Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

My name is Leah Klein Trote. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and your host for the show today.

So on today's show, I'm going to discuss a topic that comes up fairly frequently with my

counseling clients. And it's a topic that garners a lot of attention on social media,

podcast, blogs, books, you name it. And that topic is intermittent fasting. It's a big topic with a lot of rabbit holes that we could dive down. As I was going through this, the outline kept getting longer and longer. But since this is our mini episode, I am going to do my very best to condense down some of the latest research about intermittent

fasting, but also adds some of my own insights from my clinical experience with working

with clients around fasting. It will probably end up still being a little bit longer of an

asking nutritionist than what we usually try to keep it to, but just bear with me. We're going to talk about

what's real, what's hype, and then most importantly, kind of help you run it through your own

filter and decide if this is a potential path for you to explore and how you can do it in a way that

would support your health and your goals and doesn't

detract from them.

And I want to just put a reminder out there that we do have a Facebook page called Dishing

Up Nutrition.

You can search for it on Facebook.

This is the primary place to leave your questions and suggestions for topics that you

would like us to address,

either on our full-length shows or on the shorter Ask a Nutritionist episodes.

So let's get into intermittent fasting. Let's just start with the basics. What is

intermittent fasting? And intermittent fasting, it's not a diet in the traditional sense. You're not told what foods

to eat or to avoid, although I will have some things to say about that a little bit later on.

It's more focused on when you eat. And so the idea is that you cycle between periods of eating and then periods of fasting or not eating.

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