This is the type of fasting that's been shown in the majority of studies to actually promote lifespan

and promote it pretty significantly, anywhere between, you know, 30 to 60%.

And that is independent of caloric restriction. So there is something really interesting that's specific to fasting that happens where even if you don't

reduce overall calories, you still get this lifespan extension from just delaying when you're eating.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie. It's me,

your host, Dr. Stephanie

Esteema. And today we are talking about, dun, dun, da, fasting. Has she changed her mind? No, she

hasn't. Spoiler alert. We're talking all about the benefits of fasting, but we are taking a

slightly different angle. We are going to be talking about those of us,

aka myself and probably many of you, who don't want to fast, who are not willing to fast,

but what are some of the alternatives if we still want to benefit from some of the things that

fasting offers us? You, if you've listened to my show for,

or listen to me anywhere, you know that my views on fasting have really changed, very much

softened, especially for women in midlife, where we are thinking about preserving as much

as we can muscle and bone and joint and organ weight. And undeniably, there are benefits to fasting that you just don't get

when you are in a fed state. So my guest today is talking about some of those benefits of fasting

and what we can do when we don't want to fast. His name is Dr. Chris Rhodes, and he is a nutritional

biochemist and researcher formerly at UC Davis,

whose doctoral and postdoctoral work focused on the molecular responses of the human body

to prolonged fasting, notably a 36-hour fast. And so in this conversation, we are talking about

the different lengths of time for fasting and what are some of the

benefits that we see. And you'll very quickly see that his research focuses in and around that

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