Post-menopausal women should fast every day for at least 15 hours and incorporate longer fasts every couple of months to maintain brain health.

“I believe that if you are not fasting in your post-menopausal years that you are actually putting your brain in jeopardy for all the things we're talking about. Um, before I used to say like menop post-menopausal women should cycle their fasts. I actually feel like you should be fasting every day, 1”

Fasting is a highly effective treatment for high blood pressure and other conditions that allows the body to heal itself.

“This is the most effective treatment that's ever been shown in treating the leading cause of death and disability, which is high blood pressure. It also reduces insulin resistance. It can enhance cognitive capacities, and you also see it affecting things like depression and anxiety.”

Fasting is superior to calorie restriction for weight loss and metabolic repair because it lowers insulin levels, allowing the body to access stored visceral fat and trigger beneficial autophagy.

“When you don't eat, your insulin levels come down because you're not stimulating your pancreas anymore. So, you want to bring your insulin levels down. The best thing you can do in the world is to do fasting.”

Fasting is a potent and effective tool for reversing metabolic illness and type 2 diabetes because it effectively lowers insulin levels and empties stored glucose.

“there's no more potent way to lower insulin than to fast”

A twelve-hour daily fasting window is a safe and solid practice, while prolonged fasting of several days is effective for metabolic resets.

“I think there are two, I always look first at the safety factor. So what is it that we don't know if it's safe or not? And then I just exclude them until we have many decades, I think of evidence. But if you look at safety and efficacy, both, I think you come up with 12 hours every day as being very”

Fasting until midday can increase alertness and cognitive performance by leveraging natural adrenaline release.

“Fasting increases levels of adrenaline, also called epinephrine in the brain and body. And when our levels of epinephrine and adrenaline are increased, we learn better, we can focus better.”

Fasting provides heightened awareness and brain activity by removing the distraction of food-centered daily habits.

“Cuz we spend so much time thinking about, "Oh, what am I going to have for breakfast? What am I going to have for lunch? Who am I going to see for What are we going to do for dinner?" And your day is consumed by the But as soon as you remove all of that, suddenly you have like all this brain activit”