Welcome to the Diet Doctor Podcast.

Today it's my pleasure to be joined by Dr. Jason Fung from the IDM program.

Now Jason has been revolutionary in his use of intermittent fasting to treat obesity and to treat diabetes.

And in this discussion we cover a lot of that but we take it a bit further, and you get to hear Jason's perspective about how other diseases,

such as cancer, polycystic, ovary syndrome,

and even little hints at longevity,

how they can all be related to a similar process of too much insulin.

And we talk about where the levels of evidence exists for this and how we can kind

of approach patients both with and without the evidence.

So I hope there's a lot of take-home messages that you can take away from this interview

to see how you can implement them in your lives if you're suffering from any of these issues,

but also how to sort of reframe this issue of insulin, its impact on our lives and our

health and how we can implement fasting as a way to approach that.

Now, to be fair, fasting means a lot of different things to different people.

So we talk about the definitions and we talk about ways to make sure it's done safely

because that's very important. Just because something's good doesn't mean more of it's better.

And I think that's an important take home with fasting as well. Doing it under supervision,

doing it safely can have a positive impact and that's part of what Jason has devoted a big

portion of his career to. Now, he's still a practicing nephrologist, and that's sort of where all this started.

But now with IDM program, he is reaching so many more people

and spreading the word more about the benefits of intermittent fasting.

So enjoy this interview with Dr. Jason Fong.

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