Welcome back to another episode of the talk. Today we are continuing our

conversation about health advice that can actually be unhealthy. So I have like a long long list.

These are things that what that we've actually gotten the world's experts to tell us to try and

didn't work maybe?

Yeah, or like backfired even honestly and obviously the top of my

list is going to be the eating disorder I had because hello duh that's like terrible

for your health but I would say for me it was fasting I heard a lot about

fasting yeah is very in vogue I don't know this is when you were in in school yeah

when I was in college in the year after I graduated college, so 2017-2018 around there.

And everybody was obsessed with fasting and like it was very in vogue to be doing long fast.

Like people were doing seven-day fasts and they would do it like once a year or something five day fast I don't know and I

personally did not look at the research in it at all but I just heard a lot of people I looked up to talking

about it and it's so, I remember like the biggest thing

that sat to me was like, yeah, like,

when you start eating again,

your whole immune system regenerates

and like all these things, and I was like,

oh yeah, I'm gonna be brand new after I fast.

And of course I was really excited that you'd like lose, you know, 10 pounds, which is mostly

water weight by the way, but you know, I'd be like, oh yeah, the scale's going to go down.

I'm going to regenerate my immune system.

I'm going to do all these great things for my body,

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