Fast This Way with Dave Asprey

15-50% of the thoughts in your head during the day are about what you're going to eat next. What if there weren't any of those? What would you do with 15-50% more capacity for thinking. That's why fasting is important. If you want to show up in the world as yourself, stop thinking so much about food.

Fasting is like a Swiss Army Knife—an incredibly impactful tool that has far more use than just weight loss. Through fasting, you realize self-control, and self-control leads to you making better decisions about the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the content you consume.

Fasting is a tool that is free. It saves you time. And when you do it, at least some of the time, it profoundly changes the energy you have the rest of the day and in the rest of your life, and it'll likely give you many more additional years of feeling good before you hit the end. Man, that's a good ROI.

There are three things we know of that suppress mTOR... One of them is fasting, one of them is coffee, and one of them is exercise.

The best type of intermittent fasting is the one you're going to do—they all work.

Most people, men or women, who do fasting are going to feel great after the first couple days when they figure it out — 'I can do this intermittent fasting, and I'm never having breakfast again.'

You're an author too—you know that your hourly rate for writing books is a terrible deal. You write a book because you have to write the book or because you have something that you think is worth thousands of hours of your time and worth your readers' time ... I think I could make coffee as a barista in one of my coffee shops and probably equal the hourly rate.