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Fasting is an important aspect of the Heal Your Heart and Essentials programs at CCFM.

Please make every effort to participate in the webinar in it’s live or recorded format. It is important to participate in the fast if possible and we will modify a fast for your particular circumstance if necessary.

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Disclaimer: By submitting your information, you agree to the terms and conditions: Children, teenagers, those soon anticipating a pregnancy, nursing mothers, elderly, frail, and those trying to build a large amount of muscle should not fast. Those who are frail with low muscle mass should not fast. Many people should fast with medical supervision. If there is heart disease, other chronic diseases, metabolic syndrome and diabetes, and people on medication for blood pressure or blood sugar should have medical supervision. People with conditions predisposing to hypoglycemia, as discussed above, should not fast. People with a history of eating disorders should not fast. If your body fat is already very low, fasting may not be well tolerated. Fasting is a hormetic stress that results in healing, but it is a stress. Adrenaline and cortisol levels will be stimulated. People with high stress, high cortisol, severe cravings, and very poor sleep are not ready to fast until these conditions are improved.

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Why Should You Fast ?

  • To lose weight
  • To encourage healing cell repair and rejuvenation
  • To support normal circadian rhythm
  • To improve gut health
  • To reset metabolism and reverse metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
  • To encourage a mindful attitude and habit regarding food and alcohol
  • To prolong life and prolong health by reducing all of the diseases of aging including heart disease, cancer, dementia and autoimmune disease

Food stimulates the secretion of insulin; the hormone that stores the excess calories we eat as fat, to be used later. Trouble is, when we eat frequently we never have low insulin and never use the stored up fat energy. Reducing calories and being hungry just decreases metabolism or burns up muscle. Only low insulin levels like you get from fasting can make a permanent dent in stored fat.

Losing weight is important. We need to get rid of the visceral fat that builds up around the internal organs and causes heart-damaging inflammation.

But, the healing magic of fasting occurs when you keep it up for several days. That’s when the powers like autophagy are unleashed. Autophagy is Greek for “self eating”. This is the process of cleaning out damaged proteins and damaged cell parts that gum up the machinery of our bodies. Fasting for several days also stimulate stem cells and unlocks other healing programs in the body.

Fasting by yourself is no fun. Colorado Center for Functional Medicine will host our monthly Community Fast. We will prepare together with a webinar, and registrants can download the CCFM Guide to Fasting eBook. We will offer a daily call in, every morning during the fasting week for support, and to share tips and techniques. Be on the lookout for emails with further details!

Together we can have a fasting experience, that if not fun, is least interesting. Register now and invite your friends.

Dr Tom Svinarich MD

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