The Intermittent Fasting Podcast Melanie Avalon, Vanessa Spina
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Burn fat, gain energy, and enhance health by changing WHEN you eat, not WHAT you eat! Explore the intermittent fasting (IF) lifestyle, with Melanie Avalon ("What When Wine: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine") and Vanessa Spina ("Keto Essentials: 150 Ketogenic Recipes to Revitalize, Heal, and Shed Weight"). Visit IFpodcast.com for more information!
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#365 - New Controversial IF Study, Media Misinformation, Heart Disease RIsk, Bad Science, Metabolic Dysfunction, Cardiovascular Health, Keto Easter, New Tone Device And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode365 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
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Listener Q&A: Anna - Double risk of heart disease?
Intermittent fasting ‘could raise risk of fatal heart disease
The AHA says Fasting increases cardiac risk by 91%. Are they really that stupid?
Could Intermittent Fasting Diets Raise Heart Risks?
Study suggests intermittent fasting nearly doubles risk of death from heart disease
P192 - Association Between Time-Restricted Eating and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality
Is Intermittent Fasting Bad for Your Heart? Here’s What We Know.
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#364 - Special Guest: Dane Johnson, The S.H.I.E.L.D. Program, Healing Crohn's Colitis, IBS-C and IBS-D, Gut Health, Self Advocacy, Diet and Nutrition, Mindset, The Journey Of Recovery, And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode364 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
BEAUTYCOUNTER: Keep your fast clean inside and out with safe skincare! Shop with us at melanieavalon.com/beautycounter and use the code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off, plus something magical might happen after your first order! Find your perfect Beautycounter products with Melanie's quiz: melanieavalon.com/beautycounterquiz
Join Melanie's Facebook group Clean Beauty and Safe Skincare with Melanie Avalon to discuss and learn about all the things clean beauty, Beautycounter, and safe skincare!
LMNT: Go to drinklmnt.com/ifpodcast to get a free sample pack with any purchase! Learn all about electrolytes in Episode 237 - our interview with Robb Rolf!
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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #189 - Dr. Megan Rossi
Dane's poor health history
Being close to death early in age
CMV
Difficulty with prednisone
Getting into rest and digest
Meditation, prayer, journaling
Victim mindset
Reading inspirational books
Law of attraction
You don't have to be perfect
GI Map for SIBO and imbalances
Missing the important clues on standard tests
Leaky gut and loss of microbiome diversity
The liver's role
Food philosophy
Feeling unsafe in your body
The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #27 - Nick Ortner
The SHIELD Program
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#363: Day Trips, Fasted Traveling, Cold Exposure, Sports Performance, Bloating, Low FODMAP Diets, Carnivore Diet, And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode363 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
BEAUTYCOUNTER: Keep your fast clean inside and out with safe skincare! Shop with us at melanieavalon.com/beautycounter and use the code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off, plus something magical might happen after your first order! Find your perfect Beautycounter products with Melanie's quiz: melanieavalon.com/beautycounterquiz
Join Melanie's Facebook group Clean Beauty and Safe Skincare with Melanie Avalon to discuss and learn about all the things clean beauty, Beautycounter, and safe skincare!
MD LOGIC: Get 10% off sitewide at mdlogichealth.com with code IFPODCAST!
Go to melanieavalon.com/biohackingconference and use code BCMelanie for 30% off the 10th Annual Biohacking Conference Tickets. Ends March 31st (drops to 25% after that)
Intermittent Fasting: Does It Affect Sports Performance? A Systematic Review
Metabolic Switching: An Intermittent Fasting Revolution with Dr. Mark Mattson - Part 1
Listener Q&A: Jennifer - What foods/supplements WON’T break a fast?
LMNT: Go to drinklmnt.com/ifpodcast to get a free sample pack with any purchase!
Episode 354: Special Guest: Dave Asprey, Cold Plunges, Dopamine Fasting, Spermidine, Follistatin Gene Therapy, Sex, Fertility, And More!
