541: Intermittent Fasting: The Biggest Mistakes That Stop You From Losing Weight! | Cynthia Thurlow
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/541cynthiathurlow
Cynthia Thurlow (IG: @cynthina_thurlow_) is a nurse practitioner, author of the bestselling book Intermittent Fasting Transformation, a 2x TEDx speaker, with her second talk having more than 14 million views, and the host of Everyday Wellness podcast.
If you feel like intermittent fasting isn’t working for you or your results should be better, this could be the breakthrough you need!
In this episode, we discuss:
- The biggest intermittent fasting mistakes
- Get high-quality sleep today!
- Are you a fast metabolizer of caffeine?
- Intermittent fasting is a form of hormetic stress
- There is no one-size-fits-all for health
- Setting healthy boundaries
- How Cynthia breaks a fast
- Why she aims for 110g of protein a day
- A typical day of fasting, exercise & eating for Cynthia
- Her daily electrolyte routine
- Is stevia ok when fasting?
- Why Cynthia increases her protein intake 1x a week
- What is insulin sensitivity? + Why it matters
- 10 ways to lower your blood sugar naturally
- What is a fasting insulin test?
- Building muscle is critical for metabolic health
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | The other more common thing that I will see with some regularity is dirty fasting. |
| 0:09.8 | And so people don't like me to talk about this, but I'm going to, because I think it's |
| 0:13.9 | so important to understand that if you are weight loss resistant, what you eat in your |
| 0:20.5 | fasting timeframe is important. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 541. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:37.1 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around |
| 0:40.9 | the world. |
| 0:41.9 | This week I'm chatting with Cynthia Thurlow again. |
| 0:44.8 | Cynthia is a nurse practitioner, author of the best-selling book Intermittent Fasting |
| 0:48.6 | Transformation. |
| 0:49.6 | She's a two-time TEDx speaker with her second talk having more than 14 million views. |
| 0:55.4 | And she's also the host of everyday wellness podcast. |
| 0:58.6 | If you feel like Intermittent fasting isn't working for you or your results should |
| 1:02.4 | be better, this could be the breakthrough you've been looking for. |
| 1:05.6 | Highlights include the biggest mistakes people make when Intermittent fasting, a typical |
| 1:10.5 | day of fasting exercise and eating for Cynthia is stevia okay when fasting, why Cynthia |
| 1:16.9 | increases her protein intake one time a week, and building muscle is critical for metabolic |
| 1:22.3 | health. |
| 1:23.6 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full conversations available over |
| 1:28.2 | on YouTube, you can get there by going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. |
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