(Un)Well 03: Fasting. Fad Diet or Cure All?

Bio-hacking, broscience and starving yourself all collide in this episode where we talk about (Un)Well’s look at fasting. Fasting is extremely popular at the moment, but is it the miracle cure we’re all told it is? 

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This week’s suggested readings:

We don’t usually link to our books, but our books are very relevant for this episode and contain lots of good science (and you get to spend more time with us)

Pixie’s books - No Need to Diet https://amzn.to/3gw74zT 

Insta-Food Diet - https://amzn.to/2NowkvB 

Nikki’s books - Pretty Unhealthy - https://amzn.to/3fP1456 

You call it starvation, I call it biohacking - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/opinion/sunday/men-extreme-diets.html

Minnesota Starvation Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment 

Third leading cause of death: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/

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