Today, I am blessed to have here with me for the THIRD time Dr. Will Cole. He is a leading functional-medicine expert, consults people around the world via webcam and locally in Pittsburgh.

He specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems.

Dr. Cole was named one of the top 50 functional-medicine and integrative doctors in the nation and is a health expert and course instructor for the world’s largest wellness brands such as mindbodygreen and goop.

In this episode, Dr. Cole opens the show explaining the meaning behind intuitive fasting. If you’re not metabolically flexible, fasting will be anything but intuitive. However, when you are finally metabolically flexible, you will intuitively fast and eat. Dr. Cole explains why he’s such a massive fan of fasting for overall health and the ways fasting will help heal your gut. Later, Dr. Cole answers common questions regarding fasting, like if it will help you lose weight and why you can’t fast when you’re eating a poor diet. Tune in as we chat about our favorite supplements for fasting and how tea can be beneficial on your health journey.

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[01:00] Intuitive Fasting To Renew Your Health And Recharge Your Metabolism

• The idea of eating only one or two meals a day sounds like an extreme and overly restrictive dieting tactic to most of America. But the truth is, our daily eating schedule—three meals a day, plus snacks—does not necessarily reflect our bodies’ natural cycles.
• Cole’s book is all about intuitive fasting. However, fasting will be anything but intuitive when you're metabolically inflexible.
• Instead, the book is a conversation about showing up for yourself to become metabolically flexible.
• When you are finally metabolically flexible, you will intuitively fast and eat.
• You can mindfully use intermittent fasting to gain metabolic flexibility so you can hear what your body truly loves.

 

[05:25] Why Dr. Cole Is A Huge Fan Of Fasting For His Health

• Fasting is an amazing tool, and it's completely free. Plus, fasting is something that it's actually encoded in our DNA.
• Researchers estimate that our genetics haven't changed in 10,000 years. Your body is made to do so much. It’s time to wake up the body's ability to heal itself and wake up the body's ability to calm inflammation.
• Sadly, we are living so out of alignment with our biochemistry that we put a lot of our body's healing capacity just to sleep.
• Fasting is a matter of letting our bodies remember what we were born with.
• Overall, fasting is an amazing tool that clinically really improves people's labs.

[09:25] How Fasting Can Actually Heal Your Gut + Reset Your Digestive System

• Your microbiome is actually repairing through the night and recalibrating through the night.
• When you fast, it is calming down the inflammatory cascades that are going on.
• Also, fasting doesn’t mean that you are cutting calories. Instead, you're eating the same number of foods, you're just eating in specific windows to give your body a little bit more of a fasting time than you normally would.
• The more often you can fast, you're going to be able to regenerate and repair the gut in a big way.
• Digesting food requires a lot of energy; so, you're giving your gut a break to not work on digesting food.

[13:45] What Food Freedom Means To Dr. Cole

• Food peace is going longer without eating, not because it's restrictive - but because you can do it, and you feel great doing it.
• Also, food peace means you can break the fast when you want to.
• Intuitive fasting can be scary; it can be triggering for people that are addicted to food.
• Just because something's common doesn't necessarily mean it's normal – most people in the United States have a massive blood sugar problem.
• The traditional way that American’s live their lives are, in many ways, self-harm; it's not self-respect at all.
• Food freedom is integrating things in your life that make you feel great.

[17:55] The Combination Of Keto And Fasting Is A Total Game-Changer

• You can’t fast your way out of a poor diet.
• Dr. Cole doesn’t advocate for people to have these extreme approaches to fasting, where it's like an eating disorder disguised as a wellness practice.
• Fasting should be a tool that can actually heal your relationship with food, heal your relationship with your body, and actually heal your body.
• If you look at a lot of the research on intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet, you're going to see similar pathways explored because they're both supporting beta-Hydroxybutyrate.
• Keto is nutrient-dense and calorically rich foods that are very satiating and nourishing; it's going to make your intermittent fasting window easier.

[24:00] Can You Teach Me How To Use Fasting To Lose Weight?

• Many people hear that fasting is connected with weight loss.
• However, it's essential to realize that fasting is the body repairing things.
• If you want to fast to lose weight, you need to shift your mindset. Instead, you have to get healthy to lose weight, not the other way around.
• Fasting has a lot more benefits than weight loss – you should be more excited about those aspects of fasting.

[28:05] Dr. Cole Reveals His Favorite Supplements For Fasting

• Cole is a fan of having coffee and tea while he fasts. Earl Grey tea has been shown to support our autophagy pathways.
• The main supplement you’ll want when fasting is electrolytes. Again, you can’t fast your way out of a poor diet.
• If you’re eating clean foods, you may not need those electrolytes. However, optimizing your electrolytes is something to consider.
• One of Dr. Cole’s favorites is LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/pages/robb-wolf

[35:20] News Flash! You’re Not A Failure If You Cut Your Fast Early

• When fasting, you need to have flexibility and intuition. If you cut your fast early, it’s not a failure. Instead, it’s a gift that you listened to your body.
• Changing your fasting plan is part of metabolic flexibility.
• We think there has to be this rigid plan for fasting to be successful; however, that’s not how life works!

[38:05] Stop Comparing Yourself To Other People On Your Health Journey

• We're all on our own journey with health – stop comparing your journey to another person.
• We're all created differently, and we're all up against something differently.
• Obviously, we're learning from other people. However, your path will be different.
• Communities should be there for insight rather than comparisons.
• You're on your own journey, you're going to do great, but in your own way.

[43:55] The Truth About Autophagy: Are You Getting Too Much While Fasting?

• Constantly check in with yourself and see how you feel:
  • Are you burnt out?
  • Are you fatigued?
  • Do you feel like you’re starving?
• As long as you eat enough foods during your eating window, then you should be okay. However, if your body is saying otherwise, then eat!

AND MUCH MORE! 

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