Water Fasting Scientist: Surprising Link Between Fasting & Cancer! Fasting Completely Resets Your Gut Microbiome!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
Some people think nature is like this, but actually, it's like this. Mother Nature is not all sunshine and rainbows. Nature can be hotter than a sauna and colder than an arctic skinny dip. That's why Columbia engineers everything we make for anything nature can throw at you. Columbia engineered for whatever.

**Alan Goldhamer** (0:30)
This is the most effective treatment that's ever been shown in treating the leading cause of death and disability, which is high blood pressure. It also reduces insulin resistance. It can enhance cognitive capacities, and you also see it affecting things like depression and anxiety. It's called fasting, and there's more. Fasting introduces not just a chance to lose weight, it also mobilizes visceral fat, which is the fat around the belly and the organs, which is giving off inflammatory products that's causing heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many people are maintaining higher visceral fat than what they should be. I've spent 40 years helping people get healthy, and I can tell you that I think you should be fasting every day.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:08)
So tell me about that then, but also isn't the game here just to not eat as much?

**Alan Goldhamer** (1:11)
Well, here's the problem.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:13)
Dr. Alan Goldhamer is a pioneering physician who has spent his life helping thousands of people reverse chronic disease, eliminate medication, and reclaim their health using one of the most ancient healing tools known to humanity.

**Alan Goldhamer** (1:25)
Today, we live in a world designed to make you fat sick and miserable, where 76% of people are overweight or obese, and where people think that health comes from pills, potions, and powders. And yet most of us are ignorant of the proven health benefits of fasting. In fact, if you look at all the chemical changes that happened with exercise, they also happened with fasting. Things like increase in BDNF, a neurochemical protecting the brain from Alzheimer's disease.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:50)
And what about water fasting?

**Alan Goldhamer** (1:51)
So people that have not been successful resolving their conditions with medications, including patients with autistic ovarian syndrome, have been profoundly affected by water fasting, and we'll go through fabulous research. But one thing you want to realize is that all human beings have the capacity to fast.

**Steven Bartlett** (2:06)
Okay, so let's run through the unique selling points versus any other diet or intervention.

**Alan Goldhamer** (2:11)
Let's do it.

**Steven Bartlett** (2:13)
Just give me 30 seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning in to the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started. And if you enjoy what we do here, please join the 24% of people that listen to this podcast regularly and follow us on this app. Here's a promise I'm going to make to you. I'm going to do everything in my power to make this show as good as I can now and into the future. We're going to deliver the guests that you want me to speak to, and we're going to continue to keep doing all of the things you love about this show. Thank you.
Dr. Alan Goldhamer, my first question is, who are you and what have you spent the last four decades of your life doing and why?

**Alan Goldhamer** (3:07)
I've spent my entire life really focused on one topic, and that's this idea that health results from healthful living. I got interested really young. I was in elementary school, and I decided that I wanted to pursue this as a career. When I finished training in the United States, I had an opportunity to go to Australia, and I studied with a guy named Alec Burton, who was the world's leading expert in the use of medically supervised water-only fasting. And I saw things there that weren't supposed to be happening. People were getting better. I saw people with chronic diseases like high blood pressure resolving their hypertension, getting off the medications. And so we began to carefully evaluate patients with hypertension. In this study, 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure and 174 people normalised their blood pressure without the need for medication. After we published that paper, we went on and we've published a couple dozen papers now on the use of diet and fasting in the literature. And we've written a book. It's called Can Fasting Save Your Life? Which summarises our work and other people's work on this use of fasting to help the body do what it really does best and which is heal itself if you get out of the way.