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Today on Habits and Hustle, we have Dr. Mindy Pels who is an expert in fasting, right?

She's an expert in fasting and she created a diet called the reset or diet. I really

wanted to speak with you because I'm actually very curious about fasting. It's kind of like

a non-believer, so to speak, because I think I don't really understand all the nooks and

crannies of the benefits. I wanted to get you on. I guess first start with why I think

it's become such a fat and such a trend right now. What is it about fasting? Can you just

kind of break it down from the beginning? Why has fasting become the new coconut oil or

the new tail? I think you have to go back to look at how we were designed. The human body

was designed to go without food. When you go without food, there's some really interesting

chemical reactions that happen that people are finding are really healing. Your body starts

to drop weight. It can help enhance brain function. Why the fasting craze has caught on so much

is that all we're doing is going back to how we were originally designed. If we just kind

of dive back into caveman days and you think about it, we didn't have food accessible to us all day

long. The cave people would wake up and they would have to go out and hunt. In order to go hunt,

it was in their best interest for their body to have energy, to have really incredible mental

clarity, and they needed to be at their best so they could go make a kill. We literally have a

whole chemistry system and we can break down what exactly that is that kicks in when we don't

eat food. The minute you eat food, you shut this chemistry off. That's what people are discovering

with fasting is all of a sudden they're like, oh my gosh, I didn't know that ketones could help

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