What Happens If You Only Eat Sardines for 5 Days?

What would happen if you only ate

sardines for five days? Sardines are one

of the most nutrient-dense foods on

planet Earth. It costs less than $2 per

can, and it's not really even on the

radar of many doctors and definitely not

talked about by big pharma because a

clinical trial came out out of Barcelona

that I want to share with you. Roughly,

they had 150 people. They divided them

in two groups. One of the groups just

added two cans of sardines per week and

the other group did not. And the group

that just added two cans of these per

week cut their diabetic risk from 37%

down to 8%. And the lead researcher

called this a huge scientific discovery.

My question was, what would happen if

you added three of these cans every

single day for five straight days? In

one can of sardines, you have basically

23 g of protein. Okay? It's high quality

protein. You have 900 mg of a

combination of EPA and DHA. Both of

these combined are omega-3 fatty acids.

You also have 382 milligrams of calcium.

We have 348% of your B12. You have

vitamin D. You have selenium,

phosphorus, and then we have torine,

which is interesting. I'm going to

actually get into that. But of course,

all of these right here, times three

because you're eating three cans of them

per day. And I want to touch just on

this right here. 900 milligrams of

omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Do you

know what an average American consumes?

roughly about 100 milligrams of EPA and

DHA every single day. But if we times

this times three, we're talking about

2700

milligrams of EPA and DHA, which will

take your levels to a whole new range, a

therapeutic level, and the things that

it can fix are mind-blowing. I'm going

to get into that. I highly recommend you

get the sardines with the skin, with the

bones in it, and in extra virgin olive

oil. So, on day one of eating just

sardines, of course, you're going to

have water, electrolytes, if you want to

drink tea or coffee, you can do that. If

you're going to add some cream, just the

tiniest bit of cream. So, what's

happening in the body? Zero

carbohydrates,

zero sugars. The body is going to be

starting to burn fat. It's going to be

switching over from sugar burning to fat

burning starting in day one. Now, during

the process, your body has to burn off

the stored sugar. That's called

glycogen. That's in your liver. So,

within the first 24 hours, that's going

to be lost. A lot of water is attached

to this glycogen. So, you're going to

lose a lot of water weight initially.

And this is why I recommend the

electrolytes. Make sure it has potassium

and magnesium as well as sodium. Now,

this is a very different type of fast

than a prolong fast where you're just

drinking water and taking electrolytes.

you're adding a very high density

protein food, okay, sardines, with a lot

of nutrients. So, for most people, this

is going to be a lot easier because

they're not going to feel weak. They're

actually going to feel stronger and

they're getting a lot of nutrients at

the same time. And so, you could call

this a sardine fast. And also, it would

mimic something called a fasting

mimicking diet because that diet has

shown to produce a lot of benefits. But

we're doing the fasting mimicking diet

with something that's a lot more

nutrient-dense than what most people do

when they're adding smaller amounts of

calories that are not even close to

being as nutrientdense is what we're

going to do. So, in other words, we're

able to mimic the benefits of fasting by

consuming a low calorie diet for 5 days.

The first two days might be a little bit

rough for some people that have never

done this before because they have to

transition into what's called ketosis,

which by the way is a fuel that your

brain will love. But it does take a

couple days to get into this. We're

making this transition by cutting down

the carbs and bringing insulin way, way,

way down. So then your body switches

over to burning your own fat. Many

people never tap into their own fat,

okay? because they'd never reduce the

carbohydrates and the insulin down far

enough to be able to tap in to the fat.

So, basically, this is going to be 5

days of pure fat burning, and your body

is going to be flooding with very

therapeutic ketones. Ketones are

byproducts of fat. Now, I'm going to be

honest with you. On day two, for some

people that have never done this before,

it's going to be a little bit tough. But

you'll have a type of hunger called

dopamine hunger, which is different,

where you would want some variety, like

you would want some chips or something

spicier or something with different

flavor, but you're not going to actually

have hunger pains because your body has

just started to tap into your fat. And

you're actually eating your fat through

this whole process. Even when you're

sleeping, that's what you're living off

of. Because when you don't lower your

carbohydrates or your sugars and your

insulin, you're basically running off

the stored glycogen in your liver. But

we already tap that out. So, we're

basically tapping into pure fat. So, if

given the choice, your brain is going to

want ketones. So, you're going to start

to feed your brain these ketones and

you're going to have mental clarity on

day two. You're going to just start

feeling like very, very focused. You'll

have more attention. Also, if you have

any inflammation in the body, that's

going to start to go down because what

is in these omega-3 fatty acids is

something called resolins that help turn

off inflammation.

But to be able to get enough to do that,

you have to have high doses. Well,

you're consuming literally 2700

milligrams of EPA and DHA. So, you're

going to be able to turn that

inflammation off. Most supplements, if

you look at the amount of DHA and EPA,

you're only talking like 200 milligrams,

okay, per dosage. So, we're doing 2700.

So, your inflammation is going to start

coming down. So, you'll feel looser,

you'll feel better, and your sleep is

going to be better as well. Now, just as

a side note, the mercury question,

because a lot of people avoid fish

because of mercury, I want to give you

some data on mercury in sardines. It's

very very small. It's like 0.013 parts

per billion. Okay, if we compare that to

tuna, like that's 27 times less. But

also realize that you're consuming

selenium, which binds with mercury. So

you don't have to worry about the

mercury problem with sardines. Day

three, this is where it gets

interesting. Okay, if you had brain fog,

that is going to be completely gone.

You're going to wake up feeling a lot

different in your head. You're going to

feel more focused because the ketones

are fully online and they're going to be

feeding your neurons. I mean, if you

think about it, 3 days of getting 288%

of your daily selenium means your

thyroid is converting T4 into T3. So,

you're going to feel like your

metabolism is just working a lot better.

And especially for heat, you're not

going to feel cold. Even if it's cold

outside, you'll go out there and you

just don't feel as cold, okay? Because

your thyroid is working much, much

better. High amounts of omega-3 fatty

acids stimulate brown fat. Let me

explain what brown fat is. Brown fat is

brown because it's super concentrated in

mitochondria. That's the energy

factories. And so when you're

stimulating that type of fat, you are

wasting a lot of energy through heat.

Okay? You're generating heat. So, this

is not a very efficient thing, but it's

a good thing if you're trying to lose

weight because most people with a slow