Fasting 2.0: Muscle, Women and the Risk Nobody Mentions | EP 17

I mean, right up to the start of this episode, Faf was saying, "Why are we doing another fasting one? We've done this already." And I was like, "No, fasting is an ancient human superpower, and we still have not wielded it, and most people still don't do it.

We're gonna keep going until more people get the benefits out of it." Because we are designed in such a way that when we restrict food-

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... not only do we physiologically repair and, and our mind improves and our body improves, but everything just gets better.

Your...

You, your, you get focus, you get drive.

Hormones kick in that are supposed to help you drive to find food.

You use those same things in your day-to-day life.

And not only that, but I... or something that I've been picking up recently in my own research is that the GLP-1s, the peptides that people are taking to lose weight and suppress appetite, they hit on almost every single metric and receptor that fasting works on in your body.

So the exact reasons why you lose weight on a GLP-1 is the same reasons why you lose weight on fasting.

Same calories.

We're talking about insulin, um, sensitivity reset.

We're talking about just metabolic shifting, and there's so many others.

And Faf-

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... told me not to talk about all the science.

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But I'm so excited, I'm so excited to say that for people that are struggling, "Should I take peptides? Should I take GLP-1s? Should I do this?" There is another way.

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Fasting literally hits on almost the exact same mechanics.

Or should I say peptides hit on the same mechanics that fasting has because we were actually designed for periods of fasting.

So there's some really good news.

You don't have to spend 4 or 5,000 rand a month.

Fasting gives you almost all the same benefits and so many more.

So let's get into it.