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Intermittent Fasting Is BAD For Longevity
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00:00:01
chrisyzen
Hi, Christian Jordonov here. Today I'm going to talk to you about why I do not recommend intermittent fasting to anybody, especially my clients. So um I have a whole chapter on it in my book, how to actually live longer volume one. And it's relatively speaking, it's um it's quite quite long. It's like a fifth of the book. So it's an important topic because now everybody's like oh my god fasting gonna increase your lifespan Look, let me break it down very quickly for you the reason research on caloric restriction and fasting shows benefits of
00:00:47
chrisyzen
A lot of that research is done in rats and like you know laboratory animals up to monkeys. So the reason the reason it shows benefits, I'll tell you right now, for the most part is because if you go online and type in standard lab chow for example just get the
Challenges of Fasting Research
00:01:07
chrisyzen
a breakdown of the ingredients of what these lab animals eat and it's pretty much the same stuff for all animals it's basically like
00:01:17
chrisyzen
wheat meal cornmeal corn corn oil just rancid fish oil ah ground up rocks for minerals just the cheapest crappiest forms of minerals and vitamins that they could add and um it's very high in polyunsaturated fats Okay, so if you have an animal eating less of this toxic slop as I call it in the book Yeah, it's likely that it's gonna do better than the the animal eating more poison. Yeah, so that Really destroys that research and um I talk about a monkey study and recess monkeys where they did show that
00:01:59
chrisyzen
um some increase in lifespan in terms of the the caloric restriction group of monkeys. But another study with resource monkeys where they fed fed them a much closer to their natural diet type diet didn't really show any significant difference. There you go. So ah if if they do real research, like with real food, with conditions more, ah Approximating the the conditions in the wild for a lot of these animals like think that some of these animals that they they ah Do experiments with you know, they're nocturnal for example, right? You don't you don't think the researchers are gonna be there at night doing stuff a lot of the time They're not you know, and then the these animals are getting blasted with um Fluorescent lights and they're indoors maybe not not not getting any like actual daylight in many cases. So I
00:02:55
chrisyzen
A lot of this research is bullshit. Then at the end of the day, they're on top of it all rather, they feed them this toxic slop. If you feed a human, of course they're going to develop any disease you can think of. So that invalidates all of the research on fasting and caloric restriction. Basically invalidates or almost all of it. I mean surely they they they've learned some stuff from it like like that eating less poison, you will live longer. And that's the other thing. If you take a person that's on a standard American diet and you put them on a fasting regimen or if you cut their calories by 20, 30%, especially if they're overweight,
00:03:40
chrisyzen
Yeah, they're gonna do better. They're gonna do better because a lot of a lot of the standard American diet is just empty calories or worse ah harmful calories like seed oils because if you eat a standard takeout meal
00:03:58
chrisyzen
you could be getting 20, 30 grams of of seed oil, of of Omega-6s in that meal. Now compound that over two or three meals a day. Some people are easily getting 60, 70, 80, 90 grams of seed oils per day.
Critique of the Standard American Diet
00:04:13
chrisyzen
Yeah, if they eat less of that or they fast, they're gonna feel better. However, if you take a healthy person, relatively healthy, that cares about their longevity, listens to Christian's podcast, maybe gets Christian's book, how to actually live longer live longer volume one get the hardcover very nice um or maybe even becomes christian so christian's client and takes their longevity to the next level and the levels above and beyond with with customized protocols
00:04:43
chrisyzen
um advanced lab testing so we can identify imbalances that you never even think you had that could be causing minor minor things to be out of whack that can compound over decades, 20, 30 years, right? And we can catch up with the really fun advanced lab testing that we do with clients. And the sky's the limit here, we can go very far. as as far as you want to take it. like no No client has yet met me where I can take them, if you know what I mean. like we Some clients will run like $2,000 worth of lab testing at the outset, but we could go way deeper. you know so Anyway, ah that short commercial break is now over. So let's get back to
00:05:29
chrisyzen
to what have okay so intermittent fasting I want to find the study it's in the book right so here we go one of the I think it's the largest group of study participants it was published I think in 2021 so check this out this is what they they um they said Or if before I even so before i even even start there, let me just tell you what chat GPT summarized the chapter of my book at.
