Joy Kong, MD shares her diet approach: eat diverse whole foods, practice 12-16 hour overnight fasts, and skip meals when stressed since fight-or-flight physiology impairs digestion and can trigger inflammation and leaky gut. Eat in a calm, grateful state.
What kind of diet do you have? I don't really follow a diet. I eat as much diversity as I can. All I pay attention to is the source and the cleanliness. I try to have a certain period of time during the day where I'm not eating like a 12 to 16 hour overnight intermittent fast. I don't eat when I'm stressed. What's the reason you don't eat when you're stressed? Because if you are in fight or flight mode and you're trying to digest food, that's where you get issues like inflammation and leaky gut and poor nutrient absorption and the lack of satiety and appetite control. Food is meant to be consumed when in a pretty relaxed state. I try to eat when I'm in a relaxed state, enjoy food, be grateful for food, eat a wide variety of food and very diverse diet fast when I can and avoid ultra processed foods and artificial ingredients as much as possible.
