This is the Gutsi Health podcast with Janique and Tristan Roney.

Hi everybody. Welcome back. Welcome to the gutsy health podcast. Yes. We have a really fun topic for you guys today.

We're going to talk about starving yourself. Exactly. And why it's so fun. It's not fun. But seriously, why on earth would somebody willingly skip meals?

If you are having a very strong aversion to that idea right now, you are not alone.

And in fact, that means that your brain and body are working just the way that they were designed to.

Exactly.

But why is it such a craze?

I mean, like the Hollywood stars are doing it,

like everyone in their dog is doing it. Why is this so popular right now? And it kind of,

it's just exploded in the past couple years. And unlike a lot of the big fads that have come out

recently, I actually am a big fan of this one. I am too. I wish I could do it.

So it's not every day that something explodes in popularity and we're not sitting here going,

are you kidding me? Right. We're like, hey, terrible idea. Hey, the science actually really backs us up

really well. The biochemistry is really solid with fasting. So we're going to talk about why that is.

But let's give you guys a little bit of background first about fasting. Go ahead, Tristan.

In fact, let's talk about why the idea is maybe unappealing to you if you've never done it before.

Now, historically speaking, if we go back, back, back, back in time to your ancient ancestors,

like hundreds of thousands of years.

If you were to go to them and say, hey, did you know that people from where I'm from

skip meals for days at a time voluntarily, they would slap you.

They would be so angry with you for doing that.

Why?

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