What a family welcome to episode 237 of The Genius Life.

What's popping everybody welcome back to another episode of The Show.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times,

bestselling author.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we

eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel and

our health span and risk for disease.

This episode of The Show welcomes Cynthia Thurlow.

Cynthia is a nurse practitioner, intermittent fasting and nutrition expert, two-time TEDx

speaker, host of the Everyday Wellness Podcast, and author of intermittent fasting transformation,

the 45-day program for women to lose stubborn weight, improve hormonal health, and slow aging.

On today's episode of The Show, we are going to discuss the potential problem with food

abundance and frequent eating, and why time restricted eating is possibly more aligned with

the way our bodies evolved to deal with food scarcity.

We're going to talk about why you should slowly shrink your eating window, if intermittent

fasting is something that you are curious about, and why eating earlier in the day is potentially

better for your circadian rhythms and can help improve insulin sensitivity.

We're going to talk about how much protein you should be consuming in a day, why you should

always break your fast with protein, and why the calories and calories out approach is

too simplistic for most people.

There's a lot here, Cynthia is very smart, and we discussed fasting generally, so for

all genders, if you're interested in fasting, this is going to be an episode that you're

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