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Most of us have heard about the health benefits of fasting, from lowering disease risk to even slowing down aging.

The catch, going without food is tough. Really tough.

However, according to Dr. Volta Longo, it doesn't have to be so hard.

His pioneering research, including the development of the fast-mimicking diet,

is making fasting more practical and accessible for everyone.

Today, Volta joins Tim Specter and I to explain how a pause from food

transforms the way our cells behave and how you can make fasting part of your life.

I always challenge everyone with the question, find me anything that will revolutionize gene expression

more than fasting.

And I still haven't got anybody to even come up with something that they think could challenge.

Meaning if you fast a person for, let's say, five days, it'd be hard to find something else

that causes more changes in the body than those five days, right?

Of course, if you go longer, even more changes, but, but, you know, I say anything you

can do in five days.

So, so everything happens during fasting for obvious reasons, right?

So you now can no longer rely on energy coming from the outside.

You need to rely on energy come from inside.

And so the body slowly gets into a modality

where it starts burning fat

and relying on fatty acids and ketone bodies.

And ketone bodies are this, you know,

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