1052: Why Fasting May Be Making You Fat
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin talk about fasting, what it is, how it has become mainstream, the benefits of fasting, the downsides of fasting and in particular how fasting may, in fact, be contributing to accumulating excess body fat.
- How fasting has become the new “diet”. (2:35)
- The evolution of fasting + the different types of ‘fasts’. (4:39)
- The benefits of going without food. (11:10)
- Why fasting may be making you fat. (31:55)
- Mind Pump Recommends: Who is fasting FOR? How LONG should the fast be? (50:11)
- The RIGHT way to do a fast. (54:09)
People Mentioned
- Valter Longo - Wikipedia
- Hodgetwins Official Instagram (@officialhodgetwins) Instagram
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- Fasting and Caloric Restriction in Cancer Prevention and Treatment.
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- Intermittent Fasting Made Easy @Hodgetwins
- Is Fasting Effective? - Mind Pump
- Intermittent Fasting Guide | MAPS Fitness Products - Mind Pump
- How to Use Fasting to Build Muscle, Lose Fat and Improve Health - MPTv
- Mind Pump Free Resources
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, obmite, obm with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | So in this episode of Mind Pump, we covered one important topic. |
| 0:20.0 | We covered fasting. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a big one now. |
| 0:23.0 | Fasting was almost never talked about in the fitness world. |
| 0:28.0 | It was relegated to the wellness world. |
| 0:30.0 | But recently, it's also become kind of a fitness trend. |
| 0:33.0 | In fact, fasting has become the new way to diet. |
| 0:38.0 | And we've identified a lot of problems with this. |
| 0:40.0 | We know that fasting, in some cases, makes people fatter. |
| 0:45.0 | It actually makes it more difficult for them to get leaner. |
| 0:49.0 | So in this episode, we talked about everything in regards to fasting. |
| 0:53.0 | We talked about what it is, the different types of fasting. |
| 0:56.0 | We talked about the positives. |
| 0:58.0 | There definitely are real positive effects to fasting. |
| 1:02.0 | Positive health effects, positive mental and psychological effects. |
| 1:06.0 | If it is appropriate for you, now if it's not appropriate for you, |
| 1:09.0 | which is a lot of you listening right now, fasting can make things a lot worse. |
| 1:14.0 | It can encourage restricting and binging. |
| 1:17.0 | It can slow down your metabolism if done improperly. |
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