A five-day fast can serve as a psychological tool to manage subsequent dietary regimens.

“if you made you fast for 40 days you might die but I pretty much don't think there's a human being on this planet outside of the most you know sick you know individual who couldn't go 5 days without food and you you know subsiding only on water and and minerals”

“I pretty much don't think there's a human being on this planet outside of the most you know sick you know individual who couldn't go 5 days without food and you you know subsiding only on water and and minerals and something about doing that even if you do it once for no other reason it teaches you a couple of things one you can do it that's a big aha moment two hunger comes in waves so that 5 day period of eating nothing you will have periods of time when you literally want to eat your arm and you will have periods during that 5 days when you have forgotten that you're fasting”

“when you take that mindset into okay lane i just put you through this five days of you know very difficult fasting now we're going to go to a regiment where i just don't want you to eat any snacks and that means from noon till six i don't want you eating anything and now all of a sudden you're like at three o'clock i'm really hungry but you now anchor that to something that was so much more severe which is wait a minute i'm really hungry because i haven't eaten in three hours i'm gonna eat in three hours i think i can make it”

“if you put somebody through a three five or even longer day fast i'm talking water only fast even once in their life they learn a very important lesson which is i'm not going to die if i'm hungry acutely”

“and now all of a sudden you're like at 3:00 I'm really hungry but you now anchor that to something that was so much more severe which is wait a minute I'm really hungry because I haven't eaten in 3 hours I'm going to eat in 3 hours I think I can make it”

“if you put somebody through a three five or even longer day fast I'm talking water only fast even once in their life they learn a very important lesson which is I'm not going to die if I'm hungry acutely”