What Science Says about Fasting

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Valter Longo, PhD, author of The Longevity Diet, sat down with Elise Loehnen at In goop Health to share what he’s learned about our ability to optimize our health largely through diet and lifestyle changes. Longo, who is the director of the USC Longevity Institute, continues to conduct a wide range of fascinating research on different forms of fasting: What kind of fast is safest? How does fasting affect the body? Could particular forms of fasting have beneficial outcomes for particular health concerns? (Some of this research contributed to the development of ProLon, a five-day fasting-mimicking meal kit that is growing in popularity, in part because you actually eat during the program.) Beyond fasting, Longo explains what he believes to be the best way to eat (and when) based on the research. (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't hold anything too tightly. Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the
0:10.6	intention of real truth for you, and then let it go. For me our soul is like it's
0:16.8	unbound, it's limitless, but we will use words to limit ourselves. When people
0:23.2	stop believing that somebody's got your back or Superman's coming we turn to
0:28.9	ourselves and that's where you become empowered. Courageous participation attracts
0:35.3	positive things. I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. This is the Goop podcast, bringing together
0:42.0	thought leaders, culture changers, creatives, founders and CEOs, scientists,
0:47.6	doctors, healers and seekers, here to start conversations because simply asking
0:53.1	questions and listening has the power to change the way we see the world.
0:57.6	Today is no exception. I'll let Elise fill you in on her extraordinary guest.
1:03.5	All right, over to Elise.
1:06.5	Walter Longo is a fasting and longevity researcher. The NNM Jones Professor of
1:11.6	Gerontology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California
1:15.7	and the author of the Longevity Diet. He also developed Prolon, a fasting mimicking
1:20.7	diet that is pretty popular here at Goop. While I've gotten to chat with Walter Longo
1:25.7	on the podcast before, at our last in Gupeholt the Walnest Summit, I got to sit down with him again
1:30.8	and really drill in to all the components of fasting and what's the most effective form of it.
1:36.4	Longo taught us about 16, 8 hour fasting, 5, 2 fasting and the fasting mimicking diet.
1:42.0	He broke down the science behind it all and his research, which is fascinating.
1:46.6	We talked about autophagy, biohacking, how fasting may be beneficial for preventing diseases of
1:51.6	aging and much more. I think it's important to be well nourished, but try to get as close
1:58.4	as possible to the ideal weight and take your time doing it. There's a standard race.
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