A Global Fasting Clinic Provides Data-Driven Results

Updated October 2026: updated the founders' bios and The Fasting Method's current programs, made clear that the solution described was built in 2020, corrected health claims to match current research and replaced the free-account sign-up with a demo link.

Listen to our podcast conversation with Megan Ramos about how The Fasting Method uses intermittent fasting and Heads Up's remote monitoring technology to help patients worldwide reach their health goals.

Developed by Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung from years of clinical experience with intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating, The Fasting Method (TFM) provides the education, guidance, and support for weight loss and type 2 diabetes remission. With clients all over the world, The Fasting Method needed a comprehensive solution to monitor and support their customers.

In 2020, Heads Up (HU) worked closely with TFM to create a combined technology solution to meet their needs. The resulting single-sign-on interface gave clients and coaches secure access to TFM's custom lifestyle dashboard, with community and education resources as well as health metrics and lab results tracking.

HU was integrated with TFM's WordPress site to deliver a data-driven approach to guiding members through structured intermittent fasting.

Fasting for Health

Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung are the co-founders of The Fasting Method, which provides solutions for weight loss, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic health. According to TFM, the two established the first intermittent fasting clinic in North America in 2012 and launched their online coaching program in 2014 (The Fasting Method).

Megan Ramos is TFM's co-founder and CEO. She is a Canadian clinical educator and expert on therapeutic fasting and low-carbohydrate diets who has guided more than 14,000 people worldwide. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Life in the Fasting Lane and the author of The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women.

Dr. Jason Fung, MD, is TFM's co-founder and chairman. He is a Toronto-based nephrologist and a world-leading expert in intermittent fasting and low-carb diets. He has written the bestselling health books The Obesity Code, The Complete Guide to Fasting, The Diabetes Code, The Longevity Solution, Life in the Fasting Lane, and The PCOS Plan.

About The Fasting Method

The Fasting Method focuses on client empowerment by providing education, support, and access to an engaged community of TFM members. Centered on creating sustainable life changes, TFM today offers three programs: a self-guided Community with live support groups, personalized Coaching with expert health coaches, and short Masterclasses on fasting, nutrition and mindset strategies (The Fasting Method).

TFM's three-pillar system of education, community, and health tracking gives clients the tools they need to succeed with fasting and time-restricted eating to tackle health challenges and meet their goals. Clients with a range of experience have access to appropriate educational courses on eating strategies and support from a community that shares their goals.

Business Challenge

With customers all over the world, TFM needed a product to remotely track client progress, compile health metrics, and measure the effectiveness of their protocols over time.

TFM was seeking a comprehensive solution for data aggregation that could not only track fasting intervals but also measure other critical health parameters such as sleep, heart rate variability (HRV), weight, DEXA scans, and lab results. They needed a custom portal to integrate directly with their existing WordPress client portal for a seamless single-sign-on experience.

Promoting client engagement is essential for businesses in the health and wellness sector. The team at TFM was seeking an accessible way for their customers to self-monitor and track the impact of the program on their wellbeing. Giving clients a platform to see real data and numbers for themselves supports engagement and long-term retention.

Technology Solution

The goal for Heads Up was to develop a custom solution to meet TFM's diverse needs. With single-sign-on access to the HU platform, clients could monitor their health metrics, in addition to connecting with essential education and community resources, from within the TFM website.

Custom Lifestyle Dashboard

Heads Up created the custom dashboard to be an organic component of the TFM member portal. Featuring a single-sign-on experience, the HU integration was set up with default tiles for tracking key fasting metrics and lab results, while the front-end interface gave clients a seamless user experience on their journey to health.

Custom Single Sign-On

A cornerstone of the solution built for TFM was a custom single sign-on (SSO). Heads Up integrated with TFM's WordPress website and client portal via SSO to create a fluid, on-brand user experience.

For TFM, HU could open either as an embedded frame within the existing webpage or in a separate tab from the client portal. TFM chose to have HU open in an adjacent tab from the main dashboard, allowing users to navigate multiple features of their website simultaneously.

With SSO, clients were automatically connected to their HU dashboard when logging into their TFM account. This secure and streamlined approach eliminated the need for clients to sign in to multiple apps and programs to work toward their health goals.

