Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.

We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,

and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering

diabetes program.

Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and

how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity

using food as medicine. We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in

one million people. We're glad to have you joining us.

Intermittent fasting is one of the most powerful strategies

for improving your overall metabolic health.

It's not just helpful for weight loss.

It's actually great for your overall health,

with benefits ranging from a reduced risk of heart disease and a reduced risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

to significantly improved brain function. But there's a lot of information about intermittent

fasting on the internet, and not all of it is scientifically accurate or quite honestly, even helpful.

Fasting is powerful, but there's a distinct difference between smart fasting and extreme fasting.

And so we want to give you some clarity about how to fast properly so that you get the metabolic

benefit and prevent yourself from long-term negative consequences.

So we're going to take a few moments to go over what intermittent fasting is, if you're new

to the subject, and get you the tools to be able to implement

intermittent fasting into your life starting today. We're also going to talk about our recommended

fasting schedules, both for weight loss and for reduced overall chronic disease risk. We're going to

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