Intermittent Fasting and Metabolic Impact
00:05:58
chrisyzen
So summary of reasons why I do not recommend intermittent fasting. Number one, in signal scarcity, signal scarcity to the body. And we'll we'll get into why that's bad.
00:06:08
chrisyzen
additional stress, it adds further stress to the body which may already be very burdened with stress or or disease or or like ah some kind of imbalances. It reduces the metabolic rate and that means that you are less healthy. A lower metabolic rate means you are less healthy, right? You're more susceptible to like infections, um you are just more susceptible like to low mood to weight gain to just you are you are working at a lower rpm i think about a a car it has it has like a good um ah range of rpm where it will perform the best obviously too much is not good it will burn itself out but too low the car you know you can't even
00:06:53
chrisyzen
you know, get going or get over a hill or just get into the right gear to go go as fast as you can. So low metabolic rate, bad. Like look at so a creature with a low metabolic rate, like a turtle or tortoise. You want to be a tortoise or do you want to be like a bird? Like, um you know, those are my cows ah in the South American jungles. They can, they outlive like multiple owners. They can live to like 80, 80, 100 years, maybe even more 120 years. for a parrot high metabolic rate or bats look at a bat they live like 20 years they have a you know a high metabolic rate whereas it creatures similar to them like a a squirrel or a rat right they're very similar except for certain features like maybe the squirrel has a furry tail or whatever and the bat has wings
00:07:45
chrisyzen
ah but those creatures will only live like a couple of years and in the wild sometimes even less because there's a lot of other variables there unaccounted for so you want a higher metabolic rate not a lower metabolic rate We'll probably do a whole episode on that whole thing about the low metabolic or the the rate of living theory, which is like 100 years old. I think a guy that the guy that came up with it was a priest. So it's a straight up, you have to like have a religious belief to believe that. right
00:08:18
chrisyzen
So that's what fasting and calorie restriction and low carb diets do. They lower your metabolic rate and that's not a good thing. Okay. Loss of muscle mass. I'll get into that in a little second and it lowers your protective hormones whilst increasing your stress hormones. Okay. So there was a, so in terms of the loss of muscle mass, let's talk about it, right? So there was a study that, I just mentioned a second ago, so they they concluded, I think it was like seven, 800 participants there doing intermittent fasting regimes, 16, eight, I think it was 16 fasting, eight hour feeding window. And the authors concluded the decrease in resting energy expenditure after intermittent fasting indicates the possibility
00:09:16
chrisyzen
of an increase in weight during intermittent fasting if caloric intake is not adjusted and I So I cited that in in the in the book in my book and I said alright, so I have to reduce my calorie intake and on the intermittent fasting regime, otherwise I risk gaining weight in the long term. That makes sense. Sign me up. Did I mention this decrease only took two weeks? Yes, it took two weeks. And the researchers estimated that the median decrease in resting energy rest resting energy expenditure was about 59 calories per day.
00:09:54
chrisyzen
So over the course of a year, that equals about 21,500 calories or about three kilograms of body fat, which is more like six and a half pounds or more. So let me make sure I understand this. If I go on an intermittent fasting regime, it quickly drops my metabolic rate. And now I have to decrease my food intake in order to not gain weight. If I don't, I will gain in the order of three kilograms of body fat in a year. Perfect. But at least I live longer, right? Guys? Guys? You there? So then what else did they say?
00:10:41
chrisyzen
OK, so this is another study. Sorry, this is my bad. So so that that was a separate study. So the one that they did, um there was about seven, eight hundred participants. It was a paper. in JAMA, internal medicine, so the Journal of the medical American Medical Association. It was a 2020 paper, right not 2021, sorry about that. It's been a while since I looked at the book. um So here's what they stated. Time restricted eating. So, okay, so the first study I just shared that they discovered that in two weeks it drops your metabolic rate by ah your resting energy expenditure by about 59 calories.
