Nutritional Endocrinology Practitioner Training (NEPT)
Clinical Pearl
February 4th, 2018

If you haven’t studied fasting as a therapeutic tool, I highly recommend you read up on it. I’ll be adding a segment about it to the Detox module within the next couple of months.

While I don’t recommend extended fasts without proper supervision, there are centers where you can refer people. I recently guided someone through a 28 day fast.

I have extensive experience with this, have done 28 days myself and am well read.  I do NOT recommend you ever do this unless you are trained. I did it because it was a friend and we got his doctors to agree to run tests and monitor medication levels.

Here are the results:

At beginning he was on insulin, metformin, 2 anti hypertensive medications and a statin.  Even on all the meds, hi BP was high, his blood sugar rarely below 150 fasting, and he was overweight.

We started with a prep month in December where he did alternate day fasting, and did one 4 day fast.  I monitored his stats in a google doc twice a day. His doctor gave him permission to lower insulin daily. I warned him that if ever his blood sugar dipped below 8 while still on insulin to call his doctor immediately.

He started the fast on Jan 1. By day 14, he was off his insulin and most of the meds. His electrolytes dipped down  around day 14 so he added salt to his water, magnesium and potassium.  

By day 27, he was feeling better than he ever remembered feeling.  We spent a couple of hours planning food reintroduction. 

I will keep you posted.

The best part is he is finally committed to healthy living.

Yeah!