Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
When you alter your style of breathing—boom!—you can modify the other side of the equation, adding oxygen to speed metabolism or holding it back to build cells strong enough to thrive with less food and less oxygen. You’re already burning fat by virtue of fasting. If you have less food, you can deliver more air and still have an abundant supply of
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Many people report that fasting provides them insights into themselves like they’ve never felt before.
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
coconut oil that has the ability to suppress hunger and increase energy in your body.
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
Here’s the kicker: these fibers are also associated with weight loss. If you take soluble fiber while you fast, you don’t get a complete gut rest, but you do get all the energy benefits and all the longevity benefits, and you don’t feel the pain of the fast. It’s almost impossible to be hungry after mixing 20 grams of prebiotic fiber and a little M
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Inflammatory Foods That Cause Cravings and Make Fasting Harder High-oxalate foods (which can induce your body to produce calcium crystals that are hard to eliminate): sesame, soy, raw kale, spinach, chard, beets High-histamine foods (containing a neurotransmitter that can cause allergies and
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
A growing number of studies indicate that triggering autophagy also helps slow the aging process, reduce inflammation, and enhance your body’s performance overall.
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
conducted a twenty-year study of middle-aged men who used a sauna regularly and found that the men who sat in the sauna for twenty minutes at least four times a week decreased their risk of sudden cardiac death and experienced a 40 percent reduction in all-cause mortality during the period of the study. The sauna fanatics also had a markedly lower
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The main adaptogenic herbs are ashwagandha, rhodiola, holy basil, ginseng, and the mushrooms cordyceps, reishi, and lion’s mane. Ashwagandha and rhodiola are classic stress-modulating adaptogens. Holy basil and ginseng are also anti-inflammatory, as are adaptogenic cordyceps. Reishi is particularly relaxing; lion’s mane aids nerve regeneration. I’v
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Over a long period, intermittent fasting tends to drive down your level of IGF, protecting you from its potentially disastrous health effects.