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The Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Intermittent Fasting Podcast

By: Melanie Avalon Barry Conrad
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Summary

Burn fat, gain energy, and enhance health by changing WHEN you eat, not WHAT you eat! Explore the intermittent fasting (IF) lifestyle, with Melanie Avalon - biohacker, founder of AvalonX, and author of What When Wine Diet: Lose Weight And Feel Great With Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, And Wine - and Barry Conrad - actor, singer-songwriter, and creator and host of Banter with BC.

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Episodes
  • #498 - Trusting Influencers, GLP-1 Benefits, Fasting & Donating Blood, The Perfect Coffee Fasting, Fad Diets, Dietary Misinformation, And More!

    #498 - Trusting Influencers, GLP-1 Benefits, Fasting & Donating Blood, The Perfect Coffee Fasting, Fad Diets, Dietary Misinformation, And More!
    Nov 2 2026

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    TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES

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    LINKS

    Featured Restaurant: https://www.buckhorn.com/menus

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    FOOD SENSE GUIDE

    Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.


    Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.



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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #497 - Special Guest: Brian Vaszily, Purity Woods, The Art of Anti-Aging, Scary Skincare Secrets, Combatting Doom & Gloom, How to Prevent Wrinkles, Safe Skincare, The Importance of Organic, Maple Leaf Extract, Greenwashing Problems, The Ultimate Dream Creams, And More!

    #497 - Special Guest: Brian Vaszily, Purity Woods, The Art of Anti-Aging, Scary Skincare Secrets, Combatting Doom & Gloom, How to Prevent Wrinkles, Safe Skincare, The Importance of Organic, Maple Leaf Extract, Greenwashing Problems, The Ultimate Dream Creams, And More!
    Oct 26 2026

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    TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES

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    STUFF WE LIKE

    Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ifpodcast.com/stuffwelike⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for all the stuff we like!


    FOOD SENSE GUIDE

    Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.


    Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.



    Our Sponsors:
    * Check out TruDiagnostic and use my code IFPODCAST for a great deal: https://www.trudiagnostic.com


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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • #496 - Imagining Food To Eat Less, Reducing Food Cravings, The One Condition Fasting Doesn't Work For, The Power Of Visualization, Fasting & Bile Reflux, And More!

    #496 - Imagining Food To Eat Less, Reducing Food Cravings, The One Condition Fasting Doesn't Work For, The Power Of Visualization, Fasting & Bile Reflux, And More!
    Oct 19 2026

    TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOW NOTES

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    LINKS

    Featured Restaurant: https://www.rpmrestaurants.com/rpm-seafood-chicago/menus/

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    FOOD SENSE GUIDE

    Get Melanie's app to tackle your food sensitivities. Food Sense includes a searchable catalog of 300+ foods, revealing their gluten, FODMAP, lectin, histamine, amine, glutamate, oxalate, salicylate, sulfite, and thiol status. It also includes compound overviews, reactions to look for, lists of foods high and low in these compounds, the ability to create your own personal lists, and more.


    Our content does not constitute an attempt to practice medicine and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.



    Our Sponsors:
    * Check out TruDiagnostic and use my code IFPODCAST for a great deal: https://www.trudiagnostic.com


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    1 hr and 7 mins
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I have listened to 48 of the podcasts so far. Both hosts are interesting and knowledgeable. They have really helped me along my fasting journey. Although they both support the basics, it’s nice to hear two different perspectives. Now, I’m listening to their audio books. Thank you Gin and Melanie!

Great podcast on IF

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Came across this podcast several months into my IF journey. It has been some great information. However, while Gin Stephens seems very knowledgeable and easy to relate to, Melanie Avalon reminds me of those intensely obsessive girls in high school who just wanted to be skinny. I binge listened to the first 50 episodes and quickly became irritated with Melanie, often to the point I wish she would just stop going off on her ‘tangents’ and focus on the darn topic of the episode.
More importantly, she makes IF sound unhealthy whereas Gin focuses on BEING healthy and listening to your body. Melanie seems to be interested in trying every fad thing that hits the market, loads herself up with tons of different vitamins, experimental diet restrictions and topical enhancements. Yet in listening to her journey, while the IF lifestyle seems to have had a positive effect on Gin, the exact opposite can be said of the other host. She now suffers from major gut issues and low blood sugar and ‘all the stuff’.
This podcast, if you listen to Gin, can give you some great insight. If you listen to Melanie, you will become an UNHEALTHY IFer. Maybe think of her as what NOT to do?

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