Answering Your Top Questions on Fasting, Snacking, Longevity, Alcohol and Caffeine with Cynthia Thurlow

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and InsideTracker. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Cynthia Thurlow to answer all your questions regarding hormonal health and how middle-aged women can tailor their diet and lifestyle to feel empowered and set themselves up for optimal health. Cynthia Thurlow is a nurse practitioner, CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project, and international speaker, with over 13 million views for her second TEDx talk (“Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique”). With over 20 years of experience in health and wellness, Cynthia is a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health and has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW, Medium, Entrepreneur, and The Megyn Kelly Show. In this episode, Dhru and Cynthia dive into: -The macronutrient goals Cynthia hits in a day (2:16) -If working out in a fasted state is beneficial for most women (5:58) -Signs that you’ve overextended yourself or are out of balance (21:24) -How Cynthia prioritizes sleep (24:13) -Bioidentical hormone therapy and how to know if it’s right for you (27:35) -Understanding your relationship with snacking and if you really need to do it (38:58) -How dehydration might be causing your fatigue (45:08) -Cynthia’s take on alcohol (57:21) -Cynthia and Dhru’s thoughts on caffeine and when it’s time to take a break (1:12:12) -Getting enough protein on a plant-based diet (1:26:43) -The research on supplementing with melatonin (1:30:03) Also mentioned in this episode: -Try This: Why You Need a Coffee Break and How to Do It -Why Women Are More Likely To Develop Alzheimer’s and How to Prevent It with Dr. Lisa Mosconi -Cynthia’s Podcast, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast -Cynthia's free Facebook Group: Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle/Cynthia Thurlow For more on Cynthia Thurlow, follow her on Instagram @cynthia_thurlow_ and through her website, https://www.cynthiathurlow.com. Get her book, Intermittent Fasting Transformation here. Cozy Earth has the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to https://www.cozyearth.com and use code DHRU. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're really genuinely hungry in between meals, then you didn't put your
0:03.4	meals together properly.
0:04.5	Either you needed more protein, maybe a little more fat.
0:07.4	We should be able to go four to five hours in between meals.
0:10.6	Ideally, that's what we should do for God optimization for the migrating motor
0:14.0	complex, all these specific mechanisms that go on in the body.
0:19.1	Welcome to the Drew Proid podcast.
0:21.1	Each week, we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of
0:24.4	the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.
0:27.3	This week's guest is Cynthia Thurlow.
0:30.2	For those of you that are out familiar, Cynthia is back on the podcast, answering your
0:34.8	questions in a deep question and answer session.
0:38.7	If you don't remember Cynthia from the last time she was here, she's a nurse
0:42.6	practitioner, author of the bestselling book, Intermittent Fasting Transformation,
0:47.0	and a two-time TEDx speaker whose videos have more than 13 million views.
0:53.6	What I truly love about Cynthia is that she has so much knowledge at the intersection of
0:58.1	fasting, strength, training, which is a super important topic we talk about today,
1:03.4	anti-aging and longevity, and metabolic health.
1:07.7	By the way, she knows a lot about mindset as well.
1:10.3	Here's a couple of deeper topics we get into today in our Q&A with Cynthia.
1:14.3	Number one, she walks us through what she eats in a day.
1:17.7	How does she organize her plate and think about food in the day?
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