TFM Custom Dashboard

The Heads Up dashboard, when accessed by TFM clients, was branded with TFM's logos and color palettes, and pre-configured with the right tiles for tracking fasting metrics alongside other lifestyle data (weight, blood sugar, nutrition, sleep, etc.) and lab data (cholesterol levels, hemoglobin A1c, etc.).

The TFM dashboard lets clients see changes in body composition in relation to their other lifestyle metrics.

The goals of The Fasting Method protocols are to regulate the insulin response, reduce medication dependency, and improve overall wellness through intermittent fasting. The Heads Up integration gave TFM clients an easy way to track their most essential fasting metrics.

Custom Dashboard Metrics

TFM clients saw the following metrics on their custom dashboard:

• Fasting: Tracking fasting intervals gives insight into when the body is drawing on stored glycogen and fat to fuel itself. The timer helps motivate users so they can see exactly how long they've been fasting and learn how their other vital signs (sleep, blood glucose, ketones, etc.) are changing. For a summary of the research, see our post on the health benefits of fasting.
• Weight: Intermittent fasting is a well-studied approach to weight loss, with trials showing results broadly comparable to daily calorie restriction (Semnani-Azad et al., 2025). Though weight may fluctuate throughout the fasting journey, measuring weight change over time is one of the baseline metrics of a healthy lifestyle.
• Body Fat: Reducing excess body fat is key to improving fitness and avoiding health problems. Tracking body composition also matters because intermittent fasting has been associated with some loss of fat-free mass (Patikorn et al., 2021), so it helps confirm that clients are losing fat rather than lean mass.
• Blood Pressure: Meta-analyses of randomized trials show that intermittent fasting can modestly reduce blood pressure (Patikorn et al., 2021). Blood pressure is a key indicator of cardiovascular health and worth tracking for any client changing their eating pattern.
• Ketones: As blood glucose and insulin levels drop during fasting, the body burns more fat and produces ketones. Measuring ketones shows when a client has entered nutritional ketosis. The dashboard could sync ketone readings from devices such as Keto-Mojo, or readings could be entered manually.
• Blood Glucose: Glucose and fat are the body's main sources of energy, and when glucose is low the body adapts by using more fat. Tracking glucose gives insight into the metabolic stage the body is in during fasting. For clients taking glucose-lowering medications, it is also an important safety check, because fasting can cause hypoglycemia without medication adjustments and supervision (Grajower and Horne, 2019).
• Sleep: Meal timing affects circadian rhythms, which exert a powerful influence over sleep and wellbeing. Monitoring sleep and waking hours is helpful in timing intermittent fasting windows and ensuring proper rest. TFM clients could sync sleep data from Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Biostrap, Apple Watch and other wearables.

In addition to the above metrics, TFM clients had access to the full suite of Heads Up tracking modules and integrations. Tracking other metrics such as exercise, macros, or HRV can serve as additional markers of a healthy lifestyle.

Custom Lab Results

With a focus on data-driven results, the custom portal also allowed clients to track their lab results as they began their journey with TFM.

Traditional lab tests such as lipid panels (cholesterol, HDL, LDL, etc.), metabolic markers (fasting insulin, HbA1c, etc.), and thyroid markers could all be tracked by clients, so they could see for themselves how their markers of health and disease were changing. TFM experts could review these results with clients to help optimize and personalize the protocol for each client.

Conclusions

Clear access to health data gives TFM clients the tools they need to set actionable goals and track improvement. The HU team designed a seamless user experience on both the front end for clients and the back end for practitioners.

With an eye on customer retention, the custom dashboard was designed with a clean look and intuitive feel to support client motivation and satisfaction, whether accessed on desktop, mobile, or tablet.

Update From Megan Ramos and The Fasting Method

Watch Megan Ramos's update on The Fasting Method and Heads Up on YouTube.

Running a Fasting or Metabolic Health Program?

Today, Heads Up unifies labs, wearables, medical devices and EHR data in one longitudinal patient record. You can run fasting as a program or protocol with adherence tracking, extract lab PDFs automatically, set threshold alerts on readings such as glucose, and give clients a companion app for iOS and Android. Learn more about Heads Up for weight loss programs.

See how Heads Up can support fasting and metabolic health programs in your practice: request a demo.