Intermittent Fasting?
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Intermittent Fasting?
I am in the middle of reading a book called, "Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha" by John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein. This is a fitness book that takes a different approach than the common approach to diet and exercise, using an emphasis on hormone control. It pretty much states that a person should have freedom and flexibility with their diet. The authors advocate using a technique called "Intermittent Fasting" which is basically giving yourself a set window for eating while you have a window of fasting. For example, you may have 16 hours of no eating and 8 hours to eat. This book is the first time I am hearing about this technique. I was wondering if this is actually effective. I haven't read about this technique outside of this book yet and I wanted to take it straight to these forums to get an opinion, and maybe even some first-handed experience if any of you have tried it.
Re: Intermittent Fasting?
I have heard of intermittent fasting before and some say it might work for them, but I am skeptical.
Personally I'd prefer to consume food mostly within a 12-16 hour period, rather than just 1/3 of a day.
People might intially get some kind of withdrawal type effect from the scaled down eating, but the main issue would be nutrient satsifaction. You'd need to be able to get the right levls of nutrients in just 8 hours and if you were consuming certain amounts of macronutrients in 5-6 meals and then only had 2-3 meals instead, you'd need to consume higher amounts as a result to be aiming near to RDA's but then too much at once would result in some wastage and too much of too much, could result in accumulation where you get raw unprocessed nutrients accumulating in areas like the brain, muscles, eyes and organs, with the body then using the fasted time as a way of ridding itself of stored excess, due to not having to allocate resources to processing of further nutrients.
However this only prevents long-term accumulation, if someone is consuming way too much of one or more macros and if all excess stored nutrient can be ridden from the places it was deposited, before another dose of excessive nutrient can be processed and stored, otherwise, you get nutrients still left over being added to on a long-term basis.
I would suggest if you were consuming too much macronutrient content doing the I F technique, as to be storing somne of that excess, you would have a good timeframe ot rid yourself of it before eating again, so you would have a good chance of avoiding accumulation / toxicity problems.
This sort of thing can cause conditions like wilsons disease, (copper), copper toxicty, (copper obviously), selenosis, (selenium), hypervitaminosis, (fat soluable vitamin a,d,e and k toxicity in the liver - potentially fatal), calcium, (calcification, (excess blood calcium)), etc.
Also the prolonged fasting period could also reduce muscle mass, by promoting greater periods of catabolism between eating periods and as muscle burns an extra 45-50 calories per day, for every extra 1lb, then losing some doesn't help fat loss.
I'm not going to say it won't work or it's based on hokey science as I dont' know how people benefit or not, but I would suggest you give this a lot of thought, as it's not something that you should just jump into, like say weight watchers for example, as you need time to consider if it's right for you
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Personally I'd prefer to consume food mostly within a 12-16 hour period, rather than just 1/3 of a day.
People might intially get some kind of withdrawal type effect from the scaled down eating, but the main issue would be nutrient satsifaction. You'd need to be able to get the right levls of nutrients in just 8 hours and if you were consuming certain amounts of macronutrients in 5-6 meals and then only had 2-3 meals instead, you'd need to consume higher amounts as a result to be aiming near to RDA's but then too much at once would result in some wastage and too much of too much, could result in accumulation where you get raw unprocessed nutrients accumulating in areas like the brain, muscles, eyes and organs, with the body then using the fasted time as a way of ridding itself of stored excess, due to not having to allocate resources to processing of further nutrients.
However this only prevents long-term accumulation, if someone is consuming way too much of one or more macros and if all excess stored nutrient can be ridden from the places it was deposited, before another dose of excessive nutrient can be processed and stored, otherwise, you get nutrients still left over being added to on a long-term basis.
I would suggest if you were consuming too much macronutrient content doing the I F technique, as to be storing somne of that excess, you would have a good timeframe ot rid yourself of it before eating again, so you would have a good chance of avoiding accumulation / toxicity problems.
This sort of thing can cause conditions like wilsons disease, (copper), copper toxicty, (copper obviously), selenosis, (selenium), hypervitaminosis, (fat soluable vitamin a,d,e and k toxicity in the liver - potentially fatal), calcium, (calcification, (excess blood calcium)), etc.
Also the prolonged fasting period could also reduce muscle mass, by promoting greater periods of catabolism between eating periods and as muscle burns an extra 45-50 calories per day, for every extra 1lb, then losing some doesn't help fat loss.
I'm not going to say it won't work or it's based on hokey science as I dont' know how people benefit or not, but I would suggest you give this a lot of thought, as it's not something that you should just jump into, like say weight watchers for example, as you need time to consider if it's right for you
.