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Mar 18

Episode 100: Ask Us Anything! Our Personal Lives, Things That Make Us Happy, Favorite Books, Clothing, Family, Recommendations, Aspirations, And More!

Intermittent Fasting , Personal Stories

Welcome to Episode 100 of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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To submit your own questions, email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

SHOW NOTES

JOOVV RED LIGHT THERAPY DEVICES:  Use The Link Joovv.com/IFPodcast With The Code IFPODCAST For A Free Gift! 

Listener Q&A: Lynne  - Which Jooovv Do You Have?

Listener Q&A: Sandy  - How Do You Have Time To Manage The Facebook Groups?

Listener Q&A: Emily  - What Is Your Favorite Harry Potter Book?

Listener Q&A: David  - Have You Tried An Upside Down Coffee Enema?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - What's The Highest Heel You've Worn?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - Bikini Or One Piece?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - Favorite Nail Polish Color?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - Sweat Pants Or Jeans?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - How Long Does It Take You To Get Ready?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - Big Gathering With Strangers Or Small Intimate Gathering?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - Stomach Ache Or Headache?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - What Is A Small Thing That Makes You Happy?

Listener Q&A: Nita  - One Tangible Item You Would Never Part With?

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Listener Q&A: Amy  - What Other Books Do You Recommend?

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck) STUFF

Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'dell) STUFF

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky) https://amzn.to/2HrT7Fh

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: A Novel (Jon McGregor) https://amzn.to/2IYzxT6

Listener Q&A: Katie  - Gin- Do You Think You Gained Muscle From Fasting?

Listener Q&A: Katie  - Melanie - How Much Weight Did You Lose With IF?

Listener Q&A: Ragan  - Gin - What Was The Name Of Your Doctoral Dissertation?

Listener Q&A: Ragan  - Gin - Why Did You Drop Out Of Mensa?

Listener Q&A: Ragan  - Melanie - Why Did You Drop Out Of Mensa?

Listener Q&A: Katie  - Melanie - How Did You Get Started In Acting?

Listener Q&A: Donna  - Melanie - What Is Your Acting Career Like? Do You Have A Guy In Your Life?

Listener Q&A: Nikki  - Melanie - Tell Us About Your Personal Life And Dating?

Listener Q&A: Ragan  - Have Melanie And Gin Met In Person? Goat Mattress Sleepover?

Zebra Glitter Highlighters

Listener Q&A: Dave  - Gin - Are Your Boys Doing IF?

Listener Q&A: Jennifer - What Word Or Phrase Describes This Season Of Your Life? What Are Your Dreams/Aspirations?

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STUFF WE LIKE

Check out the Stuff We Like page for links to any of the books/supplements/products etc. mentioned on the podcast that we like!

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know! 

 

 

Mar 11

Episode 99: Dr. Zach Bush: Pesticides And The Gut Microbiome, Environmental Chemicals, RESTORE Your Gut And Environment, Soil Depletion, Autophagy, Seeking Acceptance, Farmer’s Footprint, And More!

Autophagy , Gut Health , Intermittent Fasting , Personal Stories , Wine

Welcome to Episode 99 of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

Zach Bush

Zach Bush, MD is one of the few triple board-certified physicians in the country with expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice/Palliative care. The breakthrough science that Dr. Bush and his colleagues have delivered offer profound new insights into human health and longevity. In 2012, he discovered a family of carbon-based redox molecules made by bacteria. He and his team subsequently demonstrated that this cellular communication network functions to compensate for glyphosate, and many other dietary, chemical, and pharmaceutical toxins that disrupt our body's natural defense systems.

This science has resulted in a revolutionary class of dietary supplements, including the product, RESTORE. Dr. Bush points to his kids as the driving force behind his passion for change. He is fiercely motivated by a desire to have them experience a much brighter and healthier future. His education efforts provide a grassroots foundation from which we can launch change in ourlegislative decisions, ultimately up-shifting consumer behavior to bring about radical change in the mega industries of big farming, big pharma, and Western Medicine at large. Learn more at www.zachbushmd.com, www.intrinsichealthseries.com, and www.restore4life.com.

To submit your own questions, email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

SHOW NOTES

Zach Bush's Background: Rethinking The Modern Approach To Health And Medicine

How Pesticides Affect Our Health

How Enviornmental Chemicals Affect The Gut Microbiome

How Can We Address The Damage To Our Environment And Gut?

Farmer's Footprint

How Does IntermIttent Fasting Heal The Body?

IF And Autophagy

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Using Restore To  Heal The Gut

Using Restore While Fasting (Yes, It Supports It!)

A Touching ICU Story: The Importance Of Being Accepted

STUFF WE LIKE

Check out the Stuff We Like page for links to any of the books/supplements/products etc. mentioned on the podcast that we like!

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know! 

