Is Fasting Actually Good For You?

Eat to Live

Jenna Fuhrman, Dr. Fuhrman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Fasting has been gaining popularity in recent years to promote weight loss and improve health. Intermittent fasting, in particular, reduces inflammation and improves insulin sensitivity, preventing chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. In a Nutritarian diet, Dr. Joel Fuhrman is confident that incorporating fasting doesn't only jump start weight loss but also slows down aging. To maximize these life-saving benefits of fasting, it is important to approach it with knowledge and caution. And you may start right here.

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0:00.0	Hey there. We are here today to talk about your favorite health and wellness topics. I'm here with my dad, Dr. Furman.
0:19.8	And I'm here with my daughter, Jenna. And welcome to the Eat to Live podcast. I'm here with my dad, Dr. Furman. And I'm here with my daughter, Jenna,
0:21.6	and welcome to the Eat to Live podcast. We are here today to talk about intermittent fasting,
0:27.6	water fasting, and intuitive eating. So let's dive in. All right. Well, you know, I've even written a book on
0:35.5	fasting. Don't tell me what it's called.
0:38.9	Wait.
0:41.3	Okay, not disease proof of your child.
0:42.2	That was an early one.
0:44.4	I'm just kidding.
0:45.6	Fasting and eating for health.
0:46.2	Correct.
0:46.8	Yes.
0:48.7	How many years ago that was written?
0:52.6	I believe that book was written in 2001.
0:58.1	No, in 1994 and 96. No way. Yeah. Oh, wow. So that was your first book ever. Written more than 25 years ago. It wasn't fasting truly the first introduction into the
1:04.1	medical world, the health world for you as well? Well, you know what it was is that I wanted to write a book
1:10.1	about eating for health, but the publisher really wanted fasting to be number one in the title because there were no books out about fasting. They wanted to make it unique and they wanted to be it searchable in the, you know, in libraries and things. So it's called fasting and eating for health because it had to do with eating healthy, but also about fasting as well.
1:27.6	And fasting was intentionally made the first word in the title.
1:30.5	That was my obviously my first book, but.
1:32.5	And ironic also that you had the experience
1:34.4	because you had fasted as a teenager, right?
1:37.1	I was 19 years old when I did my first fast, that's right.
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