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Today you'll hear from Dr. Bert Herring. Dr. Herring is a graduate of Southwestern University and Texas A&M College of Medicine.

After medical school he served as a medical officer and the US Navy assigned to the Marine Corps.

Following his service, Dr. Herring joined the Public Health Service as a researcher in the metabolism branch in the metabolism branch of the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institute for Health.

A TEDx speaker in 2005, Dr. Bert, showed the world a way to maintain practical, sustainable weight management with intermittent fasting, with his first book, The Fast Five Diet and The Fast Five Lifestyle.

His latest work in research can be found in AC, the power of appetite correction. Dr. Bert has a diverse range of experience, from the no-nonsense world of the US Marine Infantry to his cutting edge cancer research at the National Institute of Health.

Dr. Bert maintains a strong sense of practicality, his approach to wellness and weight management centers around the study of one, which we'll discuss in this interview.

Today, Dr. Herring shares with us his Fast Five Protocol, a shortened window of intermittent fasting.

To learn more about Dr. Bert, go to www.BertHerringHERRNG.com, check out his free downloads, be sure to watch his TEDx talk.

And without further ado, Dr. Bert Herring MD.

Well, it is a pleasure to have you here today, and I'm bubbling over with excitement because mainly because of your approach, it's so realistic, it's so common sense, which seems remarkably uncommon these days.

Dr. Bert, what is meant by a term you use the study of one as it pertains to diet?

Thanks for having me on your show. It's a pleasure to talk with you and with your audience. The study of one means that you're looking at yourself, that you're the only one in the study, and so you're both the observer and the participant in the study.

And that's not really a scientific way to go about things, but the reason that I find it terribly important is that everybody is unique, and there were all human and we all share 99% plus of our DNA.

We have changes over our lifetimes and even siblings who share their parents DNA are different from each other. And when we add that to having a different lifestyle or different environment that we're living in, everybody winds up with a totally different deck of cards to work with in terms of handling problems that come up in their bodies.

And the other side of it is that a lot of people approach weight loss as if their body is where the problem is. And I don't see it that way. I see that our culture is where the problem is because if you take any one of these bodies outside of the culture and either turn to clock back a hundred years or put them in an environment where there's more activity, food is harder to come by, then all of a sudden the weight starts to drop off.

And so I like for people to start from the point that of knowing that their body is good stuff and it is doing what is built to do. It's just terribly confused by the kind of environment that it's currently existing in.

By making changes outside of the body, we can avoid having to make changes inside the body with either drops or surgery.

How is it though we are so scared almost I mean I find with many the people I work with they don't want to trust themselves they want the rules of someone else's diet they want a definitive answer so that they can say this is bad and this is good and I can memorize this and I'll be okay.

Why is it we are so reluctant to trust ourselves or to assume that we might be in exception even though someone says everyone should be eating boat loads of kale.

Well I think that that comes from going up an environment where there's an expert for everything everybody's got their subspecialty on TV we're always seeing an expert on this our expert on that does have to be related to health care when it comes down to the study of one you're the expert in your own body.

And the environment that somebody is living in is like that it's complex but they know where things are they know what they can change they know what they can't change if we put those together that kind of expertise of knowing where you really are with a little bit of confidence in being able to make a change in the context of the study of one which means you make a change you look at it you you see for yourself whether or not did any good for you.

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