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Timestamps ⏱
0:00 – Intro
0:20 – Mike’s Non-Negotiables & Eating Like a Dog
1:42 – Mike’s 18-20 Hour Fasting Schedule
2:07 – Why Mike Started Fasting: Gut Health & Mimic Fasting
4:19 – Why Fasting Shouldn’t Feel Like Punishment
7:12 – What Mike Eats to Break His Fast
8:40 – Free Variety Pack of LMNT Electrolytes
9:21 – Mike’s Two Meals & Muscle Maintenance
11:25 – Mike’s Lifelong Discipline & His Marine Dad
13:41 – Discipline, Ritual & Pain as Peace
17:10 – What Built Mike – Plant Medicine & Memento Mori
20:25 – Football, the NFL & “Is It Useful?”
22:29 – Fasting Because It Feels Good
24:16 – Fasting, Plant Medicine & Energy Flow
25:40 – Fasting as a Superpower
27:11 – Mike’s Workouts – Circuit Training, No Days Off
29:37 – How to Make Effort Feel Good
31:27 – Breath-Synced Movement & Soviet Plyometrics
33:10 – Dorian Yates & Layers of Pain
35:15 – Why Are You Trying to Get Better?
38:15 – Simple Fitness for the Everyday Person
41:34 – “Flip the Pain Switch” & “Just Be Dumb”
44:52 – Setting Intention With Food & Training
46:34 – Does Guilt Change How Food Is Processed?
47:54 – Fasting, Energy & Drawing From “Source”
51:01 – The Body as a Miracle & Autophagy
55:34 – Processed Food, Intent & Fasting as Renewal
58:31 – Woo-Woo, Energy & Coincidences
1:00:26 – Photons, Consciousness & Scientific Myopia
1:02:25 – Healthcare, Pharma & Profit Motives
1:04:00 – Take Ownership of Your Health
1:07:39 – Concierge Medicine & Fee-for-Service
1:10:08 – Don’t Poison Yourself – Consistency Over Time
1:11:35 – Where to Find More of Mike
He Eats 8 Eggs at 12pm Then Stops Eating for 20 Hours – Here’s What it Does
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Mike’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikerholland/
Mind. Body. Energy. https://www.mindbodyenergymovement.com/freetrial
This video does contain a paid partnership with a brand that helps to support this channel. It is because of brands like this that we are able to provide the content that we do for free.
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Timestamps ⏱
0:00 – Intro
0:20 – Mike’s Non-Negotiables & Eating Like a Dog
1:42 – Mike’s 18-20 Hour Fasting Schedule
2:07 – Why Mike Started Fasting: Gut Health & Mimic Fasting
4:19 – Why Fasting Shouldn’t Feel Like Punishment
7:12 – What Mike Eats to Break His Fast
8:40 – Free Variety Pack of LMNT Electrolytes
9:21 – Mike’s Two Meals & Muscle Maintenance
11:25 – Mike’s Lifelong Discipline & His Marine Dad
13:41 – Discipline, Ritual & Pain as Peace
17:10 – What Built Mike – Plant Medicine & Memento Mori
20:25 – Football, the NFL & “Is It Useful?”
22:29 – Fasting Because It Feels Good
24:16 – Fasting, Plant Medicine & Energy Flow
25:40 – Fasting as a Superpower
27:11 – Mike’s Workouts – Circuit Training, No Days Off
29:37 – How to Make Effort Feel Good
31:27 – Breath-Synced Movement & Soviet Plyometrics
33:10 – Dorian Yates & Layers of Pain
35:15 – Why Are You Trying to Get Better?
38:15 – Simple Fitness for the Everyday Person
41:34 – “Flip the Pain Switch” & “Just Be Dumb”
44:52 – Setting Intention With Food & Training
46:34 – Does Guilt Change How Food Is Processed?
47:54 – Fasting, Energy & Drawing From “Source”
51:01 – The Body as a Miracle & Autophagy
55:34 – Processed Food, Intent & Fasting as Renewal
58:31 – Woo-Woo, Energy & Coincidences
1:00:26 – Photons, Consciousness & Scientific Myopia
1:02:25 – Healthcare, Pharma & Profit Motives
1:04:00 – Take Ownership of Your Health
1:07:39 – Concierge Medicine & Fee-for-Service
1:10:08 – Don’t Poison Yourself – Consistency Over Time
1:11:35 – Where to Find More of Mike
October 11, 2026
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