Jeff Krasno
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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But generally, when you're becoming a disciple to a practice like that, you're making more conscious decisions about what you put in your mouth. And I was, of course, pairing that with data that I was getting directly from my CGM, and I was seeing vast improvements there. So fasting was a huge one.
Now, of course, there's all of these other benefits to fasting outside of just potentially losing weight. You know, there is obviously the activation of certain pathways like AMPK, which I'm sure a lot of experts have talked about on your show, which is associated with autophagy, cellular cleanup. There's mitobiogenesis, the creation of new mitochondria.
There's the production of BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor that seems to even grow new neurons, but certainly manage the functionality of pre-existing neural health. So there's all of these kind of like under the hood benefits, but the benefits that I was seeing was a tremendous amount. of weight loss in combination with a couple of other stress protocols.
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Yeah, well, I feel bad, Drew, because I'm not an extraordinary guest. I'm actually incredibly ordinary in terms of the presentations that were in my life. So I was chronically fatigued. I was brain fogged. I was pretty irritable, very hard time concentrating, couldn't read a book, needed to grab my phone quite often. And then of course, as I described, I was heavier. So I was about 210 pounds.
But with that kind of deposition of, adiposity sort of dad bod. So a lot of fat right around the middle, you know, and as my children love to tease me, I like to use the clinical name gynecomastia. My kids were like, dad, you have the boobs of man and would sometimes leave one of their bras on my bed just to rub it in a little bit. So I had, you know, that whole sort of panoply of symptoms.
The thing about everything I just named, chronic fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, they are so common now. that we essentially have accepted them as normal, but they're so, so, so abnormal. And so I was walking around in this incredibly compromised state. Now, subsequently, I started to do some testing and I realized that I was pre-diabetic, borderline diabetic.
And then I did some microbiome testing and my gut was as like leaky as a rusty old pipe, basically. So I was dealing with all of those things, but that just basically makes me average.
Yeah, so I'm a serial entrepreneur, not in the serial sense in that I can't stop making businesses. And so prior to Commune, which is my main gig these days, I was running a festival called Wanderlust. Some of your guests might be familiar with it. It started with just like one little festival in Lake Tahoe, California. geared around wellness, ironically.
I was pretty focused on growing that for a number of years. And I think by 2016, that concern had grown to about 68 festivals annually in 20 countries. So you can imagine what my life looked like. First of all, I have three daughters, so we were traveling like a band of gypsies, basically. But I was on a plane nonstop. I was in every time zone you can imagine.
I couldn't even cover the amount of events that we had, candidly.
so i was sleeping very very poorly um you know i was constantly stressed i very very naively raised a lot of private equity money um which i thought was a great idea in the moment and then of course you know i was under the thumb of you know some cigar smoking plutograts in midtown you know looking down at me scrutinizing all my moves
And that was a lot of stress, bad stress, chronic stress, endless emails, endless pressure. And yeah, my diet was basically carbicide, you know, because I was eating in airports and even when I wasn't eating in airports, I was having that bagel for breakfast or that muffin for breakfast. Obviously, over time, doing that for many, many years, I just wore down.
The issue here with a lot of these chronic diseases, as you well know, is that they are progressive. You know, they don't just come on like the Texas chainsaw murder or whatever. They're slow. low and, you know, they unwind like a little film noir, you know, so this is what was happening in my body.
But the problem here with so many of these chronic diseases is that they're so anodyne, they're so prosaic that we can just write them off of like, oh, I just had a bad day. I just got a bad night's sleep. And then we never really address them until boom.
You know, you get a bucket of cold water over your head, you know, you get a diabetes diagnosis, or you get, you know, worse, you know, mitochondrial infarction, all sorts, you know, that would be really bad. But, but you know what I mean? So this was my life. And, you know, I just had to wake up and start to really examine the way that I was living.
But also something deeper in my own psychology, I had to really untangle the story that I was telling myself about myself.
And while I want to talk about really the key core protocols that I think people can adopt that are super actionable, that will bend the arc of their health, I do think for many people, there's a step before that, which is really what I call my biopsychosocial intake form, which is like a very personal inventory of
about the story you're telling about yourself i mean i grew up as a very chubby kid i was moving from country to country so which was wonderful on on some level you know i was learning languages and you know having cultural experiences but i was moved into a new school every six months in a new country with a new language with a new clique of friends and of course when you're a kid
All you want to do is fit in, right? All you want to do is connect. Being a chubby kid, having to learn these languages, I was essentially willing to sacrifice any and every authentic part of myself in order to fit in. And really the output of that was I became the world's biggest people pleaser. And that people pleasing was like a rucksack that I essentially lugged into my adult life.
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