Gin Stephens - Fast. Feast. Repeat.: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Dont Deny® Intermittent Fasting--Including the 28-Day FAST Start

Thank you for telling me about Delay, Dont Deny intermittent fasting! It is truly life changing!

In my nearly twenty years as a primary care physician, Ive heard similar enthusiasm on occasion, but since Ive been advocating for intermittent fastingspecifically Gin Stephens Delay, Dont Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting LifestyleI hear this kind of excitement regularly. Recommending Gins first book has been the single most effective intervention that I, as a primary care physician, have ever made. In my patients experiences, it has been more effective than any medication, program, or diet. It has also become a lifestyle for me, one that has allowed me to lose weight, have more energy, andin an amazing non-scale victoryerased all joint pain. IF is an exceptionally livable, flexible lifestyle. I have done it while at home and also while I have traveled and celebrated: truly FEASTING and Fasting. I have lived this lifestyle for almost two years now, and have no intention of ever going back to three squares and snacks!

Gin has done it againbuilding on the science that she presented in her first book, and continuing to instruct readers about how to make Intermittent Fasting a livable lifestyle! Fast. Feast. Repeat. is a highly informative, readable guide to both the science behind intermittent fasting and the methods and tricks that make an intermittent fasting lifestyle both practical and easy. She presents the complex scientific conceptslike the teacher she isby breaking them down in a way that is very easy to understand. You may even feel like youre having a discussion with Gin when you read this book: her writing style is so warm and personal and conversational.

Gins 28-day FAST start is the perfect way to ease into and adjust the fast/feast patternletting your body begin to heal and become good at tapping into its fat stores. Her Clean Fast Challenge will convince you that clean fasting is the key to making IF a lifestyle and not a diet. In Fast. Feast. Repeat. youll find new information, clear instruction on clean fasting, and more in-depth descriptions of styles of fastingincluding alternate-day fasting, 18:6, 19:5, OMAD and othersthan shes ever delivered before.

In December 2019, the New England Journal of Medicine published a review article about the many health benefits of intermittent fasting that not only solidified my conviction about its benefits, but was very specific in its declaration that IF is NOT just about calorie restriction: the benefits of IF are dissociated from its effects on weight loss. These benefits include improvements in glucose regulation, blood pressure, and heart rate; the efficacy of endurance training; and abdominal fat loss. In everyday language, this means that while we often come to IF for weight loss, we remain intermittent fasters for the broad health benefits: lowering blood pressure, reducing risk of diabetes/improving diabetes and reducing abdominal fat, the accumulation of which has long been known to be detrimental for health. The article goes on to mention the benefits related to neurodegenerative disorders, cancer risk reduction, longevity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and inflammation. This means that IF is the magic pill. It is what weve all been looking for. For the first time in my professional life, Ive been able to regularly de-prescribe medications for my patients. It is no longer unusual to lower or eliminate a patients blood pressure medication or diabetes medication or cholesterol medication. If the pharmaceutical or diet industry could do any single one of these things consistently, itd be a home run in terms of sales and profit. Fortunately for us, Intermittent Fasting is free, and it can do all of these things, not just one!

If you are just curious or ready to dive in with your very first fastor if youve been a longtime fasteryou will find a great resource in Fast. Feast. Repeat. What are you waiting for? Join the health revolution!

Julie Sandell, DO,

Family Medicine Physician,

Cedar Falls, Iowa