April 3, 2025 • 60 mins
At the 53-hour mark of an extended fast, your body reaches a fascinating turning point. The initial hunger pangs have faded, your metabolism has shifted fully into fat-burning mode, and something remarkable happens in your mind. This cognitive clarity creates the perfect opportunity to examine what Dr. Wood calls your "inner environment" – the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that silently shape your health outcomes.
Your internal landscape matters just as much as your external one. When we fast, we remove food as a buffering behavior, suddenly exposing emotional triggers and thought patterns that normally remain hidden behind our eating habits. This episode explores these hidden drivers of metabolic health, revealing how self-doubt, guilt, shame, and limiting beliefs function as "toxins" in our internal environment.
The beauty of extended fasting lies in this dual detoxification – not just the physical clearing of insulin resistance and cellular debris, but the mental and emotional purification that follows. As Dr. Wood shares his current metrics (blood glucose hovering beautifully in the 70s and 80s, ketones at 1.7 mmol/L, and weight continuing its downward trend), he emphasizes something profound: healing doesn't always feel like victory. Sometimes it feels like surrender.
For those discouraged by slow progress, Dr. Wood reveals his own five-year journey from 287 pounds to 185 pounds – a path marked by countless ups and downs while maintaining a downward trend. This visual reminder that progress isn't linear offers powerful encouragement for anyone feeling stuck. The key message resonates throughout: "You are not broken; you are rebuilding."
Ready to experience the full spectrum of benefits from fasting? Learn how to create internal "air purifiers" through practices like stillness, journaling, and mindfulness that clean your mental environment just as effectively as fasting cleans your physical one. Join our community to share your journey and discover how your imperfect path might be exactly the inspiration someone else needs to transform their health.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome back to our check-in, for today.
We are 53 hours into the fastand this is a beautiful point in
the journey.
You are beyond the noise thatcame early in the hunger came
early in the fast.
The body is shifting gears intodeep fat burning and now you
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have the space to notice what'sgoing on on the inside.
Earlier this week we talkedabout the environmental domain,
that is, the environmentalhealth.
The air we breathe, the clutteraround us, the scenes we're
exposed to the screens, thetoxins, all those things that
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are around us.
But today I want to take sometime to spend some time and turn
the lens inward, because here'sthe truth your inner
environment is just as important, just as powerful, if not more
powerful, in shaping your health, your metabolism and your
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ability to sustain the fast.
That's right.
So tonight we're going toexplore what I call the internal
detox, not just a physicalprocess, but an emotional and a
mental one as well.
If you're new to me, I'm DrDwayne Wood, that's Wood with an
E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here, on the channel, I educate, I empower and I encourage you
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to take charge of your health,your life, avoid complications
and go to the next level.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted, so we are working
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on our metabolism.
That is the platform for thechronic diseases that we see
around the country and aroundthe world.
There are over 1 billion peopleon the planet at this very
moment that have diabetes, type2, or pre-diabetes, and our goal
is to do the best that we canfor ourselves and those around
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us so that we can beginreversing that disease diabetes.
Now, if we think about diabetesalong the spectrum, though, are
all of those disease processesthat we hear about when we talk
about chronic disease High bloodpressure, high cholesterol,
fatty liver, polycystic ovariansyndrome, and on and on and on.
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So if we can do something tomanage our diabetes, to reverse
our diabetes, then it expands toall the other diseases.
Isn't that amazing?
And all this time we havethought that they were all
separate, but they are justdiseases along the spectrum, and
so our goal is to work toimprove that, to get you off of
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medications, to help you withyour weight, to help you with
your blood sugars, with yourblood pressure, with your
cholesterol, and on and on andon, and that's the space that
you find us in right now.
On a weekly basis.
We do our show on Monday, whichis a walkthrough.
It is a path called LimitlessLiving that is showing us the
things that we need to do to besuccessful in this journey.
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And then on Wednesday, thursdayand Friday you caught us today,
on a Thursday we are doing ashow where we're talking about
the tools that we are learningand how do we apply those to be
able to do the things that wetalk about on the journey.
And one of the most powerfultools that we're using is the
tool of fasting.
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And so on a weekly basis, we doa 72-hour fast here on the show
and we come on and we arechecking in so that you can see
in real time what's happening tomy blood sugars, what's
happening to my numbers andwhat's happening to my weight,
for that matter, as we movethrough this pathway, so that
you can see that we can all doit together, and that is so
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exciting to me.
So we are doing the fasting.
The other thing, the othercomponent of this, is the
physical activity that we aredoing.
So, if you've not already doneso, if you've not joined us yet,
on our walk, so every morningat 6 o'clock, we are doing our
100-day walk to consistency, andwe're on day number 93 today,
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right of the 100 days, and weare continuing through that
process.
But we're not stopping therebecause we have our new series
that's coming up, starting herein just a little week or so.
As we end this current seriesand we are talking about
strength, strategy and mindsetwhat do we need to do to
continue putting ourselves inthe best position to improve our
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health?
So, once again, if you've notbeen over to the channel yet,
we've got our 100-day walk toconsistency.
That's there.
Even if you are joining us nowfor the first time, it is not
too late.
You can join, you can go backand you can start from day one.
I'm going to tell you, a lot ofpeople were there.
They said man, dave, we'regoing to do 100 days.
That's right, 100 days.
And here we are, 93 days later.
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And if you've been consistent,you have learned, you've
expanded, you have grown and weare doing all the things that
are possible to help us in ourmetabolism.
So the fasting is addressing thepillars of diabetes, remember
decreasing insulin, suppressingthe appetite and reducing sugar.
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Those are three pillars.
The activity that we're doing,the walking, the exercising,
whether you're doing rowing orswimming, or whether you're
doing lifting right, you'redoing some strength training.
That is also decreasing insulin, suppressing appetite, and it
also is reducing sugar.
So notice the theme that all ofthose tools are doing that.
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And then also our balancedbites, remember whole foods,
minimized processing, no addedsugar, lean protein, healthy
fats, starchy, non-starchyvegetables, appropriate portion
size and something that's tasty.
That is the list of things thatwe're looking for when we're
looking at the food.
So this space is rounding outall of those things together so
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that we can be successful in ourmetabolism, getting our
metabolism right, because,remember, dysfunctional
metabolism is what is causingour problem.
All right, so that gives you abackdrop of where we are.
I'm glad that you're here,whatever platform you find
yourselves on, with LinkedIn,twitch, instagram, of course,
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youtube, and then on Facebook aswell.
So welcome, welcome to all ofyou that are out there watching
us right now.
So let's go ahead and let's takea look at blood sugars.
We want to take a look at someof the numbers.
Let's get that out of the wayand you'll see.
Let's grab this on the screen.
That is what my blood sugar iscurrently.
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I'm looking at this numberright here, the little squiggly
number right about there.
You'll see, right there there'sa break.
That's when my sensor went outand so I had to change the
sensor and you'll see, in theearlier part of the day we were
below the line, we were red, andthen at the end of the day,
right about 90 is what we areright now.
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Let's go ahead and I'm going topop over and take a look at my
Dexcom, and on the Dexcom weactually can do I can put my
finger and you can actually seethe numbers what's been going on
over the course of today.
And you see, we've been kind ofhanging out in the 70s, 80s,
70s, 80s, 70s, 80s I think wedipped below 60 there a little
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bit in the late afternoon, andthen now 80s, 80s.
We're 83 right now.
So that's beautiful, I lovethat.
Okay, then let's hop over andlet's take a look at.
Let me pull this one up first,let me grab.
What I want to take a look atis my fit index, so we can take
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a look at what my weight's beendoing.
Let's go back there and so yousee there, 185.
I think when we did ityesterday I was right at 187.
We'll pull that up in a minute.
Actually, why don't I do thatnow so we can get the exact
number.
Actually, 186, I think.
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Yeah, I think I said 187.
But well, yeah, so let's dothat.
186.
I took a picture of that.
Here we are, here we go.
So 186 is what we were, andthat was yesterday, yesterday,
186.
And then, of course, where weare right now 185.2.
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So one pound, right.
So one pound over the course ofthe last day.
And so we are working not justfor diabetes, right?
So we're working on that.
We're not just working forblood pressure, we're working on
that.
We're not just working forfatty liver and cholesterol, but
we're also working on weightloss.
So, remember, last night wetalked about fat burning and
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that's what you're seeing thereas we're moving through the
fasting space.
Awesome, all right, so let's goahead.
So that's my number.
Let's take a look at bloodsugars, and so for that, we're
going to turn over here andlet's see, let's get this thing.
Yeah, there we go.
For that, we're going to turnit over to my monitors.
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And I've got a Keto-Mojo and Ihave the contour right here.
So let's go ahead and grab somestrips Brown for blood sugar,
blue for ketones, and then let'sgrab a strip for the contour,
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and then let's grab a strip forthe contour.
And, oh, look at this, y'all, Iam down to the look at that.
I'm down to the lancet I don'tlike.
Let's see what that shows.
If anything, I'll have to getoff screen from it and grab one
of the other ones.
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So the reason I don't like thisone is because it doesn't allow
me to do the pressure that Ineed, because my fingers have
gotten a bit calloused and so Ineed a little bit more pressure
to get down where I can get someblood.
I get a drop of blood, butwe'll see what this one does,
and I think, to just be safe,I'm going to use a different
finger than I normally use.
But let's go ahead and open upthese strips.
We're going to get that onethere, open up this one and
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let's go ahead and put that in.
And these are the blood sugarstrips.
So let's go ahead.
I'm going to use a differentfinger, because I think if I use
this one, it won't get anythingbecause it's very calloused and
harder than the other skin.
So let's see what we got here.
Okay, all right.
So you heard the click.
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Oh, look at that, that was apretty brisk, pretty brisk flow.
So see, that's what happenswhen you get one of those
fingers that is not as used asthe other.
So 68 is what the Keto Mojosays and 74 is what the Contour
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says.
Let's go ahead and let's getthe test strip in for ketones
and let's see what that oneshows.
And Look at that.
I didn't even have to do anymore coaxing for that to come
through.
Let's take a look at what thatis right now.
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Look at that.
1.7 is where it says I am.
I am a little over 53 hours nowin the fast.
When we did our show yesterday,by the way, I said I was at 29
hours, but I was actually at 33hours and so I miscalculated
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what that was.
So right now, 1.7.
We'll come back and we'll talkabout that.
Somebody remind me if I don'tcome back to talk about ketones.
Somebody remind me to do thatso we can discuss that a little
later, okay, so just somebodyout there.
