Ep80: Siim Land on Keto & Fasting Benefits (+Top Tips)

Ep80: Siim Land on Keto & Fasting Benefits (+Top Tips)

Update: 2019-01-21

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Author, biohacker and high-performance coach, Siim Land, is today’s guest interview. He shares his thoughts on the ketogenic diet and explains why intermittent fasting is so beneficial. We then find out about the best ways to start getting into intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating for beginners. We also go into discussing multi-day fasts, autophagy and its benefits, longevity, cognition, working out, effects of coffee/tea, the best ways to break fasts, as well as the more extreme dry fasting method. Go to the show notes at https://www.biohackerslab.com/ep80-siim-land/ for more links & highlights.

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Ep80: Siim Land on Keto & Fasting Benefits (+Top Tips)

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