Ep. 307 - Hair Loss During Fasting | Artificial Sweeteners & Insulin | Running Fasted | Alternate Day Fasting | Q&A on Common Fasting Challenges | Join Our Next Fasting Challenge!

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Wadier.
0:03.0	And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the Fasting for Life podcast.
0:07.0	This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health, 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
0:21.2	from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design. We started fasting
0:25.9	for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools
0:30.0	that we have learned along the way.
0:31.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the Fasting for Life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott White here,
0:43.3	and I'm here, as always, and a good friend and colleague, Tommy Welling. Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:46.8	Hey, Scott. How are you? Doing fantastic, my friend. Excited for today's conversation. We're going to be doing a listener
0:52.9	Q&A. We've had an inordinate amount of questions come in recently. So we're going to be doing a listener Q&A. We've had an inordinate amount of questions
0:56.1	come in recently. So we're going to get to a handful of them efficiently, quickly, and also
1:01.5	landing the plane with some action steps that you can take away. We like to choose these questions
1:06.8	that can apply to, like the general population common questions common concerns common fears common
1:13.6	myths and some new things that we've never actually talked about in detail or at least that we can
1:18.6	recall after 300 plus episodes so we'll get into that in just a minute if you are new to the podcast
1:23.4	welcome in thanks for giving us a shot thanks for joining us on our fasting lifestyle journey. If you want to know more about Tommy, more about myself and our journey with fasting and how it transformed our lives, head back to episode zero, episode one. Give it a listen. It'll give you a little bit of insight into why we do what we do week in and week out with the podcast with our challenges or resources all the links that you
1:45.4	could ever need for resources or in the show notes if you want to head there after you listen
1:48.6	but excited to have you with us if you're a long-term listener thank you so much for the likes
1:53.4	rates reviews shares and we have a couple shoutouts that we'll give here we'll do one this
2:00.0	episode and one next episode. A couple of new
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