00:11:23
chrisyzen
this other paper concluded that or they stated time restricted eating in the absence of other interventions is not more effective in weight loss than eating throughout the day okay so intermittent fasting does not help you lose weight it's the fact that you cannot muscle in three full meals and a snack or two and some beverages in an eight-hour window. It's just too damn hard, physiologically, okay? So the reason people lose weight on intermittent fasting regimes is because they eat less, right? And it's similar with the keto diet, we'll cover that in a separate episode, but with the keto diet, it's a high-fat diet
00:12:14
chrisyzen
fat increases satiety and kind of slows gastric emptying and the um the absorption assimilation of food so that satiety effect allows people to eat less and they also eat less processed garbage and and grains and carbohydrates in that form with a lot of poison and and um ah toxic ah stuff in them like glyphosate and whatever so people eat just more real foods on a keto diet and low and behold they lose weight. Imagine eating less and eating more real food. Imagine you you feel better and you lose weight. Oh my god, it's it's absolutely absolutely groundbreaking. So back to this study. So they they also reported that the time they called it in this case they called it TRE time restricted eating which is kind of the same as intermittent fasting although intermittent fasting can also mean you fast for a full day and then you eat normally and then you fast for a full day which is crazy crazier even so they also so of they reported that the TRE the time restricted eating group the TRE group lost lean mass in their trunk and limbs while the normal diet group did not
00:13:28
chrisyzen
the researchers or perhaps their editors wrote there was also significant difference in appendicular lean mass index between groups minus 0.16 kilograms per meter squared 95 percent confidence interval minus 2.7 to 0.05 and the p-value of 0.005. So most people reading that you you won't really um you't you won't really understand what the hell they're talking about. So you have to actually dig into the paper, and here's what they say later on in the paper. In analysis of secondary outcomes, we found a significant reduction in lean mass in the time retreat-restricted eating group, TRE group,
00:14:22
chrisyzen
the ah In the in-person cohort, so they had a cohort of people that were kind of coming in for various measurements and and and other
Lean Mass Loss in Intermittent Fasting
00:14:30
chrisyzen
things, but it was a much wider group that people could participate with um you know remotely or whatever and reporting their results. And so in the group that they were kind of monitoring, The average weight loss in the TRE group was 1.7 kilograms of this, get this, of this 1.1 kilograms or about 65% of the weight lost was lean mass and only ah basically half a kilogram of it all was fat mass. 65% lean mass was lost.
00:15:13
chrisyzen
And they say that loss of lean mass during weight loss typically ah accounts for 20 to 30% of total weight loss. So yes, it's normal to lose lean mass when you lose weight, but it's usually in in kind of the range of 20 to 30%. Whereas these folks lost around 65%. Okay. And they even stated that the the authors of the paper state that the proportion of lean mass lost in the study far exceeds the normal range of 20 to 30%.
00:15:47
chrisyzen
okay And they also state appendicular lean mass, which is like in the appendages, so your arms, legs, ah is correlated with nutritional and physical status and reduced appendicular lean mass can lead to weakness, disability, and impaired quality of life. This serves as a caution for patient populations at risk for sarcopenia because time restricted eating could exacerbate muscle loss. Could exacerbate muscle loss. So if you're a woman in your 50s, 60s, or if you're a fairly lean guy,
00:16:34
chrisyzen
intermittent fasting
00:16:37
chrisyzen
um it It's very likely to erode away your precious lean tissue and not just muscle, right? Not just muscle, but bone as well. And bone is not visible, right? It's not visible. I have ah have a client. She told me she she does um bone density scans and stuff, which is amazing, you know? But um I've not had any other clients yet to tell me that to do that. So very few people do that. So very few people out there are going to catch this early on and actually be able to save themselves and do something about it. A lot of people.
00:17:17
chrisyzen
will catch it when they freaking break your hip or you know fracture a spinal vertebrae. and not Not a good situation to be in. I'll tell you, you know actually I've said that for another time. So finally, one last quote from that paper is, the extent of lean mass loss during weight loss has been positively correlated with weight gain. right and there i conclude there you have a Intermittent fasting can lead to muscle loss in your limbs, which can lead to weakness, disability, and reduced quality of life. and Because losing muscle, which is metabolically active tissue, lowers your metabolism or your metabolic rate,
00:17:56
chrisyzen
you're at risk of regaining the weight. So your metabolic rate being lowered means you're, quote unquote, burning less calories, right? So easy to gain weight. um And you know, if you go on the Wikipedia page for intermittent fasting, at least the last time I checked when I was publishing the book, You don't see the study there, right? It was a pretty big study. And oh, and apparently the doctor that conducted this trial immediately stopped his intermittent fasting regime after seeing the data and told his patients to do the same. In a CNBC article, he said, just losing weight alone doesn't mean good things are happening for your health.
