Waist Away: The Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode, Chantel got to speak with Dr. David Minkoff!  Graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974, he went on to complete both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego.   He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine.   In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the