Have you heard of Intermittent Fasting?

Have you heard of Intermittent Fasting?

I am sure you have! It is everywhere nowadays.

I think it is a valuable and easily actionable thing that we can do to impact our health.

Intermittent Fasting is a set time period where you don't eat. Historically we have done that between diner and breakfast. And that's what the word breakfast is, breaking the fast.

The biggest problem is that we have access to too much food, too easily, too often and we eat too much.

Studies have shown that has really identified that people around the world tend to eat 8 hours plus per day, so we are consuming energy, calories, carbohydrates and other things for 8 hours of the day, and this just is not a sustainable way to have healthy longevity or keep from putting a lot of weight.

We only need to give our body a break from nutrition, so intermitting fasting can be a time period of 12 to 18 hours a day where you don't eat and you really compress your eating window to maybe 12 to 6 hours. When we are not eating and we give it 12 hours or more of no more calories, is the blood sugar levels drop and our body starts to look at our energy stores as fuel (that is fat), and so intermittent fasting forces our body to look at fat as fuel.

When we are eating all the time, insulin levels are high, and in this moment glucagon cannot move energy into bloodstream to be used as fuel, so if insulin is high all the time, glucagon is low.

I have started an Intermittent Fasting program, not for loosing weight, but to feel healthier, stronger and to reduce the fat percentage. And I’m already seeing the results.

More information about this topic can be found on Google. I don't want to advertise any book or site. It's up to you.

Have a nice week!