00:18:39
chrisyzen
And it was very funny, but ah back in November, 2023, when I was when I accessed that article, when you finished reading the article at the bottom, there was a video, you know, this kind of click next video, whatever. And the video title was how this how this CEO lost 80 pounds with intermittent fasting. It's like ridiculous to see that on on that article where the doctor that ran the trial was like, oh my God, let's all stop intermittent fasting. This was stupid. I think he was doing it for years and the good that so it's good.
00:19:13
chrisyzen
to get data like that and then immediately make good decisions for your for his patients and for himself his health and because a lot of people once you've kind of dig your heels into the sand you it's very difficult to change your mind especially if you have a business or a practice um or maybe a book or whatever that it goes against then you're kind of a little bit it's difficult to maneuver out of those situations but i think the best policy is just honesty and i know it i can see some some influencers on youtube
00:19:53
chrisyzen
ah Big health influencers they're backtracking a little bit from the keto and the low carbon the fasting and the whatever now They're like, oh you just need to use it once in a while you get the benefits and there's benefits to like being in a high carb state or being in a fed state more and um You know, it's they're kind of they're doing their best because they have empires that not that they'll crumble, but there'll be a lot of pissed off people. Because the problem is, here is the problem. This is what really kind of grinds my gears. Let's say an influencer has like millions of people they influence. And let's say even like a million out of 10 million. For them, once they learn that information from that person they love,
00:20:39
chrisyzen
that's them they're like okay I know everything I know now I'm just gonna you know go on my merry way they might stop tuning into that person and like I'm just gonna eat plants now for the rest of my life or I'm not um'm I'm just gonna be a pescatarian or I'm just gonna do low carb now because this is optimal sugar is a poison And the problem with that is that they're screwed then because that person might change their mind and say something on you know in a new book or a new video and those people might not catch it. So it's it's it's hard being it's hard being in a place like that where you're influencing people, right? So you have to really, I think,
00:21:18
chrisyzen
it's it's There's a great deal of responsibility and I realized that myself, you know, and even with my first book on autism, ah but I've gone back and I've changed some things in there that I no longer believe were are correct, you know, and I've updated things and I'll probably at one point continue to make updates in there because that I think what you put out has to match what you're doing and what your beliefs are currently. And I think some some folks out there just are too scared to do that. And I guess I would be a lot more scared if I had a much bigger audience and readership. So I guess I'm lucky that I kind of figured out a few things before I started putting out putting myself more out there. So
00:22:06
chrisyzen
um what else what else okay so that other that like let me just see how many minutes I'm talking here I don't want to I don't want to bore you to death here so 22 minutes okay a couple more minutes right um what the hell just click the wrong thing here so sorry about this
Testosterone Levels and Fasting
00:22:26
chrisyzen
if ah If I had a bigger audience, you know maybe my my my shit would be better produced. So you know if you if you become a client, maybe I'll i'll be able to afford um you know hiring an assistant.
