Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,

achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.

Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.

We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.

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 Waddier I am here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir

Hey how are you doing fantastic we are going to touch on a topic today and I have this book that you gave me since you were an audio book only guy you gave me this book the great cholesterol myth yeah and

actually not gonna be yeah not hard copy sorry in real physical form, I get to flip the pages, I get to rabbit ear them, I get to write in the margins, which might drive some of you all crazy, but that's how I roll.

So it is a national bestseller. It's a really great book and it's kind of like there's so much in there

it's almost too much but this is a topic that came up in our most recent 10 day fasting experience in terms of how fasting can affect, you know, day to day metrics,-day life day-to-day conversations with your spouse

with your doctor with your friends in really you know terms of overall health so

blood pressure, cholesterol levels.

The usual, the usual things that people are are taking medications for and

they're concerned about. They've seen it on their blood work and they're trying to

get these things under control, right? Yeah, so cholesterol is one. We got a

question and it came from, it came from someone who

posted a question on our episode list. This is from, let's see here, this is from Mackenzie underscore, so shout out to you. And I had a question with the research out there in terms of whether or not fasting has a beneficial effect on heart health,

specifically cholesterol levels. So we wanted to dive in and kind of dispel the myth just like the great cholesterol myth book that you gifted me and

Re assure you that fasting has a definite positive effect when used in the long term.

So a couple of things to talk just basic parameters. All the links to the research articles will be in the episode notes if you want to review them. But when we're talking about cholesterol, cholesterol is something that's made by the body.

So it's something that your body needs, all of your cells need it, and we've labeled it good or bad, right?

...