Just keep me honest there, allright.
So let's hop over and let's sayhello to some of our community
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members, and I see some folksthat are out there.
Let's see who we've got.
So it looks like Gian is outthere.
Hey, gian.
She says hi, doctor, hey,welcome, thank you for being
with us.
And Gian is saying hi,limitless Living Group, llg,
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cornelia, hi, dr Gian and LLG, Ilove it, love it, love it Quick
.
Say hello you all.
I will come again from Buddhaclass.
Sorry, dr who is in amazing53-hour fast, oh yeah.
So, gian, she has a class thatshe's going to run to and then
come back and join us.
Cornelia, I will come again.
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Okay, gian, enjoy your class.
Cess, what's up, girl?
I haven't seen you in a minute.
So, hello, let's give her ahand clap and some music.
And then, of course, steve issaying hello, hello, hello
ladies, thank you for comingthrough and hanging out with us.
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Let's go ahead and do mycheck-in about the fast.
And so, whenever we're doingany evaluation, whenever we're
actually whenever we're doinganything that we want to
implement a change, it's veryimportant to make sure that you
are evaluating, to make surethat the benefits that you
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expect are what you're seeing.
And so there are three areaswhere people tend to have
difficulty when it comes tofasting, and it's how they feel
physically, how they feelmentally and how they feel
emotionally, and so I want tospend some time talking through
that.
Physically, it is a matter ofenergy, and so people will say
that they feel as though theirenergy is low.
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They feel as though they aresluggish, they hit a wall,
they're going through the dayand all of a sudden, everything
kind of shuts down.
So those are kind of thephrases that they use.
Also, other than energy, howthey feel like though their
heart's racing, skipping a beat.
They feel lightheaded, dizzy,sweaty.
All of those are things thatpeople will talk about.
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Right now I'm not feeling anyof those.
I have been doing a good job ofresting and a lot of the energy
things that people feel has todo with rest.
It has to do with how theyprepared to get into the fast or
even in the fast.
If there are issues going on,if they are highly stressed, if
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they are not doing a good job ofresting during the fast, then
that can cause fatigue as well,and that can cause fatigue as
well.
The other symptomslightheadedness, dizziness,
feeling like your heart's racingoften will come from hydration.
If they're not doing a good jobof hydrating, then that will
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show up as those symptoms.
So, because I've been doing agood job of resting, because
I've been doing a good job ofhydrating, I am not currently
feeling those symptoms andactually feeling pretty
energetic.
When it comes to our mentalhealth and how we feel mentally
during a fast, the phrases thatpeople use here, or the things
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that they would say, is I feelas though I'm in a fog, my
thoughts are not clear, they'rejumbled, I feel fuzzy headed.
Those are things that oftenwill come based on how they are
feeling physically Because, asyou know, if you're not rested,
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if you're tired, if you'refatigued, then your thought
process is not as clear, yourresponse time is lower and you
tend to have a little bit moredifficulty getting things done
or thinking, even sometimesgrasping for words.
Right now actually feelingpretty good once again because I
have been doing a good job ofresting and hydrating.
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I have been doing a good job ofresting and hydrating and then,
emotionally, I'm excitedbecause I've got some fun stuff
that's getting ready to happenover the next couple of days.
I've been in this space withyou talking about the
environment, talking about ourhealth, talking about reversing
diabetes.
My weight's going down, bloodsugars are improved, so I am
actually feeling elated rightnow.
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One of the benefits of fasting,by the way, is some of the
feelings that you hear me sayingthat I am right now, because
I'm at the 53, getting ready tobe 54 hour mark.
I'm well into ketosis, as yousaw from my monitor hour mark.
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I'm well into ketosis, as yousaw from my monitor.
Well into ketosis, I see theblood sugars that are
fluctuating, right, because theywere below 100, and then they
popped up above 100, they werebelow 70 as we went through the
fast and popped up a little bitabove 70.
And people will ask all thetime, well, why is that
happening?
Why is your blood sugar notcontinuing to go down?
Well, remember, as the bodyburns fat, it also has the
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ability from that fat to createsugar.
Right, that glycerol, part ofthe triglycerides that we talk
about, that can be turnedreadily into sugar.
And so my body is burning fatbecause, right, blood sugars
have gone down, and so thattells me that my glycogen is
going away.
When it becomes low, that says,hey, my glycogen is pretty much
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gone, and we talked about thatlast night when we did our 29 33
hour check-in.
So that's, that's beyond.
We are beyond that point now,and so as I see those blood
sugars starting to climb alittle bit and just play right
around that 70 mark, I'm excitedbecause that means that now I'm
accessing fat right.
So yesterday we talked abouthow to trust that the process is
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happening, even though we maynot see some of those results.
Well, one of the things that Ido is I monitor, and so I can
see those changes in my body.
So, anyway, so that's ourcheck-in physically, mentally
and emotionally feeling prettygood.
Let's hop into our conversation.
But before I do that, I do seea comment that I want to get to,
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and so Steve was saying hello,and so Steve was saying hello,
cornelia was saying hi, and Sethsays hemoglobin A1C7,.
I'm trying my best, dr Wood,you are an inspiration.
Well, thank you, thank you,thank you, thank you for saying
that.
Give you some music.
Really appreciate that.
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So, for everyone and I'm goingto just pick on that comment
right there that is the virtue,that is the benefit, that is the
power of community that we allget in this space in real time
to talk to each other and sharewhere we are, share our journey,
what challenges we may behaving.
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You know, to have someone, uh,come along and say man, you are
an inspiration to me.
Now one of the things.
And, cornelia, I'm going topick on you for a minute and one
of the things that Corneliasent to us in one of the
comments and thank you forsaying that she reiterated one
of the things that we weretalking about in one of the
episodes of the 100-Day walk toconsistency, and that is this
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that your journey, as flawed asit is, as imperfect as it is, as
rocky as it is, your journeythrough limitless living, is
exactly the answer for somebodyelse's question.
Come on y'all, that's the powerof community.
So thank you for dropping thatin the comment, cess, and we
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applaud you for trying.
We are changing our word,though, from trying to doing.
Remember, we are the people whoare controlling our A1C, we are
the people who are takingcharge of our lives.
We are the people who are doingthe things exactly like you
want to do, and I'm very proudof you for the journey that you
are on and the fact that you arehere with us.
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All right, so let's go ahead,let's hop over, and well, not
hop over, let's talk.
Let's start our conversationabout our topic tonight, and we
are talking about let me do onething here really quickly,
awesome.
So what we're talking about isand you guys saw the, you saw
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the flyer.
We're talking about your innerenvironment, detoxing your
thoughts, detoxing the toxinsfrom inside and detoxing the
triggers.
So here at 53 Hours, we arewell into the depth of fasting.
We're well into all the thingsthat we talk about as the
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benefits of fasting.
So the fat burning, the insulinsensitivity, the improvement in
our insulin, so lowering ourinsulin, the issues that we have
with our metabolism are beingreversed as we're going through
the process.
So now, beyond that, beyond thenoise, beyond the things that we
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talked about when we talkedabout the environment, what is
going on in our journey andwhere are those places where we
can continue to be successful?
So you're beyond the noise now.
You're beyond the hunger.
You're beyond the shifts in thebody's ability to go from
carbohydrates to burning fat, inthe body's ability to go from
carbohydrates to burning fat.
And now, this space that you'rein, you begin to notice some
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things, as I mentioned before,that when we are fasting, what's
happening is that the fastingis stripping away from us those
buffering behaviors, thosehang-ups, those crutches that
we've been using when you'refasting.
And the reason I say that ismany of us use food as the
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crutch, use food as thebuffering behavior.
So when we're fasting, we nolonger have that, and so it
begins to expose those placeswhere we've got to pay attention
.
Now, earlier this week, wetalked about the environment.
Right, we talked about thosetypical things your air, the air
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we breathe, the clutter aroundus.
We talked about our exposure tocertain toxins in our
environment, our exposure tocertain toxins in our
environment.
But fasting fasting is veryimportant because fasting is a
detox.
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It's a detox but it's not justphysical.
When we fast, we areessentially working, yall
without a net, and when we areworking without the net, we get
to see not just the physicalthings that are happening, not
just the fact that my weight'sgoing down, not just the fact
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that my blood sugar is improvingand my a1c is improving, but we
get to see the things thatactually push our buttons that
we normally don't notice,because as soon as our button is
pushed, we grab a chocolate bar.
As soon as we become stressed,we eat a piece of chicken.
As soon as something disruptsour routine, we go to food to
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soothe us, to comfort us.
So fasting is an inner detox,not just a physical process, but
it's an emotional and a mentalone as well.
So, understanding your innerenvironment.
Let's understand our innerenvironment.
Just like our homes can becomecluttered, so our minds become
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cluttered as well.
Think of your internalenvironment as the atmosphere
inside you, right?
So think of yourself walkingaround inside your body.
Your thoughts, your beliefs,your emotions and even your
inner dialogue are the thingsthat you run into as you're
moving around that environment.
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And often that environment iscluttered when you're fasting,
especially at this stage, 53hours.
A lot of that internal cluttercomes to the surface.
This is the moment when claritybegins, because we've talked
about the fact that your body isburning fat and is producing
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beta-hydroxybutyrate, which isthe thing that the brain loves
because it helps us to be clear.
So, not just physiologically,but psychologically as well,
that begins to happen here.
So what thoughts have beenrising up during the fast?
During this fast, whatemotional clutter is coming
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forward?
What are the things that we'reseeing?
And as you're moving throughthe fast, a lot of us, those
first several hours, in thefirst 24 hours, we're feeling
that hunger.
We're feeling this shiftbetween carbohydrates and fat.
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We felt that already it's gone,it's behind us, and now the
body is filling us full of thoseproteins or not proteins, but
that fat that is being brokendown and converted to energy.
So what are the hidden toxinsthat we carry?
What are the hidden toxins thatwe carry in our body?
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Well, emotional toxins are someof them.
So we have self-doubt, right.
Am I good enough for whateverspace I'm in?
Remember the things that arepushing us habits, emotions,
access and taste, the heat model.
Am I good enough to be here?
Should I be here?
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Am I qualified man?
I should have started thatbusiness man.
I should have started thatbusiness man.
I can't start that business.
I can't write the book.
I can't lose weight.
I can't get a good A1C.
I can't improve my blood sugar.
Man, I've tried that before.
It didn't work for me.
Nothing ever works out for me.
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Those emotional toxins how aboutguilt man?
If I didn't do that, if Ididn't make those decisions
years ago, I wouldn't have hadthat heart attack, I wouldn't
have had that stroke.
