Ep. 327 - Calories vs. Hormones: The Real Reason Diets Fail | Insulin & Fat Loss | Fasting to Fix Your Metabolism | Sleep & Cortisol Impact | Intermittent Fasting Strategy | Join Our Next Fasting Challenge!

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 38 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 that
0:30.1	we have learned along the way.
0:43.7	Hey everyone, welcome to the Fastening for Life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott Wadier, and I'm here, as always, I'm a good friend and colleague, Tommy Welling. Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:47.3	Hey, Scott. How are you? Doing fantastic, my friend. Excited for today's conversation,
0:53.1	stemming from a couple of social media posts on Instagram
0:57.0	of follows that I enjoy. We are going to once and for all take on the who wins the calorie
1:05.0	out model, the AK, eat less, move more versus the carb insulin model of obesity, which means it's your
1:11.5	insulin and your hormones. And we're going to bury the lead for just a minute and dangle the
1:16.7	care, but we're going to break it down in a fasting for life adaptation. It's going to be a fun
1:21.6	conversation talking about how, why diets fail and the actual physiology of how you lose fat but most
1:30.4	importantly how you apply that to your fasting lifestyle to lose the weight regain
1:34.7	the energy prevent disease reverse disease whatever it is that you're trying
1:38.3	to do with your fasting efforts to improve your day to day and get the results
1:43.0	of long-term weight loss and health that
1:44.9	you truly deserve. So if you are new to the podcast, welcome in. It's going to be a fun one.
1:49.5	You want to know more about why we do, what we do week in and week out. Head back to episode
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