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Timestamps ⏱

0:00 – Intro
0:18 – Akkermansia – The Gut Bug Fasting Feeds
1:23 – Why “Good Then Bad” Thinking Confuses Everyone & the U-Shaped Curve
3:04 – The Time Inversion Effect & Biology’s 4 Forces
4:07 – Degradation – When Akkermansia Eats the Gut Lining
7:05 – Attenuation & Compensation: The Sugar Diet Example
9:05 – Free Variety Pack of LMNT Electrolytes
9:45 – Fasting in Nature – Hunger, Activity & Foraging Foods
11:16 – Foraging Foods Mimic Fasting Pathways – Urolithins & AMPK
12:51 – 2026 Swedish Study – High Akkermansia + Low Fiber & Type 2 Diabetes
15:00 – Berries & Roots During a Fast – Is It Still Fasting?
15:44 – The Amplified Fast: Foraging Foods the Day Before
17:38 – Ego-Driven Fasting, Alone Contestants & Foraging Taxa
21:49 – Nature’s 4 Eating Patterns: Famine, Foraging, Feasting & Abundance
24:29 – Seasonality, Body Fat & Eating Seasonally
27:22 – How to Optimize Akkermansia – Supplement Craze vs Food
29:05 – Apple Peels, Berry Phenols & Feeding Akkermansia
30:38 – Diversity Over Daily – Why Daily Probiotics Miss the Point
33:57 – Post-Antibiotic Akkermansia Mutations & When to Reseed
35:05 – Akkermansia in Older Adults & Losing Bifidobacteria
37:52 – Daily Calories, Multivitamins & Non-Daily Supplements
42:07 – Daily 16:8 vs Random Fasting & Adaptive Thermogenesis
43:22 – Fasting, Energy Intake & Agouti Neurons Tripling
46:11 – Hyperphagia – Why Joel Can’t Fast 24 Hours Anymore
47:58 – Resetting Hunger – Big Breakfast, Vitamin D & Akkermansia Proteins
51:14 – Calories – An Underspecified Equation
53:44 – Where to Find More of Joel

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