Man, look at what's happened tomy joints, look at how my
health has deteriorated.
We feel guilt, we feel shame,because a lot of our society, a
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lot of our community, hasconvinced us that it's all your
fault.
If you were strong enough, ifyou had internal fortitude, if
you just had enoughself-discipline, self-control,
then you wouldn't be in thatstate that you're in.
All of that's going on, not tomention the things that we have
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brought with us from the past.
That may have nothing to dowith our food, but we're using
food to soothe those, the memory, that trauma that we've had,
the desertion that we felt, theshame, the berating, all of
those things that come with usthat we don't sometimes deal
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with.
How about cognitive toxins?
Cognitive toxins?
So limiting beliefs like I'llnever succeed.
This always fails.
I never complete anything.
I keep trying these weights,weight management programs, I
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keep going on these diets.
I'm going to be like thisforever.
I can't reverse my diabetes.
I can't get off of thesemedications.
I can't exercise.
Reverse my diabetes.
I can't get off of thesemedications.
I can't exercise.
So fasting acts like a filterand it removes those layers that
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keeps us from noticing how muchtoxicity we carry around inside
.
So fasting wipes it away.
At 53 hours your body is doingthe physical detox.
But now is the time to ask whatneeds to detox from my thoughts
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, not just my liver, not justthe fat cells, not just the
insulin, but what do I need todetox for them on the inside?
Because sometimes we don't gothere.
So we always want to be takingtime, just like we're talking
about physical, mental,emotional, right those domains
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as we're walking through thatmini series right now.
We want to take time.
We want to take one limitedbelief at a time that you have
been talking about, one negativethought that we have.
We want to take those and wewant to face those so we can
begin cleaning out.
Just like we're cleaning ourenvironment here, we want to
begin cleaning out in herebecause it affects how we are
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able to fast going to begincleaning out in here because it
affects how we are able to fast.
I was saying to one of ourmedical students just today that
it does not matter how much ofthose GLP medications I put you
on right and they are phenomenalmedications.
As a matter of fact, we havepeople.
Here's an interesting thing 'san interesting point never in my
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history of managing metabolicdisease, of treating people with
medication for metabolicdisease, of treating people with
medication for weight becausewe were treating weight for a
long time have I had people cometo me and say you know what,
doc, I've lost enough weight,can you take me off of this
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medication?
And finally we're there.
We have people coming into theoffice and say hey, can you take
me off of Ozempic?
Can you take me off of MonjaroBecause I've lost too much
weight?
Can we decrease the dose?
So these are phenomenalmedications that are working.
But it doesn't matter how muchmedication I put you on, if we
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don't deal with the internalthings that are causing the
issue in the first place, thenour emotions will blow right
through the medication.
And so, just as we are talkingabout fasting, just as we are
talking about the tools thatwe're using in this space, we've
got to begin dealing with theinternal toxins.
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So why do we get discouraged?
Why do we get discouraged?
And we talked a little bitabout this in our last episode
but within us, there are twosets of thoughts, and I call
them the inner coach and theinner critic.
The inner coach and the innercritic, and the inner critic is
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constantly there to remind us ofthe places where we've fallen
down, the places that we haven'tsucceeded, the places where we
didn't quite make it, the placeswhere we started something but
we didn't get to the end, thetimes when we kept saying that
we were going to do somethingbut we didn't do it.
That's what the inner criticdoes.
And so we've become so attunedto listening to the inner critic
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that we continually are feedingourselves a set of negative
thoughts that continue todiscourage us, whatever the
thought may be.
And there are lots of thingsthat we could think.
We often assume that progressshould be linear.
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But let me show you.
Let me show you.
Let's go back and let's take alook at and here is my weight,
here's my weight.
Let's go back and let's take alook at weight, and one of the
one of the things that I wantyou to understand is that it is
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not a linear process.
It is not a linear process.
There are ups and there aredowns, and so here is my weight
over the last.
Well, we'll say years, right,so we're going to go back all
the way.
This is now going back fiveyears.
Going'll say years, right, sowe're going to go back all the
way.
This is now going back fiveyears.
Going back five years.
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And let's find in this graphthe highest point on this that
I've been tracking in this appis 260 pounds.
Prior to that, and that's notrecorded here.
Right Over here, somewhere itwas 287.
287.
And I want you to see thetrajectory, I want you to see
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the trend Right.
So, weight going up, going up,hit 260 pounds, and then we went
down, went down, look at that.
Went down here.
Went back up, went down, wentup, went down, down, down, down,
down, down look at that.
Went down here, went back up,went down, went up, went down,
down, down, down, down, down,down, down, went up, up, up, up,
up, up.
Okay, and what I want you tonotice is that, despite the fact
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that there were those ups anddowns, the general trend was in
going downward, and so sometimeswe miss that.
So if you compare 260 back fiveyears ago and now, what was it,
I don't know, 187, 186, I think, yeah, 185.
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Right, the general trend isdownward.
But if I had looked at thatfive years ago, four years ago,
I could have become discouragedbecause I didn't see that trend
going in the direction I want.
But I want to convince youagain, just like we said in our
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previous show, that even thoughyou may not see big changes, it
is happening.
Your body is doing it, yes,okay.
So also, why we get discouraged?
We get discouraged because ourmindset shifts are cyclical.
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So we have something thathappens and we get inspired, we
get motivated and thenmotivation wanes.
So motivation, motivation.
I love motivation.
I love the fact that people getpumped up.
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As a matter of fact, some ofyou, after you watch this show,
while you're watching this show,you're in there, you're like
man, let's do this, let's dothis, and something is going to
happen and the motivation isgoing to wane and we're going to
get discouraged.
So I want you to say, yes, I'mmotivated, yes, I'm inspired,
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but there is something else thatyou've got to do.
You've got to put something inplace, some structure that helps
you to keep going whenmotivation goes away.
So discouragement usually setsin when the scale doesn't move
fast enough.
Yep, raise my hand.
Discourage sets in when we feeltired and irritable when we're
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fasting.
I've had somebody in my teamtell me hey, are you okay?
As a matter of fact, I wasasking well, somebody asked me,
said do you feel irritable whenyou're fasting?
And I said to them because Iexpected what the answer was
going to be I said do you thinkI get irritable when I'm fasting
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?
And they say, yeah, sometimeswe compare ourselves to other
people.
Man, look at Cornelia, look atCess, look at Steve, look at
Gian.
They're having such goodsuccess.
Why can't I have that success?
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We compare ourselves.
We compare ourselves to socialmedia.
Because I'm going to tell you,when I look at some people on
social media, I'm like man, howmuch time do I have to spend in
the gym to look like that?
But at 53 hours in, this isproof that your body works
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Because you're still here.
I'm still here.
You've seen the blood sugars.
I'm still here.
You've seen the blood sugars.
Discouragement in this stage isnot a signal to quit.
It is a sign.
It is a sign to go deeper.
You're not behind.
You are in process.
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You are in the process of doingwhat you need to do.
Healing doesn't always feellike victory.
It often feels like.
Sometimes it feels almost likewe're surrendering right,
because it's not quite going theway we want.
We didn't quite see all thechanges.
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As I said before, I encourageeveryone who's watching me if
you're working on your weight,if you're working on your
metabolism, get some devices,like I do, and track what's
going on in your body.
Get a scale.
I know we don't like to get onthe scale.
Everybody's like that numberdepresses me.
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I hear that all the time.
But it is a way for you totrack the number on that scale
does not define who you are.
And so how do we detox sometriggers?
So how do we detox sometriggers?
So triggers are like allergensthat are in your internal
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environment Small things thatcause big reactions.
Somebody says something to youand you respond in such a
forceful way that's out ofproportion to what just happened
.
That is a trigger.
Something happens in yourenvironment and you are sitting
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now down at night eating agallon of ice cream, eating a
dozen donuts, buying 18 Cadburychocolate bars.
That's a trigger.
So fasting allows you toobserve without reacting Because
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you can't eat.
You may notice that you're lessreactive, or you may be more
irritable.
Either way, it's a feedbackLike man.
Look at that.
Every time that happens, Ididn't realize.
Every time that happens, I wasfeeling like I wanted to go eat
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something.
But now you see it or somethinghappens and you're like man.
I didn't react to that like Inormally would react.
Emotional triggers can includestressful conversations.
They can include the urge tosnack after conflict Tiredness
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leading to sugar cravings,boredom, procrastination,
boredom, procrastination.
What are your top threeemotional triggers?
They usually come in fourdifferent areas habits, emotions
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, access and taste, which areyours.
And then let's talk a littlebit about some air purifiers.
Air purifiers are those thingsthat clean the air around us.
So what are some of the thingsthat purify the air within us?
Stillness?
Somebody asked me today where'smy happy place, and I've shared
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with you before my happy placeis St Simon's Island, off the
coast of Georgia, right betweenGeorgia and Florida.
We went there years ago andwhenever I need to get away in
my mind, whenever I need to getaway from the situation, even
while I'm sometimes in thesituation in my head, I'm over
there Because it's my quietplace, it's my still place.
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Some people use prayer,journaling, deep breathing,
mindfulness Air purifiers.
They are cleaning, they aredetoxing, they are cleaning the
inner environment.
Fasting gives you an openwindow to let the toxin air come
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out, because usually we are soquick to grab things that buffer
food that we never allow ourbrain, our mind and we never
allow our hearts to see and feelthose emotions, because as soon
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as they come, we grab somethingand it soothes it.
As soon as it comes, we go eatsomething and it says it calms
us.
As soon as we feel like it'scoming up, we're like oh, I
don't like that.
So we never allow it to bubbleup.
We never allow ourselves toconfront it, we never allow
ourselves to deal with it.
So, at 53 hours, at this point,you're not just surviving the
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fast, you're learning how tolive, how to clean out the fast,
you're learning how to live,how to clean out the inside, how
to be cleaner mentally,physically, emotionally.
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At 53 hours, what practices doyou have in place that helps to
clean your insides?
What are some of your airpurifiers?
Is it writing, walking, praying?
What have you been doing?
What can you do to clean outthe air on the inside?
Because, once again, it doesn'tmatter what we give you in
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terms of medication.
If we are not cleaning out thetoxins, if we're not dealing
with our inner environment, thenwe are at a loss.
So how do we reclaim ourinternal space?
This part of the fast is aboutreclaiming that space in your
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body.
This used to be occupied byfear.
It used to be occupied by food,with obsessions, with emotional
eating, and so we clear thisout.
We reclaim it by reframing.
