Welcome back, this is Dr. Jin Sung where clinical excellence meets excellent results. Fasting improves the gut microbiome. So let's get right into it.
Fasting promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria, especially Acromantia municipalia. This is a bacteria that helps produce and degregate mucus in our GI tract. Basically, it produces a thin film of mucus that helps protect the enterocytes or the gut cells in our body. Enhanced metabolite production, so improves production of short chain fatty acids, especially butyrate. Why is this important?
Because short chain fatty acids help feed the other bacteria in our gut, and dietary fiber is also very important in terms of producing short chain fatty acids. Reduction in dysbiosis. Basically if you go into a prolonged fast, either a one day, two day, or three day fast, it helps to reset the gut. Gives it time to breathe and heal.
Also decreases the food proteins that tend to be inflammatory for certain individuals. Things like gluten protein or dairy, soy, nightshades, or lectins. So it gives it a break.
from having to process all these dietary proteins. It could increase beneficial bacteria and decrease pathogenic bacteria or things that should not be overgrowing. It also decreases inflammation and I think this is a big one because fasting gives your body a break from these dietary proteins that can potentially cause inflammation especially people who have autoimmune disease.
So decreased dietary proteins and basically gives the GI tract time to heal. Okay and now if you're interested in fasting in general we are offering a fasting challenge on our membership website. We're going to offer a discount on January 1st through January 3rd. Typically it's $43 a month.
but we're going to offer it for $33 a month and you'll be grandfathered in so the rates won't go up on you. Now during this fasting challenge we'll give you information, handouts, guidance basically on how to do different types of fasts throughout those days. Now if you're interested go ahead and sign up on the link below and we'll see you guys on January 6th in the membership website where we start the challenge.
Now to the rest of the video. When you fast it helps the gut brain access. Fasting impacts the microbiome, decreases inflammation, improves short chain fatty acids, thereby having a positive effect on how the enteric nervous system, the nervous system of our gut, basically talks to the brain. The enteric nervous system and the brain have what we call a crosstalk. One impacts the other.
So the brain can impact the gut and the gut can impact the brain. Microbial metabolic efficiency. It has the enhanced ability to ferment dietary fibers more efficiently and generate energy more efficiently.
So when you do fasting, it will improve energy in multiple different ways and also improve the gut microbiome in multiple. different ways. All right, my name is Dr. Jen Sung where clinical excellence meets excellent results and we'll see you guys next week on the healthy side. Have an awesome day.