(March 6, 2023 at 9:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 6, 2023 at 7:43 pm)emjay Wrote: I've watched the video and to me it makes a lot of sense, and does not come across as quackery or new age at all. It has me quite excited tbh. I mean, sure I need to do my due diligence, ie other corroborating research, and I know I'm not healthy enough or prepared enough to jump straight into a long term fast, and the doctor here doesn't advise that... I'd need to get my carbs and sugar levels down first... but him recommending intermittent fasting, that's nothing new... and something I'd like to try, ie as he puts it recreating the paleolithic diet ie one or two meals a day six hours apart, ie our ancestors wouldn't snack several times a day, they'd eat when they got the chance, and sometimes have long periods of not having that chance, and that's what our bodies, in the timescale of evolution, would be most adapted to. I think that makes a lot of sense.
If it works, it’s not quackery (by definition). There’s a lot of data supporting the health benefits of intermittent fasting.
Boru
The app I use to log my foods, MyfitnessPal, recently recommended it to me too, on the sort of 'try it and see if it's right for you' kind of basis, very casual, so that suggested there's nothing to worry about there. I didn't know anything about it at the time so I didn't take it up but it's nice to see a rationale for it now. And likewise, low carb, let's say less intuitive kinds of diets, are the sorts of things my sister tries to get me into, and there's a lot of science behind it... and I did try it for a while... but I always just end up gravitating back towards the intuitive. But it would be nice to try something else again, and intermmitant fasting doesn't sound that hard, especially since I can get behind a lot of what he says and see that most of my eating is by habit, custom, or in the case of sugar, addiction. Ie I don't need to eat as often as I do.
