McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Unlock Holiday Wellness: The Power of Intermittent Fasting

26 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue by McCall McPherson advising holiday wellness practices, with a strong recommendation for intermittent fasting. The speaker argues that frequent eating during the day strains the body's ability to mitigate inflammation and perform detoxification, and that creating eating-free periods lets the body "catch up." The advice includes a personal endorsement: the speaker would be "pretty miserable" during the holidays without fasting.

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Some things that I personally do and I recommend for my patients to do during the holiday season a big big one that for me and so many of my people is that's helpful is fasting. So intermittent fasting allows your body an opportunity to keep up with the inflammatory detoxification pathway. Okay when we are eating, you know basically from the moment we wake up until shortly before bed it is really difficult and challenging for our body to keep up with the demand of mitigating inflammation, of dealing with food, of breaking it down, of excreting it. It's a lot of work. Our body is working overtime and often during the holidays our body is already working in overtime. Okay. So creating some space for your body to catch up and deal with everything that you're kind of putting it through and that we are going through is really powerful. I would be pretty miserable during the holidays if I didn't have fasting as a tool so I can't encourage it enough to.