This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

Today I'm delighted to have Dr. Jason Fum

who is a well-known world-leading expert in intermittent fasting, as well as low-carb.

He is a Canadian-trained nephrologist, which means he's a kidney doctor.

He has written many best-selling health books including the complete

guide to fasting obesity code in the life in the fast lane and has an upcoming book

coming out called Cancer Code. It is an absolute pleasure to have you here with me this morning, Dr. Fung.

How are you doing?

Good, and thanks for having me on, Cynthia. It's great to meet you.

Absolutely. Well, let's start from the beginning. So I know that you are up in Canada.

How are things going, you know, given the fact I've heard there, they lifted restrictions and now you have more restrictions given cousin.

How are things going there for you?

It's all right. I mean,'s you know I think it was the same everywhere same as in Europe. You know they had gotten everything sort of down from the COVID and then now they're seeing this big spike. So we're seeing much the same thing.

But luckily, there's not as many hospitalizations

and deaths this time around, which is big.

So there's a lot of cases, but there's less in the hospital so that's always

good to hear.

Absolutely less severity is definitely a good thing but I'd love to kind of hear your

story I know you also are traditionally Western Medicine trained and kind of came to the realization that some of the strategies you were using with your patients were kind of missing the mark. You know, we can address disease after the fact,

but from a preventative standpoint.

So what initially got you interested in

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