"Father of Biohacking" Dave Asprey on Fasting to Lose Weight and Gain Mental Clarity (Replay)
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Are you currently fasting or are considering starting one? Do you struggle to know where to begin or perhaps you’ve started and just aren’t seeing the benefits you had wished for?
On this episode of Health Theory, Tom Bilyeu is joined by two time New York Times bestselling author Dave Asprey, the "Father of Biohacking" and CEO and founder of Bulletproof 360, to discuss such matters and more as they explore the hidden benefits of fasting, what to avoid when starting out a fast, and how to apply ‘fasting’ to every area of your life.
They discuss the many different types of fasting, the pitfalls of hardcore fasting, what defines a fast, the healing power of fiber on your gut, how to eat and still be in a fast, what the true benefits beyond weight loss are of fasting, how to lower inflammation in the body, spiritual fasting, how you can begin fasting in an easy, yet effective, way and so much more.
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QUOTES:
“You don’t have to experience pain and hunger to get the benefits of fasting and to go into fasting.” [5:04]
“Fasting the same way everyday is bad for you. Because it doesn’t lend your body the idea of metabolic flexibility. It’s like, “Oh, I live in a world where there’s almost never enough food.” So have breakfast every now and then…” [24:08]
“When most people hear fasting, all they hear is, “I’ll starve therefore, I’ll die,” and then they blank out to it. No, this is about more energy and it’s about more clarity and less time wasted.” [41:53]
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| 0:00.0 | You can fast without ever being hungry and without ever suffering, and you'll have more energy. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Health Theory. I am here with a multiple Pete guest who I |
| 0:15.4 | always enjoy spending time with Dave Asprey. Dave, welcome to the show. Tom, I'm so happy to be back and I'm sad. I'm not in your |
| 0:21.9 | living room. Oh, man, same. You wrote a book on fasting and I have to say when I picked it up, |
| 0:30.0 | the first question I had was, what is he going to talk about that's new in a book on fasting? |
| 0:35.8 | And I was quite surprised with where you went. |
| 0:39.0 | The thing that took me by surprise is this whole notion of there are many ways to fast. |
| 0:44.5 | And walk us through that. When you started this, did you naturally assume that fasting was just |
| 0:51.1 | not eating? Because you've given pretty broad options. |
| 0:57.2 | I did start out with that perspective, but then I started seeing people making mistakes where, oh, if something's good for |
| 1:03.2 | you, more of it must be better. And the same things they do with keto with a vegan diet, |
| 1:08.0 | you know, where if it works, I got to do more, more, more. And it turns out |
| 1:11.8 | fasting's not like that. And no one talks about the spiritual side of fasting. Oh, that's on my list |
| 1:16.7 | for today, to be sure. Why is it problematic, though, to go all in? Like when I think about |
| 1:22.5 | autophagy and the cells cleaning themselves up and knowing that that gets kickstarted by just |
| 1:27.3 | not eating, why is it problematic to go too hard on a fast? Well, there's a name for over fasting. It's called starvation and malnutrition. So there's that. Now, do you bracket that only by time, though? So is that like if I was going to do a three three day fast, I would think that your advice would be go all in. |
| 1:46.6 | But obviously having read the book, |
| 1:47.6 | I know you have a different punchline. |
| 1:49.1 | So is, |
| 1:51.1 | is it that it becomes problematic as you get into the 7, 10, 21 day range? |
| 1:57.3 | Or do you think that that's actually suboptimal from the jump? |
| 2:00.9 | You know, I'm totally happy to do a three dayday fast, four day, five, day, seven-day, |
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