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Today we discuss intermittent fasting with Professor Tim Specter and Jin Stevens, the New York

Times best-selling author, A Fast Feast Repeat.

As many of you long-term listeners will know, Zoe ran the world's largest ever study on intermittent fasting.

We know a lot of you are interested in the potential benefits,

and I'm talking about improved blood sugar control, heart health, and mood.

But practically, how do we get started with fasting?

You'll find out in this clip.

What am I allowed during this fasting period?

Well, let's talk about, of course, plain water, yes,

nothing added to it, no flavors, you know, plain sparkling water is also fine.

But, you know, people sometimes water is also fine.

But you know, people sometimes say, well, how come I can have black coffee and

plain tea?

Because those have flavors.

Well, they do have flavors, but they have a bitter flavor profile.

And a bitter flavor profile is not associated

with the safalic phase insulin response.

So black coffee is actually stimulating autophagy.

Autophagy is our body's powerful cellular housekeeping.

It's like recycling and upcycling.

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