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Fasting For Life

Ep. 45 - Insulin Index to choose foods to extend ketosis and break fasts | Fasting support for a low insulin friendly lifestyle | Powerful fasting boost to keto, carnivore, low carb, and paleo diets | Free OMAD Intermittent Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 33 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 this episode Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss the little-known "insulin index" and how it relates to making smart food choices that support fasting for fat loss and health. Many popular food choices easily become part of a low-satiety, high insulin, high cravings cycle that leads to fat storage. The trouble is often how to reverse the cycle and create momentum that leads to long-term changes. They discuss how to connect the dots that lead to lifelong transformation.   Insulin Index Analysis Chart The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity: Beyond ‘Calories In, Calories Out’   Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog   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 really makes a difference in helping to bring you the best original content each week. We also just 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

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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

0:43.6

Wadier I'm here with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir

0:47.6

hey are you doing great aha moment for today's episode. We were going to discuss the insulin index and what that is and how it differs from the glucose index or the more applicable here or the glycemic index or the glycemic score

1:08.6

which actually has a little bit more real life application to it. So we went to this profile that we have found when we were trying

1:17.1

to do research on the insulin-friendly lifestyle and put together all these resources, right? And we found

1:21.7

this person, Marty Kendall, and he has this just aggregate website,

1:27.6

and the link will be in the episode notes, but of all of these graphs showing the insulin index of you know ingesting a certain food

1:38.0

and what that does to your glucose and your insulin and just all of these cool

1:42.1

comparative visuals.

1:43.6

Yeah, we went down a rabbit hole.

1:46.7

Yeah, just a little bit.

1:48.2

Some of the visuals are just are phenomenal,

1:50.7

just taking these different angles that we just really hadn't considered before or discussed.

1:57.3

And so, you know, just looking at food in a different way and nutrient density and you know feelings of

2:04.3

satiety and how they affect you and the physiology but but different different

2:08.8

aspects to it than that too. So going through all of this, right,

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