00:22:41
chrisyzen
Okay, so one last thing, intermittent fasting lowers testosterone in men and women. Now, testosterone is super important for women. It's not just a male hormone, it's a protective hormone. And intermittent fasting, by virtue of raising cortisol, because that is at the end of the day, that period where you are not eating you still need glucose and that glue glucose has to get produced and it gets produced to a great extent by a process called gluconeogenesis which happens in the liver which turns various things including amino acids from protein in into glucose and a source of that can be your diet
00:23:31
chrisyzen
The problem is that a hundred grams of protein, not a hundred grams of steak, a hundred grams of protein. That's, uh, let's say a steak has 20 grams of protein, like a beef steak. That's 500 grams or more than a pound to net a hundred grams of actual protein. So a pound of meat or 500 grams of meat. will get you about 100 grams of protein. That 100 grams of precious protein that you could, because that's that much steak is going to cost you, you know, I don't know, 20, 30 bucks if it's decent grass fed, whatever. So that 100 grams to get converted to glucose, you know how much glucose you get out of that? 50 grams, right? And in the process of
00:24:29
chrisyzen
deaminating those amino acids because amino acids, they kind of when they get deaminated, we create ammonia through that process, which is toxic. um We have to detoxify it. We have to metabolize it and deal with it. So it's an expensive process in terms of that protein could serve a much better purpose in the body obviously as structural and rebuilding regeneration type ah roles and and and processes but also the ammonia has to then be dealt with which requires energy and nutrients right and it does put a burden on you the earth again that energy that could be diverted in different areas that could be more beneficial like keeping your hair on your head or not developing um age spots or you know dealing with toxins other toxins that you're already
00:25:17
chrisyzen
being exposed to by touching plastics all day long and driving in in traffic and whatever else right so um man these segways getting longer and longer i really apologize so there was a study there was a um what was it it was no it was a review not not Not a single study it was a review of human trials on the effects of intermittent fasting on reproductive hormone levels in females and males showed that testosterone was lowered in both.
00:25:48
chrisyzen
the ah The authors of that review stated as for men intermittent fasting reduced testosterone levels in lean, physically active young males, but it did not affect SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin concentrations. Interestingly, muscle mass and muscular strength were not negatively affected by these reductions in testosterone and that is a big problem because if you do an intervention like like like let's say let's say you go on the internet and your favorite influencer let's say Dr. Gantry for example or something like that some lovable old geezer that with a cute suit that sounds like he knows what he's talking about and he has all these credentials and whatever
00:26:34
chrisyzen
He tells you that banging your head against the wall is really good for you, right? It it has similar effects to autophagy, which is apparently the best thing since sliced cheese. So you start banging your head against the wall. If you feel the pain which you should on the first bang against the wall, that is an immediate signal, okay, this this was not a good idea. Maybe Dr. Ghandry doesn't know what he's talking about. that so okay that That's probably a good thing, that immediate feedback. However, if you go isn If you go and bang your head against the wall and the first time you don't feel anything
00:27:10
chrisyzen
like okay cool I can do this you do that 20 times and you don't feel any pain well let's say it takes a hundred times or two thousand times for you to start feeling the negative effects in the pain from the head banging the problem with this is you could be getting this negative effect of head banging your head against the wall for a very long time before you notice that effect so you will not correlate it to the activity that for an all this all these other head bangs which which could have taken you weeks or months to to accumulate you would you know you felt the same or or better even right it's like the plant-based diet you feel great for three months or the keto diet you feel great for three to six months because you stopped eating a lot of well not you but you know just a person
00:28:00
chrisyzen
a hypothetical person on a Western standard American diet, they start um eating better, cleaner foods, more real foods and whatever else, meat, fruit, vegetables, and they feel better. So they're like, oh, it must be the keto diet. And then they start deteriorating. And then it's like, oh, it's probably maybe I have toxins, I need to detox more or maybe, or it's EMFs or it's maybe I have parasites. So they cannot correlate the plant-based diet or the keto diet that that is probably causing them issues which it will sooner or later both of these diets will cause a person issues if they stick to them strictly for long enough they will cause them issues so that's the problem when an intervention lowers your let's say your protective hormones like testosterone or whatever else or has like or like it does something like it raises inflammation but you don't feel it
00:28:59
chrisyzen
or other markers that are more commonly tested, they don't get out of range, that's the problem because they that that that will allow it two the it will allow the person to continue doing it, thinking it's doing them good where it's actually causing them problems. What else? And then, you know what? I'll just do one more here. So there was one more study here, a paper titled um
00:29:30
chrisyzen
Yeah, no, no this just corroborates the previous point so so basically There was a Research group and they published a 12 month study The paper was titled 12 months of time restricted eating and resistance training improves inflammatory markers and cardio but cardio metabolic risk factors so they In the abstract, they say, our results suggest that long-term time restricted eating combined with a resistance training program is feasible, safe and effective in reducing inflammatory markers and risk factors related to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. And so I dug through that paper and check this out.