Instead of thinking I can't eat, we begin thinking I'm creating
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space, I'm cleaning the space.
This is the invitation of the53-hour fast.
This is the invitation of thefast itself To detox, not just
physically but mentally andemotionally, and to begin
trusting your whole self again.
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Ah right, see how that allcomes back together.
That harkens back to ourepisode where we talked about
trusting your body.
Harkens back to our episodewhere we talked about the fact
that you should trust theprocess, to our episode where we
talked about the fact that youshould trust the process.
At 53 hours, your body istelling you right now look at me
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, I'm here.
Many people didn't think theycould fast for 53 hours.
They didn't think they can fastfor 24 hours.
Whatever the number of hoursyou're at, your body's sending
you a signal that says look,we're still here.
What part of your innerenvironment do you need to clean
the most?
Where do you have to spendattention?
Where do you have to spend timeWithout any judgment?
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There's no judgment.
It is simply taking an honestlook and saying what are those
things that are going on insidethat I need to look at?
The Limitless Living Inventoryis a way of looking at all of
that.
It provides awareness andyou've heard me say several
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times over the last severalshows you are not broken, you
are sufficient, just like youare, as imperfect as you are, as
confused as you may be justlike you are you are sufficient.
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Right now you're rebuilding.
Sufficient Right now you'rerebuilding, you are reorganizing
, you are becoming resilient,you're becoming consistent,
you're becoming self-confidentand tonight, at 53 hours into
this fast, that's proof thathealing is happening on the
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inside and on the outside.
So we trust that the process isgoing on.
And just like we're cleaningour external environment, just
like we are dealing with ourexternal health, as we're
dealing with our environmentalhealth, just like we're dealing
with the outside, we're alsohaving to deal with the inside,
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because limitless living saysthat we're not allowing anything
from outside of us, ourenvironment out here, or
anything from inside of us toprevent us from doing what we
need to do to be successful withour disease, with our diabetes,
with our health.
What have you learned aboutyour inner environment during
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your fast?
Go ahead and drop those in thecomments.
Join our community, be a partof this space where we get to
support each other as we moveforward in the limitless living
pathway and we are settingourselves up for metabolic
success.
All right, all right, I love it.
I love it and I'm going to saywhat I say.
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I think it's a thing now on myfasting or my walking show that
I am, that I am.
I love this conversation and Ikeep saying that all of them are
my favorite, but this is one ofmy favorite conversations
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Because this really is the cruxof the push in fasting.
This is what gives fasting itsenergy.
Most of fasting has nothing todo with the physical aspect of
our lives.
A lot of it has to do withwhat's going on up here.
All right, so let's go aheadand let's say hello to community
and see what's going on.
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Let's see when were we.
So Cornelia was saying, saysokay, we talked about A1C, thank
you for putting that once again.
And Gianna is saying I'm back,I'm very happy, doctor, the live
I can recast.
All right, thank you, thank you.
And then Limitless Living Gangis sufficient and doctor is
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super sufficient.
Well, thank you for saying that.
Yes, you are sufficient, youare sufficient, you are not
broken, you are right nowrebuilding and you are
sufficient, you are sufficient,you are not broken, you are
right now rebuilding and you arereorganizing and you are
rebalancing.
Awesome, all right.
So all that we do, y'all, isbased on our Triple E formula.
Oh, let me do one thing beforeI do that Before I do that, we
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said that we were going to takea look at my monitor, so let's
go ahead and do that.
Here's my Dexcom Clarity Report.
Actually, let's do this one.
We haven't done this scene in awhile.
Okay, here's my Dexcom ClarityReport and you'll see there that
my average blood sugar is 104.
I'm in target 96% of the timeand my target is 70 to 180,.
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Right there, my glucosemanagement indicator is 5.8.
So if I were to get an A1C, itwould approximate 5.8.
So I can't call it an A1Cbecause it's a calculated number
, but I would expect that myblood sugar or my A1C would be
around that.
If I go back and this is a14-day if I go back and look at,
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let's say, 30 days, you see 5.7with an average of 100.
And if I do a 90-day average,then you see 137 with a glucose
management indicator of 6.6.
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Let's go ahead and take a lookat the actual graphs that we've
had over the last several days,and so here we are, a little
over 53 hours, and so right now,81.
And you see, for most of theday actually actually let me
switch over to this one a littlebit bigger so for most of the
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day, I've been kind of hangingout in the 60s and 70s.
Uh, earlier this morning wepopped up a little bit up to 100
and that, uh, right, there isprobably toothpaste by the way,
right.
So you'll see that they're up alittle bit and then down, down,
down down.
If I go back 24 hours from here, that would put us at so this
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is 48 hours of fasting.
Sorry, no, 53 hours of fasting.
Here is 33 hours of fasting.
You see, we are still in the A7, a8s and A8s, and then go back
12 hours earlier than that.
That would be a 9-hour markbecause we started fasting right
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about here.
So that's why we are like 53hours now, so starting right
about there.
So we were at 100.
And, as you know, I try to do aone meal a day when I'm not
fasting.
So here let me use my pen.
So this is my one meal for thisday and you'll see what the
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numbers were earlier in that day100s, 121.
And so I ate this meal and theblood sugar went up right there
to about 160s and it came backdown and spiked up again.
So, right here into that nextmorning, 150s.
And then from then on itstarted going down, down, down,
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down, down, down, down.
It started going down, down,down, down, down, down, down,
and let's get rid of this one.
So I started fasting right here.
So I started fasting as thatblood sugar was going down, and
so what you're seeing is justthe continuation of that over
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the last several days.
That is the power of fasting,that is the power of fasting,
that is the power of improvedmetabolism, that's the power of
what we're doing.
And, and so that's one markerof the insulin sensitivity as
I've told someone in the officetoday that sometimes it is
possible after fasting to eatsomething that you could not eat
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before without having a bigspike in blood sugar.
And because you've been fasting, because the body is healing,
you can eat that same thingafter a fast and the blood sugar
doesn't go as high.
Now, that's not to say that youcan now go and just gorge on
that thing, but it just showsyou the power of fasting, gorge
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on that thing, but it just showsyou the power of fasting.
And if we're able to heal thebody, if we're able to get that
body doing better, then we seethose benefits downstream.
And then, of course, as wetalked about weight you'll see
there, my weight up to 260 andthat was when that was a couple
of years ago and then down nowto 185.
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So that is a big change andthat is the power of what we're
doing the power of limitlessliving, the power of fasting,
the power of balanced bites, thepower of 100less living, the
power of fasting, the power ofbalanced bites, the power of a
100-day walk to consistency.
So all of those components cometogether.
It's not just one thing.
All of those things cometogether and they form the
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platform, they form the basisfor everything that we're doing.
So, once again, we educate, weempower and we encourage you to
take charge of health and life,avoid complications, go to the
next level, creating the life wealways wanted.
We educate, we empower, weencourage.
We educate with the shows, weeducate with the blog, we
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educate with the podcast, thethings that we're doing right
now.
We're educating, we empowerwith the tools, the walking, the
fasting, the balance bites, allof those things that we've
learned and all those thingsthat we continue to apply as
we're moving through this space,the limitless living inventory,
as we're walking through thedomains of health, and even now
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in this space, talking about howdo we clean our internal
environment, not just theexternal.
Those are tools.
And then, of course, thisamazing community that you are
part of, that you are continuingto build, that you are helping
to grow, because every time youput something in the chat, every
time you interact, every timeyou share your story, you are
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helping encourage everyone elsethat is in this space.
Because your journey I'm goingto say it again and again and
you're going to get tired of mesaying it your journey, as
imperfect as it is, your journey, as rocky as it is, your
journey, as slow as it is, thatyou don't think it mounts to
anything, is exactly whatsomebody else needs for their
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question.
Mm-hmm, yep, it amounts toanything is exactly what
somebody else needs for theirquestion.
Because they get to see you inyour space.
They get to see you in realtime.
That's why I love this spacebecause we get to talk, we get
to interact, we get to look atreal time information.
So, when I go to the store andI think I did show you guys that
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video right when I go to thestore and I'm walking down the
chocolate aisle becausesomething up here has triggered
me, when you see the spike in myblood sugar right.
I think we showed that lastweek when I went to the store
and had no intentions, nointentions of buying those chips
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, and they were standing rightthere, right, you know they do
it right there next to the, justwhen you're checking out, and
we saw that spike in blood sugar.
So it is a work in progress,but every time you show up,
every time, you make a decisionfor yourself.
Every time you show up, everytime you make a decision for
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yourself, every time that youwork on a part of your internal
environment, you're saying thatI am taking charge, I'm doing
what I need to do to besuccessful, I am important and
you're giving your inner coachso we talked about the inner
critic.
You're giving your inner coach.
So we talked about the innercritic.
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You're giving your inner coachthe ability to support you, to
say give you a rah, rah, rah,because it'll say to you oh, no.
When the inner critic says, oh,you can't do anything, the
coach will say no, no, no.
You remember last week wefasted for six hours.
We fasted for 12 hours.
Our weight went down, our bloodsugars are better.
Every time you show up, that'swhat you're doing.
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And when you do show up, tellyour story.
Be part of the encouragement,be part of the richness that
comes from being in thecommunity.
Tell somebody else, hey, wedon't have to keep having these
metabolic problems, we don'thave to keep putting on weight,
we don't have to stay onmedication.
Oh, look at that one.
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Share that with somebody.
Say, hey, come, let's go watchthis show, or bring them with
you, come watch it together.
As a matter of fact, theplaylists are on the channel.
Get with your family, get withyour friends and say, look,
we're going to walk through thisseries together and walk
through the series and beginimplementing those, because the
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theory that we have only comesto life when you infuse it with
your behavior, with your action.
I'm always excited when I am inthis space with you.
Later tomorrow we'll be backwith our fast as we get into our
72-hour fast.
That will probably be a littleearlier in the day, but we'll
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recast it later.
For those of you who may missit, you can go back and you can
watch it.
We'll be back on Saturday nightfor Video from the Vault,
sunday morning this Week inReview at 6 am Central, and then
on Monday we'll be right backhere as we continue our path
down the limitless livingjourney for Dwayne Wood, md Live
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Thank you for being here.
Thank you for hanging out withus.
I'll talk with the communitymembers after the show here.
We'll put that link in just aminute.
If you've not joined ourcommunity yet, you got to do it.
You got to do it.
We are having a vibrantcommunity that's growing as we
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Thank you for being here.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood, that'sWood with an E.
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The E stands for endocrinology.
