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The thing that's going against us, especially if we're living life blind and drinking soda and having just sandwiches and french fries and not moving,

is as our metabolism falls into the so-called insulin resistant or

metabolically dysfunctional category, we naturally become more

catabolic. Our muscle becomes compromised.

And part of that is because our baseline level of inflammation tends to increase.

And so it's even more important for people who have insulin resistance or some excess body

fat to be much more intentional about the amount of protein they eat, but also resistance training, because their body is naturally

prone to start to break down both their bone and their muscle tissue.

If you exercise, you don't need to fast as much.

There's more research supporting exercise as a tool to enhance

whatever one is trying to achieve with fasting known as the process of autophagy. It's more powerful than

fasting and I can say that with confidence based upon human and clinical studies.

I think the best thing associated with exercises

it just makes your mood so much better, right?

And then you make better health decisions.

Mike, believe it or not, it's been over two years since we last chatted.

Time just flies by and continues to over the years.

It's always good to see you.

Likewise, I'm curious just to kick things off here. Have you had any major

changes diet and lifestyle wise since we last chatted? Great question. A few things I would say, I got really into low-carbon and keto for many years and I still eat that way, but my daughter is now a, she does a lot of endurance athletics she's nationally ranked track

athlete in cross-country athletes so adding more diversity I mean she has been

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