
Dr. Benjamin Bikman
Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast
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The Difference Between Fasting and Starvation
We absolutely have a fat phobic culture. One of the hopes of my career is to play some part in dispelling that myth and helping people not fear fat. The moment you run out of fat, it stops being a fast and now it's starvation because now you're cutting muscle in order to survive. That's the difference between fasting and starvation. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. I think it can be part of a perfectly well done healthy diet. But it doesn't change the fact that there is nosuch thing as anessential carbohydrate. Even the most dogmatic dietician would reluctantly admit that that was true. And so my view on nutrition is that I would focus
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