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Fasting For Life

Ep. 9 - Fasting Growth Hormone Boost, Metabolism, Muscle Building | Fat Burning, Ketosis, Thyroid, Natural Intermittent Fasting in Children | One Meal a Day Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 39 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 role of growth hormone in the body, how fasting affects its levels, and the diabolical relationship between insulin and growth hormone. Fasting provides an enormous boost in growth hormone production, which immediately translates into a 10X increase in fat loss and muscle building! This topic came from a listener writing into the show, so keep posting your questions, and we will keep pushing the conversation and transformation further!   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3127426   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19478787   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

Transcript

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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, good evening and welcome to the fasting for life podcast my name is

0:44.3

Dr Scott and I am here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good

0:48.9

evening sir how are you Scott doing great I heard a little birdie say that my introduction is pretty repetitive but I like consistency

0:57.2

We've been pretty good about recording on Tuesday evenings the energy is good the is clear. It's just been amazing after you know the last challenge that we did and the feedback we've been getting so super excited about tonight.

1:10.0

Yeah, me too me too. We're gonna go're going to go over some good feedback from everybody. Got some responses in some reviews and some direct questions that we're going to start addressing them tonight.

1:23.7

So I'm excited.

1:24.9

Yeah, dangle dangle a little little tidbit there.

1:27.8

I like it.

1:28.8

It's called the tease I believe in the radio industry, which I'm not part of so recap from last

1:34.5

week we talked about the industry of tracking steps and calories and calorie

1:41.8

counting in the 10,000 steps to nowhere study that doesn't really

1:47.4

exist and just all of these different things that I don't find to be enjoyable long term that are great for a 30 day challenge but not great for consistency over time.

1:57.5

So we dispelled a lot of things there.

2:01.0

Hopefully there was some encouragement in it also and then the easiest way to exercise which I actually heard from a couple of people

2:06.5

That they're already doing this you know kind of 15 to 20 minute thing every every day with just resistance bands or just body weight and they've seen better

2:14.9

results with this than in the past with gym memberships and trainers and all that kind of

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