Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 1: Intermittent and Extended Fasting

Howdy everyone: pleased to offer the first episode of Snake Super Health the POD, a health discussion for people interested in severe alleyways of health—nutrition, red light, lifting, the like—who are otherwise let us say… normal. Intermittent and extended fastingIn this episode, I chat with my friend and COHOST Josh Feola, a fellow writer and onetime bandmate (eons ago) about intermittent and extended fasting, specifically about this diet’s evolution into medicalization, its origins in powerlifting and bodybuilding, the specious (and sometimes helpful) research around it, takeaways from the book, and the mainstream press around it.Show notes:1:00: Intro2:30: Josh discusses Atlas Powershrugged’s ebook The Antifragile Diet5:00: Are schools of lifting book religions?* CF: Starting Strength, Dinosaur Fitness6:30: The book sez: don’t fear catabolism—if you lose muscle that’s ok… 9:00: Research and intermittent fasting: Can it be ethically studied? 12:00: Ancel Keys (father of seed oils) and the Minneapolis Starvation Study, and IF research. 16:00: The issues with nutrition research: Data is often self reported.19:00: A longer look into extended fasting (36-hours plus—from the book). 21:00: Is catabolism… Lindy?23:00: The … undisprovability of lifting diets’ appeals to history. 30:00: Obesogenic environments and the relative ease of fasting. 32:00: Fasting, macros counting, stalling… and the return to the CICO model. 36:00: One for the road: Mead—a superfood?39:00: One for the road: Against specializing. Selected reading:* The Anti-fragile Diet by Atlas Power Shrugged. * Fascinating ebook about dieting that’s well advanced in the lifting canon. Here are his socials.* Atlas interview in story about lifting and jeans by me (Sami) for GQ. * Dinosaur Training by Brooks Kubik (entire PDF!)* Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz* Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner (truly non-straight edge behavior)* Against specialization by Jamie Lewis.That’s it.Thanks for listening. Follow me on IG here. More to come. SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe