#115 KetoFast and Autophagy Optimization with Dr Joseph Mercola

Joseph Mercola (0:00)

I'm convinced you should not eat more than 8 hours a day.

You need to give at least 16 hours or you put your gut complete rest. Unavoidable, it's just a consequence of aging, but that's a lie. And if you're engaging in these strategies on a regular basis, you're going to prevent almost every single degenerative disease, like cataracts, like Alzheimer's, like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes. So, you know, this stuff works, and the miracle of fasting occurs in the repeat.

Siim Land (0:28)

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Siim Land (0:36)

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Siim Land (0:41)

Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land, and our guest today is Dr. Joseph Mercola. Dr. Mercola is one of the pioneers in alternative and functional medicine online. His website mercola.com is one of the most popular health websites on the internet, and he's written several bestselling books like Fat for Fuel, Superfuel, and the upcoming Keto Fast.

Dr. Mercola, welcome to the show.

Joseph Mercola (1:04)

Well, thanks for having me. Great to be here.

Siim Land (1:07)

Yeah, it's good to see you. And we saw or we met at the Upgraded Conference a few weeks ago in Los Angeles. So what have you been up to since that time?

Joseph Mercola (1:15)

Oh, I've been recovering. That was like the best event I was ever at in my life. It was just like 10 Christmases condensed into three days. It was amazing. Unbelievable. I met a lot of cool people like you. So I've had dozens and dozens of great people. It is clearly probably the best event in the world for people like us.

Siim Land (1:34)

Yeah, it was really phenomenal and really well organized and everything kind of well was really smooth. But how did you get involved with like alternative medicine and started to write a blog about it?

Joseph Mercola (1:48)

Well, that's a long story.

Why don't we go to something else because I could talk about it now or about that. But eventually, I got disenchanted. I didn't start out. I was a drug prescribing doctor, prescribed thousands of people antidepressants and then I saw the light through a variety of circumstances and have been really focusing on natural therapies for 25 years, since the early 90s. So 90s, 25 years at least.

So, that's a while. And my passion is technology.

It has been. I took my first computer class in 1968 So I was an early online. My website, mercola.com, is actually has been the most visited natural health site in the world for the last 15 years. But my website existed before Google, two years before Google. So yeah, I was an early adopter.

Siim Land (2:41)

That's good. Yeah, like, I think you do expose a lot of kind of misconceptions and controversies about different health topics.

And lately, you've been talking a lot about like 5G and EMFs. So can you like give a brief overview of how do those things affect our health?

Joseph Mercola (2:59)

Yeah, well, it's a real important element. It's my next book that comes out in the spring of 2020

I'm just about finished with it. I'm doing the fine tuning phase now. So it's really fresh in my mind. But the central concept and idea is that we're exposed to these frequencies and they tend to cause oxidative stress and damage in our body. So this much very similar to exposure to x-ray radiation.

Different mechanism, but not that different. Fundamentally, they're pretty similar. And that is not what the wireless industry and almost all the public health authorities and federal regulatory agencies want you to believe because they're been essentially captured agencies through the wireless industry and you're just not being told the truth or we're not being as a culture. So the damage they cause is almost virtually identical to x-ray or ionizing radiation. Even though it is non-ionizing radiation, there's not enough energy in those frequencies to break covalent bonds in DNA directly. They do it indirectly through creating severe oxidative stress, through a mechanism of actions that essentially catalyzes the production of peroxy nitrate, the hidden pre-nitrogen species that virtually no one knows and understands, that then catalyzes or creates the formation of carbonate free radicals, which just is every bit as dangerous as hydroxyl free radicals. And that causes the same damage to their cell membranes, your proteins, enzymes, stem cells, mitochondria in your DNA.

Siim Land (4:31)

Yeah, like as I understand it, there is already like quite a lot of decent research showing that 5G is linked to excess oxidative stress, more inflammation and even like cancer and those sort of things.