Episode 358: Special Guest: Dave Asprey, Coffee, Minerals, Adrenal Fatigue, Wine, Coffee Enemas, Coffee Shops, Traveling, And More!
Listener Q&A: Xenia - My doctor told me to stop 16:8 IF when I had a serious bloating issue... (then Emily said why would you discontinue IF? It isn't a diet, it is a lifestyle and once you see all the benefits you won't want to stop and Sacy said In my experience, bloating was food related. Think carbs like pasta, bread, chips. Tweak the food.
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Episode 347: Special Guest: Vince Ojeda, Gut Health, Food Sensitivities, Food Allergies, Dysbiosis, Fasting Mimicking, Elimination Protocols, IgG, IgE, IgE4, IgM, CD3, Food Antigens, And More!
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#362 - Special Guest: Luis Villaseñor, Ketogains, High Protein Diets, Fasted Training, Electrolytes, Potassium, Calcium and Insulin, And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode362 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
BEAUTYCOUNTER: Keep your fast clean inside and out with safe skincare! Shop with us at melanieavalon.com/beautycounter and use the code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off, plus something magical might happen after your first order! Find your perfect Beautycounter products with Melanie's quiz: melanieavalon.com/beautycounterquiz
Join Melanie's Facebook group Clean Beauty and Safe Skincare with Melanie Avalon to discuss and learn about all the things clean beauty, Beautycounter, and safe skincare!
LMNT: Go to drinklmnt.com/ifpodcast to get a free sample pack with any purchase! Learn all about electrolytes in Episode 237 - our interview with Robb Rolf!
BUTCHERBOX: For a limited time go to butcherbox.com/ifpodcast and get 3 lbs of chicken thighs, 2 lbs of ground beef, or 1 lb of premium steak tips—for free in every order for a whole year! Plus, get $20 off your first order!
MD LOGIC: Get 10% off sitewide at mdlogichealth.com with code IFPodcast!
Luis' diet beginnings
High protein diets
Listener Q&A: Kathryn - I’ve heard that keto diets can actually raise cholesterol
Keto Macro Calculator for Free
Listener Q&A: Valory - Best way to incorporate when you have no gall bladder and are sensitive to high fat.
Intentionally breaking your ketosis
Listener Q&A: Aimee - Is it useful to our bodies if we aren't eating keto 7 days a week?
Recalibrating your palate
Listener Q&A: Emily - Can you truly lose fat and build muscle at the same time? And if so, what’s the most effective way to do both simultaneously?
Listener Q&A: Melanie - What is the best time to take Tone Protein surrounding exercise to support muscle recovery? Immediately after or can it be several hours later?
Fasted training
Listener Q&A: Valory - I go to the gym faithfully. I’ve completed 2 weight loss challenges where I lost weight but also muscle...
Listener Q&A: Nicole - Are they actually necessary if you don’t sweat and only fast from 12-19 hours
Listener Q&A: Stephanie - Are electrolytes just salt mostly? If I have high blood pressure is something like LMNT safe? More salt related- is pink salt ok? Is Celtic the only “good salt”?
Potassium, calcium and insulin
Listener Q&A: Nydia - How many in a day can you drink??
Flavor development
Listener Q&A: Teresa - Anytime I go low carb my sleep suffers...
Listener Q&A: Nydia - Same here, if I go low carb my energy suffers, can’t sleep much. What kind of supplements should take?
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#361 - Special Guest: Kyle Berquist, Reputable Health App, Open Source Studies, Health Data Privacy, Self Testing, DIY Scientific Studies, And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode361 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
BEAUTYCOUNTER: Keep your fast clean inside and out with safe skincare! Shop with us at melanieavalon.com/beautycounter and use the code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off, plus something magical might happen after your first order! Find your perfect Beautycounter products with Melanie's quiz: melanieavalon.com/beautycounterquiz
Join Melanie's Facebook group Clean Beauty and Safe Skincare with Melanie Avalon to discuss and learn about all the things clean beauty, Beautycounter, and safe skincare!
