Learn how to boost energy and reset health with Patrick Holford’s 5-Day Diet

Health expert and bestselling author Patrick Holford is joining us for another webinar, this one focused on a unique diet that helps you lose weight, supercharge your energy, and boost your health...in only 5 days.

Tickets & Info

Sound ambitious? Rest assured, there’s no one better to teach you how to reap the rewards of the The 5-Day Diet than the man who wrote the book on the subject.

In the webinar, as in the book, Patrick will cover not just the science, but the specific foods and nutrients which trigger the condition that leads to a total health overhaul.

Join us this February when Patrick will walk you through The 5 Day Diet so you’re set up for success.

Webinar details 

Lose Weight, Gain Energy, Transform Health: The Five Day Diet with Patrick Holford
Thursday, 25th Feb
7-8.45pm
€10 per ticket (+fees)

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As a live participant, you'll also have a chance to take part in the Q&A with Patrick, and you'll receive a discount code for 20% off Patrick's supplements and books for a limited time when you buy from our online shop.

In Patrick’s own words...

You might think this is a bold claim but a trial of a five day ‘fasting mimicking diet’ with 18 people in autumn showed that energy scores almost doubled, brain fog lifted, pains and aches reduced by 50%.

Between the 18 people, they lost 37.5kg (6 stone 5lbs). This was largely fat loss and maintained in the weeks after the diet. That equates to an average of 5lbs per person—but bear in mind some were not doing it to lose weight, and the more you have to lose the faster it comes off.

The greatest loser was Niteen, a diabetic who lost almost 10lbs. The next best was Lucy, age 24, who lost 9 pounds.

These people were at my 5 Day Diet Retreat in the Black Mountains of Wales so they had my support and encouragement. I did it as well and lost 8lbs. 

What is the Five Day Diet?

And why are the results so spectacular?

The Five Day Diet is what’s called a ‘fasting mimicking diet’, abbreviated to FMD.

The reason it’s called ‘fasting mimicking’ is that, in a total five day fast you can trigger a cellular repair process called ‘autophagy’ that makes new energy factories called mitochondria in your cells.

In short, it anti-ages you and resets your metabolism to fat-burning mode. Your metabolism switches from primarily running off glucose to running off ketones, made in the liver from your body fat. 

You become a fat burner not a fat storer.

What happens over the 5 days? 

While the 5:2 diet and 18:6 (that’s 18 hour carb fast having dinner at eg 6pm and nothing till lunch at noon) are good, they won’t trigger autophagy. It takes, on average:

• 12 hours to register ketones in the blood (ketosis)
• 18 hours to become ketogenic and start fat-burning
• 24 hours (day 2) to kickstart autophagy, recycling old proteins
• 54 hours (day 3) for insulin levels to hit their lowest, increasing sensitivity thus reversing insulin resistance and resetting your blood sugar control and cravings
• 72 hours (days 4-5) for IGF-1 to drop, generating new immune cells and stem cells

During the 5 Day Diet Retreats, which are 7 days long because you transition into the ‘maintenance’ low GL diet and we show you how, we measure your glucose, which falls over the five days. You want to get your glucose under 5 mmol/l, possibly around 4mmol/l. 

We have a number of diabetics and pre-diabetics so our ‘average’ blood sugar is higher since many have blood sugars above 8 until the 5 Day Diet magic kicks in.

Ketone levels 

Ketone levels continually rise. You want to get blood levels above 2 and ideally in the 3-4 range for maximum fat burning.

On breath tests you can pretty much multiply by 15. For example, a blood level of 3 is roughly equal to a breath level of 45 on the KetoScanMini breathalyser.

Breath ketone levels are a bit more variable and depend a bit on how you exhale. Anything above 20 really means you’ve gone ketogenic, burning fat and turning it into ketones as your main fuel as opposed to running on glucose and storing excess as fat.

Calories, carbs, and fats

The diet has to be low calorie (800kcals), low carb and relatively high fat, with a tablespoon of pure C8 oil, which is the sub-fraction of coconut oil that makes ketones fastest. 

Also, it has to be meat- and dairy-free since these foods switch off autophagy. Certain foods such as kale, broccoli, olives, cabbage, and blueberries switch on this self-healing process. 

Nutrients

So too do certain nutrients—vitamin C, niacin, omega-3, DHA and hydroxycitric acid (HCA) found in Garcinia Cambogia, a type of tamarind.

What to expect

By switching your metabolism from burning glucose to ketones you not only burn off fat fast but also trigger autophagy which means you make more stem cells, rebuild healthy mitochondria, your energy factories. 

You experience this as a boost in energy usually on day 4 and 5 but even more so in the following week after the 5 Day Diet when you transition back to a slow carb of low GL diet.

I’ll be explaining how to use this 5 day process to not only burn fat fast but reset your metabolism and rejuvenate your cells and give your energy a boost in my webinar for Organico.