Here I educate, I empower and Iencourage you to take charge of
your health and your life.
Avoid complications and go tothe next level.
To take charge of your healthand your life, avoid
complications and go to the nextlevel.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted, and Limitless
Living says I'm not allowinganything from outside or
anything from inside to preventme from doing what I need to do.
I am presenting my best self,my best health and my best plans
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for my life.
Good night everybody.
We'll see you at the nextepisode.
Bye-bye.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood.
That's Wood with an E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here, on the channel, I educate, I empower and I encourage you
to take charge of your health,take charge of your life, avoid
complications and go to the nextlevel, creating the life you
always wanted.
Thank you.
And welcome back to our check-in, for today.
We are 53 hours into the fastand this is a beautiful point in
the journey.
You are beyond the noise thatcame early in the hunger came
early in the fast.
The body is shifting gears intodeep fat burning and now you
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have the space to notice what'sgoing on on the inside.
Earlier this week we talkedabout the environmental domain,
that is, the environmentalhealth.
The air we breathe, the clutteraround us, the scenes we're
exposed to the screens, thetoxins, all those things that
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are around us.
But today I want to take sometime to spend some time and turn
the lens inward, because here'sthe truth your inner
environment is just as important, just as powerful, if not more
powerful, in shaping your health, your metabolism and your
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ability to sustain the fast.
That's right.
So tonight we're going toexplore what I call the internal
detox, not just a physicalprocess, but an emotional and a
mental one as well.
If you're new to me, I'm DrDwayne Wood, that's Wood with an
E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here, on the channel, I educate, I empower and I encourage you
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to take charge of your health,your life, avoid complications
and go to the next level.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted, so we are working
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on our metabolism.
That is the platform for thechronic diseases that we see
around the country and aroundthe world.
There are over 1 billion peopleon the planet at this very
moment that have diabetes, type2, or pre-diabetes, and our goal
is to do the best that we canfor ourselves and those around
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us so that we can beginreversing that disease diabetes.
Now, if we think about diabetesalong the spectrum, though, are
all of those disease processesthat we hear about when we talk
about chronic disease High bloodpressure, high cholesterol,
fatty liver, polycystic ovariansyndrome, and on and on and on.
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So if we can do something tomanage our diabetes, to reverse
our diabetes, then it expands toall the other diseases.
Isn't that amazing?
And all this time we havethought that they were all
separate, but they are justdiseases along the spectrum, and
so our goal is to work toimprove that, to get you off of
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medications, to help you withyour weight, to help you with
your blood sugars, with yourblood pressure, with your
cholesterol, and on and on andon, and that's the space that
you find us in right now.
On a weekly basis.
We do our show on Monday, whichis a walkthrough.
It is a path called LimitlessLiving that is showing us the
things that we need to do to besuccessful in this journey.
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And then on Wednesday, thursdayand Friday you caught us today,
on a Thursday we are doing ashow where we're talking about
the tools that we are learningand how do we apply those to be
able to do the things that wetalk about on the journey.
And one of the most powerfultools that we're using is the
tool of fasting.
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And so on a weekly basis, we doa 72-hour fast here on the show
and we come on and we arechecking in so that you can see
in real time what's happening tomy blood sugars, what's
happening to my numbers andwhat's happening to my weight,
for that matter, as we movethrough this pathway, so that
you can see that we can all doit together, and that is so
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exciting to me.
So we are doing the fasting.
The other thing, the othercomponent of this, is the
physical activity that we aredoing.
So, if you've not already doneso, if you've not joined us yet,
on our walk, so every morningat 6 o'clock, we are doing our
100-day walk to consistency, andwe're on day number 93 today,
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right of the 100 days, and weare continuing through that
process.
But we're not stopping therebecause we have our new series
that's coming up, starting herein just a little week or so.
As we end this current seriesand we are talking about
strength, strategy and mindsetwhat do we need to do to
continue putting ourselves inthe best position to improve our
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health?
So, once again, if you've notbeen over to the channel yet,
we've got our 100-day walk toconsistency.
That's there.
Even if you are joining us nowfor the first time, it is not
too late.
You can join, you can go backand you can start from day one.
I'm going to tell you, a lot ofpeople were there.
They said man, dave, we'regoing to do 100 days.
That's right, 100 days.
And here we are, 93 days later.
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And if you've been consistent,you have learned, you've
expanded, you have grown and weare doing all the things that
are possible to help us in ourmetabolism.
So the fasting is addressing thepillars of diabetes, remember
decreasing insulin, suppressingthe appetite and reducing sugar.
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Those are three pillars.
The activity that we're doing,the walking, the exercising,
whether you're doing rowing orswimming, or whether you're
doing lifting right, you'redoing some strength training.
That is also decreasing insulin, suppressing appetite, and it
also is reducing sugar.
So notice the theme that all ofthose tools are doing that.
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And then also our balancedbites, remember whole foods,
minimized processing, no addedsugar, lean protein, healthy
fats, starchy, non-starchyvegetables, appropriate portion
size and something that's tasty.
That is the list of things thatwe're looking for when we're
looking at the food.
So this space is rounding outall of those things together so
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that we can be successful in ourmetabolism, getting our
metabolism right, because,remember, dysfunctional
metabolism is what is causingour problem.
All right, so that gives you abackdrop of where we are.
I'm glad that you're here,whatever platform you find
yourselves on, with LinkedIn,twitch, instagram, of course,
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youtube, and then on Facebook aswell.
So welcome, welcome to all ofyou that are out there watching
us right now.
So let's go ahead and let's takea look at blood sugars.
We want to take a look at someof the numbers.
Let's get that out of the wayand you'll see.
Let's grab this on the screen.
That is what my blood sugar iscurrently.
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I'm looking at this numberright here, the little squiggly
number right about there.
You'll see, right there there'sa break.
That's when my sensor went outand so I had to change the
sensor and you'll see, in theearlier part of the day we were
below the line, we were red, andthen at the end of the day,
right about 90 is what we areright now.
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Let's go ahead and I'm going topop over and take a look at my
Dexcom, and on the Dexcom weactually can do I can put my
finger and you can actually seethe numbers what's been going on
over the course of today.
And you see, we've been kind ofhanging out in the 70s, 80s,
70s, 80s, 70s, 80s I think wedipped below 60 there a little
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bit in the late afternoon, andthen now 80s, 80s.
We're 83 right now.
So that's beautiful, I lovethat.
Okay, then let's hop over andlet's take a look at.
Let me pull this one up first,let me grab.
What I want to take a look atis my fit index, so we can take
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a look at what my weight's beendoing.
Let's go back there and so yousee there, 185.
I think when we did ityesterday I was right at 187.
We'll pull that up in a minute.
Actually, why don't I do thatnow so we can get the exact
number.
Actually, 186, I think.
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Yeah, I think I said 187.
But well, yeah, so let's dothat.
186.
I took a picture of that.
Here we are, here we go.
So 186 is what we were, andthat was yesterday, yesterday,
186.
And then, of course, where weare right now 185.2.
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So one pound, right.
So one pound over the course ofthe last day.
And so we are working not justfor diabetes, right?
So we're working on that.
We're not just working forblood pressure, we're working on
that.
We're not just working forfatty liver and cholesterol, but
we're also working on weightloss.
So, remember, last night wetalked about fat burning and
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that's what you're seeing thereas we're moving through the
fasting space.
Awesome, all right, so let's goahead.
So that's my number.
Let's take a look at bloodsugars, and so for that, we're
going to turn over here andlet's see, let's get this thing.
Yeah, there we go.
For that, we're going to turnit over to my monitors.
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And I've got a Keto-Mojo and Ihave the contour right here.
So let's go ahead and grab somestrips Brown for blood sugar,
blue for ketones, and then let'sgrab a strip for the contour,
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and then let's grab a strip forthe contour.
And, oh, look at this, y'all, Iam down to the look at that.
I'm down to the lancet I don'tlike.
Let's see what that shows.
If anything, I'll have to getoff screen from it and grab one
of the other ones.
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So the reason I don't like thisone is because it doesn't allow
me to do the pressure that Ineed, because my fingers have
gotten a bit calloused and so Ineed a little bit more pressure
to get down where I can get someblood.
I get a drop of blood, butwe'll see what this one does,
and I think, to just be safe,I'm going to use a different
finger than I normally use.
But let's go ahead and open upthese strips.
We're going to get that onethere, open up this one and
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let's go ahead and put that in.
And these are the blood sugarstrips.
So let's go ahead.
I'm going to use a differentfinger, because I think if I use
this one, it won't get anythingbecause it's very calloused and
harder than the other skin.
So let's see what we got here.
Okay, all right.
So you heard the click.
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Oh, look at that, that was apretty brisk, pretty brisk flow.
So see, that's what happenswhen you get one of those
fingers that is not as used asthe other.
So 68 is what the Keto Mojosays and 74 is what the Contour
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says.
Let's go ahead and let's getthe test strip in for ketones
and let's see what that oneshows.
And Look at that.
I didn't even have to do anymore coaxing for that to come
through.
Let's take a look at what thatis right now.
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Look at that.
1.7 is where it says I am.
I am a little over 53 hours nowin the fast.
When we did our show yesterday,by the way, I said I was at 29
hours, but I was actually at 33hours and so I miscalculated
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what that was.
So right now, 1.7.
We'll come back and we'll talkabout that.
Somebody remind me if I don'tcome back to talk about ketones.
Somebody remind me to do thatso we can discuss that a little
later, okay, so just somebodyout there.
Just keep me honest there, allright.
So let's hop over and let's sayhello to some of our community
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members, and I see some folksthat are out there.
Let's see who we've got.
So it looks like Gian is outthere.
Hey, gian.
She says hi, doctor, hey,welcome, thank you for being
with us.
And Gian is saying hi,limitless Living Group, llg,
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cornelia, hi, dr Gian and LLG, Ilove it, love it, love it Quick
.
Say hello you all.
I will come again from Buddhaclass.
Sorry, dr who is in amazing53-hour fast, oh yeah.
So, gian, she has a class thatshe's going to run to and then
come back and join us.
Cornelia, I will come again.
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Okay, gian, enjoy your class.
Cess, what's up, girl?
I haven't seen you in a minute.
So, hello, let's give her ahand clap and some music.
And then, of course, steve issaying hello, hello, hello
ladies, thank you for comingthrough and hanging out with us.
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Let's go ahead and do mycheck-in about the fast.
And so, whenever we're doingany evaluation, whenever we're
actually whenever we're doinganything that we want to
implement a change, it's veryimportant to make sure that you
are evaluating, to make surethat the benefits that you
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expect are what you're seeing.
