McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

My intermittent fasting routine

4 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short first-person YouTube monologue by McCall McPherson describing her intermittent fasting routine and recommendations for women with thyroid conditions (including Hashimoto's). She recommends intermittent fasting 4–5 days per week using an 8-hour flexible eating window (examples: 10–6, 12–8, 9–5), emphasizes sustainability and reduced inflammation, cites six years of personal use and patient benefits, and advises consulting a physician.

Questions this video answers

Four to five days per week.

An eight-hour eating window.

Examples given: 10 to 6, 12 to 8, and 9 to 5.

Six years.

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Let's talk about my intermittent fasting regimen while I eat lunch. And especially this is for people with thyroid conditions. So intermittent fasting can reduce the severity of your Hashimoto's. It can reverse and prevent the breakdown of your metabolism with a thyroid condition. And here's how I do it. I intermittent fast and I recommend intermittent fasting for my patients only four to five days a week for women. So we're not trying to stress your body significantly. We are just trying to create opportunities to reduce inflammation. I, I intermittent fast and ask my patients to intermittent fast and eat in an eight hour window every day, four to five days a week. The other days I tell them don't fast. That eight hour window, I let it be flexible. Some days it can be 10 to 6, 12 to 8, 9 to 5, depending on what you have going on that day, depending on your natural eating rhythms. I'm hungry right now. It's 11am so, so I'm gonna eat my lunch as opposed to waiting till 12. I'll finish eating a little bit early or I just want intermittent fast today because I'm going to a happy hour for my husband's best friend's birthday. So the goal here is that it's sustainable, easy, gives your body breaks. I've been doing this for six years. It absolutely revolutionized my health and my inflammation. Same for so many of my patients. Obviously check with your doctor, listen to your own body, but those are my recommendations.