As you may know, I greatly admire Dr. Valter Longo. My version of his Fasting Mimicking Diet was a turning point in changing my eating habits. However, I have known for a couple of years that he is cautious regarding intermittent fasting. He doesn’t recommend it. Just recently, I listened to a podcast where he […]
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My life goal is to help women achieve flexibility of the body, mind, and metabolism. Consequently, I wanted to write a post devoted to explaining what is metabolic flexibility. All About Metabolic Flexibility I discovered metabolic flexibility in my forties! Seriously! Before that, I was everything but! Metabolic Flexibility has changed my life! What Is
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Let’s be honest: I don’t like rules! I get so frustrated when health experts say don’t do this, don’t do that, or when they act as if they have found the ultimate solution that will work for everyone. Or worse, when they make up a list of rules to follow and make simple things sound
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Most women, particularly after 40, will benefit from longer, less frequent fasts to restore their hormonal balance and achieve optimal health. This post will teach you what happens during a 24-hour fast and how to use it to reach your health goals. What Happens During a 24-Hour Fast The optimal healing fasting window is 3
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As you work to change your lifestyle and some lifelong habits, one of the most important predictors of success relates to your inner motivation and self-discipline. Defining the reason why you want to change is key when you are striving to achieve a specific health or fitness goal. Finding Your Why This post is all
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Whether you are intermittent fasting or doing a modified fast, learning how to curb hunger when fasting will be beneficial. And guess what? I am pretty sure that you haven’t thought about some of my seven tips before. Why? Because after two years of fasting and four modified fasts, I didn’t know some of those
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Before we get into my juice fast and recipes, let’s determine if you should even go on a juice fast for 3 days. There was a time in my life when I couldn’t juice fast, and maybe that’s where you are. There are many health interventions and types of fasts. Some may benefit you, some
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Fasting is an incredible tool to improve your health and well-being. It is free and powerful! It may take a bit of practice to adopt it as a lifestyle practice as we are so used to grazing throughout the day and many of us can’t even recognize true hunger, but once you get in the
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Would you like to reduce inflammation and heal your gut simply by eating fewer but better-quality foods? In this post, we will talk about how the fast-mimicking diet compares to water fasting and how you can benefit from autophagy and still eat some food. Fast Mimicking Diet Cheat Sheet Before we get started with comparing
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I often talk about easing off on intermittent fasting and/or keto during the seeking leading up to your cycle, but the idea for this post came up from a recent experience trying to implement my 5-day keto vegan meal plan (I will tell you all about it). We will talk about everything that relates to
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