This special New Year's Day rerelease episode is all about weight gain, the nuance of autophagy, and fasting as a tool to heal your body and brain with Cynthia Thurlow. Dr. Mindy and Cynthia cover how your habits can save your life, how metabolic flexibility is the key to more muscle and less fat, strength training for women: why you need to lift more weights, why you need to stop weighing yourself every single day, the reasons women are gaining weight around their abdomen, and how building a fasting lifestyle will change your mental health
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Cynthia is a nurse practitioner, CEO, and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project, and international speaker, with over 10 million views for her second TEDx talk (Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique). With over 20 years of experience in health and wellness, Cynthia is a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health and has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW, Medium, Entrepreneur, and The Megyn Kelly Show.
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