Cellular Renewal Through Fasting | Diabetes Breakthroughs with Dr. William Hsu
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Can five days of fasting change your life? A new approach called the fasting mimicking diet is transforming lives. Discover the science behind fasting without starving, how to trigger autophagy and cellular regeneration, and why this new paradigm in lifestyle medicine could reduce insulin resistance and even reverse type 2 diabetes.
Dr. William Hsu, Chief Medical Officer at L-Nutra and former Harvard Medical School faculty member, joins Chuck Carroll in this groundbreaking episode of The Exam Room Podcast recorded in Rochester, MN.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Since we have really begun to understand the molecular pathways on how fasting really |
| 0:10.5 | work to improve health, we can actually manipulate nutrients today so that we could provide |
| 0:16.5 | just enough nutrients. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi to the exam room |
| 0:33.4 | is listening in Sparks, Nevada, the Woodlands, Texas, and Bangkok, Thailand. Wherever you are, |
| 0:40.1 | we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 40 of season |
| 0:45.6 | 8, number 639 overall. Did you know that fasting for just five days a month could change your health or even reverse |
| 0:55.9 | type 2 diabetes? That is according to Harvard trained endocrinologist Dr. William Shoe, |
| 1:01.7 | who steps into the exam room with us today. He is also the chief medical officer at L. |
| 1:07.0 | Neutra. And we got together at the Lotus Health Foundation Symposium in Rochester, Minnesota |
| 1:12.6 | recently. And you are about to get an inside look at how the fasting mimicking diet helps to |
| 1:19.7 | trigger cellular repair and reduce insulin resistance all without the headache of traditional |
| 1:27.1 | fasting. So today is all about a deep dive |
| 1:30.5 | into how fasting works, the role of autophagy in healing, and what the latest clinical trials |
| 1:37.5 | are revealing. And we're also going to be touching on losing weight without losing muscle, |
| 1:43.6 | reducing insulin use and improved |
| 1:46.4 | metabolic health and we're gonna have more interviews from Rochester in the coming |
| 1:51.1 | weeks here on the exam room and I'm also looking forward to doing another |
| 1:55.4 | series of interviews in Cleveland at the National Health Association |
| 1:59.6 | conference coming up June 26 through the 29th, |
| 2:02.7 | including a big one on their big stage with Dr. Joel Furman, Stephen Esser, and Megan Grega. |
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