And so there are three areaswhere people tend to have
difficulty when it comes tofasting, and it's how they feel
physically, how they feelmentally and how they feel
emotionally, and so I want tospend some time talking through
that.
Physically, it is a matter ofenergy, and so people will say
that they feel as though theirenergy is low.
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They feel as though they aresluggish, they hit a wall,
they're going through the dayand all of a sudden, everything
kind of shuts down.
So those are kind of thephrases that they use.
Also, other than energy, howthey feel like though their
heart's racing, skipping a beat.
They feel lightheaded, dizzy,sweaty.
All of those are things thatpeople will talk about.
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Right now I'm not feeling anyof those.
I have been doing a good job ofresting and a lot of the energy
things that people feel has todo with rest.
It has to do with how theyprepared to get into the fast or
even in the fast.
If there are issues going on,if they are highly stressed, if
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they are not doing a good job ofresting during the fast, then
that can cause fatigue as well,and that can cause fatigue as
well.
The other symptomslightheadedness, dizziness,
feeling like your heart's racingoften will come from hydration.
If they're not doing a good jobof hydrating, then that will
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show up as those symptoms.
So, because I've been doing agood job of resting, because
I've been doing a good job ofhydrating, I am not currently
feeling those symptoms andactually feeling pretty
energetic.
When it comes to our mentalhealth and how we feel mentally
during a fast, the phrases thatpeople use here, or the things
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that they would say, is I feelas though I'm in a fog, my
thoughts are not clear, they'rejumbled, I feel fuzzy headed.
Those are things that oftenwill come based on how they are
feeling physically Because, asyou know, if you're not rested,
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if you're tired, if you'refatigued, then your thought
process is not as clear, yourresponse time is lower and you
tend to have a little bit moredifficulty getting things done
or thinking, even sometimesgrasping for words.
Right now actually feelingpretty good once again because I
have been doing a good job ofresting and hydrating.
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I have been doing a good job ofresting and hydrating and then,
emotionally, I'm excitedbecause I've got some fun stuff
that's getting ready to happenover the next couple of days.
I've been in this space withyou talking about the
environment, talking about ourhealth, talking about reversing
diabetes.
My weight's going down, bloodsugars are improved, so I am
actually feeling elated rightnow.
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One of the benefits of fasting,by the way, is some of the
feelings that you hear me sayingthat I am right now, because
I'm at the 53, getting ready tobe 54 hour mark.
I'm well into ketosis, as yousaw from my monitor hour mark.
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I'm well into ketosis, as yousaw from my monitor.
Well into ketosis, I see theblood sugars that are
fluctuating, right, because theywere below 100, and then they
popped up above 100, they werebelow 70 as we went through the
fast and popped up a little bitabove 70.
And people will ask all thetime, well, why is that
happening?
Why is your blood sugar notcontinuing to go down?
Well, remember, as the bodyburns fat, it also has the
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ability from that fat to createsugar.
Right, that glycerol, part ofthe triglycerides that we talk
about, that can be turnedreadily into sugar.
And so my body is burning fatbecause, right, blood sugars
have gone down, and so thattells me that my glycogen is
going away.
When it becomes low, that says,hey, my glycogen is pretty much
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gone, and we talked about thatlast night when we did our 29 33
hour check-in.
So that's, that's beyond.
We are beyond that point now,and so as I see those blood
sugars starting to climb alittle bit and just play right
around that 70 mark, I'm excitedbecause that means that now I'm
accessing fat right.
So yesterday we talked abouthow to trust that the process is
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happening, even though we maynot see some of those results.
Well, one of the things that Ido is I monitor, and so I can
see those changes in my body.
So, anyway, so that's ourcheck-in physically, mentally
and emotionally feeling prettygood.
Let's hop into our conversation.
But before I do that, I do seea comment that I want to get to,
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and so Steve was saying hello,and so Steve was saying hello,
cornelia was saying hi, and Sethsays hemoglobin A1C7,.
I'm trying my best, dr Wood,you are an inspiration.
Well, thank you, thank you,thank you, thank you for saying
that.
Give you some music.
Really appreciate that.
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So, for everyone and I'm goingto just pick on that comment
right there that is the virtue,that is the benefit, that is the
power of community that we allget in this space in real time
to talk to each other and sharewhere we are, share our journey,
what challenges we may behaving.
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You know, to have someone, uh,come along and say man, you are
an inspiration to me.
Now one of the things.
And, cornelia, I'm going topick on you for a minute and one
of the things that Corneliasent to us in one of the
comments and thank you forsaying that she reiterated one
of the things that we weretalking about in one of the
episodes of the 100-Day walk toconsistency, and that is this
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that your journey, as flawed asit is, as imperfect as it is, as
rocky as it is, your journeythrough limitless living, is
exactly the answer for somebodyelse's question.
Come on y'all, that's the powerof community.
So thank you for dropping thatin the comment, cess, and we
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applaud you for trying.
We are changing our word,though, from trying to doing.
Remember, we are the people whoare controlling our A1C, we are
the people who are takingcharge of our lives.
We are the people who are doingthe things exactly like you
want to do, and I'm very proudof you for the journey that you
are on and the fact that you arehere with us.
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All right, so let's go ahead,let's hop over, and well, not
hop over, let's talk.
Let's start our conversationabout our topic tonight, and we
are talking about let me do onething here really quickly,
awesome.
So what we're talking about isand you guys saw the, you saw
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the flyer.
We're talking about your innerenvironment, detoxing your
thoughts, detoxing the toxinsfrom inside and detoxing the
triggers.
So here at 53 Hours, we arewell into the depth of fasting.
We're well into all the thingsthat we talk about as the
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benefits of fasting.
So the fat burning, the insulinsensitivity, the improvement in
our insulin, so lowering ourinsulin, the issues that we have
with our metabolism are beingreversed as we're going through
the process.
So now, beyond that, beyond thenoise, beyond the things that we
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talked about when we talkedabout the environment, what is
going on in our journey andwhere are those places where we
can continue to be successful?
So you're beyond the noise now.
You're beyond the hunger.
You're beyond the shifts in thebody's ability to go from
carbohydrates to burning fat, inthe body's ability to go from
carbohydrates to burning fat.
And now, this space that you'rein, you begin to notice some
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things, as I mentioned before,that when we are fasting, what's
happening is that the fastingis stripping away from us those
buffering behaviors, thosehang-ups, those crutches that
we've been using when you'refasting.
And the reason I say that ismany of us use food as the
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crutch, use food as thebuffering behavior.
So when we're fasting, we nolonger have that, and so it
begins to expose those placeswhere we've got to pay attention
.
Now, earlier this week, wetalked about the environment.
Right, we talked about thosetypical things your air, the air
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we breathe, the clutter aroundus.
We talked about our exposure tocertain toxins in our
environment, our exposure tocertain toxins in our
environment.
But fasting fasting is veryimportant because fasting is a
detox.
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It's a detox but it's not justphysical.
When we fast, we areessentially working, yall
without a net, and when we areworking without the net, we get
to see not just the physicalthings that are happening, not
just the fact that my weight'sgoing down, not just the fact
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that my blood sugar is improvingand my a1c is improving, but we
get to see the things thatactually push our buttons that
we normally don't notice,because as soon as our button is
pushed, we grab a chocolate bar.
As soon as we become stressed,we eat a piece of chicken.
As soon as something disruptsour routine, we go to food to
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soothe us, to comfort us.
So fasting is an inner detox,not just a physical process, but
it's an emotional and a mentalone as well.
So, understanding your innerenvironment.
Let's understand our innerenvironment.
Just like our homes can becomecluttered, so our minds become
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cluttered as well.
Think of your internalenvironment as the atmosphere
inside you, right?
So think of yourself walkingaround inside your body.
Your thoughts, your beliefs,your emotions and even your
inner dialogue are the thingsthat you run into as you're
moving around that environment.
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And often that environment iscluttered when you're fasting,
especially at this stage, 53hours.
A lot of that internal cluttercomes to the surface.
This is the moment when claritybegins, because we've talked
about the fact that your body isburning fat and is producing
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beta-hydroxybutyrate, which isthe thing that the brain loves
because it helps us to be clear.
So, not just physiologically,but psychologically as well,
that begins to happen here.
So what thoughts have beenrising up during the fast?
During this fast, whatemotional clutter is coming
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forward?
What are the things that we'reseeing?
And as you're moving throughthe fast, a lot of us, those
first several hours, in thefirst 24 hours, we're feeling
that hunger.
We're feeling this shiftbetween carbohydrates and fat.
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We felt that already it's gone,it's behind us, and now the
body is filling us full of thoseproteins or not proteins, but
that fat that is being brokendown and converted to energy.
So what are the hidden toxinsthat we carry?
What are the hidden toxins thatwe carry in our body?
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Well, emotional toxins are someof them.
So we have self-doubt, right.
Am I good enough for whateverspace I'm in?
Remember the things that arepushing us habits, emotions,
access and taste, the heat model.
Am I good enough to be here?
Should I be here?
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Am I qualified man?
I should have started thatbusiness man.
I should have started thatbusiness man.
I can't start that business.
I can't write the book.
I can't lose weight.
I can't get a good A1C.
I can't improve my blood sugar.
Man, I've tried that before.
It didn't work for me.
Nothing ever works out for me.
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Those emotional toxins how aboutguilt man?
If I didn't do that, if Ididn't make those decisions
years ago, I wouldn't have hadthat heart attack, I wouldn't
have had that stroke.
Man, look at what's happened tomy joints, look at how my
health has deteriorated.
We feel guilt, we feel shame,because a lot of our society, a
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lot of our community, hasconvinced us that it's all your
fault.
If you were strong enough, ifyou had internal fortitude, if
you just had enoughself-discipline, self-control,
then you wouldn't be in thatstate that you're in.
All of that's going on, not tomention the things that we have
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brought with us from the past.
That may have nothing to dowith our food, but we're using
food to soothe those, the memory, that trauma that we've had,
the desertion that we felt, theshame, the berating, all of
those things that come with usthat we don't sometimes deal
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with.
How about cognitive toxins?
Cognitive toxins?
So limiting beliefs like I'llnever succeed.
This always fails.
I never complete anything.
I keep trying these weights,weight management programs, I
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keep going on these diets.
I'm going to be like thisforever.
I can't reverse my diabetes.
I can't get off of thesemedications.
I can't exercise.
Reverse my diabetes.
I can't get off of thesemedications.
I can't exercise.
