223: Why intermittent fasting?

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Why is intermittent fasting trending right now? Should we embrace it? Is it in keeping with ancestral eating patterns? What are its benefits? And how do we get started with it?

Marisa Moon, Intermittent Fasting (IF) instructor and Certified Primal health coach, addresses all of the above. She is convinced that IF is very much aligned with how our ancestors ate and she explains why it’s a good idea to incorporate the practice into our lives. In our conversation, she covers how fasting stimulates autophagy (a cellular clean-up process), restores metabolic balance, triggers longevity pathways, and stimulates brain cell growth and connectivity. She gives practical ideas for how to get started with IF and explains why there isn’t a one-size-fits-all fasting model.

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0:00.0	The body's like, holy cow, all I care about is your survival right now, so I'm going to make you smarter, I'm going to make you stronger, and I'm going to make you faster so that you can find that food.
0:10.5	And that's the beauty of Intermin fasting. It's these brief breaks from eating that mimic our
0:19.1	ancestral patterns and that make our genes happy.
0:23.2	From the Westin A Price Foundation,
0:31.4	welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in Food,
0:35.5	Farming, and the Healing Arts.
0:37.4	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal
0:42.0	health.
0:43.0	Hey everybody, I'm Hoda Labrada Gore and this is episode 223. Our guest today is Marisa Moon.
0:56.3	Marisa is a certified Primal Health Coach, an intermittent fasting instructor, and a long time
1:02.1	proponent of the wise tradition traditions way of eating.
1:04.4	Today we discuss not eating actually.
1:07.4	The topic is intermittent fasting to be exact.
1:10.6	Marisa covers its benefits including reducing systemic
1:14.0	inflammation, restoring metabolic balance, and stimulating brain cell growth
1:18.6	and connectivity. This last bit was especially important for
1:22.4	Marisa.
1:23.1	She actually started exploring the idea of intermittent fasting
1:26.5	to help her deal with her ADHD.
1:29.2	What I love about Marisa's approach to fasting
1:31.8	is that she's not big on a bunch of rules.
1:34.0	Today she gives us tips for how to fast intuitively.
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