 

 

Sep 17

Episode 74: Re-Doing Our Weight Loss Journeys, Crash Diets, Mouthwash, Time Restricted Eating Calorie Studies, Red Light Therapy, Bone Broth Giveaway, And More!

16:8 , 5:2 , Alternate Day Fasting , Diet Mindsets , Fasting Approaches , Intermittent Fasting , Mindsets , Personal Stories , Struggles

Welcome to Episode 74 of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

Today's episode is sponsored by Bonafide Provisions Bone Broth! They make wonderful organic bone broths and bone broth soups, slow simmered for 18 hours, and completely free of preservatives! Bone broths are wonderful, nourishing foods and a fantastic way to open your window! Bonafide broths are available online and in stores near you! Go to BonafideProvisions.com for more information, and to find stores and order online! Use the code IFBroth for 20% Off!! Also check out our Instagram (IFPodcast) for a Bonafide Giveaway!

To submit your own questions, email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

SHOW NOTES

Don't Delay Deny Update

What When Wine Update

Amazon Links: Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle, What When Wine: Lose Weight and Feel Great with Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, and Wine, Feast Without Fear: Food and the Delay, Don't Deny Lifestyle

8:00 Red Light Therapy

JOOVV: These amazing, affordable at-home red light therapy infrared devices are EPIC for health, inflammation, water retention, skin tightening, sleep, cellular rejuvenation, and so much more! Using the devices can seriously transform your skin and overall health - Melanie has the mini, and keeps it on her desk while working during the day. She's a bit obsessed!! Check them out here!! Plus, they have a full money back guarantee! Nothing to lose, and *SO* much to gain!

Confidence Fitness Slim Full Body Vibration Platform Fitness Machine, Black

Listener Feedback: Jan - The Importance Of Checking With Doctors When Chronically Fatigued

Listener Q&A: Anna - Are There Studies Comparing Same Calories Eaten Throughout The Day Versus An 8 Hour Window?

Time-restricted feeding is a preventative and therapeutic intervention against diverse nutritional challenges

Time-Restricted Feeding without Reducing Caloric Intake Prevents Metabolic Diseases in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

A controlled trial of reduced meal frequency without caloric restriction in healthy, normal-weight, middle-aged adults.

Effects of 8-hour time restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study

Bonafide Provisions Bone Broth 20% Discount And Instagram Giveaway!

Go to BonafideProvisions.com and Use the code IFBroth for 20% Off!! And Check Our Instagram (IFPODCAST) For A BonaFide Bone Broth Sipping Set Giveaway!!

Listener Q&A: Jaime - Why Did You Choose OMAD Over Other Fasting Methods? If You Did It Over Again, Would You Still Choose OMAD? Would You Have Lost The Weight As Fast Without Crash Diets?

Listener Q&A: Holly - IF-Friendly Unsweetened Mouthwash Recommendations? 

Uncle Harry's Natural Alkaline Miracle Mouthwash - This awesome, super potent, antimicrobial, sweetener-free mouthwash contains just Colloidal Silver Water, Sea Salt, Magnetic Earth, Purified Ocean Water, Active Ionic Minerals; Essential Oils of Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Clove, Wintergreen, and Oregano!

Uncle Harry's Fluoride Free Toothpaste - Peppermint - This awesome potent, natural, sweetener-free toothpaste contains just Bentonite clay, calcium carbonate, Purified, deionized, microfiltered water and ten parts per million of silver mineral (99.000% pure), sea salt, ionic minerals, mustard seed, essential oils of peppermint, eucalyptus, clove, wintergreen, and oregano. Gluten free, glycerin free, fluoride free, and vegan. 

Uncle Harry's Fluoride Free Toothpaste - Spearmint - This awesome potent, natural, sweetener-free toothpaste contains just bentonite clay, calcium carbonate, Purified, deionized, microfiltered water and ten parts per million of silver mineral (99.000% pure), sea salt, ionic minerals, mustard seed, essential oils of spearmint, peppermint, eucalyptus, clove, wintergreen, and oregano. Gluten free, glycerin free, fluoride free, and vegan.

Uncle Harry’s Natural Products Alkalizing Nonabrasive Brushing Soap Tooth Suds, Unscented, Remineralizes Tooth Enamel and Promotes Alkaline pH, Fluoride Free and Vegan  Ingredients: Castile Soap (Potassium Cocoate, trace naturally occurring Glycerin), Ionic Minerals, Purified Ocean Water

Earthpaste Toothpaste: Minimal but healthy ingredients for epic teeth cleaning and remineralization, available in lemon twist, cinnamon, wintergreen, spearmint. They're minimally sweetened with xylitol, except for the unsweetened spearmint, which Melanie loves!


STUFF WE LIKE

Check out the Stuff We Like page for links to any of the books/supplements/products etc. mentioned on the podcast that we like!

REFERENCES

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know! 

 

 

Sep 03

Episode 72: Alcohol And IF, Candida, Pirates, Weight Regain After Weight Loss, Supplement Cautions, MTHFR, And More!

