Episode #3: Intermittent Fasting with Mark Sisson
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Mark Sisson discusses his strategy of eating in a compressed time window of typically 1pm-7pm each day, and various other methods of Intermittent Fasting. He details the various strategies for post-workout recovery, comparing the carb paradigm strategy of immediate refueling with the Primal strategy of optimizing hormonal benefits by fasting until hunger ensues after intense workouts.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the way you discover the Aquable Ballast point is... |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | You say, okay, I think I'm pretty good to bring fat. |
| 0:08.0 | From our studios in Malibu, California. |
| 0:10.0 | Let me skip a meal once in a while and see him in a festival. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, it's Brad Kearns, back here in the Malibu Primal Blueprint Studio for another Mark's Sisson podcast. Thanks for coming, Mark. |
| 0:22.3 | Always a pleasure. How about we talk about where you stand right now with this, the burgeoning |
| 0:27.7 | primal paleo movement is so big now that it's sort of branched out into, I guess you'd call them, |
| 0:32.7 | various factions, sometimes arguing about the particulars and the details now that they've got the basics down. |
| 0:39.1 | So I thought we'd talk about some of your dietary practices and where you stand with the various |
| 0:43.1 | hot button topics. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I mean, I'm open to all manner of eating styles. |
| 0:50.9 | I mean, that's the basic premise and underlying foundation of paleo and primal |
| 0:57.5 | is this sort of fractal eating and the concept of there is no particular time with it |
| 1:04.6 | we should be eating or no particular schedule upon which we should be eating. And then having |
| 1:09.2 | said that, I have my own schedule, which is I'm currently on a compressed |
| 1:12.8 | eating window. |
| 1:13.3 | So typically I eat between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. |
| 1:19.4 | And that means I'll have a reasonably good-sized lunch, probably a snack in the afternoon, |
| 1:27.0 | typically macadamia nuts or something like that. |
| 1:28.8 | And then an enjoyable evening meal, typically, again, a piece of red meat or fish with grilled |
| 1:35.6 | vegetables, a glass of wine. And then I don't eat again until 1 o'clock the next day. |
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