Intermittent fasting is amazing to boost the immune system, feel great and encourage your body to burn fat. Improve your health by learning what to eat, how to eat and when...

1. FASTING YOUR WAY TO
GUT HEALTH
Fasting Your Way to Gut Health
Carmen Gilfillan

2. Crucial to Good Health
• This video addresses something that's
crucial to good health but many people
still seem to be unaware of
• That is daily fasting
• Fasting is simply going without food for
a period time

3. Get Advice
• If you want to look into fasting seriously
over an extended period of time…
• you're diabetic, pregnant or have
autoimmune issues…
• it's a good idea to get advice and
understand how to fast safely

4. We Fast Every Day
• We actually fast every day without
realizing it, because we fast during the
night whilst we sleep

5. Benefits of Fasting
Fasting is said to help:
• boost your immune system
• lower blood sugar and…
• control weight, among other benefits

6. Being Kind to Your Gut
• Fasting means being kind to your gut
• You're allowing the waste in your
system to work its way out before you
then start eating again

7. Resting the Digestive System
• Essentially you're giving your whole
digestive system a rest…
• so that the body can go back to what it
does naturally…
• which is to heal and repair

8. Grazing
• What we often do, however, is to graze.
• We may have a hearty breakfast first
thing in the morning…
• because it's what we think we should do

9. How We Usually Eat
• We may have a snack at around 11.00
• Have lunch probably around 12-1pm
• We may have a snack around 4pm
• Then we have dinner around 6-7pm
• We may even have a snack before bed

10. Using Energy to Digest
• This means we're constantly eating
• So our digestive system rarely rests
• The consequence is that our body
constantly uses energy to digest food
not burn fat…
• which is what it is designed to do when
we do not eat

11. Are We Really Hungry?
• We don't always know whether we
really are hungry
• Over time eating between meals
becomes a habit
• Sometimes we eat when we're not
hungry…
• but dehydrated and thirsty.

12. 7 Strategies
• By adopting 7 simple strategies…
• we'll not only rest our digestive tract…
• we'll also boost our immune system:

13. 7 Strategies
1. Eat breakfast later rather than earlier
2. If you must eat an early
breakfast...make it fruit based where
possible, as your body is still in
cleanse mode first thing in the morning
3. Eat when you're hungry

14. 7 Strategies
4. Drink water between meals, don’t snack
5. Avoid eating after 8pm
6. Eat your last meal no more than 4 hours
before bed
7. Fast intermittently each day for 12-16
hours between your last meal and your
breakfast

15. Taking Control
• Thinking about how you eat, what you
eat and when you eat is the beginning of
taking control over your gut health
• Be mindful of what you eat first thing in
the morning when your body is cleansing

16. Nurturing Your Gut
• in the same way you wouldn't feed a
new-born baby solids…
• your stomach first thing in the morning
needs to be nurtured

17. Training Your Body
• You can train your body to fast
intermittently each day over time until
your body gets accustomed to it
• Start with going without food overnight
for 12 hours…
• then gradually extend it

18. Functioning Optimally
• Intermittent fasting is not only great for
your gut…
• it's one of the easiest and most effective
ways to help your body to begin
functioning optimally…
• and boost your overall health

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