14 Scenarios When Fasting Might Be Your Best Approach

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There’s a ton of talk about intermittent fasting in the ancestral heath sphere for general health and wellness as well as weight loss, but little indication of specific applications for the practice. Anytime you attempt a “radical” health practice like not eating, it helps to have a good reason to do it. That will not only give you something to aim for, but it will ensure you actually have a physiological justification for your experiment. Never go in blind.

What are some of the specific scenarios and conditions where fasting makes the most sense?

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson from Marksdailyapple.com.
0:04.8	Enjoy this audio narration of a recent Marksdailyapple.com post by Tina Lehman.
0:10.0	Subscribe to this podcast channel so you don't miss anything from the blog
0:13.3	and read my daily posts on Living Awesome and much more at marksdailyapple.com.
0:22.4	14 scenarios when fasting might be your best approach.
0:27.5	There's a ton of talk about intermittent fasting in the ancestral health sphere for general
0:32.8	health and wellness as well as weight loss, but little indication of specific applications for the practice.
0:40.8	Anytime you attempt a radical health practice like not eating, it helps to have a good reason to do it.
0:47.4	That will not only give you something to aim for, but it will ensure you actually have a physiological
0:53.2	justification for your experiment.
0:56.0	Never go in blind.
0:58.3	What are some of the specific scenarios and conditions where fasting makes the most sense?
1:04.4	Number one, you are intractably morbidly obese.
1:09.0	It used to be that an accepted and well-tested fix for morbid obesity that
1:14.1	was unresponsive to other methods was long-term fasting. One experiment was very long-term,
1:21.2	over a year of not eating anything except for multivitamins. Disclaimer, I am not recommending this approach, but it is interesting.
1:30.3	Back in 1965, an obese Scotsman of 27 years and 456 pounds came to the Department of Medicine
1:38.3	in Dundee, Scotland with a problem. He needed to lose weight. One-eighth of a ton of it. The doctors suggested maybe not eating for a few days could help. It was just an offhand recommendation, but the Scotsman really took to it. He stayed at the hospital for several days, taking only water and vitamin pills while undergoing observation to ensure nothing went wrong. When his time was up,
2:03.5	he continued the fast back at home, returning to the hospital only for regular monitoring.
2:09.7	After a week, he was down five pounds and feeling good. His vitals checked out, blood pressure was
2:15.7	normal, and though he had lower blood sugar than most men,
2:18.9	he didn't seem particularly impaired by it. The experiment continued for 382 days. Yes, A.B. fasted
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