How to Use Intermittent Fasting to Improve Your Weight and Metabolic Health with Cynthia Thurlow

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP. Intermittent fasting has become all the rage for weight loss and better health. It is a free tool that activates all the systems in your body to protect and heal itself and help you live longer. Fasting can help reduce inflammation, brain fog, and insulin resistance. It can also increase energy and bone density and activate autophagy, which is the process of cleaning out damaged cells. But intermittent fasting affects men and women differently. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Cynthia Thurlow to discuss the unique challenges women face with intermittent fasting and how to customize an approach to intermittent fasting that recognizes menstrual cycles and life circumstances. Cynthia Thurlow is a nurse practitioner, CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project. She is an international speaker with over 13 million views for her second TEDx talk and a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health. In this episode, we dive into: -How eating less contributes to having more energy (9:57) -Indications that you are not metabolically flexible (12:42) -Optimal fasting insulin level (18:23) -How a high fasting insulin level makes it difficult to lose weight (21:16) -The connection between fasting and optimal metabolic health (25:08) -The importance of being flexible when it comes to fasting (32:48) -The benefits of ending your feeding window earlier (43:22) -How fasting improves gut health (53:02) -How to know if fasting is causing harm (55:44) -Adequate protein consumption and why maintaining muscle mass is so important as we age (1:16:46) -The impact of alcohol consumption on women’s health (1:35:06) -The benefits of infrared sauna and cryotherapy (1:38:45) Also mentioned in this episode: -Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique TEDx Talk -Everyday Wellness Podcast For more on Cynthia Thurlow, follow her on Instagram @cynthia_thurlow_, on YouTube @cynthiathurlow, and through her website, cynthiathurlow.com. Get her book, Intermittent Fasting Transformation, here. Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to https://www.magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. To get yours, go to https://www.join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our bodies actually are adapted to be able to eat less often. We have trained them otherwise.
0:04.8	Everyone can benefit from 12 hours of not eating.
0:07.8	Really and truly like that should be the gold standard for everyone.
0:11.3	Welcome to the Drupal at podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds and wellness medicine and mindset.
0:19.7	This week's guest is Cynthia Thurlow.
0:22.4	Cynthia Thurlow is here today on the podcast to talk about all things
0:27.1	fasting specifically how to utilize intermittent fasting as an incredible tool in your toolbox to not only heal from disease, but also to flourish and grow.
0:40.4	A little bit about Cynthia. She's a nurse practitioner, the founder of the everyday wellness project, and an international speaker with over 13 million views on her TED Talk on the topic of intermittent fasting.
0:54.8	Cynthia has this incredible ability of not only showing how simple fasting can be, but also how to contextualize fasting.
1:03.1	For example, women need to take a little bit of a different approach with fasting than men do if they're in their prime fertility years.
1:10.2	We're going to be talking about that. Cynthia also talks about the importance of making sure we don't go too low protein in our diet.
1:18.0	Otherwise, we start to increase our risk of things like sarcopenia, which affects longevity.
1:24.6	If you're interested in the topics of fasting, if you're interested in the topics of fasting, but not losing muscle mass, if you're interested in the topics of fasting according to your circadian rhythm and plenty more, today's episode is for you.
1:39.8	Stay tuned.
1:44.0	Cynthia, a pleasure to have you on the podcast to talk all things fasting.
1:47.4	I want to jump right into the first question, which is so many people know that fasting is so powerful.
1:54.9	They've heard about the science.
1:56.2	They know it can do wonders for the body, but my question is, even with all that, why do some people not pursue fasting?
2:04.6	Why do they not jump into the deep end and get started?
2:08.6	That's a great question.
2:09.6	I think a lot of it's limiting beliefs.
2:11.4	We've been so conditioned by society that we need to eat snacks and mini meals, that the concept of going longer periods in between eating, it seems a little bit daunting.
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