Better Health By Fasting

We discuss intermittent fasting - a research backed way to lose weight and improve your health. Fasting has shown to be an effective way to burn fat, reduce the risk of diabetes, improve brain function, and even reboot your immune system and fight cancer. Show Notes 3:41— What is intermittent fasting and how did this become a thing? 5:43— Why people choose to adopt an intermittent fasting routine. 9:59— Background about the fasting app, Zero, and some recent news about how it’s developing. 11:43— The effect of simply paying attention to what you eat. 12:57— March describes a few of the day-to-day fasting techniques including the “16–8 method” and the “eat-stop-eat” and the “5–2 diet”. 14:55— The evolutionary history of human eating cycles. 22:55— How fasting affects your insulin cycles.  24:18— Advice on approachable ways for starting to experiment with intermittent fasting. 27:51— What are “fast mimicking diets” like ProLon and how do they work? 32:53— Quote of the episode by Ian: “Fasting is like the Jack Welch of stem cell regeneration techniques.” 33:17— March shares his experience with a 4-day water fast and why he ultimately had to stop. 37:15— How to use fasting for jet-lag recovery. 41:50— March shares a mindfulness trick for how to make an intermittent fast more tolerable.  44:28— The importance of maintaining your water intake even when on a fast. 47:17— The ways you can measure the effects of a fast on your body’s metabolism including a fast’s effect on cholesterol.  49:40— Ian decides to go all-in on a 5-day fast. 51:04— Darren decides to adopt an intermittent fast to avoid jet-lag on his next trip. 52:10— March decides to try out ProLon but is going to keep drinking caffeine to avoid the challenging headaches. Mentions 🍴 Product: ProLon the "fast mimicking diet" 👨‍⚕️ Expert: Dr. Satchidana Panda from the Salk Institute 📱 App: Zero --- fasting app Kevin Rose's fasting app Zero beefs up with new CEO, $1.2M funding (TechCrunch) 📱 App: MyFitnessPal--- fitness and nutrition tracking app Follow Us Instagram Facebook Twitter Subscribe iTunes RSS Weekly email newsletter Full Episode Transcript Better Show Blog Feedback Email: [email protected] Enjoy the show? Leave a review in iTunes! Tell two friends about the show!