#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Consider this episode a cross between an ask me anything (AMA) and a show-and-tell. Peter discusses his fasting experiment in great detail and answers questions from listeners and readers.

We discuss:

Why Peter did a one-week fast and the rationale for front- and back-ending it with a week-long ketogenic diet [6:30];
What Peter’s typical diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, and supplementation looks like [11:00];
What labs (e.g., glucose, ketones, lipids, inflammation and oxidation markers, thyroid- and sex hormones) Peter checked for the experiment [22:00];
Peter’s results after a week on a ketogenic diet [29:30];
Peter’s results after a week on a water-only fast [48:45];
Peter’s results after a week on a ketogenic diet following a week of fasting [58:30];
Peter’s “Top 6” surprises from the fasting experiment [1:08:30];
Different fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) protocols [1:29:20];
What is the optimal protocol, frequency, and duration for fasting? [1:33:00];
How to break a fast without GI distress? [1:38:00];
“Am I breaking the fast if…?” [1:41:30]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Peter Atia Drive. I'm your host, Peter Atia.
0:10.0	The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,
0:15.7	along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working
0:19.6	with some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast
0:23.8	is my attempt to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality
0:28.3	more fulfilling life. If you enjoy this podcast, you can find more information on today's
0:32.4	episode and other topics at peteratiamd.com.
0:41.7	Welcome to this episode of The Drive. This is sort of a cross between what I would call
0:46.9	an AMA and a show and tell. I think it's build as an AMA and we certainly do our best to
0:52.2	kind of answer all the questions about this particular thing, but it was also a little
0:56.8	bit of a, as I say, a show and tell where I kind of go over in detail what this fasting
1:02.2	protocol was all about. So this particular episode is very specifically about questions
1:07.7	that folks have asked around why I did this, you know, for lack of a better description,
1:11.6	this week of keto, followed by a week of fasting, followed by a week of keto. I call it
1:16.1	the KFK Sandwich, but Bob has referred to it as the nothing burger, which probably makes
1:21.4	more sense. So this was, again, kind of a first for us where we were kind of just spending
1:27.4	a bit of time talking very specifically about this, you know, experiment I've done in
1:32.1	a nice experiment. I use that term pretty loosely. I mean, quotes, self experiment, maybe
1:37.3	a, you know, end of one nonsense, whatever you want to call it. But hopefully I provide
1:41.6	at least some rationale for why this was interesting to me. More importantly, what hypotheses
1:47.0	could be generated. And ultimately, I think where I'd like to be able to take this sort
1:50.5	of insight because my real motivation for doing this, I hope, comes across clearly.
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