393: Dr. Will Cole on Intuitive Fasting to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drwillcole393
Dr. Will Cole (IG: @drwillcole) is a leading functional medicine expert who consults people around the world via webcam and locally in Pittsburgh.
He just launched a new podcast, The Art of Being Well.
Will is the bestselling author of Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum.
His upcoming book, Intuitive Fasting, shows how to use the powerful benefits of flexible intermittent fasting to gain metabolic flexibility and find food peace.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The paradox of Intuitive Fasting
- What is metabolic flexibility?
- Will’s flexible 4-week fasting plan
- The 12/12 eating approach
- Your gut microbiome has a circadian rhythm
- Time-restricted feeding (TRF) is a type of intermittent fasting
- Earl grey tea has been shown to support autophagy
- Will’s typical day of eating/fasting
- Practicing the art of intuition
- Fasting for men vs. women
- Water fasts help people reset who are suffering from IBD, autoimmune, and food reactions
- Tea is the perfect fasting tool
- Will’s thoughts on coffee, fats, and collagen during a fast
- The benefits of MCT oil
- Should you take exogenous ketones?
- Fasting is free
- Will stumbled upon fasting during his teenage years
- The commonality between intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets
- Fasting resets and reconnects us
- Using eating and fasting windows as a mindfulness practice
- When friends/family aren’t supportive of your fasting lifestyle
- Chronic caloric restriction is not the same as fasting
- Break longer fasts
- The OMAD approach = one meal a day
- Why electrolytes are beneficial when fasting
- Building a community of intuitive fasters
- The most common challenge people experience when they start fasting
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Related links:
Dr. Will Cole - Intuitive Fasting (book)
Follow Dr. Will Cole on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Will Cole - The Inflammation Spectrum (book)
Dr. Will Cole - Ketotarian (book)
Listen to Dr. Will Cole previously on TUHP (episodes #244 and #317)
Jordan Rubin - Patient Heal Thyself (book)
Listen to Dr. Josh Axe previously on TUHP (episodes #089, #280, and #390)
Related episodes:
Dave Asprey – Fast This Way to Burn Fat and Heal Inflammation (#389)
Gary Taubes – Are Carbs Making You Fat? (#387)
369: Dr. Jason Fung – Stop Snacking & Start Fasting
311: Leanne Vogel – Keto For Women, Loving Your Body, Sailing Through Life
292: Chalene Johnson – 131 Method • Family Comes First • Stop The Food Rules
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | They hear this from patients, like, |
| 0:03.5 | what do I do when I'm not eating? |
| 0:04.6 | I'm so used to eating and they eat because they're bored |
| 0:07.2 | or they eat because they've always done that |
| 0:08.7 | or they eat because they're stressed. |
| 0:10.3 | If you're doing two meals a day |
| 0:11.4 | and you're getting your calories in later on in the day |
| 0:14.1 | or wherever you're having your eating window, |
| 0:16.4 | that can elicit some of uncomfortable |
| 0:18.4 | because it's something new. |
| 0:19.7 | Just like you're new to that yoga class. |
| 0:21.4 | Oh my gosh, like what the heck? |
| 0:22.8 | So I wanted that to bring some acts of stillness |
| 0:26.0 | and acts of mindfulness in their day |
| 0:28.5 | so they can use this way. |
| 0:29.9 | This is so much more than just fasting. |
| 0:31.3 | This is like, how can you maybe bring it |
| 0:33.2 | in journaling practice or gratitude practice |
| 0:35.3 | or a breathing exercise or getting out in nature? |
| 0:37.9 | Something to calm the racing egoic mind. |
| 0:42.3 | That's really what I want to do |
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