BLISSY: Get blissy in tons of colors, and risk-free for 60 nights, at blissy.com/ifpodcast, with the code ifpodcast for 30% off!
REEL PAPER: Get 30% OFF reelpaper.com with code IFPodcast, plus FREE shipping! (Works on subscriptions too!)
Find Reputable Health in the App Store or the Google Play Store and use code IF24 to get access to the open source study!
How Reputable Health works?
Which wearables are connected?
Open source studies
Data unions
Health data biases with AI
Overlapping data in multiple wearables
Epiphanies in using Reputable Health
Joining the open-source fasting study
What you can do in the app
Creating your own studies
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#360 - Pre-Exercise Meals, Fasted Training, Low Carb Meals, HIIT, Weight Training, Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Post Exercise Fat Burning, Vanessa's New Baby, And More!
Visit ifpodcast.com/episode360 for FULL shownotes, and ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike for all the stuff we like!
BEAUTYCOUNTER: Keep your fast clean inside and out with safe skincare! Shop with us at melanieavalon.com/beautycounter and use the code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off, plus something magical might happen after your first order! Find your perfect Beautycounter products with Melanie's quiz: melanieavalon.com/beautycounterquiz
Join Melanie's Facebook group Clean Beauty and Safe Skincare with Melanie Avalon to discuss and learn about all the things clean beauty, Beautycounter, and safe skincare!
BUTCHERBOX: For a limited time go to butcherbox.com/ifpodcast and get 3 lbs of chicken thighs, 2 lbs of ground beef, or 1 lb of premium steak tips—for free in every order for a whole year! Plus, get $20 off your first order!
LMNT: Go to drinklmnt.com/ifpodcast to get a free sample pack with any purchase! Learn all about electrolytes in Episode 237 - our interview with Robb Rolf!
Write a review on Apple Podcasts to enter to win a giveaway!
Pre-Exercise Carbohydrate or Protein Ingestion Influences Substrate Oxidation but Not Performance or Hunger Compared with Cycling in the Fasted State
Listener Q&A: Julian - How to deal with fasting as a person who works out early in the mornings.
Listener Q&A: Valory - How do you find the right fasting window (time of day plus duration) for you?
Go to melanieavalon.com/ifquiz to find the right fasting window for you!
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.
Customer Reviews
A podcast with a heart and soul!
I absolutely love this podcast! I have listened from the beginning and I think what I love the most is Melanie Avalon’s absolute ‘dive in deep’ approach to every subject she entertains. I feel like she cares about health and wellness with her whole heart and that shows in the her complete fixation and enthusiasm of topics on this show. Her comprehensive research and pure non bias approach to subjects are refreshing. It’s unbelievable at times to listen to just how painstakingly exploratory she is. I appreciate this. Loved her first cohost, Gin. Loved Cynthia Thurlow and LOVE Vanessa Spina! I think the most important thing about choosing a podcast to devote time to is if you trust the hosts and the information they give. I trust this podcast. That’s kind of a big thing. Individuals that put the extensive time, effort and energy into subjects to present to the world mean something to me and for that I am most grateful. Thank you for this. I am a fan. :)
Entertaining and informative
I’ve been listening to this show for a few years—well, since I started intermittent fasting in 2020. And it’s consistently my go to show during my work commute. I love the balance between listener questions, personal experiences and knowledge from Melanie and Vanessa, and their discussion of scientific research. They’ll often weigh in on topics personally but will do the research when needed—including the deep dive. It’s been really helpful during my journey, and I feel like I’m listening to a couple of girlfriends. Keep up the good work!
Informative and life changing
I have listened to almost every single episode. After a friend of mine mentioned intermittent fasting and all of it’s benefits I had to get informed before I jumped all in. Melanie and Gin won me over almost immediately. I learned so much that I have become THE information source for everything within my friend groups. I love having an educated answer to all questions about health. All of the hosts have been so relatable and I love that the podcast answers real listener questions. This find has been a true blessing in my life. -Monique