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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, welcome to the fasting for life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott Waddier and I'm here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir

Hey Scott how are you doing great my friend gonna have a good conversation today about one of the, I don't want to say largest, but one of the most talked about, most thought about, most routinely discussed health metrics that we have in our current system. And last week we did an

episode around blood pressure and fasting and today we're going to be talking

about cholesterol and this question or conversation and we thought

it would be impactful to have a conversation around, came up from one of our challengers who had asked in our continuity group who asked about the fact that their numbers were elevated after they went and got routine blood work at the doctor's

office, which is the complete opposite of why they joined the fasting continuity group and started

fasting and they lost a bunch of weight and they're seeing all these

improvements but they're like wait a minute what happened like now they went into

freak out mode and there was concerns there and whatnot so we wanted to make sure

we have a very robust conversation around this.

So we should probably share first what happened in that situation and then we'll talk a little bit

about cholesterol, what our recommendations are if you are living the fasting lifestyle and how you should lead up to going to have some routine blood work done or blood work done for life insurance, right, or for the health

care premiums at work through your job, etc. And then we're actually going to shed some potential

light or some shade on the system that we currently have and put some food for thought out there in terms of some cholesterol numbers. Yeah, there absolutely is and I thought it was interesting where this

conversation came from because like you alluded to it can almost feel counterintuitive

where you get a recommendation potentially for a fast for 12 hours maybe before you go into to blood work to get you know physical or or

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