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So we talked about why to eat the good foods, what the foods are, how to do it.

What about when, does that matter?

So there's a couple of different schools of thought on that one.

There's the sort of eat every few hours which has been traditionally put forward.

Again, my colleague Dr. John Burarty was one of the ways that he recommends,

especially for people that are looking to optimize body composition.

But there's a school of thought out more recently with intermittent fasting that a lot of people are talking about.

We've done some research on that and that was discovered when people

looked at people who are fasting for Ramadan and so you only eat once the sun is

down so you're eating through 12 hours and then fasting through 12 hours. When

scientists did blood work on the people who were fasting,

they discovered reduced inflammation

that persisted for weeks and months after Ramadan ended.

So that's interesting because we want to lower inflammation

in our bodies and fasting can help us do that.

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