In 2016, Yashinori Osumi, the Japanese cell biologist, won the Nobel Prize in medicine

for his work on fasting and cellular atophagy.

fasting meaning not eating for a certain period of time

and cellular atophagy.

You can think of this kind of like a deep cleansing of your cells

to get rid of viruses and bacteria,

to get rid of old damaged cells. It's like a

deep cleansing for your body that happens in a fasted state when you're not eating.

Since this 2016 Nobel Prize, the practice and research in writing in both mainstream and in pop health

literature around intermittent fasting has really exploded and for good reason.

If you practice meal timing, at a very very basic and

manageable non-extrem level if you go for a simple fast between dinner and

breakfast you can really dramatically increase your metabolic health, reduce your body fat, and in many cases

lose weight without really changing anything else at all.

I know this sounds too good to be true, it sounds like the latest pop-fat diet, but there's

nothing new about it but there's nothing

trendy about it it's all based on really really simple science that once you

understand seems obvious and hard to ignore if you're new here it's the Lucas

Rockwood show I'm your host I'm a yoga teacher and a trainer, a serial entrepreneur. I'm a father of three, but first and foremost, I am a student I like to learn. So I use this show as an excuse to go out into the world and find people who are writing books,

doing research, sitting on meditation cushions, and hopefully uncovering some interesting

things that can help all of us live a more fulfilled life.

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