Episode 31

The Fasting-Mimicking Diet: Slow Aging Without Starving | Renee Fitton of ProLon

What if, to slow aging, lose weight, and boost your overall energy you only needed to do this one health practice for a total of 15 days a year? And that is it.

You may think I’m talking about fasting, but I’m talking about getting the same benefits of fasting without having to have ZERO food.

The fasting-mimicking diet isn't a trend. It's decades of clinical research.

Renee Fitton of ProLon and Fitton Nutrition breaks down what it does to inflammation, cellular repair, and metabolic health.

If you’re a woman with a period, you don’t want to do this in the luteal or menstrual phase, but do it in the first half of your cycle to reap all the benefits. This isn't about restricting yourself. It's about resetting yourself.

If you’re interested in resetting your body with the science of fasting, not starving yourself, be sure to use my affiliate link to get 20% off your 1st order of Prolon today.

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Today we are chatting with Director of Education at Prolon, longevity dietician & nutritionist of Fitton Nutrition, Renee Fitton.

Renee Fitton is a distinguished dietitian and entrepreneur at the forefront of the intersection between nutrition, healthcare, and education. As the current Director of Education & Healthcare Sales at Prolon, Fitton combines her deep understanding of nutritional science and commitment to evidence-based practices to empower other healthcare practitioners to revolutionize healthcare through the implementation of cutting-edge longevity and fasting mimicking science.

Prior to her role at Prolon, Renee co-founded a health app called Heali AI, an innovative platform designed to simplify nutrition guidance through scalable technology reaching thousands of users. Here, she developed a premier CDC-accredited online diabetes prevention program.

Fitton hosts the Longevity Lab webinar series, has contributed to several nutritional panels and led a variety of educational seminars. Among them include FNCE, YPO, DrTalks Fasting and Longevity Summit.

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✅CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

06:46 Becoming a longevity dietician

09:12 What is longevity nutrition?

11:36 ProLon fasting mimicking diet

18:11 Women + Fasting

24:45 Your Relationship with Food

27:20 Blood Sugar Pandemic

33:06 Taking the 1st Step

34:53 Biohacking with Art - Living Walls

38:17 Connect with Renee

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About the Podcast

Your pain is not a design flaw.

Your body is not broken.

And you were never meant to white-knuckle your way through a life that doesn't fit.

I'm Meredith Ochoa — ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST. After 17 years of endometriosis, surgical failures, and being told my pain was psychological, I stopped outsourcing my healing and went in. I healed myself. I turned the journey into art. And I built this show to introduce you to every expert, practice, and buried truth that helped me get there.

Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself is a movement + podcast.

We cover chronic pain, hormonal health, endometriosis, autoimmune disease, trauma, cycle syncing, functional medicine, Reiki, Ayurveda, sacred sexuality, Taoist healing, psilocybin, and everything else the mainstream medical system doesn't want on your radar.

The only way out is through. Art is how.

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Meredith Ochoa

Meredith Ochoa is ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST—a former ballerina turned mixed media artist, author, photographer, and generational cycle-breaker who turned 17 years of excruciating endometriosis into a revolutionary body of healing artwork.

Her journey started in the shadows—recovering from an eating disorder, building pinhole cameras by hand, and falling in love with the alchemy of the darkroom. When digital photography took over, she challenged the movement by turning a scanner into a large-format camera—flattening depth to make the subject the negative. This integration of old‑world photography principles with new‑world tech became her signature technique, and the way she started revealing the stories our bodies keep.

But it wasn’t until she experienced a series of near-death menstrual experiences that the real unraveling began. After years of being dismissed by doctors, pumped with medications, hormones, and told “it’s all in your head,” Meredith took her healing into her own hands—she studied the infradian rhythm, dismantled medical lies, and healed herself of a disease the system said was incurable.

That liberation sparked Every Phase—a 13‑year art project (2021‑2033) creating a piece for every hormonal phase—Follicular, Ovulatory, Luteal & Menstrual.
The series is a moving blueprint for anyone learning to alchemize biology into fuel and biohack with art, whether their battle is endo or a heartbreak no scan can see.

Her work wages a visual war on medical gaslighting, inviting viewers to face their own contradictions: shadow and light, pain and power. Each piece is a mirror—and a key—for anyone told “it’s all in your head.”

Why does she make art?
Because images can slip past the gatekeepers of logic and land directly in the bloodstream.
Because authenticity is the first medicine.
Because living a lie almost killed her—and creation keeps her honest.
Because pain is power waiting to be translated, if you’re willing to face your shit.