00:30:20
chrisyzen
The TRE group saw a staggering drop of 17% in their total testosterone by the end of the 12 months. And the same research group published a similar trial, but this was an 8 week trial of time restricted eating. And there was a similar drop in testosterone. So it kind of indicates that this is a feature of intermittent fasting. This drop in protective ah steroid hormones is a feature, not an anomaly in one study.
00:30:52
chrisyzen
And the thing is here, they were fairly young and they were you know fairly young men. But if you're – so women because of the whole sort of um role of the the menstrual cycle and just in general the the fact that they could potentially have a higher risk estrogenic tone than men, they're at much more risk with these interventions, whether or not they're menstruating, right whether or not they're pre or post-menopausal, because just the fact is that cortisol, the stress hormones tend to kind of imbalance a lot of other things in the body, so cortisol and testosterone are ah oppositional forces, they kind of
00:31:37
chrisyzen
seesaw up and down so if your cortisol is always high because you're intermittent fasting because that glucose has to be created by you breaking down either your lean mass or the protein that you eat or both combination of the both of the two and so if the cortisol is high your testosterone will get lowered you know and and the the same story for progesterone and this is a big bigger issue in women so that is kind of a A little summary, I did say two minutes, ten minutes ago, that is kind of a a summary of why I do not recommend intermittent
Conclusion on Fasting Drawbacks
00:32:14
chrisyzen
fasting. Never mind the fact also that it just feels like crap, right? I know some people say they feel better with it, but hey, you know what that means?
00:32:24
chrisyzen
usually it means their either their diet is inflammatory or they have gut dysbiosis and their diet is feeding the bad bacteria in the gut or the inflammatory opportunistic overgrowth microbes. So yeah fasting in that sense could provide relief but there are better ways. I know of much better ways we can address the issue where you can feel yourself instead of you know lowering your metabolism and adding stress to your body, which might already be stressed enough with your lifestyle and work schedules and family demands and so on.
00:32:57
chrisyzen
and um
00:32:59
chrisyzen
And some people just like to be high on the stress hormones. That's why we have the runner's high, adrenaline junkie. That's why some people, they can they don't feel well unless they exercise. It's because they're ah addicted to the like the endorphins and the adrenaline that that stress results in. So can't blame you. You know, we all have our vices. And the the fact is that some people that are like that, if if you if they're starting normally for a while, it takes it will take them some time to get used to like eating breakfast, for example, because they feel sluggish after breakfast. And why do they feel sluggish? It's because because when you are on on cortisol, when you're in stress mode, sympathetic mode, fight or flight mode, you are amped up.
00:33:50
chrisyzen
Let's do this, whatever that is, right? but Project at work, whatever, playing with the kids. Let's do this, come on, let's go. So when then, when you lower that stress, the cortisol, the adrenaline, you kind of feel a little bit, you know, like that afternoon sort of lull that some people get. Well, in in this is my opinion, but for a lot of people, that could be that maybe they didn't need breakfast or they had a light breakfast. So by lunchtime, They're kind of ravenous. So their cortisol is always high. they're they're just Their stress hormone milieu is high because it's it it needs to kick in to make up the glucose deficit because no glucose is coming in, right? No carbohydrates are for fuel are coming in. So your body becomes the fuel.
