I’ve always worked to keep my metabolism fit. Until recently, like most people, I thought that a good diet was all about eating the right things and avoiding the wrong things. This leads me down some weird journeys of trying to build my own optimal foods - one involved putting turkey sandwiches in a blender. If I thought about fasting, it was in the context of weight-loss or religion.
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While working on my PhD in Neuroscience, I learned about two things that changed all of that. The first was that when you eat has as much of an impact on your metabolic fitness as what and how much you eat.
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The second was the powerful effect cannabinoids have on our appetite. I knew THC could powerfully increase appetite from seeing how it helped my wife (then girlfriend) through chemo. But I had no idea that other cannabinoids could reduce appetite -- that was only known by the few neuroscientists researching them.
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I began exploring for myself, initially in the library, and later in my kitchen, what compilation of cannabinoids and phytocompounds could make fasting as easy as possible. I wanted to be indistractable while fasting, but when it’s time to eat, to be hungry enough to enjoy food and the satisfaction it can bring. After years of tinkering, I’d arrived at the prototype for Citravarin.  Through intermittent fasting, enabled by Citravarin, I’ve found clarity, restfulness, and metabolic performance with a consistency I’ve never been able to achieve before. I shared Citravarin with a few friends and they found the same. That’s when we decided to share what we’d learned and start Temper. Our fasting mints is our first metabolic fitness product, but it won’t be our last. Temper is my invitation to everyone to join us on our pursuit of metabolic performance. All this led us to start Temper. We founded this company for metabolisms like ours.

T. Dalton Combs PhD
Co-Founder & CEO of Temper