So fasting acts like a filterand it removes those layers that
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keeps us from noticing how muchtoxicity we carry around inside
.
So fasting wipes it away.
At 53 hours your body is doingthe physical detox.
But now is the time to ask whatneeds to detox from my thoughts
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, not just my liver, not justthe fat cells, not just the
insulin, but what do I need todetox for them on the inside?
Because sometimes we don't gothere.
So we always want to be takingtime, just like we're talking
about physical, mental,emotional, right those domains
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as we're walking through thatmini series right now.
We want to take time.
We want to take one limitedbelief at a time that you have
been talking about, one negativethought that we have.
We want to take those and wewant to face those so we can
begin cleaning out.
Just like we're cleaning ourenvironment here, we want to
begin cleaning out in herebecause it affects how we are
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able to fast going to begincleaning out in here because it
affects how we are able to fast.
I was saying to one of ourmedical students just today that
it does not matter how much ofthose GLP medications I put you
on right and they are phenomenalmedications.
As a matter of fact, we havepeople.
Here's an interesting thing 'san interesting point never in my
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history of managing metabolicdisease, of treating people with
medication for metabolicdisease, of treating people with
medication for weight becausewe were treating weight for a
long time have I had people cometo me and say you know what,
doc, I've lost enough weight,can you take me off of this
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medication?
And finally we're there.
We have people coming into theoffice and say hey, can you take
me off of Ozempic?
Can you take me off of MonjaroBecause I've lost too much
weight?
Can we decrease the dose?
So these are phenomenalmedications that are working.
But it doesn't matter how muchmedication I put you on, if we
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don't deal with the internalthings that are causing the
issue in the first place, thenour emotions will blow right
through the medication.
And so, just as we are talkingabout fasting, just as we are
talking about the tools thatwe're using in this space, we've
got to begin dealing with theinternal toxins.
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So why do we get discouraged?
Why do we get discouraged?
And we talked a little bitabout this in our last episode
but within us, there are twosets of thoughts, and I call
them the inner coach and theinner critic.
The inner coach and the innercritic, and the inner critic is
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constantly there to remind us ofthe places where we've fallen
down, the places that we haven'tsucceeded, the places where we
didn't quite make it, the placeswhere we started something but
we didn't get to the end, thetimes when we kept saying that
we were going to do somethingbut we didn't do it.
That's what the inner criticdoes.
And so we've become so attunedto listening to the inner critic
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that we continually are feedingourselves a set of negative
thoughts that continue todiscourage us, whatever the
thought may be.
And there are lots of thingsthat we could think.
We often assume that progressshould be linear.
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But let me show you.
Let me show you.
Let's go back and let's take alook at and here is my weight,
here's my weight.
Let's go back and let's take alook at weight, and one of the
one of the things that I wantyou to understand is that it is
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not a linear process.
It is not a linear process.
There are ups and there aredowns, and so here is my weight
over the last.
Well, we'll say years, right,so we're going to go back all
the way.
This is now going back fiveyears.
Going'll say years, right, sowe're going to go back all the
way.
This is now going back fiveyears.
Going back five years.
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And let's find in this graphthe highest point on this that
I've been tracking in this appis 260 pounds.
Prior to that, and that's notrecorded here.
Right Over here, somewhere itwas 287.
287.
And I want you to see thetrajectory, I want you to see
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the trend Right.
So, weight going up, going up,hit 260 pounds, and then we went
down, went down, look at that.
Went down here.
Went back up, went down, wentup, went down, down, down, down,
down, down look at that.
Went down here, went back up,went down, went up, went down,
down, down, down, down, down,down, down, went up, up, up, up,
up, up.
Okay, and what I want you tonotice is that, despite the fact
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that there were those ups anddowns, the general trend was in
going downward, and so sometimeswe miss that.
So if you compare 260 back fiveyears ago and now, what was it,
I don't know, 187, 186, I think, yeah, 185.
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Right, the general trend isdownward.
But if I had looked at thatfive years ago, four years ago,
I could have become discouragedbecause I didn't see that trend
going in the direction I want.
But I want to convince youagain, just like we said in our
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previous show, that even thoughyou may not see big changes, it
is happening.
Your body is doing it, yes,okay.
So also, why we get discouraged?
We get discouraged because ourmindset shifts are cyclical.
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So we have something thathappens and we get inspired, we
get motivated and thenmotivation wanes.
So motivation, motivation.
I love motivation.
I love the fact that people getpumped up.
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As a matter of fact, some ofyou, after you watch this show,
while you're watching this show,you're in there, you're like
man, let's do this, let's dothis, and something is going to
happen and the motivation isgoing to wane and we're going to
get discouraged.
So I want you to say, yes, I'mmotivated, yes, I'm inspired,
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but there is something else thatyou've got to do.
You've got to put something inplace, some structure that helps
you to keep going whenmotivation goes away.
So discouragement usually setsin when the scale doesn't move
fast enough.
Yep, raise my hand.
Discourage sets in when we feeltired and irritable when we're
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fasting.
I've had somebody in my teamtell me hey, are you okay?
As a matter of fact, I wasasking well, somebody asked me,
said do you feel irritable whenyou're fasting?
And I said to them because Iexpected what the answer was
going to be I said do you thinkI get irritable when I'm fasting
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?
And they say, yeah, sometimeswe compare ourselves to other
people.
Man, look at Cornelia, look atCess, look at Steve, look at
Gian.
They're having such goodsuccess.
Why can't I have that success?
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We compare ourselves.
We compare ourselves to socialmedia.
Because I'm going to tell you,when I look at some people on
social media, I'm like man, howmuch time do I have to spend in
the gym to look like that?
But at 53 hours in, this isproof that your body works
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Because you're still here.
I'm still here.
You've seen the blood sugars.
I'm still here.
You've seen the blood sugars.
Discouragement in this stage isnot a signal to quit.
It is a sign.
It is a sign to go deeper.
You're not behind.
You are in process.
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You are in the process of doingwhat you need to do.
Healing doesn't always feellike victory.
It often feels like.
Sometimes it feels almost likewe're surrendering right,
because it's not quite going theway we want.
We didn't quite see all thechanges.
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As I said before, I encourageeveryone who's watching me if
you're working on your weight,if you're working on your
metabolism, get some devices,like I do, and track what's
going on in your body.
Get a scale.
I know we don't like to get onthe scale.
Everybody's like that numberdepresses me.
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I hear that all the time.
But it is a way for you totrack the number on that scale
does not define who you are.
And so how do we detox sometriggers?
So how do we detox sometriggers?
So triggers are like allergensthat are in your internal
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environment Small things thatcause big reactions.
Somebody says something to youand you respond in such a
forceful way that's out ofproportion to what just happened
.
That is a trigger.
Something happens in yourenvironment and you are sitting
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now down at night eating agallon of ice cream, eating a
dozen donuts, buying 18 Cadburychocolate bars.
That's a trigger.
So fasting allows you toobserve without reacting Because
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you can't eat.
You may notice that you're lessreactive, or you may be more
irritable.
Either way, it's a feedbackLike man.
Look at that.
Every time that happens, Ididn't realize.
Every time that happens, I wasfeeling like I wanted to go eat
(40:32):
something.
But now you see it or somethinghappens and you're like man.
I didn't react to that like Inormally would react.
Emotional triggers can includestressful conversations.
They can include the urge tosnack after conflict Tiredness
(40:58):
leading to sugar cravings,boredom, procrastination,
boredom, procrastination.
What are your top threeemotional triggers?
They usually come in fourdifferent areas habits, emotions
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, access and taste, which areyours.
And then let's talk a littlebit about some air purifiers.
Air purifiers are those thingsthat clean the air around us.
So what are some of the thingsthat purify the air within us?
Stillness?
Somebody asked me today where'smy happy place, and I've shared
(41:43):
with you before my happy placeis St Simon's Island, off the
coast of Georgia, right betweenGeorgia and Florida.
We went there years ago andwhenever I need to get away in
my mind, whenever I need to getaway from the situation, even
while I'm sometimes in thesituation in my head, I'm over
there Because it's my quietplace, it's my still place.
(42:09):
Some people use prayer,journaling, deep breathing,
mindfulness Air purifiers.
They are cleaning, they aredetoxing, they are cleaning the
inner environment.
Fasting gives you an openwindow to let the toxin air come
(42:32):
out, because usually we are soquick to grab things that buffer
food that we never allow ourbrain, our mind and we never
allow our hearts to see and feelthose emotions, because as soon
(42:55):
as they come, we grab somethingand it soothes it.
As soon as it comes, we go eatsomething and it says it calms
us.
As soon as we feel like it'scoming up, we're like oh, I
don't like that.
So we never allow it to bubbleup.
We never allow ourselves toconfront it, we never allow
ourselves to deal with it.
So, at 53 hours, at this point,you're not just surviving the
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fast, you're learning how tolive, how to clean out the fast,
you're learning how to live,how to clean out the inside, how
to be cleaner mentally,physically, emotionally.
(43:41):
At 53 hours, what practices doyou have in place that helps to
clean your insides?
What are some of your airpurifiers?
Is it writing, walking, praying?
What have you been doing?
What can you do to clean outthe air on the inside?
Because, once again, it doesn'tmatter what we give you in
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terms of medication.
If we are not cleaning out thetoxins, if we're not dealing
with our inner environment, thenwe are at a loss.
So how do we reclaim ourinternal space?
This part of the fast is aboutreclaiming that space in your
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body.
This used to be occupied byfear.
It used to be occupied by food,with obsessions, with emotional
eating, and so we clear thisout.
We reclaim it by reframing.
Instead of thinking I can't eat, we begin thinking I'm creating
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space, I'm cleaning the space.
This is the invitation of the53-hour fast.
This is the invitation of thefast itself To detox, not just
physically but mentally andemotionally, and to begin
trusting your whole self again.
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Ah right, see how that allcomes back together.
That harkens back to ourepisode where we talked about
trusting your body.
Harkens back to our episodewhere we talked about the fact
that you should trust theprocess, to our episode where we
talked about the fact that youshould trust the process.
At 53 hours, your body istelling you right now look at me
(45:36):
, I'm here.
Many people didn't think theycould fast for 53 hours.
They didn't think they can fastfor 24 hours.
Whatever the number of hoursyou're at, your body's sending
you a signal that says look,we're still here.
What part of your innerenvironment do you need to clean
the most?
Where do you have to spendattention?
Where do you have to spend timeWithout any judgment?
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There's no judgment.
It is simply taking an honestlook and saying what are those
things that are going on insidethat I need to look at?
