Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

It is a new year, new you, and I wanted to start you off right.

So up next is an interview with an intermittent fasting expert, Dr. Jason Fong, I cannot

wait for you to listen to this. Those of you who are thinking

about doing something a little different, not necessarily using medication. You got this. You got

this. Hope you enjoy. Stay tuned. Renee Seiler is sitting in Good Enoughmother.com. And joining us is the

author bestselling books, two of them, obesity codeity Code and the Diabetes Code. He is a nephrologist and functional medicine advocate. I don't know what either of those things are, but he's here to talk with us today. Let me welcome Dr. Jason Fung. Welcome. Hi. Hi. Good to be there. Good to see you.

I've been sharing with the audience with the family here that I've started intermittent fasting.

I think I'm on day 10.

So what is intermittent fasting?

How does it work?

And why does it work?

Yeah.

So that's a great question.

So intermittent fasting.

So remember that fasting is really just any

period of time where you're not eating. So if you eat, then your body is going to store calories.

So what happens is you eat, you're taking in calories. Your body wants to store those calories.

So you store it either as sugar or as fat, body fat.

And when you don't eat, that's when your body sort of gets that signal and says, okay, well,

I don't have energy coming in, but you still need energy for your brain and your liver and your

heart and so on. So it's going to take the energy that's stored away as sugar or as fat,

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