Carbohydrate Effects on Insulin and Rest
00:34:38
chrisyzen
You liquefy yourself. You degenerate yourself. So then when you have your lunch,
00:34:43
chrisyzen
you now you know you have the the food coming in insulin is gonna get a bump up and that will cause cortisol and the stress hormones to go down and that kind of can make you feel somewhat drowsy and sleepy and I've noticed it myself multiple times in the last few months where if I either Have a very light sort of whatever amount of ah Carbohydrates in the morning or I don't eat enough in the morning and or i I'm up here recording doing stuff working with clients And I don't have time to get like a ah meal or whatever Then if I go and i'm I'm noticeably hungry and starting to get a little bit like I need to eat then when I have the meal I
00:35:29
chrisyzen
I will then feel a little bit like, ah start yawning, not in a bad way, but where it's it's like, if okay, if my daughter would go for a nap, I would just go go lie down as well and nap for an hour or two if i you know if I didn't have work or whatever to do, which is not a bad thing. um it's actually nots If you feel like you want to take a nap, I feel like We should be able to do that and I'm kind of happy that I'm lucky that I can work from home I haven't had to do it in a very long time now But every once in a while if I wake up too early or whatever um And I'm working very hard sometimes I'll just get in the massage chair and the way it's whatever it does it just kind of puts me out and But then it stops after 30 minutes that it's programmed to stop after 30 minutes So I just have like a micro nap of like 10 15 minutes up to 20 minutes and you just feel super fresh after that or sometimes i've I've been known to go for like a couple of hours in the afternoon and There's nothing wrong with that because if you feel like you need to take a nap and you have the opportunity now Unfortunately, not all of us have that opportunity But if you do have that opportunity like if you work from home on your business I actually think
00:36:43
chrisyzen
you should
Importance of Rest and Productivity
00:36:44
chrisyzen
not forgo that opportunity because if you feel sleepy the way to kind of get yourself out of that sleepy state is either have a little nap or just to a lie down or rev up the stress hormones and that can wake you up and keep you up but that's long term not the best strategy once in a while to finish a project totally fine but if you're getting that kind of buzz going on i would probably go with my body's instinct first rather than whatever project has to get done because
00:37:19
chrisyzen
At the end of the day, you know you know that the mountain of work will never get done and you will always have new ideas and better sort of things to optimize and improve and and check and measure. so The work will always get done. but we probably should try to not wear ourselves out super quickly because it's again if if it were a race it's not a sprint it's a marathon but it's not even a it's not even a a race it's a it's a game you know so you want to play the game for as long as possible
00:37:59
chrisyzen
because
Low Stress and Peak States
00:38:01
chrisyzen
every day is an opportunity to become a fuller, richer, more expanded version of yourself and the only way to do that is to be in a good state with low stress, low stress hormone or milieu in your body and then you are able to achieve higher states of being because you cannot be stressed in fight or flight and then experience things like altruism, um higher cognitive sort of ah capacities true joy and affinity to others because at the end of the day be in in terms of Jesus Christ getting philosophical here now um in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs if you were in a survival state and that's what fasting will do
00:38:47
chrisyzen
and all the other things that are very stressful that I talk about. But fasting will put you in back to base the base of the the hierarchy. how can you how
Critique on Survival State Mindset
00:38:58
chrisyzen
how can you If you're all you care about is your own survival, And at least from the biological perspective, maybe in your mind, it's not like that, but yeah physiologically, your body is that like that. Then how can you expect to ever reach like levels where you want to, you've you've filled your cup, your family's cup is full, and now, oh, let me give back to the community or the world at large, or whatever it tickles your fancy, whatever you want to do, or maybe express my creativity. and
00:39:28
chrisyzen
give this gift to the the the world of my art, my music, my writing, whatever that may be. right The only way to achieve your ultimate potential is to be in this physiological state of low stress and high, relatively speaking, high levels of these protective hormones and and and the the beneficial neurotransmitters as opposed to kind of the more the the ones that are more um characteristic of stress stress states, like things like parathyroid hormone, prolactin, estrogen, cortisol, serotonin, stuff like that. You want rather the other stuff to be um in in in good ranges, like progesterone, ah testosterone, DHEA, dopamine, stuff like that. Right. So that's kind of why
00:40:26
chrisyzen
on a in the bigger scheme in the bigger vision why we don't want to do things like intermittent starvation because they just bring us back to this survival state right and we are not living in the world we are we are so lucky to be in these times where at you don't even have to leave your house people bring you stuff, bring your food to your door. um So but why choose to put ourselves in that state if we have the options to not do that? Think about that. um Yeah,
Conclusion and Listener Invitation
00:41:06
chrisyzen
okay. 40 minutes. I guess this these are going to be around up to 40 minutes. So hope you found it interesting.
00:41:13
chrisyzen
ah This has been Cristian Jourdanoff. Howtoactuallylivelonger.com is the website. You can go there and see if you if you're interested in more advanced longevity stuff, lab testing and you know protocols and cleanses and detoxes and hormone balancing and even more advanced stuff. um Yeah, thanks for thanks for tuning in and I'll see you on the next one.