Intuitive Fasting, Metabolic Flexibility & Metaphysical Meals – Dr. Will Cole with Dave Asprey : 796
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Fasting is about way more than what we do and don’t eat, it’s about dedicating time and energy to our full mind and body health. In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking more about fasting with Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine and nutrition expert and senior clinic director at Cole Natural Health Centers in Pittsburgh.
His newest book, “Intuitive Fasting: The Flexible Four-Week Intermittent Fasting Plan to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health”, presents ways to fast that are flexible and fulfilling for the needs of each unique person.
“I want people to actually get to the place where they are guided by their intuition,” says Dr. Cole “Where they can hear that still small voice of that knowingness of what their body needs and what their body doesn't need, at any given moment.”
Each person will react differently to different kinds of fasting. To find a practice that works for you, you’ve got to invest for the long run (not just as a fad). We’re often driven by cravings or driven by stress, anger, boredom or other unconscious motivations, without giving it a second thought. So how can we better tune in, observe and act on what our body needs?
Dr. Cole advises: "Whatever that looks like for you to start to grow in awareness, start by being mindful of your relationship with your body and relationship with food and checking yourself."
He walks us through the benefits of fasting, some tools to fine tune your fasting routine through mindfulness practice, and how to eat beyond your past and current habits. And maybe most importantly, he’ll teach you to be kind to yourself throughout the process.
Named one of the top 50 functional-medicine and integrative doctors in the nation, Dr. Cole specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional medicine approach for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and brain problems. He's also author of the best-selling books “Ketotarian” and “The Inflammation Spectrum.”
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| 0:00.0 | Fasting myth number four. Some fasts are better than others. Nope, that's a myth. |
| 0:05.1 | Well, you might think that sticking to just one type of fast is best, but that traps you into |
| 0:09.3 | getting hooked on just that one way of fasting, which doesn't increase metabolic flexibility. |
| 0:15.2 | The best way to fast is to mix it up with different types of fasting on different days, |
| 0:19.8 | including days without fasting. You don't need to intermittent fast every day to get the results, |
| 0:24.8 | and sometimes, especially if you're a woman doing it every day doesn't work. |
| 0:28.6 | In my new book, Fast This Way, I'll walk you through a half a dozen different types of fasts |
| 0:32.9 | that may work for you until you win to select which one. Listen your body and customize it for you. |
| 0:39.3 | I'll also teach you how to do this when you sign up for the fasting challenge, which is my gift to you. |
| 0:44.3 | Two weeks of training about fasting that you get when you purchase the book. It's all at fastthisway.com. |
| 0:49.7 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today, we're going to talk about |
| 1:01.2 | intuitive fasting and getting in touch with real hunger, with a guy who really knows what he's |
| 1:07.5 | talking about. I'm talking about Dr. Will Cole, leading functional medicine nutrition expert and |
| 1:12.9 | senior clinic director at the Cole Natural Health Centers in Pittsburgh. One of the top 50 functional |
| 1:18.9 | and integrative doctors in the country, and he looks at chronic disease and things like thyroid |
| 1:25.2 | and inflammation. He's also known for his book, The Keto Terri-in, and he has a new book that is |
| 1:32.5 | right up your alley. If you like Bulletproof Intermittent and Fasting, if you liked Fast This Way, |
| 1:38.9 | you absolutely have to read his new book, which is called Intuitive Fasting. It's this idea that |
| 1:46.4 | fasting doesn't have to be rigid and painful and that there's really good stuff you can do there, |
| 1:51.7 | and that it doesn't have to be the same every day. Will and I are in great agreement on a lot of |
| 1:56.2 | things, but not everything. We're going to go deep on fasting for you today. If you're saying I'm |
| 2:01.1 | really tired of fasting, trust me, we're going to talk about a lot of stuff that isn't fasting, |
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