Fast This Way Quotes

“They perform hundreds of critical health tasks. Combined, they can form a powerful antioxidant called copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, or CuZnSOD. It is one of your body’s most potent natural defense mechanisms against aging and molecular damage. Zinc is a key mineral in the support of healthy immune function, energy production, and mood.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“developed by the world-renowned integrative physician Dr. Andrew Weil. It’s simple and easy. His method is called the 4-7-8 technique, and it’s just as simple as it sounds: Breathe in through your nose for four seconds. Hold the breath for seven seconds. Then breathe out for the count of eight, expelling all air from your lungs and making an audible “whoosh” sound as you do so. You should repeat this cycle up to four times in sequence and do it twice a day. During a fast, you can increase the number of repetitions up to as many as twelve. Dr. Weil has found that the 4-7-8 technique is ideal for helping you fall asleep at bedtime. During fasting, it reduces cravings and anxiety and helps control mood swings.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“The key here is food choice while fasting. If you eat a diet high in protein and healthy fat during times of nonfasting, your sex drive will likely increase. If your diet has a deficit of healthy protein and fats—or if it is, in fact, that Coke and Doritos diet we discussed before—you may still encounter issues in the bedroom. As I often say, intermittent fasting will benefit you regardless of how you eat—but there are limits to what it can do.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“Although the connection is not as definitive as it is with apnea, restless legs syndrome appears to correlate with obesity.14 There’s also some evidence that restless legs syndrome may be brought on by mild neurological inflammation and nervous system disruption by toxins, heavy metals, environmental mold, and eating foods to which one is allergic. If you have restless legs, there’s an easy way to tell if toxins from your diet are causing it: run a fasting experiment. Fast for a day, and go to sleep. If your restless legs are magically cured, it’s likely that something in your diet is causing them. I used to have restless legs intermittently and discovered that by removing foods I was sensitive to, such as those high in histamine, lectins, and particularly mold toxins, my restless legs went away. Fasting will tell you if your”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“Instead of a boozy happy hour after work, soaking up inflammatory alcohol, you can meet up with your friends for a workout or a game of softball or Frisbee—something that actually makes your body feel good and is a better bonding activity than pounding beers and nachos. This way, instead of feeling deprived of social engagement, you rewrite the rules of social engagement to work for you. You’re making a new kind of human connection.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“Intermittent fasting enables you to put the amygdala and the whole reptilian part of your brain in its place,”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“For the first time, I understood that the greatest gift of fasting is that it helps you divorce your story about food from the reality of your biology. My”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“the way your body processes the high of eating a grilled cheese sandwich is a lot like the way it does a shot of heroin. The two produce different levels of euphoria, obviously, but both deliver an addictive sensation of gratification. That’s why when you eat bread, you’re going to want bread the next day and the next day and the next day. That’s why it’s so easy to fill up on the breadbasket at the beginning of a meal in a restaurant. Your body craves that opiate”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“High-oxalate foods (which can induce your body to produce calcium crystals that are hard to eliminate): sesame, soy, raw kale, spinach, chard, beets”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“Intermittent fasting has been shown to influence a potent antiaging molecule known as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD. In its activated form, it’s known as NAD+.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“One recent study at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, found especially pronounced cleanup of the neurons in the brain during fasting.”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“For instance, a group of Japanese biologists reported in 2019 that a fifty-eight-hour fast—in people, not in mice!—increased the blood levels of forty-four different compounds that are involved in the chemical pathways that break down fat and control the structures of proteins.8”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be

“hunger and craving. Hunger is a biological message, and it is something that you can control. Craving is a psychological need, and it is something that tries to control you. The truth is,”
― Dave Asprey, Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be