Michigan Camp Meeting 2023: The Boldness of the Cross

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Is It Time to Fast?

Dan Augsburger

01 Is It Time to Fast

02 Is It Time to Fast

03 Is It Time to Fast

04 Is It Time to Fast

05 Is It Time to Fast

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2023 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Father in Heaven, I'm so grateful that we can come together to learn about fasting.

When you study the Bible, at crisis moments, when you were doing great things through people or when certain events were being fulfilled by prophecy, the people you use often included fasting in their seeking after you and seeking to be right before you and seeking to gain information.

So Lord, it's with sobriety that we enter into this study.

We want to hear from you through the scriptures and through Father that which we've learned down through history.

And today, Gabriella will be here for the first part of our time to talk about the medical aspects of fasting.

And might the Holy Spirit be here too to teach us.

And thank you, Lord, in Jesus' name, Amen.

Gabriella is actually a dentist by training.

She's from Argentina, but she's certified in lifestyle medicine down in Latin America, in the association down there.

And I met her in Georgia recently where she had actually been spending 6 weeks tutoring a family who wants to do home-based lifestyle medicine, natural medical ministry.

And so we were fascinated by that and I asked Gabriella if she would come and share and She's involved with a project here in Michigan, so you can introduce yourself, and I'll move my computer, and you can have the floor for whatever time you need.

My brain is all time translating because I just came to United States recently.

So if you don't understand something, please tell me I can repeat and I'll do my best.

So, yes, I'm here in United States as a missionary after being more than 20 years a missionary not only in dentistry, in lifestyle too, around the world, many, many countries.

And I saw here in this country a big, big, big mission field and very challenging.

And God gave me some tools that I understand that can be helpful in this country.

His and the wife, they are like my parents here.

And so we spend great time together, running different programs in different states.

And right now we are facing a big challenge in Grand Rapids.

And the idea is to reach that city with the right arm of the body.

Health lifestyle specifically, and so we need prayers.

So what those that want to be part welcome.

We are right right now training people in different churches in Grand Rapids training people to be part of this big challenge.

What do you think when you read that word?

Is something positive, something negative?

When you think your body is getting sluggish from being too weighed down with the food, it creates it to go faster, actually.

The healing process is shorter when you spend some time of the healing process fasting.

We can talk a little about a different kind of fasting too at the end.

Just at the beginning, I'm going to start with this.

Imagine a diet that could induce beta cells neogenesis, a way of eating that could restore beta cells function in the pancreas without stem cells or medication and the risk they pose.

It has now been done in diabetic mice twice.

2 big studies showing that this is possible.

And I'm going to show some part of those studies, but those that are working with patients, diabetic patients for a long time, we see in the clinic that is working.

Now the scientists are trying to show through studies that is real, that is happening.

Now, right now, a lot of studies in human beings are running right now.

So in a few years, we are going to have more data about that.

This 1 is 1 fasting mimicking diet promotes NGN3 driving beta cells regeneration to reverse diabetes.

Maybe NGN3 is a protein that if you find in the pancreas, that is amazing.

If you find that, it means that beta cells are multiplying.

If you find that, and they found that in the process of fasting in a group of mice, so they already showed that So they already shown that is happening.

They in mice, a four-day fasting mimicking diet induces generation of insulin-producing beta cells, pancreatic development, restore insulin secretion, and glucose homeostasis in both type 2 and type 1 diabetes mouse model.

These results indicate that fasting mimicking diet promotes the reprogramming of pancreatic cells to restore insulin regeneration in islets from type 1 diabetic patients and reverse both type 1 diabetic and type 2 diabetic phenotypes in mouse models.

What they did was a plant-based diet designed to attain fasting-like effects, providing both macro and micronutrients to minimize the burden of fasting and adverse effects.

So, in day 1, the fasting-mimicking diet supplies 1, 100 kilocalories.

And from day 2 to day 5 of that study, They gave to the mice only 715 kilocalories, very low quantity of kilocalories a day.

So first day, 1, 100 kilocalories, and the rest, 715 kilocalories.

If somebody wants to have your own fasting mimicking diet, it says mimicking because it's like fasting for the body because it's low, low calories, but you're not fasting completely.

And it's amazing what is happening in the body.

They found that intermittent administration of a fasting-mimicking diet intervenes in diabetes progression, restore beta cells, and reconstructs gut microbiota in mice.

Our study has provided further evidence indicating that intermittent fasting is able to preserve or restore beta cells function.

In diabetic mice, intermittent fasting is key to restore beta cells function.

Now I'm going to show this, what I'm showing is very superficial.

If you want the whole study, it's long, both, all the 3 studies that I mentioned, very long, very deep.

If you want it, I can share it with you later.

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