Hey there, welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

On this podcast, we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and

improve your health and well-being. Intermittent fasting is a hot topic, especially for women,

and today I have leading expert and friend Cynthia Thurlow to answer

all of your questions. Cynthia is a nurse practitioner, CEO, and founder of the Everyday Wellness

Project. She's an international speaker with over 9.6 million views on her second TEDx talk titled Intermittent Fasting Transformational Technique.

With over 20 years experience in health and wellness and the host of her own successful

educational podcast, she now has a newly released book called Intermittent Fasting Transformation.

It's a 45-day program for women to understand

fasting, lose stubborn weight, improve hormonal health, and slow aging. Cynthia and I have talked

a lot over the years about women's health, hormones, and intermittent fasting. So it was an absolute

pleasure to have her on today and go through everything from the basics

to fasting to the myths and misconceptions you see all over social media.

Here's a clip from today's conversation.

I think a lot of women come to intermittent fasting out of curiosity.

They want to change body composition.

They want to lose weight.

But really, the really cool things about fasting are beneath the surface.

So we know that we tap into this process called this haphagy.

It's this waste and recycling process in the body.

So we get rid of diseased mitochondria and organelles and proteins that are misfolded.

Our body is able to literally take out the trash.

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