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My eating window is from 11:00 - 21:00.
You sound... European.
j/k
My eating window is from 11:00 - 21:00.
I don't have time to look through these studies in detail right now, but looking at the abstracts and taking a cursory glance that's some pretty weak evidence. Not that IF can't have benefits, but still. Hopefully I can read them tomorrow in more detail.TRF research:
(mice) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413112001891
(general) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413114004987
(general) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413116302509
(athletes) https://translational-medicine.biom...86/s12967-016-1044-0?__s=ovzgowspzgzjrjm83r95
I would agree that, in general, papers studying the effect of diet on various markers of health are weak. One major reason for this -- as more recent work is showing -- is that there are at least two timescales involved. There is a short (2-6 month) timescale that measures the initial response to the change in diet. This is the timescale explored by most research, for practical reasons. Follow-up studies are more rare, and tend to show that many of the short timescale effects go away (weight loss, for example) and can even be reversed (i.e., weight gain) on the 1 to 2-year timescale. I think follow-up studies always show that the any diet that involves caloric restriction below a threshold is a predictor of weight loss in the short term, and weight gain in the long (2 year) term. This does not bode well for athletes who cut weight, and indeed there is a Finnish study that compares former national athletes many years after competition. BF percentage is higher for athletes who had to cut weight (boxing, wrestling, etc) compared with those that didn't (skiing, etc). This is from memory so I may have details wrong.I don't have time to look through these studies in detail right now, but looking at the abstracts and taking a cursory glance that's some pretty weak evidence. Not IF can't have benefits, but still. Hopefully I can read them tomorrow in more detail.
That and “fasting” although I haven’t found out yet what their definition of fasting is.
This is a new thing for me and am trying to figure out what I can do that will allow me to optimize my eating AND not promote uric acid buildup in my system. Pain in the ass really. I’ve been doing keto and/or high protein for a long time now and Now I’m a bit lost really. Haha.
GSP is right intermittent fasting really works. He said he sleeps well, but his weight stays the same and muscle mass is grown. He wished he knew intermittent fasting before. For me I couldn't lose my belly fat for few years no matter how hard I train and eat clean. After intermittent fasting few weeks I finally started losing my belly fat. Now I even have 2 packs. I eat during 6 hours a day and 18 hours without food. Just drink water mostly during that 18 hours. If you struggling to lose belly fat you should try this method. It really works!
And as we have pointed out, its also not that simple.
I’d love to try it but it’s suppossed to be bad if you have gout and bad in general for your kidneys.
With gout I think you are supposed to avoid a Keto diet because of the amount of fat you are taking in.
Questions for intermittent fasters: Is this a lifestyle for you, or do you do this on and off? Also, what are some benefits that you personally have seen for yourself?
You cannot build muscles by fasting or any kind of calorie deficit diet for that matter.
Even going with a low carb diet would stop the muscles from growing. You would lose fat and your muscles will be easier to see, but the muscles will not grow. Quite the contrary, the muscles would shrink.
You cannot grow by fasting, unless you're taking steroids and HGH (human growth hormone).
Science may not be intuitive but our comprehension of it can be.
For instance it seems intuitively reasonable to me that practicing long term fasting might provide short term benefits (weight loss) but causes long term challenges in that it can lead to a greater propensity to store weight when you are not fasting and eating regularly.
We evolved as a people in most locations were Feast and Famine where common cycles. to combat the Famine our bodies became very efficient at learning how to store fat during Feast periods and people were generally seen as healthier who could store fat (rubenesque women) . Even our metabolisms adapted to slow to try and hold on to precious calories now that we may need later. the more an area goes through cycles of extreme fast/famine the more propensity you see for the body to store weight when food is available and thus the problem with African woman tendency towards obesity when food is abundant.
thankfully in modern history such cycles of famine are not common in the first world. But we can trick the body into believing they are via multi day fasts. again you may lose weight while you fast but you are telling your body we are again in times of feast and famine and you better remember how to store fat when we get it and to lower the metabolism to hold on to it. All things I do not want to trigger in my body and why i will not fast.
Intermittent fasting does not have the same peril as I do not think throughout history our bodies evolved to be eating most of the day anyway.
BadIs fasting good for gout or bad?
Actually it’s purine levels of food. Fructose is bad but goods high in purines such as red meat, beer, shellfish are what you are supposed to avoid.With gout you are supposed to avoid fructose.
What has fat to do with gout?
Also, why would IF be bad for your kidneys?