Ep. 1064: Mark Mattson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Mark Mattson, a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is the former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program. The National Institute of Health considers him "one of the world’s top experts on the potential cognitive and physical health benefits of intermittent fasting".

The topic is his book Intermittent Fasting.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Intermittent fasting, its importance, and effects
Risk reduction in significant diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes
What happens to ketones during fasting?
The risk factors beyond age and obesity in America
Ongoing clinical trials in the United States on intermittent fasting in patients with various disorders
Easy hacks for intermittent fasting

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	The topic today, intermittent fasting?
0:41.3	I'm trying this myself right now based on this episode.
0:51.2	My guest today, Mark Madsen, is a pro in this territory. He understands all the good, the bad, the ugly.
0:57.0	What is intermittent fasting? Essentially, in a 24-hour window, you try to keep your meals inside of six hours. That means not eating for 18 hours.
1:05.8	There are all kinds of proven benefits to this. And going back to the beginning, evolutionarily, we were not
1:16.0	designed to sit around and eat all freaking day. It's not the way to go. I actually was having a
1:25.5	conversation with Larry Haight today. Larry is the thinnest he's been and for this exact thing, the fasting.
1:34.5	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my guest today, Mark Madsen, and get into the nitty-gritty, get into the details, and see if you can find a lifestyle change based on this episode.
1:47.7	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mark Madsen.
2:21.5	It's an interesting time to have the opportunity to pick your mind in the sense of where your career, your research, and everything is gone, especially considering the last two years, especially considering that we all know now that carrying extra weight.
2:28.9	We're going to talk about this today, but it's always been not great for us, but it's been
2:33.6	doubly bad during the last two years.
2:36.8	Can I ask you, just big picture, how did you, given your career, given your research, given to
2:43.3	how you understand us and food and eating, what have you been thinking about the last two years?
2:50.9	How has this affected your thought process?
2:54.9	I was trained in zoology and neuroscience.
2:58.7	We always put things in an evolutionary perspective.
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