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Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! In this episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss how fasting can be used for optimal healing, surgical outcomes, and diabetic ulcers. Research findings and personal observations lead to pushing against the cutting edge of what is known about fasting's benefits. All of this can be applied by using your fasting and eating windows to create the best version of yourself. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069085/ Looking for some encouragement? Check out the Fasting Wall of Fame! Have a question you'd like us to answer? Click here to send it to us or leave us a voicemail we can play on the show! Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it helps bring you the best original content each week. We also enjoy reading them! Sign up for the Fasting For Life newsletter at www.thefastingforlife.com Join the Community on Facebook! Follow Fasting For Life: www.facebook.com/thefastingforlife www.instagram.com/thefastingforlife

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.
0:03.4	And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.
0:07.1	This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,
0:11.9	achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.
0:15.0	Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.
0:20.0	We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.
0:25.0	We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone, welcome to the fasting for life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott water and I'm here as always
0:44.4	I'm a good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir. Hey Scott how are you doing fantastic my friend we are rock rocking and rolling in the thick of the holiday season, the last episode, holiday huddle blue.
0:59.0	Got some really cool feedback and comments and just people support in one another on this fasting lifestyle journey.
1:07.2	And we're going to go into a little nerd mode today with a question that we get pretty often and we have
1:16.2	never addressed directly through doing some digging into some research
1:22.1	articles and some studies and putting a different
1:25.3	framework or thought process to this. It's something I've personally gone through so we've
1:30.0	shared some stories and anecdotes and we'll share some of that today as well.
1:35.0	But really it's around fasting and surgery and there's so many thousands of
1:45.6	hundreds of thousands of different types of surgeries out there that it's impossible to really hone in on one specifics.
1:49.6	We're going to go 30,000 foot.
1:51.4	We're going to talk about something very specifically related to blood sugar and diabetes and wound healing and those types of things.
1:57.7	But the question really stemmed from, hey, is there a benefit to fasting in regards to healing and pre-imposed surgery?
2:08.6	Yeah because we like we start to automatically start drawing conclusions when we're talking about
2:14.0	optimizing blood pressure, cholesterol, blood work, weight, you know, like all of these kind of things,
2:20.7	sleep, stress levels and you start to go like okay well it
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