Jeff Krasno
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Like Viktor Frankl famously said, between stimulus and response, there is a space. Inside that space, there's a choice. And in that choice lies our freedom and our liberation. Well, that stimulus, in this case, the hunger and the space I found between that and the response, like just mindlessly going to the fridge, like started to enhance my ability in other parts of my life.
And it began to sort of punctuate a certain kind of emotional equipoise that I would have in other situations, like when someone would insult me online or when my children would inevitably try to aggravate me or any other stressful thing that came into my life. I just had a little bit of space, a little pause available to me. And that was a very surprising benefit of fasting.
So fasting isn't just physical, it's actually psychological too.
Specifically as it pertains to fasting? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously there are women who've been incredibly influential on my health journey. In fact, I would say... primarily the biggest influences on my health journey have been female, like Dr. Casey Means, Dr. Sarah Godfrey, Dr. Mindy Pelz. Mindy, for example, has written a number of very, very well-researched books on women and fasting.
I think Eat Like a Girl is one of them. And so I would qualify fasting for women. I think that if you're In menopause, or if you're menstruating, I think you need to take to do an extra layer of research around when fasting is appropriate for you versus men who don't experience as much hormonal instability, I guess I would say, or change really.
So I know Mindy has like a lot of recommendations around when the best time to fast is, is like for women who are still on their cycle. So, you know, probably not towards the end of the cycle, but I mean, I won't qualify her recommendations actually, because I'll just let people do their own research. But yes, I do think that... Women and men are physiologically different.
Really for worse, most research until the 90s has been done on men. And certainly the kind of dosages around medications are always geared towards men. And many of the diseases that disproportionately impact women, particularly autoimmune diseases, have gone kind of very like under-researched and under-studied. I mean, the whole world of obstetrics is... in some cases, quite medieval.
So of course, like given that I live within what I lovingly call my estrogen footprint, you know, I'm very, very supportive of trying to create more platforms for women's health. And obviously we have an event that we have started called Luminescence at Commune that is geared 100% towards that.
Right.
Totally. And I think the more you can understand about the mechanisms of your own physiology, the more you'll be able to play with these protocols on a bio-individual basis. This is why I think it is important to understand a lot of the underlying mechanisms. I know a lot of people are just like, shut up, Jeff, just tell me what the hell to do, you know? And sure, I get it.
But I think when you understand actually what's happening under the hood and, you know, you're doing a little bit of measuring here and there, I think you start to actually understand your own physiology better. And then you can play with the edges of a lot of these protocols.
I agree that kind of there's this other side of the equation, which is called orthorexia, where you become completely neurotic and fundamentalist about hitting the goals of all of these different voices that you're hearing out there. And that will, of course, just drive you absolutely crazy. It's not possible.
There's always going to be debate about like, well, you have to fast this many hours to get ketosis and this many hours for autophagy and this many, you know, and great. Like those people with that level of expertise, Should be talking about that to understand the more basic, broader 40,000 foot concept, which is that we are over consuming food and growth needs to be relegated.
It needs to be balanced by repair. We have, we kind of sanctify growth in our culture at every turn, you know, the GDP, the Dow Jones, whatever, the size of your business, you know, but really we need to balance growth with restoration and repair. And, you know, that applies to food, that applies to sleep, and it can apply to other practices too.
Totally. And this one, again, I think has, there's a gender, a little bit of a gender debate around this one too. But what I found... for me, was a particular protocol stack was unbelievably effective at helping me lose weight and balance blood sugar levels. And that's this stack. So intermittent fasting, we talked about. I was combining intermittent fasting with a low carbohydrate diet.
So initially that was kind of what I call the ketotarian diet or what Will Cole wrote a book called Ketotarianism. And that was fairly plant heavy, but low glycemic. Subsequently to that, I started to actually introduce more like regeneratively grown, pasture fed, pasture finished meats, et cetera, to up my protein bolus, particularly in the morning. But let's just say this.
intermittent fasting protocol, low carbohydrate diet, and then introduced a cold water therapy cadenced at a very particular time of day. So I'll unpack why this was so impactful for me. About 10 o'clock in the morning, I would have been fasted for about 15 and a half hours, right? And I would also be on a relatively low carbohydrate diet.
So my blood glucose levels by extension would be quite low. Now there is a little bit of spike with cortisol in the morning and that's adaptive to get you out of bed and get you alert, get you to a podcast. But mostly like my blood glucose levels would be quite low at 10 a.m. due to intermittent fasting and low carb diet.
At that juncture, I would get in to an ice bath before I put the first bite of food in my mouth. And I started seeing like unbelievable results with my just metabolic function and my weight loss. And I started to think about it. So at 10 o'clock, my blood glucose levels would be really, really low. I'd get into an ice plunge and what would happen? That'd be the first thing that happened.
I'd take a big gasp, but my core body temperature would plummet, right? And then my mighty mitochondria would go into overdrive. to heat my body back up, to thermoregulate back up into that warm porridge of 98.6. Get back into the Goldilocks zone. That's what the body's engineered for all the time. Homeostasis, homeostasis.
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