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and I went wait, it's past six o'clock.

- [Julie Voiceover] And I

found that the first week

was very uncomfortable.

I mean, I went to bed with

hunger pains and that's all

I could do to stay on this time

restricted eating time frame

was to go to bed early so

that I wouldn't feel hungry.

- [Male] And Dr. Julie

had given me the advice

that the first two weeks

were going to be very hard.

- [Julie] After about a week,

those hunger pains completely went away.

- [Male] And she was right

but I was glad she shared that

because it prepared me.

- And then after that, it was no cravings.

So it was really strange

but cravings for food

later in the evening just went away.

Your liver tests look fantastic.

In fact, they were lower

than they were before

the previous time.

- Okay, I'm glad. (laughs)

- Yeah.

So your fatty liver is

completely reversed.

You have totally normal liver enzymes.

- Okay.

- And you did it purely

by just lifestyle changes.

Within a couple of months,

you can have a reversal of fatty liver.

You can start seeing blood sugar changes

in less than two months.

I mean, it's like better than medicine!

Debra has a new patient to me.

- But my concern is that

I've been told I should take

blood pressure medicine to

control my blood pressure.

- Her one fear was being on

a blood pressure medicine

for the rest of her life.

- Yeah, I think it had gotten

in the 150's and 160's.

- And her blood pressure was running

in the hypertensive range so

she was running over 140's.

- Just didn't like the side effects.

I was falling asleep at the wheel.

- And she was given the

recommendation of trying

to just restrict her eating

time to about 11 or 12 hours

and two weeks later she came in

and her blood pressure was

normal, 120's to 130's systolic.

- My blood pressure read, I

don't know if you have it there,

it was 126 over --

- [Julie] Over 70.

- Yes, it hasn't been that for awhile.

- It was beautiful!

And she came in again a few weeks later,

and her blood pressure was normal again.

It's like your daily medicine.

These medical conditions,

we should be thinking about

them as really symptoms, right?

I mean, it's really

not a medical condition

because it's totally reversible.

You noticed a sleep

improvement with adopting

this lifestyle change over

some of the other things

you had tried before.

- And a much sounder sleep.

- Yeah.

That's interesting 'cause I

hear people bring that up to me.

Potentially, she's not a

hypertensive patient any longer.

- [Female] I located Dr. Julie Wei-Shatzel

and I said I really, really

need to get this weight

under control.

It's out of control.

She said,

"Would you be interested I

participating in a study?"

- Trying to do now is expand the study.

The original study was done

in 150 adults in San Diego.

We are now running a worldwide study.

We have almost 9,000 users.

- She explained to me about

the circadian clock app.

- Now with the launch of

this app, My Circadian Clock,

we have close to 10,000

people who have downloaded.

- And I downloaded his app.

- And so I went through the

process of taking pictures

of the food that I ate

everyday and then also

making sure that I fasted

for a minimum of 12 hours

each night with dinner

being at six o'clock.

- First two weeks we ask

you to log everything

you currently do and then at

the end of those two weeks,

you get a summary of

everything that you've done.

It's kind of shocking to

see how much you forget

and when you look back and

have the hard evidence,

it's really helpful.

- Using that app is really, to me,

much more useful than

using something like Fitbit

because you're going to

maximize your circadian rhythm

and all of your organs

run on circadian rhythm.

- I think one of the exciting

things that we've seen

is that people are pretty

able to adapt to this style.

If you say, you can still

have that piece of cake

but you just can't eat it after 6 P.M.,

people are a lot more open to that

and they'll adjust when

they eat their types of food

and say, okay, you know what?

I can have it in the morning.

- Within about eight months

of about a 12 hour

fasting window everyday,

I found that my triglycerides had gotten

well below any number I had

been able to achieve previously

and I also found that

my A1C had also fallen

to the lowest point it had been in years.

- I realized so much benefit so fast.

In the first 90 days, I lost 11 pounds

and in 180 days, I lost 16 pounds.

I'm trim anyway.

I was 153 pounds when I started.

As I got through that, I wrapped

myself around the mantra of

don't change what you eat,

just change when you eat.

So I actually might've

started eating worse

and so (laughs) I could've

confounded the study a little bit

by eating worse because

I felt like I could eat

whatever I wanted and I

was getting good results.

I wasn't dieting.

So after that study, I met with Satchin

and I asked him about that

and he kind of chuckled

and laughed and said, "No, Bill,

don't eat whatever you want

"but do control when you eat."

- [Female] My blood pressure was elevated.

I was on medication

for high blood pressure

as well as for cholesterol.

The past year, since using

time restricted feeding,

I have actually, I've lost 20 pounds,

my blood pressure is excellent

and I'm no longer taking

a statin drug.

- Implementing time

restricted feeding is an easy

first step to take.

It has no cost, it has no side effects,

and it feels so much better

than taking medication.

- In 2004, I decided to

take a personal challenge

and I was gonna try a triathlon.

I tried a half Ironman.

So that's a 50 mile bike

ride, a 1.6 mile swim,

and it was a 12.1 mile run.

My performance has degraded over the years

to where I'm doing just sprint triathlons.

That's 1/4 of that half Ironman.

You would've thought that

I would've progressed

to actually doing the full Ironman.

So I haven't.

Well, it turns out that

I have a cardio condition

where my heart beats super

rapidly and irregularly

but what'll happen is,

it'll beat at 250 to 300 beats a minute

and it's like a boat

cavitating a propeller,

it doesn't bite and so there's

no blood pumping through

my heart and I get all

lightheaded and I might pass out.

It can happen anywhere

and so I've progressively

been doing shorter and shorter

distance triathlons.

At the end of the study,

it was allowing me to

run longer and harder,

to ride farther and

faster and to swim longer

and more smoothly and so I

felt like this next triathlon,

I'll see how I do and I

went ahead and I signed up

for the Olympic, that's

a double sprint triathlon

and so the interesting short of it is,

no cardiac problems, completed

the Olympic triathlon.

- If you can just implement

that first portion of it,

then the rest of the healthy

changes will come along.

- When you put the mice on the treadmill,

very well like you would

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