Name: Georges St-Pierre on How Fasting Improved His Overall Health
Uploaded: 2024-08-27T13:00:33.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Georges St-Pierre on How Fasting Improved His Overall Health' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Georges St-Pierre on How Fasting Improved His Overall Health' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-27. Transcript available.

Is there, has there been moments since then where like you're just on the couch
or something, you've had a couple beers and you're like, I'm fucking getting
back in there tomorrow.
And it's just like, you're just kind of fired up after, after when I retired, I
retired because I had, um, when I won the title, but people don't know this,
but I was very ill.
Like I had a ulcer colitis because I was trying to, to gain weight.
Colitis.
Yes.
I was trying to gain weight because I was fighting in a heavier.
Swelling of the large intestine.
Yes.
Okay.
I was trying to put on weight.
It's Crohn disease.
You have Crohn disease?
No, no, it's, uh, it's ulcer colitis.
It's not Crohn.
Crohn is different.
But very often ulcer colitis transform into Crohn and Crohn transform into
cancer.
Oh, a lot of time, you know, you see that progression.
So when that, like when I, when I had those crazy cramp, it was during my
training camp with Bisping and I didn't know what it was because it was blood
when I was going to bathroom.
And I told myself, I said, whatever it is, I'm going to do the fight and I'm
going to have, because no, no, but to, to know what it is, you need to do what
they call a colonoscopy.
So they go with a camera.
Right, they're going to go in there.
Yeah.
But you need to take, yeah, you need to take laxative and all that.
Like it, it empty you and I was trying to put on the weight.
Oh, yes, it works.
So, you know what I mean?
I couldn't do it.
It was a few weeks before.
And I said, you know what, whatever it is, I'll do the fight and I'll deal with
it after.
And after the fight, I went to do the test and I got diagnosed with ulcer colitis
and I was on heavy, heavy medication, like for, for anti-inflammatory and I relinquished
the title.
I could have kept the title for one year and like parade with the sponsorship,
but I didn't want to do that because of the, for the respect, you know?
So I relinquished it because I didn't know what was going to happen.
I said, man, I don't know what's going to happen, you know?
So I tried to get better.
And after a few, a few weeks, it didn't really work.
And I discovered fasting and what happened is pretty incredible.
I met a doctor, Dr. Jason Fung in Toronto.
Jason Fung, F-U-N-G?
Yes.
He's a, he's a-
Japanese, huh?
Yeah.
Nephrologist.
He's a, I think he's Chinese or Canadian Chinese.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's him.
Exactly.
He gave me a fasting program.
He treat a patient that has certain type of diabetes and he gave me a certain
program of fasting.
And what happened after the next few weeks, I, all my symptoms disappeared.
Wow.
And I, I diminished the dose of my medication until I no longer need it.
And what type of fasting, what exactly were you doing?
I did two types.
I did a, what we call a time-restricted eating where you eat in a certain, you
eat all your
calorie in a certain window.
Okay.
Like an intermittent fasting kind of thing?
Yeah.
Like you eat your calorie in, in eight hour and you, you fast on, like you only
drink water
in the 16 hour.
And I do also prolonged fasting.
So what I do, when I do prolonged fasting, I do four days, only water.
And when I train, I take salt in my, in my hand.
I put a little bit and I lick.
Like a pervert.
It's okay.
Or pervert.
Pervert.
But, but you take salt because you don't want to deplete your mineral when you,
and this
over time, because ulcer colitis, you're supposed to be stuck with that for
life.
Wow.
It's a condition you have for life.
When you got it, you finish, you know, you got it.
And all my symptoms are gone.
Now I can drink, I can eat whatever I want.
And I'm, I mean, I, I realized that, you know, we talk about conspiracy and
stuff.
The reason why you don't hear about fasting is because nobody makes money with
it.
It's not no pills.
Yeah, but it's really worth investigating.
Of course, ask your doctor, but man, it changes my life.
And I just wish I would have known this before.
Really?
It really did.
So you've used it in other facets too, to, you know, when you need a, it, it
works for
everything.
Like sometime you have an injury, like say tendonitis and tendonitis, often it's
related
to inflammation, you know, all inflammation disease, when you fast, it take
away the inflammation
and, and, and if all the stuff that I, that I had regarding inflammation, like
a toe, one
of my toes, I had a problem with one of my toes.
It was hurting me for years when I started doing my fasting, it kind of
disappeared.
Yeah.
Yeah, we don't think about that.
We always think more, more, more, like a more medicine, more anything, more,
more of this
diet.
I thought the same thing before.
I was like, oh, protein shake, this, because I was trying to gain weight when I
fought this
thing.
And I realized, man, I was doing everything wrong.
And we always think about the punch in.
We don't think about the punch out.
Like you were saying, we don't think about the inverse of it.
It's insane.
And, and I remember I, I had a chance to go to, uh, Kenya, uh, to, uh, Tanzania.
No, Kenya, Maasai Mara.
I met the tribe of, uh, of, uh, hunter-getter.
Oh yeah.
Those brothers can jump, huh?
Yeah, but these guys, man, sometimes they, they spend three, four days without
eating and
it's normal.
They're used to it.
And if you see their old people compared to our old people, they're much more
health,
healthier.
They, they look much more, much better.
And the reason why people, people will tell me now, oh yeah, but they have a
shorter life
expects expectancy than us.
Yes.
It's because of the, um, a lot of the child, uh, die before the age of
adulthood.
Oh, I see.
So the numbers are kind of.
They die when they're young.
Yeah.
Child, child, child, uh, how do you say in English?
The, um, uh, starvation or neglect.
No, no, no, no.
They get, they got like disease or then the hospital is too far away.
You have to, you have to drive like five hours, you know?
Well, that right there, if something's wrong, yeah.
But once they pass a certain point, if you look at their, their old people and
our old
people, they're, they much, they look much better.
Oh, our old people look like shit.
A lot of them, to be honest, no offense, but a lot of them, you know, I've had
a couple
of grandparents and they were mid, I thought, but, uh.
But what makes us live that long?
It's not because of our healthy lifestyles, because of our technology or most
of us.
Right.
That's true, huh?
That's what's saving us most of the time.
It's not us doing anything.
Yeah.
When, when I was a kid, for example, I had like, uh, uh, it's called in French,
convulsions
febrile.
It's a, when you're a baby, you're, you have a rise of temperature.
So what your body does, it shut, shut itself down and it, it go into a coma
like this.
And it happened to me when I was young.
My mom told me if I would not have technology, I was brought back, brought to
the hospital
and they put me on a artificial coma and everything on plugs.
And, and if I would not have, have that technology, I would have not been here
with you today.
So I'm, I'm, I'm alive today because of our technology.
Technology, but what do you, but how you treat the life you have is up to you
as well.
And if we, if we don't have technology, maybe 50% of us would not be there.
I'd be out probably a lot of my family would be gone.