The Truth About Fasting: Boost Your Health & Reset Your Body!
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Want to know how fasting can boost your health, change how you think about food, and reset your body? In this episode of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and guest Joseph Everett dive deep into the health benefits of fasting and share why it’s more than just skipping meals.
Learn how fasting lowers IGF-1 levels, improves brain health, and even changes hunger patterns over time. They break down the connection between fasting, physical endurance, and how your food choices impact digestion, inflammation, and long-term energy. Plus, hear thoughts on the carnivore diet, lab-grown meat, and biohacking methods that could redefine your fitness goals.
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Chapters:
0:00 Fasting lowers IGF-1 for better health
2:08 Fasting and physical endurance
5:58 Benefits beyond calorie restriction
7:55 Multi-day fasting and hunger changes
11:46 Health benefits after hunger subsides
13:53 Mindful eating for better health
17:03 Overeating and mindfulness
18:27 Fasting as meditation
21:51 Why steak is a carnivore favorite
23:49 Origins of U.S. salt guidelines
27:20 Obesity and diabetes: U.S. vs. Japan
29:05 Healthy habits in Japanese culture
32:24 Walking boosts brain health
34:22 Small step goals for weight loss
37:26 Walking aids recovery
39:07 Debate over a "healthiest person" claim
42:21 Misleading olive oil marketing
44:04 Audience reacts to fasting and supplements
47:29 Tactics in health product marketing
49:13 Challenges with lab-grown meat
52:46 Aging tests: Are they useful?
54:32 DNA methylation and aging
57:53 Puluva shoes for foot health
59:16 Choosing the right activity shoes
1:02:18 Comparing biohacking approaches
1:03:52 Brian Johnson’s fasting method
1:07:16 Supplement concerns and vegan gaps
1:09:11 Fasting’s role in brain evolution
1:13:01 Adapting to different diets
1:14:47 Variety reduces cravings
1:18:14 Protein keeps muscle as you age
1:20:04 Meal timing and insulin sensitivity
1:23:20 Diverse training for improvement
1:25:10 Challenges of intense training
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When you fast, you dramatically drop IGF1, resetting the IGF1 where you like drop it down really low, |
| 0:08.0 | and then you eat protein after your fast, you jack it back up. That allows for the proliferation of stem cells. |
| 0:13.0 | There's a lot of psychological benefits too. You can get to a point where, depending on the person saying hunger totally disappears might be overstating it |
| 0:21.2 | but you do get to a point where you're feeling like it's not an issue your research on like |
| 0:25.5 | veganism what potential holes might be in a vegan diet but the thing that i usually talk about |
| 0:31.8 | is the effect of like having all these this fiber in your gut like the gut is just not really designed to handle that much fiber |
| 0:41.1 | and so when you start cramming the gut with like more and more fibrous material certain people have |
| 0:47.0 | really big issues and fiber can inhibit the absorption of specific things fasted for five days |
| 0:52.9 | and you decide to do a marathon. |
| 0:55.0 | Why the hell would you do something like that? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, it's a good question. |
| 0:57.9 | So I've done a lot of fasting for health benefits. |
| 1:05.9 | But this time I kind of wanted to see, how far can you go while fasting? |
| 1:12.6 | So I had read this book by what's his name, Chris McDougal, I want to say, Born to Run. |
| 1:17.6 | And he laid out this case of how, yeah, we're born to run, right? |
| 1:23.6 | And he gives the example of the Tarahumara Indians, and they have this culture of just like running everywhere. They're kind of a nomadic group. And most of their traveling is done by running. And so they're running hundreds of miles at a time. And he uses that point along with some points about persistence hunting, where basically persistence hunting |
| 1:45.3 | is a type of hunting that humans would do where they would just chase an animal down and then |
| 1:50.7 | it would, you know, it's fast, so it would get away. They would track it and chase it more. |
| 1:55.3 | It would get away. They track it chase more. Just keep repeating this. But then the animal can't |
| 1:59.8 | cool down fast enough. So after hours and hours of this, they tire the thing out and it, just keep repeating this. But then the animal can't cool down fast enough. |
| 2:00.9 | So after hours and hours of this, they tire the thing out and it just kind of falls down in |
| 2:05.3 | front of them and they just like stick a spear in it. And that was one way to hunt. And so he was |
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