there are some people to do extended fasting, shorter fasting. I'm a fan of women having at least

two meals within a feeding window. So that's why I'm a fan of a wider feeding window, six to

eight hours to allow themselves to eat enough protein to preserve and protect lean muscle so that

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So this deep dog conversation I got Cynthia Thurlow, and she's a nurse.

She is a nurse practitioner, but she's also an author of the bestselling book,

Intermittent Fasting Transformation.

She's a two-time TEDx speaker.

Her second talk had over 13 million views.

Yep, 13 million views.

She stands for intermittent fasting. She has changed

her own life through this. She's changed countless other people's lives for this. So I want to

dive into why this is an important topic for midlife women. Thanks for being here, Cynthia.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I think that intermittent fasting is not new, it's not unique. It's not

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