A doctor who specialises in nutrition and functional medicine has outlined a 36-hour fasting method that is said to help people lose belly fat fast.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Diary Of A CEO podcast, Dr Mindy Pelz discussed certain things people can do if they're struggling to budge stubborn belly fat.
Explaining her method as being one of the most intense forms of dieting - fasting for 36 hours before eating again for 12 hours, Dr Pelz revealed her preferred method for people to lose weight quickly.
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Dr Pelz explained: "So the fat burner fast is probably my favourite for those people who want to lose weight."
Explaining the research behind the method, she added: "At 36 hours what happens is that's enough time where the blood sugars come down.
"And all of a sudden the body goes 'okay, blood sugar isn't coming, we've been in this fasted state, we've triggered autophagy, we've brought inflammation down, we've made you ketones, we're trying to go find you food, but this extra weight is not serving you'."
She continued: "So it drops the weight and it's the most beautiful way to get a person to unstick any kind of weight loss resistance. But most importantly, you know the place where it dropped the most amount of weight from? Where does everyone want to lose weight?"
Podcast host Steven Barlett replies: "The belly?"
Dr Mindy Pelz responds: "Yep, I should probably should have called it the 'belly fat burning'... So that's what [the research] showed, that actually a 36-hour fast started to unstick weight loss and it started with weight around the belly."
In another video on her YouTube channel, the expert goes into more detail about the method, explaining that in one study which looked at participants fasting for 36 hours followed by 12 hours of eating on and off for a 30-day period, the main area people lost weight from was the belly.
She told her viewers: "It's really up to you how often you do it. I've seen people in our academy do it once a week and really change the circumference of their waist."
She also added that she has seen people do it once a month and once a year, explaining that it's up to you how aggressive with it you want to be.
