Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

The Wake-Up Call Behind Chronic Illness 🧠💡 | Seamus Mullen’s Turning Point

16 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma and Seamus Mullen discuss how a single day of fasting can reset food cravings by altering taste perception and freeing the body from digestive work. Fasting triggers autophagy, the body's cellular cleanup process, though sustained calorie restriction proves harder to maintain than intermittent fasting.

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I think if anyone has any type of craving that feels too intense, try fasting for even a day. Your taste buds are going to change. It gets you in tune with the actions and the foods that you're consuming that are really impacting your health and the drive that it has over you. I remember when I was younger, food, it has such a control over me. Like it would dictate if my day was good or bad. It would impact my mood. I was probably craving different types of foods all the time. But then that just dissipates. And what that does then is give you the control back. Right? It's no longer about these cravings. You're now the controller of your body and your health. Like, your body doesn't have to do all the work, which digestion takes a tremendous amount of energy. So when your body doesn't have to do that anymore, it's able to tune in.
One of the best ways for simulating autophagy is through calorie restriction or through fasting. I actually think that calorie restriction is a lot harder than fasting.
Oh, for sure.
Fasting is like one of the best things you can possibly do. Obviously sauna and cold exposure and lifting heavy objects, those are all really good ways to stimulate autophagy. But fasting is. Is really easy to do. At least short periods of fasting, 12 hours, super easy.