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The Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Melanie Avalon, Barry Conrad
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 478 of the Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | If you want to burn fat, gain energy, and enhance your health by changing when you eat, not what you eat, with no calorie counting, then this show is for you. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Melanie Avalon, biohacker, founder of Avalon X, and author of What, When, Wine? |
| 0:26.6 | Lose weight and feel great with paleo-style meals, intermittent fasting, and wine. |
| 0:31.3 | And I'm joined by my co-host, Barry Conrad, actor, singer-songwriter, and creator and host of Bantor with BC. |
| 0:38.3 | For more on us, check out Melanieavalon.com and Barry Conrad official.com. |
| 0:43.6 | You can submit questions for the show by emailing questions at I havepodcast.com |
| 0:48.4 | or by going to I havepodcast.com. |
| 0:50.9 | We would love to hear from you. |
| 0:52.7 | Please remember the thoughts and opinions on this show do not constitute medical advice or treatment. |
| 0:58.5 | So, pour yourself a mug of black coffee, a cup of tea, or even a glass of wine if it's that |
| 1:04.6 | time, and get ready for the Intermint and Fasting Podcast. |
| 1:09.1 | A lot of probiotic brands love bragging about the massive numbers on the label, |
| 1:14.1 | billions and billions of bacteria. |
| 1:16.0 | But apparently the real question is, |
| 1:17.8 | can those bacteria even survive your stomach acid long enough to actually do anything useful? |
| 1:23.5 | That's why I'm so stoked to tell you all about probiotic breakthrough from bioptimizers. |
| 1:28.3 | It uses a strain of lactobacillus plantarium that's been stress tested in the lab to survive digestion. |
| 1:34.3 | In side-by-side testing, it showed over 30 times greater survival in bile and intestinal fluid than generic strains. |
| 1:40.3 | What I really like about the idea is that it's not just about big numbers on a label. |
| 1:45.4 | It's about whether the probiotic can actually make it where it needs to go. This strain is also |
| 1:50.6 | associated with digestive enzymes, gut supporting postbiotics, and compounds connected to the gut |
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