Cynthia Thurlow is a nurse practitioner, CEO, and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project, and international speaker with over 10 million views for her 2nd TEDx talk Intermittent Fasting Transformational Technique. With over 20 years of experience in health and wellness, Cynthia is a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health, and has been featured on ABC, Fox 5, ATLA, CW, Medium Entrepreneur, and the Megyn Kelly Show. She was listed in Yahoo Finance as one of the 21 founders changing the way we do business. Cynthia hosts the Everyday Wellness podcast, considered one of the 21 podcasts to expand your mind in 2021 by Business Insider. Her mission is to educate women on the benefits of intermittent fasting and overall holistic health and wellness, so they feel empowered to live their most optimal lives. How she got into intermittent fasting 1:51 What is considered as intermittent fasting 6:54 Eating less vs eating less frequently 12:15 The gut microbiome 22:02 Insulin resistance and its importance 26:44 Doing the hard thing to be healthy 35:32 The driver for disease 41:29 How to start on the path to change and be healthy 46:11 “It is not normal to be middle aged and to have to be on 15 medications, but that became the norm in clinic. So you think about the fact that that’s cardiology, so most of the time by the time I saw people they had already established risk factors for cardiovascular disease or already had cardiovascular disease, and the patients were getting younger, and younger, and younger. So I said, ‘What is wrong with this paradigm? We’re waiting for people to get sick instead of being really prevention focused.’” 33:21 www.cynthiathurlow.com @cynthia_thurlow_ https://feelbrilliant.com/