The Doctors — the water that turns off your hunger

The hardest part of intermittent fasting is not the science. It is hour eleven, when your stomach is loud and your willpower is gone. This segment on The Doctors is about the thing I built to solve exactly that hour: Zero Hunger Water®, three minerals — sodium, magnesium glycinate and potassium — dissolved in water and taken before hunger arrives instead of after.

Sharing the panel is Dr. Jason Fung, the nephrologist whose work on therapeutic fasting changed how a generation of physicians thinks about insulin, and who wrote the foreword to The Cruise Control Diet. What we lay out here is simple and physiological: much of what feels like hunger during a fast is mineral loss, not a need for food. Replace the minerals and the noise quiets down, which is why so many people who could never make it to noon suddenly can.

If you have tried fasting and quit because you were miserable, this ninety seconds may be the most useful thing you watch this week. It is the difference between white-knuckling a fast and simply not being hungry.