more I want to read is from BoogerBasket, what a great username right there. He says… Oh, it could be a she, you never know. “I don't miss a single Podcast, as all are more than helpful and informative on my journey of eating a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet. Highly recommend.” Thank you so much, appreciate that. If you guys could take some time to leave us a review, a written review on iTunes, that would be amazing. We have 73 customer reviews right now and we would love to get to 100. We also have 161 ratings with an average of five stars, which is awesome, so thank you so much for rating the show. But if you could take the time to write review, that would be super appreciated. Thank you very much. Okay, let's get into the show. Appreciate all your guys's support. Cyrus Khambata, PhD: We are super excited to be here today with Dr. Nathan Gershfeld. Now, after having a life changing health experience, Dr. Nathan Gershfeld changed careers from electrical engineering to chiropractic, following an internship under the tutelage of Dr. Alan Goldhamer. He joined the staff of doctors at the world renowned TrueNorth Health Center from 2011 to 2014 And since 2014, Dr. Gershfeld has maintained a private chiropractic practice in the Orange County, Los Angeles area, and he also runs The Fasting Escape, an inpatient fasting retreat center in Yorba Linda, California. Today, we're going to learn all about his experience with fasting, the benefits of fasting for people living with type 2 diabetes, with prediabetes, with type 1 diabetes, type 1.5 diabetes, and he's going to give us real good insight here into what the benefits of fasting are, and when it's applicable. So thank you so much for being here with us today, Dr. Gershfeld. Nathan Gershfeld, DC: It's real pleasure to be here with you, Cyrus and Robby, Robby Barbaro: We're really excited about this. This going to be a really, really good episode, a lot of information that people can't really hear at many other places, people talking about what you're doing, so we're excited about this. Nathan Gershfeld, DC: It's really great to be here. It's an honor to be part of this little Podcast. I've talked to a couple of people, patients actually, who've come here as well who've told me about www.masteringdiabetes.org and it's just incredible. It's my honor. Cyrus Khambatta, PhD: Great! Well, Dr. Gershfeld, why don’t we start at the top here, why don't you tell us about your background? Tell us what got you into wanting to learn about the benefits of fasting in the first place. Nathan Gershfeld, DC: The story actually starts when I was a lot younger, where my mom and dad would feed me good healthy food, but I really had a taste for the unhealthy food. So, they would feed normal food and I'd go take bike rides and stop at the donut shop, or stop at the local convenience store and get junk food, and this continued all the way through high school and college. I mean, in high school, I would eat the food that my mom would pack me, but I was connoisseur of vending machines and had a lot of foods in there that weren't very good for me. This continued into college and this all kind of culminated to where, one day my mom noticed that I had a tumor in my neck, and went to the doctor. I had a tumor, they found out it was… That I also had Hashimoto thyroiditis, and hypothyroidism, and I learned later all that was result of my poor diet and lifestyle. At the same time, my grandmother, who was a chiropractor as well, had always been talking about diet and lifestyle, diet and lifestyle, diet and lifestyle. And she talked a lot about it in her practice. And I remember growing up and she would come and visit us, and we would have to hide all the candies and cookies because if she found them, she would throw them away. So at this same time, I started thinking, “How is it that I got this tumor? How is it that I got unhealthy? Even though I was fit, exercising constantly, 20 years old…” And turns out my grandma had said was probably true. So I asked her some advice, she pointed me in certain directions of reading about. I think the first book she asked me to read was by Arnold Ehret, The Mucusless Diet. And then I read some raw food cookbook by Victoria Boutenko and all kinds of different books. And kind of went down… Robby Barbaro: Was that Green for Life? Nathan Gershfeld, DC: Yeah, I think that was Green for Life. Yeah. Robby Barbaro: Classic. Nathan Gershfeld, DC: Yeah. And it was interesting, that was like the first window into the health world, that was outside of the normal medical mainstream. So, I was reading all kinds of different books and my engineering brain just refused to take anything I read at face value, so I kept reading, and reading, and reading, challenged my doctor at that point a little bit, my doctor… I probably challenged him a little too hard because he end up sending me a letter saying, “If you're not coming back, don't come back”, but no, it was very interesting to see how this process all unfolded. But the first thing my grandma told me was, “You have to stop eating junk food, you have to change your diet” because she linked it as, you have a car and you're putting in bad fuel inside of it, how do you expect the car to run well? If that's true of a machine that was designed by humans, why isn't it also true of humans that were designed by nature? You have to put in good fuel, and you have to put in the fuel that you were designed for, so that made some sense.