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All right, Brian Grin here and today I want to discuss five tips to get the most out

of intermittent fasting before I go into those five tips I just wanted to discuss some

of the hormonal benefits and adaptations that come with fasting and that make it I believe

more effective than just counting calories.

And one of those is being able to lower insulin levels.

Obviously fasting is the quickest and the easiest way to get your insulin levels down

in a safe manner.

And you do this for long enough and your body starts to adapt and what it starts to do

is learn to use its own fat source for energy as opposed to just, you know, when you're

stacking all day, whatever you're eating, it gets used to just bring in and becoming

like a sugar burner as opposed to a fat burner.

So getting our insulin levels down is huge and you're going to improve your insulin sensitivity,

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