The Limitless Living Inventoryis a way of looking at all of
that.
It provides awareness andyou've heard me say several
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times over the last severalshows you are not broken, you
are sufficient, just like youare, as imperfect as you are, as
confused as you may be justlike you are you are sufficient.
(46:45):
Right now you're rebuilding.
Sufficient Right now you'rerebuilding, you are reorganizing
, you are becoming resilient,you're becoming consistent,
you're becoming self-confidentand tonight, at 53 hours into
this fast, that's proof thathealing is happening on the
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inside and on the outside.
So we trust that the process isgoing on.
And just like we're cleaningour external environment, just
like we are dealing with ourexternal health, as we're
dealing with our environmentalhealth, just like we're dealing
with the outside, we're alsohaving to deal with the inside,
(47:32):
because limitless living saysthat we're not allowing anything
from outside of us, ourenvironment out here, or
anything from inside of us toprevent us from doing what we
need to do to be successful withour disease, with our diabetes,
with our health.
What have you learned aboutyour inner environment during
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your fast?
Go ahead and drop those in thecomments.
Join our community, be a partof this space where we get to
support each other as we moveforward in the limitless living
pathway and we are settingourselves up for metabolic
success.
All right, all right, I love it.
I love it and I'm going to saywhat I say.
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I think it's a thing now on myfasting or my walking show that
I am, that I am.
I love this conversation and Ikeep saying that all of them are
my favorite, but this is one ofmy favorite conversations
(48:40):
Because this really is the cruxof the push in fasting.
This is what gives fasting itsenergy.
Most of fasting has nothing todo with the physical aspect of
our lives.
A lot of it has to do withwhat's going on up here.
All right, so let's go aheadand let's say hello to community
and see what's going on.
(49:00):
Let's see when were we.
So Cornelia was saying, saysokay, we talked about A1C, thank
you for putting that once again.
And Gianna is saying I'm back,I'm very happy, doctor, the live
I can recast.
All right, thank you, thank you.
And then Limitless Living Gangis sufficient and doctor is
(49:23):
super sufficient.
Well, thank you for saying that.
Yes, you are sufficient, youare sufficient, you are not
broken, you are right nowrebuilding and you are
sufficient, you are sufficient,you are not broken, you are
right now rebuilding and you arereorganizing and you are
rebalancing.
Awesome, all right.
So all that we do, y'all, isbased on our Triple E formula.
Oh, let me do one thing beforeI do that Before I do that, we
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said that we were going to takea look at my monitor, so let's
go ahead and do that.
Here's my Dexcom Clarity Report.
Actually, let's do this one.
We haven't done this scene in awhile.
Okay, here's my Dexcom ClarityReport and you'll see there that
my average blood sugar is 104.
I'm in target 96% of the timeand my target is 70 to 180,.
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Right there, my glucosemanagement indicator is 5.8.
So if I were to get an A1C, itwould approximate 5.8.
So I can't call it an A1Cbecause it's a calculated number
, but I would expect that myblood sugar or my A1C would be
around that.
If I go back and this is a14-day if I go back and look at,
(50:31):
let's say, 30 days, you see 5.7with an average of 100.
And if I do a 90-day average,then you see 137 with a glucose
management indicator of 6.6.
(50:52):
Let's go ahead and take a lookat the actual graphs that we've
had over the last several days,and so here we are, a little
over 53 hours, and so right now,81.
And you see, for most of theday actually actually let me
switch over to this one a littlebit bigger so for most of the
(51:13):
day, I've been kind of hangingout in the 60s and 70s.
Uh, earlier this morning wepopped up a little bit up to 100
and that, uh, right, there isprobably toothpaste by the way,
right.
So you'll see that they're up alittle bit and then down, down,
down down.
If I go back 24 hours from here, that would put us at so this
(51:38):
is 48 hours of fasting.
Sorry, no, 53 hours of fasting.
Here is 33 hours of fasting.
You see, we are still in the A7, a8s and A8s, and then go back
12 hours earlier than that.
That would be a 9-hour markbecause we started fasting right
(52:00):
about here.
So that's why we are like 53hours now, so starting right
about there.
So we were at 100.
And, as you know, I try to do aone meal a day when I'm not
fasting.
So here let me use my pen.
So this is my one meal for thisday and you'll see what the
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numbers were earlier in that day100s, 121.
And so I ate this meal and theblood sugar went up right there
to about 160s and it came backdown and spiked up again.
So, right here into that nextmorning, 150s.
And then from then on itstarted going down, down, down,
(52:47):
down, down, down, down.
It started going down, down,down, down, down, down, down,
and let's get rid of this one.
So I started fasting right here.
So I started fasting as thatblood sugar was going down, and
so what you're seeing is justthe continuation of that over
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the last several days.
That is the power of fasting,that is the power of fasting,
that is the power of improvedmetabolism, that's the power of
what we're doing.
And, and so that's one markerof the insulin sensitivity as
I've told someone in the officetoday that sometimes it is
possible after fasting to eatsomething that you could not eat
(53:32):
before without having a bigspike in blood sugar.
And because you've been fasting, because the body is healing,
you can eat that same thingafter a fast and the blood sugar
doesn't go as high.
Now, that's not to say that youcan now go and just gorge on
that thing, but it just showsyou the power of fasting, gorge
(53:53):
on that thing, but it just showsyou the power of fasting.
And if we're able to heal thebody, if we're able to get that
body doing better, then we seethose benefits downstream.
And then, of course, as wetalked about weight you'll see
there, my weight up to 260 andthat was when that was a couple
of years ago and then down nowto 185.
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So that is a big change andthat is the power of what we're
doing the power of limitlessliving, the power of fasting,
the power of balanced bites, thepower of 100less living, the
power of fasting, the power ofbalanced bites, the power of a
100-day walk to consistency.
So all of those components cometogether.
It's not just one thing.
All of those things cometogether and they form the
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platform, they form the basisfor everything that we're doing.
So, once again, we educate, weempower and we encourage you to
take charge of health and life,avoid complications, go to the
next level, creating the life wealways wanted.
We educate, we empower, weencourage.
We educate with the shows, weeducate with the blog, we
(55:03):
educate with the podcast, thethings that we're doing right
now.
We're educating, we empowerwith the tools, the walking, the
fasting, the balance bites, allof those things that we've
learned and all those thingsthat we continue to apply as
we're moving through this space,the limitless living inventory,
as we're walking through thedomains of health, and even now
(55:24):
in this space, talking about howdo we clean our internal
environment, not just theexternal.
Those are tools.
And then, of course, thisamazing community that you are
part of, that you are continuingto build, that you are helping
to grow, because every time youput something in the chat, every
time you interact, every timeyou share your story, you are
(55:46):
helping encourage everyone elsethat is in this space.
Because your journey I'm goingto say it again and again and
you're going to get tired of mesaying it your journey, as
imperfect as it is, your journey, as rocky as it is, your
journey, as slow as it is, thatyou don't think it mounts to
anything, is exactly whatsomebody else needs for their
(56:09):
question.
Mm-hmm, yep, it amounts toanything is exactly what
somebody else needs for theirquestion.
Because they get to see you inyour space.
They get to see you in realtime.
That's why I love this spacebecause we get to talk, we get
to interact, we get to look atreal time information.
So, when I go to the store andI think I did show you guys that
(56:31):
video right when I go to thestore and I'm walking down the
chocolate aisle becausesomething up here has triggered
me, when you see the spike in myblood sugar right.
I think we showed that lastweek when I went to the store
and had no intentions, nointentions of buying those chips
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, and they were standing rightthere, right, you know they do
it right there next to the, justwhen you're checking out, and
we saw that spike in blood sugar.
So it is a work in progress,but every time you show up,
every time, you make a decisionfor yourself.
Every time you show up, everytime you make a decision for
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yourself, every time that youwork on a part of your internal
environment, you're saying thatI am taking charge, I'm doing
what I need to do to besuccessful, I am important and
you're giving your inner coachso we talked about the inner
critic.
You're giving your inner coach.
So we talked about the innercritic.
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You're giving your inner coachthe ability to support you, to
say give you a rah, rah, rah,because it'll say to you oh, no.
When the inner critic says, oh,you can't do anything, the
coach will say no, no, no.
You remember last week wefasted for six hours.
We fasted for 12 hours.
Our weight went down, our bloodsugars are better.
Every time you show up, that'swhat you're doing.
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And when you do show up, tellyour story.
Be part of the encouragement,be part of the richness that
comes from being in thecommunity.
Tell somebody else, hey, wedon't have to keep having these
metabolic problems, we don'thave to keep putting on weight,
we don't have to stay onmedication.
Oh, look at that one.
(58:13):
Share that with somebody.
Say, hey, come, let's go watchthis show, or bring them with
you, come watch it together.
As a matter of fact, theplaylists are on the channel.
Get with your family, get withyour friends and say, look,
we're going to walk through thisseries together and walk
through the series and beginimplementing those, because the
(58:37):
theory that we have only comesto life when you infuse it with
your behavior, with your action.
I'm always excited when I am inthis space with you.
Later tomorrow we'll be backwith our fast as we get into our
72-hour fast.
That will probably be a littleearlier in the day, but we'll
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recast it later.
For those of you who may missit, you can go back and you can
watch it.
We'll be back on Saturday nightfor Video from the Vault,
sunday morning this Week inReview at 6 am Central, and then
on Monday we'll be right backhere as we continue our path
down the limitless livingjourney for Dwayne Wood, md Live
(59:20):
.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for hanging out withus.
I'll talk with the communitymembers after the show here.
We'll put that link in just aminute.
If you've not joined ourcommunity yet, you got to do it.
You got to do it.
We are having a vibrantcommunity that's growing as we
support each other through thisjourney.
Thank you for being here.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood, that'sWood with an E.
(59:40):
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here I educate, I empower and Iencourage you to take charge of
your health and your life.
Avoid complications and go tothe next level.
To take charge of your healthand your life, avoid
complications and go to the nextlevel.
We're creating the life we'vealways wanted, and Limitless
Living says I'm not allowinganything from outside or
anything from inside to preventme from doing what I need to do.
I am presenting my best self,my best health and my best plans
(01:00:04):
for my life.
Good night everybody.
We'll see you at the nextepisode.
Bye-bye.
This is Dr Dwayne Wood.
That's Wood with an E.
The E stands for endocrinology.
Here, on the channel, I educate, I empower and I encourage you
to take charge of your health,take charge of your life, avoid
complications and go to the nextlevel, creating the life you
always wanted.
Thank you.
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