Does Intermittent Fasting Work and More Questions Answered | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Intermittent fasting is the most popular diet in the world, according to some estimates. But are its supposed health benefits legitimate?
Dr. Neal Barnard shares the upside of fasting and cautions about the things many people do unknowingly that erase its positive effects.
Dr. Barnard also answers other diet and health related questions when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Live.
Among the questions answered in the Doctor's Mailbag:
- How much fat should be in a low-fat diet?
- How can vegans get enough protein without eating nuts or legumes?
- Which plant-based foods are good for calcium?
- Are protein shakes healthy?
- Plus, many more!
Chuck also reports on a large study showing that a plant-based diet can protect against prostate cancer.
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | where I've been really impressed with what fasting can do. |
| 0:03.0 | Is you see people, particularly people would say |
| 0:05.6 | autoimmune conditions, where they often get dramatically better. |
| 0:09.1 | And the fast does some things that are obvious. |
| 0:11.1 | It's gonna calm your digestion. |
| 0:12.5 | You don't have things going down there anymore. |
| 0:14.0 | That's good. |
| 0:14.8 | But I think the big thing is you are no longer presenting |
| 0:18.2 | to your body a huge number of dietary antigens. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm gonna protein's in food that can trigger an immune response. |
| 0:26.9 | So when people have an autoimmune condition, |
| 0:29.6 | getting the foods out of their diet for a little while |
| 0:31.6 | can calm the system down. |
| 0:32.7 | Like a lot of people feel much better physically |
| 0:34.6 | and also better mental. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us |
| 0:50.6 | and more than 130 countries around the world. |
| 0:54.2 | So hello to the exam roomies listening today in France |
| 0:57.9 | and Australia, Japan, South Africa, Mozambique, |
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