Well, hello there. This is episode 338 of the keto diet podcast. Thanks for being here. We have a good one planned for you today. We're talking about fasting for weight loss, just like the title promises. It's a good one. I really have nothing else to share other than we're talking about fasting for weight loss. If you have questions about today's content, you can go to

healthful pursuit.com slash contact and ask me. You can catch up on previous podcast

episodes and notes from today's show by going to keto dietpodcast.com or just look in the show

notes today. You can get all the links and details and access to different resources and things that I put in

there. So yeah, let's do this thing.

Hey, I'm Leanne Vogel. You're listening to the keto diet podcast. I've created a free guide

with tips on how to start keto and maintain your fat-fueled life. Grab it at healthful pursuit.com slash free as a little thank you for listening to the show.

Today's guest is Ashley Salvatore and she hosts a popular ketogenic intermittent fasting

YouTube channel helping women learn the basics and an easy-to-follow condensed way.

After losing 74 pounds as a stay-at-home mom of two, she uses her own experience

and research to help others stay motivated and get the best results from this lifestyle.

She also shares her favorite recipes on her blog 24 karat keto.com and offers free tips and

tricks. Okay, so if you've been following me for a while, you know that I have like a love,

hate relationship with fasting. I think it's such a great tool for women that respond well

to it, but it can also be a detrimental tool to women that don't respond well to it. I know that

sounds like really simple, but you'd be amazed at how many of us practice fasting when it's

actually not working well for our bodies and we just continue fasting because we've

been told that it's so good for us. And yeah, there are so many benefits to fasting. But let's say,

for example, you have a cortisol imbalance, meaning that perhaps your cortisol is quite low or

you're struggling with a really high cortisol. When we fast, we actually increase cortisol.

So if you're dealing with adrenal dysfunction

where the cortisol in your body isn't exactly doing what we wanted to do,

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