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Intermittent Fasting Mastery, a free health course on Tomo

Intermittent Fasting Mastery

Master the art of metabolic flexibility and cellular rejuvenation. Learn to manipulate feeding windows and hormonal responses to optimize your body's performance and longevity.

Like Duolingo, but for Intermittent Fasting Mastery. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

54 levels across 4 sections, about 108 minutes end to end, roughly 22 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Optimizing Your Protocol, Advanced Physiological Adaptation, Targeted Fasting Strategies, and The Science of Longevity.

54 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Felix the Fasting Fox, the guide who teaches the Intermittent Fasting Mastery course
Intermittent Fasting Mastery
with Felix the Fasting Fox
54
Levels
4
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Intermittent Fasting Mastery

  • Insulin sensitivity is naturally highest in the morning and early afternoon
  • High-intensity training requires nutrient availability for muscle repair
  • Aligning feeding windows with peak insulin sensitivity
  • Late-night eating coincides with melatonin rise, which impairs insulin response
  • Low-intensity activity can be fueled by stored body fat during an extended fast
  • Adjusting windows based on training intensity
  • Hormonal down-regulation from over-fasting
  • Cortisol and sleep disruption
  • Biofeedback as a metabolic indicator
  • Shortening the fast to fix plateaus
  • Late-night feeding disrupts the circadian clock and metabolic repair
  • Identifying signs of hormonal compromise from over-fasting
  • Early time-restricted feeding (eTRF) typically shows superior insulin outcomes
  • Prioritizing window adjustments when goals are no longer being met
  • Protein and fats consumed first blunt the insulin response of later carbs
  • Chronic low-calorie fasting can signal the thyroid to slow down metabolism
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Intermittent Fasting Mastery the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Timing Your Metabolic Peak

Why might you choose to open your feeding window shortly after a heavy weightlifting session?

Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.

Course map

How to learn Intermittent Fasting Mastery, step by step

Go in order. 54 short levels across 4 sections, about 1 hour 48 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Optimizing Your Protocol

    • Precision Window Management
    • Strategic Macronutrient Loading
    • Electrolyte Balancing for Performance
    • Managing Social and Professional Friction
  2. 2

    Advanced Physiological Adaptation

    • Metabolic Switching and Ketosis
    • Autophagy and Cellular Housekeeping
    • Growth Hormone and Muscle Preservation
    • Insulin Sensitivity and Glucose Disposal
    • The Role of mTOR and AMPK Pathways
    • Circadian Rhythm and Time-Restricted Feeding
  3. 3

    Targeted Fasting Strategies

    • Extended Fasting and Immune Reset
    • Fasting-Mimicking Diets (FMD)
    • Protein-Sparing Modified Fasts
  4. 4

    The Science of Longevity

    • Hormetic Stress and Resilience
    • Telomere Maintenance and Aging
    • Mitochondrial Biogenesis
    • Gut Microbiome Diversification
    • Bio-Individual Responses and Genetic Markers

4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about Intermittent Fasting Mastery

  1. How do I learn Intermittent Fasting Mastery?

    Go in order: start with Optimizing Your Protocol, then Advanced Physiological Adaptation, then Targeted Fasting Strategies, then The Science of Longevity. On Tomo that's 54 short levels, about 1 hour 48 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for Intermittent Fasting Mastery?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Intermittent Fasting Mastery is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the Intermittent Fasting Mastery course free?

    Yes. Intermittent Fasting Mastery is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn Intermittent Fasting Mastery?

    54 levels across 4 sections, about 1 hour 48 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start Intermittent Fasting Mastery?

    No. It's pitched at an advanced level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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