Alcohol , Fasting Approaches , Intermittent Fasting , Personal Stories , Supplements

Welcome to Episode 72 of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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To submit your own questions, email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

SHOW NOTES

The Pirated Copies Of Delay Don't Deny

Taking Supplements Because They Work For Someone Else

The MTHFR Mutation And Methylated Folate

Melanie's Blog Post On MTHFR

Listener Q&A: Allison - Does Your Body Process Alcohol Differently With IF?

Dry Farm Wines (Get a bottle for a penny!)

Episode 26: IF & Low Sugar/Alcohol/Toxin Wines For Health – Special Interview With Todd White Of Dry Farm Wines!

Listener Q&A: Natalie - Weight Regain After Initial Weight Loss With IF?

 The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

Listener Q&A: Lauren - How Does IF Impact Candida? Can Candida Feed On Ketones?

Listener Q&A: Shauna - Can I Fix Candida With IF Only, Not Food Choices? Can Essential Oils Help Candida?

Listener Q&A: Kathe - Can IF Cure Yeast Overgrowth?

Jarrow Formulas Saccharomyces Boulardii + MOS (This beneficial yeast can help fight candida in the body!) 

Pau D'Arco (Tea) - A potent antifungal and great for sugar cravings! 

Doctor's Best High Potency Serrapeptase

Doctor's Best Proteolytic Enzymes

Biocidin (Amazon Link)

 Norm Robillard/Paul Jaminet Candida Ketone Debate

The Healing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent Autoimmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way (Eric Zielinski D.C.)

STUFF WE LIKE

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know! 

 

 

Oct 02

Episode 24: Genetic Testing, Exercising After Eating, Happy NOT Clean Fasting, Flax Seeds, Changing IF Windows, And More!

Intermittent Fasting , Personal Stories

Welcome to Episode 24 of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of The What When Wine Diet: Effortless Weight Loss - Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

To submit your own questions, email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

SHOW NOTES

Listener Q&A: Milah  - Is Clean Fasting Worth It If You're Happy NOT Clean Fasting?

Does A Clean Fast Really Matter?

Listener Q&A: Milah  - Why Does Peppermint Tea Make Me Hungry?

Listener Q&A: Milah  - Is Insulin While Eating Bad?

Listener Q&A: Eva  - Do Flax Seeds Break The Fast?

Listener Q&A: Connie  - Should You Switch Up The Amount And Timing of IF To make It More Effective? Should You Do Regular Or Irregular Eating Patterns?

Can Your Body Adapt To Your Fasting Plan?

Listener Q&A: Sarah  - Can I Change The Times Of My Fasting Window?

Listener Q&A: Connie  - Should You Switch Up The Amount And Timing of IF To make It More Effective? Should You Do Regular Or Irregular Eating Patterns?

Listener Q&A: Alissa  - Can You Change Your Window Throughout The Week Vs Weekends? What Problems Could Arise?

IF Weekend Tips

Listener Q&A: Ifeoluwa Egbeyemi ("E")  - Should You Change Your Window When You Do Lots Of Exercise To Lose Those Last Few Pounds?

Listener Q&A: Chrissy  - How Does Exercising After Eating Affect Fat Burning?

Listener Q&A: Betty  - Should You Do Genetic Testing To Find Your Perfect Diet For Weight Loss?

Genes For Good (Facebook App)

Melanie's Blog Post: How To Get Your Genetic Data (For Free) And Interpret Your Genes!

REFERENCES

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know! 

 

 

Melanie Avalon Gin Stephens Before After
Apr 23

Episode 1: What Is Intermittent Fasting? Melanie’s And Gin’s Personal Diet Histories

Fad Diets , Intermittent Fasting , Personal Stories

Welcome to the very FIRST episode of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast, hosted by Melanie Avalon, author of The What When Wine Diet: Paleo And Intermittent Fasting For Health And Weight Loss, and Gin Stephens, author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living An Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle. In this first episode, we're telling our personal stories of how we came to the intermittent fasting (IF) lifestyle, after trying a ton of unsuccessful, restrictive diets (oh hey calorie counting, cookie diets, HCG, diet pills, and many more!) Next week, we 'll go into more details about specific IF protocols, and start answering listener questions! You can email questions@IFpodcast.com, or submit your questions here!! 

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SHOW NOTES

VERY basic overview of Intermittent Fasting (we will go into more detail in episode 2!)

Melanie's personal diet history, and how she came to IF!

Gin's personal diet history, and how she came to IF!

LINKS

BUY Melanie's What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine, Gin's Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle, and/or Gin's Feast Without Fear: Food and the Delay, Don't Deny Lifestyle

More on Melanie: MelanieAvalon.com

More on Gin: GinStephens.com

Theme Music Composed By Leland Cox: LelandCox.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review in iTunes - it helps more than you know!