

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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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
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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 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!
Courtney Peterson, a leading researcher in intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating, shares her fascinating insights on how fasting can enhance longevity and metabolic health. She discusses the impacts of meal timing and frequency on blood sugar control, and how fasting can aid muscle preservation during weight loss. Courtney also debunks common myths about intermittent fasting and emphasizes the importance of diet quality. Listeners will enjoy practical tips for starting their own fasting journey and learn about exciting future research on fasting's health benefits.

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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LINKS
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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
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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 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
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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 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
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 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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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 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
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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 9, 2025 • 1h 7min
#425 - Cold While Fasting, Fasting For Athletic Performance, Can You Perform At Your Best While Fasting, Alcohol Drinking Or Not, Ramadan Fasting, Daniel Fasting, Warming And Cooling Foods, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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SPONSORS AND DISCOUNTS
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: San Angel Inn Restaurante
Book: Healing with Whole Foods, Third Edition
STUDIES
Intermittent Fasting: Does It Affect Sports Performance? A Systematic Review
Core body temperature, energy expenditure, and epinephrine during fasting, eucaloric feeding, and overfeeding in healthy adult men: evidence for a ceiling effect for human thermogenic response to diet
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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 2, 2025 • 1h 15min
#424 - Does Breakfast Increase Hunger, Tips For Fasting At Work, Barry's New Skincare Line, Dopamine And Addiction, Social Fasting Hacks, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: The Tam O' Shanter
Book: Good Stress
STUDIES
Six Weeks of Morning Fasting Causes Little Adaptation of Metabolic or Appetite Responses to Feeding in Adults with Obesity
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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.

May 26, 2025 • 1h 11min
#423 - Understanding Atkins Vs. Keto Vs. Paleo, Testing Ketones, Fasting And Binging, Keto Vs. Fasting Vs. Both For Fat Loss, The Most Stressful Life Events, And More!
TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES
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LINKS
Featured Restaurant: Biergarten Restaurant
MABP Episode 297
Defeat Your Cravings: Free Book
STUDIES
Study on the Influence of Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting on the Change of Body Fat Rate
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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.