Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Hey everyone, we are in for a treat as we have the legend, the best-selling author of numerous books,

the founder of Primal Kitchen, one of our favorite brands here at MyBuddyGreen,

Mark, Assistant, back on the show. Mark, welcome. Thanks. Great to be back, Jason. It's been a long time.

It's been a long time and so the latest book, Two Meals a Day, Cookbooks, The Fowl Ops,

the previous book, you dive into fasting again, you have amazing, delectable recipes and so

look, I think so many people are aware of what intermittent fasting is or intermittent eating or

circadian fasting or time restricted eating, whatever you choose. There's no wrong answer here,

but I'm curious, you're a guy known for always being on top of the science.

What do we know about the benefits right now in terms of

choose your flavor of how you define what it is, what are the benefits and are they different

across different across the time spent fasting? No, that's a great question. What are the benefits?

The benefits, sometimes you have to put this in context. What are you looking to benefit by and from?

So one of the benefits is the creation of what we call metabolic flexibility. So you become very

good at burning fat in addition to what we're all good at, which is burning sugar. So one of the

benefits is the ability to burn off your stored body fat during all those times that you're not

actually eating food. And that is a huge benefit for a lot of people. Along with that benefit comes

of necessity, the ability to extract energy, to be energetic, to not have to feel low blood sugar

and mood swings and hangreness over the course of a day, just because you elected not to eat a meal

or two or three in a row. Your body becomes so metabolically efficient that you extract this

energy from your stored body fat from ketones, from a number of other substrate possibilities.

So there's an efficiency that comes with that, that begets an added sense of energy. And with that

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