Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Pl Plastic Surgeon and it's time for a five minute

Friday. Let's talk all about intermittent fasting. This is one of my favorite topics and it's the

holidays. You're going to want to overindulge or indulge or go to parties and eat things.

All your favorite holiday treats are in all the grocery stores and at all the parties.

And it's the season.

But there's a way to control what you eat and there's a lifestyle that can dramatically

improve your overall health, your anti-aging process, your longevity, your weight loss.

And that is intermittent fasting or time restricted eating and I am doing this

podcast again I did it a year ago roughly and this whole year I've been intermittent fasting and I've

been really delighted with the results that I've seen in myself and I think this is such a great

easy to do lifestyle change that all of us can benefit from.

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that helps you cycle between periods of fasting and periods of eating.

It's not really a diet. It is more about a lifestyle.

And the idea behind intermittent fasting is that when we

time restrict our eating we allow the GI tract and the digestive process and the

body to have time for rest regeneration and repair processes when we eat all day

long like sprinklings of breakfast lunch dinner. As we've previously been taught that breakfast

is the most important meal of the day, that we need to eat frequent, small meals, take lots

of breaks and have little mini meals all day long. We've previously been taught that, but more and more

and more research shows that this is a bad way to fuel our systems. Because not only are you constantly

putting food inside your digestive tract, your stomach, your colon, your intestine is always on.

It never has a chance to empty, deplete, reset, and refresh. But also your insulin levels are

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