AS IF!
What is it?
NOT A DIET - fad?
Real?
Breakfast = BREAK FAST
- IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesn’t specify which foods you should eat but rather when you should eat them. You can drink water, coffee, and other zero-calorie beverages during the fast,
Common intermittent fasting methods/schedules
- The 16/8 method: Also called the Leangains protocol, it involves skipping breakfast and restricting your daily eating period to 8 hours, such as 1–9 p.m. Then you fast for 16 hours in between. These windows can be shortened - 18/6 20/4
- Eat-Stop-Eat: This involves fasting for 24 hours, once or twice a week, for example by not eating from dinner one day until dinner the next day.
Angus Barbieri's- The longest known fast was in 1971, when a 27-year-old man survived on water and supplements for 382 days and shrank from 456 to 180 pounds.
Hibernation for humans???
Fasting has been a practice throughout human history. We are completely able to function without food for extended periods of time.I think fasting from time to time is more natural than always eating 3–4 (or more) meals per day.
Fasting is also a part in religion and spirituality, including in Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism.
What can it do for you, your body, brain, and overall health?
The benefits of intermittent Fasting.
Intermittent Fasting Changes The Function of Cells, Genes and Hormones
When you don't eat for a while, several things happen in your body. For example, your body initiates important cellular repair processes and changes hormone levels to make stored body fat more accessible.
Here are some of the changes that occur in your body during fasting:
- Insulin levels: Blood levels of insulin drop significantly, which facilitates fat burning
- Human growth hormone: The blood levels of growth hormone may increase as much as 5-fold
- Higher levels of this hormone facilitate fat burning and muscle gain, and have numerous other benefits
- Cellular repair: The body induces important cellular repair processes,
- Gene expression: There are beneficial changes in several genes and molecules related to longevity and protection against disease
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