#353 - AMA #72: Fasting: benefits for body composition and disease prevention, potential risks, and Peter’s updated practical framework

In Fast. Feast. Repeat., Gin Stephens explains how intermittent fasting (IF) can help you lose weight, feel better, fight disease, and live longer. Stephens breaks down the cutting-edge science that supports fasting as a powerful practice for overall health, and she explains how to implement intermittent fasting as a sustainable, flexible lifestyle choice.

After Stephens, a former educator, lost over 80 pounds with intermittent fasting, she created online support groups to bring IF to others. Soon after, she self-published Delay, Don’t Deny, her first book about IF, and followed it up with Fast. Feast. Repeat. In our guide, you’ll learn why fasting beats traditional dieting, how to think like an intermittent faster, how to fast and feast for your unique body, and how to follow a four-week quickstart program to adapt to this new lifestyle.

We’ve also fleshed out Stephens’s ideas with perspectives from The Obesity Code and In Defense of Food, and we’ve noted where her ideas appear to come from earlier works such as Intuitive Eating.

In Fast This Way, biohacker Dave Asprey argues that intermittent fasting is more than just a way to lose weight: It transforms you into your best self by optimizing how your mind and body function and helping you gain a sense of control over your life. Going without food can be challenging, so Asprey created an intermittent fasting method that makes it easier and more enjoyable—“Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting.” By following Asprey’s advice, you can lose weight, think more clearly, and live longer and healthier.

In this guide, we’ll explain what intermittent fasting is and how our modern eating habits differ from our bodies’ naturally evolved eating patterns. We’ll also discuss the many benefits of fasting and examine Asprey’s Bulletproof fasting method. Throughout the guide, we’ll supplement Asprey’s insights with those of other health and nutrition experts and provide additional tips to help you in your fasting journey.

Fasting has gained popularity for offering a myriad of health benefits: It can improve your immune system, help you lose or maintain a healthy weight, and enhance your mental clarity.

In Fast Like a Girl, best-selling author, YouTuber, and holistic health expert Mindy Pelz suggests that many women fail to benefit from fasting because they don't understand how hormonal cycles impact their bodies. This lack of understanding often leads them to mistime fasts, resulting in hormonal imbalances and uncomfortable symptoms. Pelz argues that aligning fasting schedules with hormonal cycles can help women overcome these challenges and maximize the benefits of fasting.

In this guide, we’ll explore Pelz's ideas about fasting, covering the mental and physical health benefits of fasting, tips for prolonging and enhancing these benefits, and advice on how women can tailor their fasting schedules and eating habits to promote hormonal balance. Additionally, we'll supplement her ideas with research, advice, and practical tips from other health and nutrition experts.

How do you want to spend the last decade of your life? Do you want to be weak, bedridden, and mentally foggy? Or busy doing whatever brings you joy, flexing the body and mind of someone decades younger? According to physician Peter Attia, you can extend the active and fulfilling part of your life by building the right healthy habits—and the earlier you start building these habits, the better chance you have of circumventing mental and physical decline.

In this guide, you’ll learn Attia’s recommendations for how best to eat, exercise, and otherwise take care of your body and mind. You’ll also understand how one chronic condition, metabolic dysfunction, can cause four of the most deadly diseases known to man. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Attia’s explanations of human biology and modern medicine with information from recent research. We’ll also use additional health and fitness tips to paint a broader picture of the current consensus in the complex field of wellness.

Fasting has gained popularity for offering a myriad of health benefits: It can improve your immune system, help you lose or maintain a healthy weight, and enhance your mental clarity.

In Fast Like a Girl, best-selling author, YouTuber, and holistic health expert Mindy Pelz suggests that many women fail to benefit from fasting because they don't understand how hormonal cycles impact their bodies. This lack of understanding often leads them to mistime fasts, resulting in hormonal imbalances and uncomfortable symptoms. Pelz argues that aligning fasting schedules with hormonal cycles can help women overcome these challenges and maximize the benefits of fasting.

In this guide, we’ll explore Pelz's ideas about fasting, covering the mental and physical health benefits of fasting, tips for prolonging and enhancing these benefits, and advice on how women can tailor their fasting schedules and eating habits to promote hormonal balance. Additionally, we'll supplement her ideas with research, advice, and practical tips from other health and nutrition experts.

How do you want to spend the last decade of your life? Do you want to be weak, bedridden, and mentally foggy? Or busy doing whatever brings you joy, flexing the body and mind of someone decades younger? According to physician Peter Attia, you can extend the active and fulfilling part of your life by building the right healthy habits—and the earlier you start building these habits, the better chance you have of circumventing mental and physical decline.

In this guide, you’ll learn Attia’s recommendations for how best to eat, exercise, and otherwise take care of your body and mind. You’ll also understand how one chronic condition, metabolic dysfunction, can cause four of the most deadly diseases known to man. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Attia’s explanations of human biology and modern medicine with information from recent research. We’ll also use additional health and fitness tips to paint a broader picture of the current consensus in the complex field of wellness.

In Fast. Feast. Repeat., Gin Stephens explains how intermittent fasting (IF) can help you lose weight, feel better, fight disease, and live longer. Stephens breaks down the cutting-edge science that supports fasting as a powerful practice for overall health, and she explains how to implement intermittent fasting as a sustainable, flexible lifestyle choice.

After Stephens, a former educator, lost over 80 pounds with intermittent fasting, she created online support groups to bring IF to others. Soon after, she self-published Delay, Don’t Deny, her first book about IF, and followed it up with Fast. Feast. Repeat. In our guide, you’ll learn why fasting beats traditional dieting, how to think like an intermittent faster, how to fast and feast for your unique body, and how to follow a four-week quickstart program to adapt to this new lifestyle.

We’ve also fleshed out Stephens’s ideas with perspectives from The Obesity Code and In Defense of Food, and we’ve noted where her ideas appear to come from earlier works such as Intuitive Eating.

In Fast This Way, biohacker Dave Asprey argues that intermittent fasting is more than just a way to lose weight: It transforms you into your best self by optimizing how your mind and body function and helping you gain a sense of control over your life. Going without food can be challenging, so Asprey created an intermittent fasting method that makes it easier and more enjoyable—“Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting.” By following Asprey’s advice, you can lose weight, think more clearly, and live longer and healthier.

In this guide, we’ll explain what intermittent fasting is and how our modern eating habits differ from our bodies’ naturally evolved eating patterns. We’ll also discuss the many benefits of fasting and examine Asprey’s Bulletproof fasting method. Throughout the guide, we’ll supplement Asprey’s insights with those of other health and nutrition experts and provide additional tips to help you in your fasting journey.