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Ep. 156 - Shift work and Fasting! The Healthy Heroes Study: Decreasing Cardio Metabolic Risks | Free Intermittent Fasting Plan for OMAD

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! In today’s episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss an interesting study on the effects of time restricted eating (fasting) on shift workers. There have been shown to be increased cardiometabolic risks for this population of workers. However, this study shows how fasting and a fasting lifestyle can combat some of those potential health risks! They include essential frontline workers, such as physicians, nurses, police, pilots, and firefighters. These essential workers are the heroes of our society, hence the name The Healthy Heroes Study. Shout out to all the folks that fill these hours and keep us safe and keep us going!    Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog   Let’s continue the conversation. Click the link below to JOIN the Fasting For Life Community, a group of likeminded, new and experienced fasters! The first two rules of fasting need not apply!   Fasting For Life Community - Join HERE   This week in the community…   New to the podcast and wondering where to start? Head to the website and download our FREE Fast Start Guide, 6 simple steps to put One Meal a Day Fasting (OMAD) into practice!   Maybe you are experienced as a faster and wondering about your results and IF they could be linked to INSULIN resistance? Head over to the website and download our FREE Insulin Resistance Assessment!   Or get both here at our website:  www.thefastingforlife.com/resources   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   Follow Fasting For Life: www.facebook.com/thefastingforlife www.instagram.com/thefastingforlife Join the Community on Facebook! Reference Article: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(22)00361-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1550413122003618%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

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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 I'm a good friend and colleague Tommy Well and good afternoon to you sir

0:47.3

Hey Scott how are you doing fantastic my friend excited for today's. We are going to be talking about a subset of the

0:56.5

population today out of the Healthy Hero study. So shift workers, specifically physicians, nurses,

1:04.0

police, pilots, firefighters, the front line workers

1:07.0

that we are so appreciative of,

1:10.0

but you guys are subject to having increased cardiometabolic risk.

1:15.0

So we're going to be talking in detail about a study that has recently come out.

1:20.0

But that doesn't let the rest of us off the hook because there is a large segment of the population that also has the same lifestyle disruptions as our frontline heroes, right?

1:33.9

As the people that are out there that have flipped their life, right,

1:37.1

because of their work outside of that standard 9 to 5.

1:40.4

So today's episode, we feel is gonna be applicable to all of us. We're going to talk about decreasing

1:44.7

those cardio metabolic risks and then also specifically for those shift workers on how you guys can

1:50.8

still incorporate a fasting lifestyle to lose the weight and get healthy,

1:54.8

which is the whole point of fasting from our perspective. Tommy, if you guys are new to the

2:00.9

podcast, please go go back listen to episode

2:03.6

zero and episode one if you feel so inclined.

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