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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,

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My name is Dr. Scott Watier.adier I am here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good morning to you sir

Morning Scott how are you rock and rollman coffee's kicking in I am in a fast so I think my ketone levels are elevated. My brain

cognition is firing on all cylinders. I feel good and that's exactly what we're going to talk about with a really cool article that we found in regards to

ketones and brain metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases and all this fun stuff so I'm super excited.

Yeah me too. We get a lot of questions about this how to test ketones when do you

normally test what do you guys recommend and do I need to test?

Yeah, and what are some of the benefits of fasting outside of just weight loss?

So I think this is a great article and great subject kind of covers all those things.

Yeah and so the articles it'll be in the show notes. You can get it if you want it.

There's also access to the full version as well and it's the International Journal molecular science in

2020 so it just came out this November and I love when new stuff gets dropped because there's a lot of times

you go into the health and nutrition world and a lot of the research has been around a

while which is also good because it's had time to be like you know rechecked and redone and

reanalyzed and there's a big metal analysis that came out on a

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