Meal Timing and Fasting

What you eat is exceptionally important. But did you know that when you eat it may be just as important?

As it turns out, the human body is not designed to consume food from the moment we wake up until we wrap up with a bed-time snack, but modern society has opened the opportunity for folks to do exactly that.

Fortunately, this is - relative to changing WHAT you eat - fairly easy to remedy. I’ve listed a few more discussions than usual (I find this topic fascinating), but the first step generally recommended is bringing your eating window down to a maximum of 12 hours. I’m not sure how that sounds to you, but more often than not, when I discuss “time-restricted eating” or “intermittent fasting” with others, they speak to how it makes it easier to manage their day.

Ready to learn how you can leverage the timing of your meals for optimal health outcomes? Scroll down for discussions with Professor Satchin Panda, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Pradip Jamnadas.

Satchin Panda’s name pops up quite a bit in Foundational Habits, and for good reason; Professor Panda is an expert in all things related to the “timing” of basic human tasks.

To talk meal timing, I selected one of Panda’s appearance on Dr. Rhonda Patrick’s podcast, Found My Fitness Episode #39, Dr. Satchin Panda on Practical Implementation of Time-Restricted Eating & Shift Work Strategies.

If you didn’t check Professor Panda out in the Sleep section, Feel Better Live More #306 is a great discussion to tie many of these concepts together.

Professor Satchin Panda

A chance to get Dr. Andrew Huberman and Shawn Stevenson in one show? Heck ya!

Dr. Huberman appeared on Episode 524 of The Model Health Show (part 2, Episode 523 tees it up) to talk about how time-restricted eating transforms your brain and body - and for a bit extra, I’ve linked to an X post from “Dr. H” that touches a little more on fasting.

Dr. Andrew Huberman

Dr. Pradip Jamnadas brings a fascinating perspective to the fasting discussion; not only is he a practicing cardiologist who has developed a comprehensive fasting program as an alternative intervention, he shares a strong belief in things outside the standard medical discussion, including the importance of relationships/purpose, the need to avoid processed foods (as well as the extreme range of “real” food diets humans have survived on), and a deep desire to help his patients recognize the “you” that is beyond the mind and body as a way to assist them in shifting their lives.

Dr. Jamnadas appeared on Feel Better Live More #236; it is a terrific discussion that I highly recommend!

Dr. Pradip Jamnadas

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