Fasting

Now if your like me when you have heard that word in the past you may think. Stomach growling…. hunger…. deprivation … I had thought the same thing.

I had actually started Intermittent fasting before it became all the rage in the news and articles that it is now days. What I didn’t know is how to do it properly.

I was doing what they called 16:8. What that means is I would eat for 8 hours and then not consume anything besides drinking water, coffee, and tea during the 16. Sleeping 8 of those hours (If I was lucky). Typically meant I was breaking my fast at 12pm and eating till 8pm. When doing this I did notice more energy and less bloating. But it stopped pretty fast after I started. Visibly I wasn’t seeing results.

Then after starting FasterWay I realized what I had been doing wrong. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the right time window. It was that I was not eating ENOUGH!

Giving you body a digestive rest so it can dig into our fat stores is so so needed for our bodies!

Intermittent fasting alone helps with:

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• Improved hormone profile
• Increased life expectancy
• Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass
• Decreased blood glucose levels
• Decreased insulin levels and increased insulin sensitivity
• Increased lipolysis (breakdown of fats) and fat oxidation
• Increased uncoupling protein-3 mRNA (important for the production of energy inside the cell)
• Increased norepinephrine and epinephrine levels, which increase fat breakdown
• Increased glucagon levels, which encourages the break down of fat in adipocytes
• Increased growth hormone levels, which preserves muscle mass
• Increased apoptosis and autophagy, which removes and recycles old, damaged cells that could potentially contribute to disease

A wonderful podcast I would recommend listening to on this subject is:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faster-way-podcast/id1489399975?i=1000460531039

And another great one by Dr. Stephen Cabral who recommends EVERYONE should be doing 12/12:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faster-way-podcast/id1489399975?i=1000458557104

Take a listen and let me know what you think! Have you tried Intermittent Fasting?