

The Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Melanie Avalon, Barry Conrad
Burn fat, gain energy, and enhance health by changing WHEN you eat, not WHAT you eat! Explore the intermittent fasting (IF) lifestyle, with Melanie Avalon - biohacker, founder of AvalonX, and author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine - and Barry Conrad - actor, singer-songwriter, and creator and host of Banter with BC.
Episodes
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Aug 18, 2025 • 1h 17min
#435 - Lemon Water Or LaCroix During Fasting, Sudden Weight Gain After Fasting And Maintaining, Genetic Metabolism Differences, Eating In The US Vs. Other Countries, Overeating Protein Vs. Fat, Fetal Nutrition, Water Weight Gain, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Gimlet
STUDIES
Effect of protein overfeeding on energy expenditure measured in a metabolic chamber2
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
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Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Aug 11, 2025 • 1h 9min
#434 - Protein Politics, Fasting To Reduce Blood Pressure, Is Protein Just For Men, The Simulation Hypothesis, Liver King, Magnesium, Seed, And Serrapeptase Timing, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Space 220 Restaurant
The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #278 - Rizwan Virk
Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA.
STUDIES
The Effect of Intermittent Fasting Combined with Ad Libitum Days on Adults’ Elevated Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review of Human Studies
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
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Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Aug 4, 2025 • 1h 23min
#433 - Safe Cooking Methods, IF Vs. CR Benefits, Charred Meat Problems, Advanced Glycation End Products, Should You Like Bitter/Gross Foods, Fasting To Protect The Liver, Treating NAFLD, Fasting And Autophagy, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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SPONSORS AND DISCOUNTS
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Commander's Palace
STUDIES
Influence of intermittent fasting on autophagy in the liver
The Beneficial and Adverse Effects of Autophagic Response to Caloric Restriction and Fasting
Fasting, mitophagy, and aging
Dawn-to-dusk intermittent fasting is associated with overexpression of autophagy genes: A prospective study on overweight and obese cohort
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
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Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jul 28, 2025 • 1h 15min
#432 - Fasting And Wisdom Teeth Recovery, Fasting And Cancer Cells, Type 2 Diabetes Remission, Blood Sugar Spike Problems, Addressing A Weight Loss Lull, Eating Too Early Or Too Much, Getting Ready For An Event, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Capa
STUDIES
Role of Intermittent Fasting In Starving Cancer Cells
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jul 21, 2025 • 1h
#431 - Special Guest Courtney Peterson, IF Protocols, Muscle Preservation, Aging & Autophagy, Meal Timing, Hormonal Effects, Starting IF Tips, Cognitive Benefits, Diet Quality, IF Myths, Future Research, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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SPONSORS AND DISCOUNTS
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jul 14, 2025 • 1h 5min
#430 - Find Your IF Type, Red Meat Causing Cancer, Headlines Problems, Fasting For Insulin Resistance And HGH, Absolute Vs. Relative Risk, Stevia, Monk Fruit, Allulose, And Erythritol, Is OMAD Too Stressful, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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SPONSORS AND DISCOUNTS
MAUI NUI
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: The Magic Meadows Yurt
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STUDIES
Insulin resistance reduction, intermittent fasting, and human growth hormone: secondary analysis of a randomized trial
The Battle of Natural Sweeteners: A Comprehensive Guide to Monk Fruit and Stevia
Comparative Effects of Allulose and Sugar
Alternatives on Glycemic and Cardiometabolic Parameters: A
Systematic Review
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jul 6, 2025 • 1h 16min
#429 - Ketogenic Diets Vs. Fasting, Switching In And Out Of Keto, L-Carnitine For Fat Burning, Unique Fasting Health Benefits, Increasing Stress Resistance, Wall Decorations - Mixtiles, Burning Fat In The Mitochondria, Creatine Supplementation, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Rules
Banter with BC
STUDIES
Common and divergent molecular mechanisms of fasting and ketogenic diets
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jun 30, 2025 • 1h 4min
#428 - 4:3 Fasting Vs. Calorie Restriction, Should You Eat Eggs, Weight Loss Behavior Support, Low A1C With Blood Sugar Spikes & Drops, Magic Soaks, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS:
Featured Restaurant: Monsieur Paul
STUDIES:
4:3 Intermittent Fasting Outperforms Daily Calorie Restriction in Weight-Loss Study
The Effect of 4:3 Intermittent Fasting on Weight Loss at 12 Months
Egg Consumption and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of Australian Community-Dwelling Older Adults
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
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Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jun 23, 2025 • 52min
#427 - The Psychology Of Food Fear, Fasting For Gut Health, The Role Of Diagnoses, Restriction Vs. Intuition, Sleep, Light, And Stress, Mindset And Physical Healing, Confidence With Gut-Safe Eating, Healing Protocols That Work, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Jun 16, 2025 • 1h 14min
#426 - Metabolism Slowing Down With Age Myths, Tattoos' Effects On Health And Wellness, Fasting Longer Than 24 Hours, Supporting Muscle With Old Age, Laser Hair Removal, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Botín
Destiny
STUDIES
Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based case-control study
Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
Characterisation of tattoo inks used in Australia
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FOOD SENSE GUIDE
Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.
Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.