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Today we're talking about intermittent fasting. This form of time-restricted eating has been gaining significant popularity,

with many people reporting positive effects after incorporating it into their daily routines.

However, here at Zoe, we want to know what the science says about intermittent fasting.

Is it the real deal or just another fat? I'm joined by Tim Spector and Jim Stevens

to break down what intermittent fasting is, how it affects our bodies, and whether the

scientific evidence supports it.

I'd like to just start the very beginning naturally with you, Jen. Okay. What is intermittent fasting?

The words sound so scary. The word fasting makes you think that you're going to like 40 days and 40

nights wandering in the desert. But intermittent fasting, the word intermittent is key.

You are having periods of fasting and periods of eating, which every single person who is listening

or watching already does that.

It's just changing the balance of that.

You know, you go to bed, you sleep, you wake up in the fasted state.

Probably everyone listening has had fasted blood work before.

So our bodies are already fasted every single day. If you live in intermittent fasting lifestyle, the difference is you just

extend that period. Instead of most people having this much for your feeding time and this much for

fasting, we just switch it. And so you're fasting for a longer period of the day,

intentionally. And I know that there have been a lot of different types of intermittent fasting

and quite a lot of evolution, I think, about the science and view about what's best. We just

explain high-level what those are and then talk about what is, in fact, I think today seems to be

the area that people are most interested in both scientifically and also in terms of just

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