In this episode, I am speaking with Cynthia Thurlow, all about intermittent fasting.

She's a brilliant expert who knows a ton about the research in this area, and she is the author

of the book, Intermittent Fasting Transformation, the 45-day program for women

to lose stubborn weight, improve hormonal health, and slow aging. One quick thing, if you are a man,

don't be scared off by the fact that her book title, subtitle, is directed at women. This whole

conversation is very, very much relevant to men as well,

though we do touch on women's specific needs at a certain point in the podcast. And there's

lots of great nuggets here. There's many areas that I ask her some challenging questions,

some areas where we don't really have research to speak to the

answers. And I was interested to get her opinion on those topics. And I think you'll get a lot of

value from this. If you are interested in fasting, if you're interested in weight loss or improving

your metabolic health, and if you're also interested in learning about some of the potential

drawbacks or trade-offs

or caveats around fasting and intermittent fasting approaches, so enjoy.

So welcome to the show, Cynthia.

Such a pleasure to have you.

Thank you.

So nice to be here.

Yeah.

So first of all, you have written a book all about the benefits of fasting, intermittent fasting.

So let's start with a high level overview. Obviously, everybody who's listening to this has heard of fasting and intermittent fasting.

These topics have some degree of controversy in the scientific community with different sort of,

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