Fast and Low: An Engineer's Approach to Health by Systematic Adoption of Low Carb Diet, Intermittent Fasting, Exercise, Meditation a

"Nasir Khan explains in easily accessible language how to improve your health and wellbeing. Noticing that everyone is unique, he uses an approach informed by engineering to lay out how to build and stick to a healthy routine that will work for you." -- Dr. Eric Burger, Research Professor, Georgetown UniversityTake the guesswork out of your health journey. Know exactly what works for you in your quest for better health. Be it losing weight, getting fit, having more energy, or overcoming diabetes.

This step-by-step guide to better health teaches:

• Why making lifestyle changes is hard and what you can do about it. Specifically -
  • How you can start on any new healthy action or lifestyle change in a systematic way
  • How to stay on track, and then how you can slowly transform those new lifestyle changes into regular habits
  • How you can benefit from habit forming tactics that are not generic advice but relate directly to healthy habits or lifestyle changes (with examples)
• Why Low Carb diet is important for most health goals and how you can adopt it, here you -
  • Learn the science behind carb metabolism and its evolutionary origins
  • Learn how to grow awareness of carb in foods and how to count without any mental tax
  • Know about nutritious diets without giving up on everything
• Why Intermittent fasting can be a powerful solution for many health issues, learn -
  • The science behind fasting and ketosis
  • How you can start fasting easily and painlessly
  • To pick the right fasting protocol for yourself
• How to incorporate a good Exercise, Sleep and Meditation routine in your life, by -
  • Getting started on exercise, getting better and getting regular with it
  • Using very hands on tips and tricks on getting better and high quality sleep
  • Starting with an easy introduction to meditation, with ancient proven techniques
• Why everyone should know about Diabetes (even when you are not diagnosed with it), learn -
  • How diabetes is a pandemic which continues to spread across the globe
  • How everyone is a on a diabetic spectrum
  • How to apply the learnings from this books safely, even if you are diagnosed with diabetes
• Why Metrics (and measurement) are so important to all health goals, learn -
  • How you can easily convert all your health goals into simple numbers
  • How you can track these numbers for continuous improvement and motivation
  • How you can also convert your daily actions into simplified metrics
• Finally, how you can self-experiment in a very scientific manner to -
  • Learn which action has an outsized benefit toward you goals
  • Evaluate your progress toward your goals over time
  • Adapt your lifestyle slowly towards a healthy steady state

There are many books and other material out there that talk about the benefits of low-carb diet, intermittent fasting, ketosis, regular exercise and other such established health tenets. This book distinguishes itself by focusing on not only the “what” and “why” but also the “how” of these changes in a step-by-step way. To help you make the most of this book, this book comes with a free (optional) companion mobile app that will aid you in choosing and adopting your personal optimal lifestyle changes.