Podcast Intro:

There's too much stuff in our emotional body that we're not processing. We're just covering up small bits and pieces of food as we go. Emotional inflammation, in addition to physical inflammation, has an impact on our physiology. The negative pressures we face lead to an unhealthy lifestyle that has long-term consequences.

In this episode, Cate Stillman talks about the most prominent negative stressors we have and the root of chronic inflammation. She shares how negative stressors affect emotional and physical health and how we can better care for our physiology. Tune in to learn more!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What intermittent fasting does?
• How to Start Intermittent Fasting
• How to Lose Belly Fat and Tone the Muscles
• What is happening with fat cells? 
• How to have a Healthier Physiology 
• How to Remove Negative Stressors 
• How to Develop a Fasting Habit
• What pattern most people are in and why does it lead to disease?
• Why do people that have chronic inflammation have a hard time being adaptable to new bacteria and new viruses?

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Highlights:

• Cate talks about the importance of understanding Autophagy 
• Cate shares the two sides of the Human Organs
• Cate discusses the Modern Culture of Overeating 
• Cate talks about the evolution of Chronic Inflammation

Timestamps:

• [03:00] Eating Rhythm 
• [05:58] Number one habit that creates Chronic Inflammation
• [07:00] How Negative Stressors Disorganize our Physiology 
• [09:14] How Humans mate based on Physiology 
• [11:37] Positive Stressors
• [13:29] How much should we do Intermittent Fasting? 
• [15:14] Cate’s Intermittent Fasting Challenge
• [16:49] Negative Stressor
• [18:46] Inflammation leads to disease
• [21:46] Chronic Allostasis
• [24:25] What the Immune System is Designed to do 
• [27:02] What Happens When We Start to Fast?
• [29:13] What happens if you don’t have Autophagy?

Quotes:

• “The number one habit that's creating chronic inflammation is eating too frequently. It's a modern culture where we snack late and sit on our asses way too much. We prefer convenience over real food, we make decisions to make us feel good in the short term. They don't make you feel relaxed and aware and like you have all the time and all the money that you need. We end up worrying too much and sacrificing sleep. Those are all a result of decreased neuroplasticity from eating too frequently.”

• “As you become more integrated with your physiology through the fasting habit, you actually can activate the deeper muscles of your soul and your abdominal transverse. That also gives you tone in your lower belly, which gives you tone and your lower back. It gives you tone in the side abdominals. What that does is actually accentuates your waist-to-hip ratio. You're also supported in your lower chakras.”

• “The more you actually understand your physiology, the more you can get yourself to skip a meal.”
• “We have been evolving with bacteria and viruses. Viruses are a much bigger subset of genetic diversity than bacteria. You have your human DNA cells, you have your microbiome cells, and then you have your virus, which is huge and expansive. Our physiology is meant to constantly adapt to what's coming in. We don't get to adapt if we don't have lysosomal action. If that's all going to digest food, you are depleting your adaptability. That will accelerate your aging and it leaves you very vulnerable to new viruses and bacteria entering the evolutionary cycle alongside mammals. It's nothing to be afraid of, but you should know how it works.”