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Hi, everyone.

In today's episode, I speak with Mike Mutzel about fasting.

And we go into a lot of nuance for how you can personalize a fasting protocol to you.

Because we've likely all heard about fasting, but what does that mean?

Do you go exclusive for four days?

Do you just skip breakfast or somewhere in between? We talk about how to match a fasting protocol

to an individual. He also makes a phenomenal point, which I think is worth repeating,

that there's not a meaningful impact on your thyroid when you fast.

In fact, someone may fast and by fasting lose weight, lower their blood sugar, and improve

their energy and their mood, yet their reverse T3 may go up a little bit telling us that

that is actually a healthy metabolic adaptation because

it's happening in the context of an individual becoming healthier. So we talk about thyroid, digestion,

immune, metabolic conditioning, brain health, and sleep. And we really get into some of the

nuance regarding sleep and fasting and how he has found that if you're tracking your sleep with an aura

ring, that if you eat too late and too close before bed, it can really have a deleterious

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