#249: Is Intermittent Fasting Healthy? Here's a Better Option

Is intermittent fasting healthy? Or is it another sexy health term that puts health inside a new box? Inside this podcast, I interview Dr. Michael Breus, America's Sleep Doctor to learn more about circadian living – using sleep to energize you to live.

There are a lot of healthy things the health space has taken to the extreme and made unhealthy. In some cases, I think that's what has been done with intermittent fasting. We're quick to hear it might help you lose weight so we go all in, taking the twelve-hour fast and pushing it to eight hours. If it speeds up results, why not?

But is it speeding up results? Or is it giving you quick but fleeting results?

Remember, health is not about pushing your body to the extremes. This leads to burnout and exhaustion. The answer to health has always been and will always be about energy flow. Creating a personalized tool that allows you to feel how your body is responding. How you feel, energetically not necessarily emotionally, is the easiest way to track your health.

Everything we do is working towards energizing the body or draining it. Not to say we can't do both, but the key is to find a balance. It's always about creating and sustaining a healthy flow of energy. That's the importance of sleep, of the food that we eat and even when we eat it. Everything we encounter in life is interacting with our energy. It's the key thread running through the whole of who you are.

Inside this podcast, we talk with Dr. Michael Breus, America's Sleep Doctor on energy. How to use energy to change not only how you feel but how you feel leads to a change in how you look. It's the outcomes we've all been longing for but created through energy flow.

 

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