Today I am chatting with Adam Martin. Adam, commonly known and referred to as The No Breakfast Guy is an Amazon Best Selling Author with his Book "Start Late Stay Light” and has been a practicing Exercise Physiologist for the past 15 years. Over the past decade and a half his successful Exercise Physiology clinic has helped 1000's of people from olympic athletes to returning war veterans, recover from major injuries and surgery to return to normal and help them live their best life.

5 years ago Adam became interested in the world of fasting, in particular the great breakfast myth, and after extensive research, authored “start late stay light” and have since helped people all over the world via introducing the “no breakfast lifestyle” into their eating routines and free themselves from the idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Key points addressed were

The reason for his core philosophy behind his book Start Late Stay Light in which he advises clients skip what was once universally considered the most important meal of the day, breakfast
We also discussed how being known as the No Breakfast Guy has formed Adam’s current investigation into health and what future studies ought to be done in regards to mental health and fasting

This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their research, businesses, lifestyle, and health to various forms of Fasting and the science of Fasting. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. Patricia Kathleen Podcasts

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[00:00:00] In this episode, I speak with exercise physiologist, weight loss specialist, fasting coach and author Adam Martin. Key points addressed were the reason for his core philosophy behind his book, Start Late Stay Light, in which Adam advises clients Skip. What was once universally considered the most important meal of the day breakfast. We also discussed how being known as the No Breakfast guy has informed Adam's current investigation into health and what future studies ought to be done in regards to mental health and fasting. Stay tuned for my fascinating talk with Adam Martin.

[00:00:43] My name is Patricia Kathleen, and this series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas in an effort to explore the world of fasting from a variety of angles. This dialog is meant to develop a more complete story about the information, research, personal stories and culture in and around the science and lifestyle of fasting. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as founders and entrepreneurs. Vegan life and roundtable topics. They can be found on our Web site. Patricia Kathleen BCom, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation.

[00:01:35] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I am your host, Patricia. And today I am elated to be sitting down with Adam Martin. Adam is an exercise physiologist, weight loss specialist, fasting coach and author. You can find out more on his website about everything we talk about today. The no breakfast guy dot com. Welcome, Adam.

[00:01:53] Thank you so much for having me on.

[00:01:54] Absolutely. I am excited to unpack everything. We're going to climb through your Adam's book and a lot of his core principles. And we are also going to get to everyone's favorite part of the show, which is our rapid fire questions, where we take questions that all of you guys have written into us. I'm looking for people in Adam's expertize to answer. But before I get to that, for everyone who is new to this show, we I will read a quick file on Adam to give you kind of a platform of where he is coming from. Before I ask him to go further into that, before I do that, however, a road map for today's podcast and the line of inquiry that we're going to be following. As I said, I'll first have Adam described the personal professional's academic story as it pertains to fasting and his narrative there. And then I'll ask him to define some terms. And these are all very for us. And I think it's best to know how he himself defines terms that we all find wrote in the community. However, everyone tends to come at them a different way after we do that. I'll turn to the core tenants of Start Late. Stay late. I'll talk to him about the audience that he was thinking of as he wrote it, as well as some of the core philosophies and structures behind it. And then we'll turn to, as I said, these rapid fire questions from our audience. And after that, we'll wrap everything up with key pieces of advice that may have for those of you who are looking to contact him or get involved, perhaps emulate some of what he's doing. As promised, a quick bio on Adam. Adam Martin is commonly known and referred to as a no breakfast guy. He's an Amazon best selling author with his book Start Late, Stay Late and has been practicing exercise physiologist for the past 15 years. Over the past decade and a half, his successful exercise physiology clinic has helped thousands of people from Olympic athletes to returning war veterans, recover from major injuries and surgery to return to normal and help them live their best life. Five years ago, Adam became interested in the world of fasting, in particular the great breakfast myth. And after extensive research authored Start Late, Stay Late and has since helped people all over the world by introducing the no breakfast lifestyle into their eating routines and free themselves from the idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I know we're gonna get into that as we unpack your book as well, Adam, but before we get to that, I'm hoping you can kind of draw a narrative as to what your career trajectory and academic and personal kind of encounter was with fasting prior to writing your book and launching this philosophy of your no breakfast guy.

[00:04:26] You're certainly one, as you kind of alluded to, for 50 years now, I've been an exercise physiologist, and so most of my career was actually around, as you say, kind of helping. It will kind of come back from injuries and whether that be an Olympic athlete, the weekend warrior mom of two kids or a returning war vet, that was kind of my mainstay for a very long time. And it wasn't really until about five years ago where my sister's health was deteriorating at a rapid rate due to her struggles with obesity. And I understand fat loss. And, you know, obesity is an issue around the world. But it wasn't my passion. It wasn't when my kind of interests lie. But my mother got me a call one day and said, look, you've got to help me. You don't my daughter, your sister out. You know, something's got to change with that kind of thing. And so I said, look, she just has to eat less and move more. You know, just very simply, I don't know how else to kind of help her out. But mom was I know something something different has to be said than just that. And I could hear a different tone in her voice than I'd heard before. When we say, look, I think Sarah needs to lose some weight, he kind of thing. And so I took it upon myself then to just do a little bit of research. I'm good, I better help than just tell her eat less and move more, which is kind of, I guess, the normal narrative that kind of you hear so much these days. And just in that, I kind of came around the world of fasting throughout my research there. And I'd always been and had told all my clients up until that point of the message of breakfast is the most important meal a day. You must start the day with that. If you're not, you're much more likely to be overweight. You're not setting yourself up with enough energy and all those things that we do here and that kind of myth, that breakfast being that most important holiday. And so it just interested me from a standpoint. It was something completely different to what I'd ever come across for my entire career, my academic life in university, and kind of just all of that kind of story that it had been told to me my entire life. And so I thought just out of interest, all kind of go down that rabbit hole and see what was there. And so in that rabbit hole, I came across the different a couple of different ideas. And there was five to which Mike Mosley was kind of the guy at the time. He's from the UK. He's a doctor in the U.K. So. So what's these five? Two and. Oh, that's interesting. He's telling people not to eat a whole lot for two days and then eating normal on other days and then going further into that came around the world of breakfast might not be the most important holiday. And that's that's what really grabbed me. This idea of kind of going without food for a whole day, twice a week, and then having quite normal eating for five other days, that just didn't seem sustainable to someone like my sister. And I just thought my sister was probably the I guess the general population of people who were having issues with obesity and telling them to go without food for an entire day was kind of just something that might be too far, too far. And for them, this idea of just kind of getting rid of the morning meal, it seems more sustainable should there be something that was of interest to it. And so when I went down that kind of idea, that breakfast might not be the most important to the day, I looking at some research that was being done in kind of s...

Chatting with Adam Martin; Exercise Physiologist ,Weight Loss Specialist, Fasting Coach, and Author