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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

How Intermittent Fasting Works for Women – Cynthia Thurlow, NP : 919

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Education, Diet, Meditation, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Brain, Fasting, Fat, Fitness, Hacking, Wellness, Science, Biohacking, Health & Fitness

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE..

  • You’ll learn about the science-based benefits of intermittent fasting for women, especially during midlife.
  • You’ll get details about intermittent fasting advantages for women like how to gain hormonal stability and metabolic health, and how to improve your energy.
  • You’ll get practical intermittent fasting how-tos, nutritional guidelines, carb cycling recommendations, food lists, and recipes to try during your feeding window.


Cynthia Thurlow joins the show to talk about how intermittent fasting can help women change their body, metabolic system and brain function. She has tips for women at all stages: from active menstrual cycles to perimenopause to menopause.

Cynthia is a Johns Hopkins-trained nurse practitioner and functional nutritionist founded and serves as CEO of Everyday Wellness Project. She holds a Master of Science degree in Nursing and Functional Nutrition certifications with advanced trainings in Endocrinology and Gastroenterology. Her career in healthcare includes nearly 20 years of emergency medicine and cardiology experience. She brings a broad perspective when working with women to improve the state of their health. 

“I really start from a foundational level talking to women about fasting,” Cynthia says. “It's really honoring our own unique physiology. It's leaning into that menstrual cycle. It's leaning into the lifestyle piece that so much of us forget to talk about with our patients, our sleep quality, stress management, anti-inflammatory nutrition, our exercise quality, our connection with nature, all of which are critically important.”

She also addresses diet dogma that frustratingly persists, even with established and emerging science about the benefits of intermittent fasting.

She tackles this outdated dogma (and a lot more!) in her new book, “Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging.”

“[Intermittent fasting] restores our intrinsic rhythms, burns fat, regenerates our health right down to the cellular level, and stabilizes our hormones,” Cynthia says in her book. “In turn, we are less likely to develop obesity, diabetes, vascular diseases, and autoimmune disorders.”

At the end of this conversation, you’ll have the tools to decide if intermittent fasting is the right choice for the state of your own health. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

0:06.0

Formerly, Bulletproof Radio.

0:11.6

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

0:16.4

Today's episode is all about the science-based benefits of intermittent fasting for women.

0:23.8

I promised you that I was going to tell you exactly what you were going to get in every

0:27.6

episode so you can decide whether it's worth your time.

0:30.4

Now you could say, oh, I'm not a woman.

0:31.7

I don't care about this episode.

0:33.3

I think you'll find a lot about intermittent fasting in general because just like I wrote

0:38.4

fast this way and there's a portion of the book specifically for women.

0:42.1

But the whole book, fasting works very similarly.

0:44.2

The principles and mechanisms are important for everyone.

0:47.6

But there are nuances and differences for women.

0:49.8

So I think you'll find that you become better adept at fasting no matter who you are from

0:55.3

this episode.

0:56.3

And if you have women in your family or if you are a woman, there's stuff in here that's

1:01.4

really, really important for you.

1:04.0

You'll get tips on what you can do that are going to make intermittent fasting easier and

1:07.9

better for you and how you can take this on your daily life.

1:10.8

As you heard on a recent episode, intermittent fasting just increases mitochondrial function

1:14.8

via all kinds of ways that don't have to do with just ketosis.

1:18.8

We're cracking the code for it here and there's some new nuggets for everyone in this.

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