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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Today we explore the fascinating world of fasting with Renee Fitton, MS, RD, a distinguished longevity dietitian. Renee takes us through the science of fasting, emphasizing that you can fast with food, and discusses its surprising benefits for sexual health and even optimizing testosterone levels. She shares her expertise in longevity nutrition, highlighting how understanding biochemical pathways and innovations in healthcare can extend our health span. Listen in as we address common myths about fasting and introduce the fasting-mimicking diet, showcasing how fasting can regulate blood sugar and improve metabolism, while also enhancing brain health, particularly in the context of Alzheimer's.
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In this episode we discuss...
(00:00) Benefits of Fasting for Health
(06:46) Types of Fasting for Optimal Longevity
(18:17) Fasting Myths and Truths
(24:30) Caffeine, Plant Compounds, and Fasting
(28:55) Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
(40:56) Fasting Types and Safety Protocols
(47:10) Prolonged Fasting Differences
(01:13:39) Biological Age, mTOR, and Transitioning Out of a Fast
(01:24:54) Fasting Mimicking Diet Protocol
(01:38:21) Embracing Progress, Not Perfection
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0:00.0 | The following is an Operation Podcast production. |
0:03.4 | What I'm about to say is going to make people question everything they ever knew about fasting. |
0:08.7 | You can fast with food. |
0:11.0 | Are there any benefits of fasting for our sexual health? |
0:14.1 | Yes. |
0:15.0 | Is there any hope for maintaining healthy testosterone levels, even increasing testosterone levels by fasting. |
0:21.0 | Fasting without a doubt is going to be beneficial. |
0:23.6 | And I cannot stress enough that there are lots of different kinds of fasts. |
0:28.6 | And you need to find the right one for you. |
0:31.6 | And not everyone should be fasting 16 hours a day every single day. |
0:35.6 | That personalization piece is key. What are these biochemical |
0:40.7 | pathways that when they're activated, we've seen that longevity is increased, decreased. The underpinnings |
0:46.4 | of longevity and understanding the science behind it has been going on for a long, long time. We just, |
0:51.2 | for a long time, didn't know how that translated to humans. And thankfully |
0:54.5 | now, a lot of that research is coming out. And we're really able to see how the background |
0:58.7 | science is tying into all of these changes that we can make in our lifestyle to activate |
1:04.4 | those pathways to our benefit. My name is Renee Fitten and I'm a longevity dietitian and this |
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