389: Dave Asprey - Fast This Way to Burn Fat and Heal Inflammation
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/daveasprey389
Dave Asprey (IG: @dave.asprey) is the Founder & Chairman of Bulletproof. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling science author, host of the Webby award-winning podcast Bulletproof Radio, and has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, Dr. Oz, and more.
Today Dave is on the show for this 4th time to discuss his new book, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why Dave wrote Fast This Way
- The biggest fasting hacks
- What is grehlin?
- Drinking coffee that makes you hungry? (it might be toxic)
- The benefits of adding prebiotic fiber to your Bulletproof Coffee
- Why Dave's not a fan of exogenous ketones
- How to achieve metabolic flexibility
- Don’t fall into the fasting trap
- Women can start out fasting 3-4 days a week
- The process of autophagy
- The core definition of resilience
- Intermittent fasting is a sustainable practice for helping prevent disease
- The Four “F words” - Focus, Food, Fertility, & Friend
- Fasting provides a sense of peace and power
- The definition of biohacking in relation to intermittent fasting
- The great debate - water vs. Bulletproof Coffee fasts
- Coffee will give you better results during a fast
- Dave’s profound experience with a Shaman
- The difference between spiritual fasting and ayahuasca
- Holotropic breathing can induce altered states
- Why intermittent fasting matters
- Dave’s experience coming back into society after water fasting
- Is it safe for kids to fast?
- Fasting for women
- Activated charcoal is a magic supplement to add in while fasting
- Taking serrapeptase during a fast
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Related links:
Dave Asprey - Fast This Way (book)
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Dave Asprey - Super Human (book)
Dave Asprey - Game Changers (book)
Dave Asprey - Head Strong (book)
Dave Asprey - The Bulletproof Diet (book)
Listen to Dave Asprey previously on TUHP (episodes #061, #159, and #305)
Bulletproof Brain Octane C8 MCT Oil
Bulletproof InnerFuel Prebiotic
Gerald Pollack - The Fourth Phase of Water (book)
Tim Ferriss - The 4 Hour Body (book)
Related episodes:
Gary Taubes – Are Carbs Making You Fat? (#387)
369: Dr. Jason Fung – Stop Snacking & Start Fasting
353: Dr. Satchin Panda – Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) & Managing Your Light Exposure
311: Leanne Vogel – Keto For Women, Loving Your Body, Sailing Through Life
294: Dr. Sara Gottfried – Brain Body Diet, Start To Surrender, Reset With Intermittent Fasting
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | fasting has always been paired with spiritual practices throughout all of history. |
| 0:07.6 | And the reason it's been paired is that when you fast for two days, |
| 0:11.5 | you go into katosis and when you have those |
| 0:13.4 | ketones the same ones that come from mCT oil when you have those ketones |
| 0:16.5 | present in your brain you have more energy in the neurons than you normally do and |
| 0:20.4 | that provides you the extra energy to go within and do the awareness work. |
| 0:25.0 | So what you get as a person of any age who decides you're going to start any form of fasting |
| 0:31.0 | and there's many fasting for things that aren't food in fastest way |
| 0:34.5 | you get a sense of peace and a sense of power because what you thought was going |
| 0:39.6 | to kill you loses its power. Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 389. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:54.0 | Each week I'll bring you into conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:58.0 | And this week Dave Asprey is back on the show. |
| 1:01.0 | He's the founder and chairman of Bulletproof. He's a three-time New York Times |
| 1:04.5 | best-selling science author, hosted the Webby Award-winning podcast Bulletproof Radio, |
| 1:09.2 | and has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, Dr. Oz and more. |
| 1:15.0 | Today Dave is appearing on the show for his fourth time to discuss his new book Fast This Way. |
| 1:20.0 | Burn fat, heal inflammation, and eat like the high-performing human you are meant to be. |
| 1:24.8 | If you'd prefer to watch this episode versus Listen, it's over on YouTube in full, and you can |
| 1:29.2 | get there by going to Altamal Podcast.com slash YouTube, and a number of the more recent interviews are there as well |
| 1:34.8 | so be sure and check those out too and in the future when I can I'm going to record video for the |
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