 Think about it in an ancestral environment. It'd be ludicrous to think that we needed to eat every couple hours because, you know, we've got to McDonald's in every savanna corner. That just wouldn't end up happening. Personally, I start just looking at it from this combination. I look at it from the biochem, like, okay, here's how it plays out on the glugos levels. I look at it from the ancestral environment, just thinking that naturally, if we think about it, we weren't involved to be eating constantly. We'd have times when we were hungry, times when we were not. And then I just look at it as, frankly, what works. And the thing is for me, it makes my life so much easier. I tell people that my secret superpower is I can go a day and a half without eating. And it makes my travel life just that much easier. It means I land in a city. I don't have to be rushing going, okay, I need food right now. I've got bad meal choices. Guess what? That's fine. I don't have to eat that. I wait until I've got something good to eat. People say, but that hunger is hard. One, if you're eating lower carb, it makes it a lot easier. And two, the studies show that after about four weeks of starting to ironman fasting, your baseline hunger levels drop significantly. In other words, you get used to it. And not you get used to it because you're used to dealing with the hunger. But frankly, your hunger levels go down. Your body starts adapting because that's how it's supposed to do. It adapts to what you feed it. It adapts to the world around it. Same thing you hear people talking about, but I need my protein shake and my pre-workout supplement and my creatine and my beta alanine and my nitrous oxide and whatever the latest sports nutrition supplement is out there. Because otherwise I can't work out. Now, once again, let's think about this. You're a hunter gatherer. You're going, huh, I'm hungry. But before I go out and go kill something, I need to eat before I go out and kill something so I can eat. Let's just think about that logic, bro. Doesn't make sense. Let's now talk a little bit about some modifications. One guy I know talks about this protocol, IFOC. Simply, intermittent fasting on crap. Now, I will admit, I personally don't advocate this method. I'm a biohacker. I want the most results. I want to optimize everything. But I will say in case you're just trying to get some easy wins, intermittent fasting on crap is significantly better than just eating crap. Modified intermittent fasting. We heard Dave Asprey or he will be speaking later today. Dave, bulletproof executive, great friend of mine. He talks about a protocol called bulletproof intermittent fasting. His protocol is fairly simple. You eat dinner by 8 p.m. You wake up in the morning. You have coffee, but not just standard coffee. Take coffee, you blend a ton of butter in there. A little bit of MCT oil. MCT oil, it's medium chain tri-glycerides. People will say you can use coconut oil. No, use MCT oil. There's reasons behind that. Blend it. Blending is very important. And people look at me sometimes, it's crazy. I love doing this. I'll work at Wall Street a lot. You'll see me a little shaker cup. Making coffee. Putting 14 ounces of coffee. 7 tablespoons, not teaspoons. Tablespoons of butter in there. A little bit of MCT oil. Blending it up. People are like, you're going to get fat. I've got an APAC, bro. I don't think I have to worry about this. You're going to get heart disease. I run my blood work all the time. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing. Blend it all up. That's about 9,000 calories right there. Keep going. Don't eat until 2 p.m. Then eat for about a six-hour feeding window. One of the really, really cool bio hacks when you start delving down into this is so there's this process called autophagy. It's basically when your body starts repairing and recovering. But the thing is autophagy stops when you start getting nutrients in. Because it's simple. I don't need to scavenge my body for waste products and use those to build. One I can actually just take in the food that's coming in. But the thing is what stops autophagy for the most part seems to be carbohydrates and protein. Fat for whatever reason, don't know why, doesn't seem to stop the process of autophagy. Which means you can pretty much have your cake or frankly have your butter and eat it too. You can wake up in the morning. You can have fat throughout the day. Get pretty much all the benefits for intermittent fasting without actually having to fast. And this particularly works great for the women out there. Because if you think about it women, well, they were designed a lot of ways they're the reproductive hosts. So they don't handle that same level of stress as men. Men were pretty much evolution's play things. We lose a lot of us. It's frankly not going to matter all that much.