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From Curiosity.com, I'm Cody Goff.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today, you'll learn whether you should exercise on an empty stomach, how it affects you when you hook back up with your ex, and

how researchers measure curiosity, with some help from Jean Cohen from Survey Monkey, and Spencer

Harrison from Inciad.

Would satisfy some curiosity.

Should you exercise on an empty stomach?

There's an idea called Fasted Cardio, which says working out before breakfast is a magic bullet for burning fat.

And today, I'll tell you what science says about it.

Can I tell you straight up how Hapam that you wrote about this? I'm kind of

neurotic about my exercise routine and I feel like I shouldn't be eating around

the time I exercise and that stops me from exercising but I should be eating around the time I exercise and that stops me from exercising but I shouldn't let

it stop me because of what you wrote about.

Totally.

I feel like if there's one lesson about exercise that everyone should know is just calm down.

Just take it easy.

Don't worry about the rules.

As long as you exercise, you're good.

That's good. So here's the basic idea behind fasted cardio.

When you sleep, your metabolism keeps on ticking.

So when you wake up and exercise before you eat,

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