As president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr. Barnard leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. He has hosted three PBS television programs on nutrition and health and is frequently called on by news programs to discuss issues related to nutrition and research. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Dr. Barnard received his M.D. degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the same institution. He practiced at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York before returning to Washington to found the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

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• Fasting can also reduce inflammation in your body.
• Reducing inflammation can be expected to support the neck tissue healing that will improve your headaches.
• Mark Mattson is the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. He is also a professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is one of the foremost researchers in the area of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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• Dr. Neal Barnard is a physician, author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
• This same eating plan has been used to CURE diabetes. It also reduces hypertension and lowers cholesterol, thereby reducing the risk heart disease and strokes. The same eating plan reduces the risk of several cancers and reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Weight loss is a side-benefit of this style of eating.
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• Eating 1 meal a day is a form of intermittent fasting.
• Intermittent fasting allows your body to experience ketosis.
• When we place ourselves in ketosis on a regular, intermittent basis by eating 1 meal a day, we may experience many benefits:
  1. Reduces the free radical production that causes inflammation.
     • Inflammation is the common denominator that plays a role in all of the major chronic degenerative diseases, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
  2. Turns your body into a fat-burning machine, i.e. weight loss.
     • This style of eating, and its benefits, does NOT depend on calorie restriction.
  3. Increases your basal metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn calories, even when you are resting).
     • This is the only eating plan that increases basal metabolic rate (BMR).
     • Increased BMR = burn calories faster.
     • All other "diets" LOWER basal metabolic rate, which is part of why they eventually fail.
  4. Starves cancer cells of the glucose upon which they depend for survival.
     • Your healthy cells can use glucose or fat for energy.
     • Cancer cells depend solely on glucose for their survival and growth.
  5. Protects healthy cells from chemotherapy toxicity.
  6. Improves immune system function.
  7. Increases lifespan.
     • Intermittent fasting stimulates proteins called sirtuins, which are responsible for the DNA repair that lets us live longer and healthier.
  8. Improves memory.
  9. Promotes the growth of new neurons in the brain, thus preventing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
• Don’t think you can eat just 1 meal a day? Get many of the same benefits by eating all of you food within a 6-8 hour window each day, instead of spreading your intake over 12-16 hours, from the time you get up until the time you go to bed.
• Combining Intermittent Fasting/Eating 1 Meal a Day, with a Ketogenic Diet is an even more powerful way to obtain the benefits listed above
• General goals of a Ketogenic Diet:
  1. Minimize carbohydrates to 50 grams/day
     • This refers particularly to the non-fiber carbohydrates that turn rapidly to sugar in the body: rice, pasta, tortillas, bread, cereal.
     • Vegetables (lots!) and fruits (in moderation) are fine.
  2. Replace carbs with healthy fats and MODERATE levels of protein (this is not the Atkins Diet). For example, with this eating plan, you may eat:
     • Olives and olive oil, coconuts and coconut oil
     • Grass-fed butter
     • Organic raw nuts
     • Organic pastured egg yolks and meats
     • Avocados
• Intermittent Fasting + Low Simple Carb Diet = Supercharged Prescription for Health!