#42 - Bret Scher, MD

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I discuss the science behind intermittent fasting and fasting-mimicking diets, also known as FMDs. Do these two techniques achieve the same benefits? Is one better than the other? What does the science say, and what are the practical factors that impact choosing one or the other? With intermittent fasting becoming more popular among healthcare practitioners, and with the availability of packaged fasting-mimicking diets, it's time to evaluate these two eating regimens, both from an objective and subjective perspective. This episode is a break from our interview style — I'll take the mic for the whole show. But don't worry. We'll be back to our usual interview format in the next episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast.
0:05.0	Now today is a little bit of a different episode.
0:08.0	I don't really have to record an introduction
0:10.0	because the guest today is me.
0:12.0	I'm just gonna do this on my own today
0:14.0	and part of this is brought on by a prior podcast.
0:18.0	So let me give you the background here.
0:20.0	In episode four, I interviewed Dr. Joseph Antune, he's the CEO of El Nutra, and they have a
0:26.6	commercial product for a fasting-mimicking diet.
0:29.6	Now, during that interview, I didn't do a very good job of separating the topics of fasting
0:35.6	and a fasting-mimicking diet. In my brain, I sort of kept them as
0:40.2	one. I was including them together, but I didn't really come out and say that. So he was answering
0:46.4	all the questions from the background of a fasting mimicking diet, which makes complete sense because
0:50.8	that's his area of expertise. And I was sort of interpreting all that as a
0:55.0	combination of fasting and fasting mimicking diet. Okay, so why am I going through all this?
0:59.7	Because it made me think, well, what do we know about the differences between fasting and a
1:05.0	fasting mimicking diet? What does the science say for one or the other? And how can we as individuals decide which is better for us, depending on our health
1:15.1	goals, depending on where we're starting from and just depending on our social situations?
1:20.7	Is there enough science to say one is better or different than the other?
1:24.6	So that got me thinking and said, you know what?
1:26.6	I want to do another episode to dig into this a little bit deeper so that people can understand
1:31.3	so I can understand and I can help you understand a little bit better because like I said,
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