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Hi, everyone.

Today I speak with Dr. David Jockers on fasting.

He's recently written a book called The Fasting Transformation,

and he also is someone who clinically, in terms of his clinical practice and personally uses fasting.

So he brings a very kind of well-informed, multi-vanage point perspective to the conversation.

We discussed, and he does a phenomenal job elaborating on some of the research finding and explaining

the mechanism underneath why people improve not only gut health but gut bacterial diversity

when they fast. So I think you'll find that insight particularly interesting. And we also talk

about some of the metabolic benefits, the best way to

kind of load fasting, so to speak, meaning how much is enough, how much is too much, how does this

interface with things like exercise, female hormones, male hormones, recovery, endurance training.

It's really a very rich and beneficial conversation today with David.

So I do hope that you will check out the podcast and also his book, The Fasting Transformation.

And I'd also like to remind you that if you are someone who's struggling with how to apply

fasting, one of the things that we do at the clinic is offer not only health coaching,

but progressively more kind of performance optimization tools and techniques for people

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