Thanks! I haven't googled it myself recently. It's catching on!
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:31 AM, andy030144 <andy030144@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just typed Fasting and Intermittent Fasting into Google and read mostly stuff that wasn't there a year ago. There's alot more out there than when I started. Brad Pilon's blog and Leangains.com has it all though. A
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> Very nice! Thanks for posting that. Do you happen to have a link to some of
> the research?
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:11 AM, andy030144 <andy030144@...> wrote:
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> > I'm paraphrasing the following based on what I've read the past month or
> > two from various intermittent fasting sources, mostly websites, so I don't
> > think I'm violating any book or whatever...
> >
> > They finally have machines that can accurately measure metabolism and
> > fat/glucose mobilization (where the energy is coming from when it's not
> > coming from food immediately eaten) and the newest research available says
> > that genetically we are pretty much the same as our hunter/gatherer
> > ancestors from a million years ago. When you go without food for 1-3 days,
> > you're metabolic rate increases and your body releases body fat in the form
> > of free fatty acids at an increased rate and it is theorized that the reason
> > for this is so that the hunter/gatherer can have more energy to go out and
> > hunt and gather. After day 3 the metabolic rate returns to normal (maybe
> > getting ready for a famine) and after about day 9 (without food) metabolic
> > rate decreases. This decrease at this time is in the neighborhood of 200
> > calories a day less than "normal." Normal would be the metabolic rate from
> > day 4-8. At this point the studies that I read about stopped measuring
> > because they got what they were looking for and starving test subjects any
> > longer would just be rude :) Test subjects did not lose muscle other than
> > the water lost when glycogen stores were depleted. Protein was not
> > synthesized for energy. Would they have lost muscle after day 9? Who cares.
> > No one is going to fast for this long unless you're Ghandi. The point is the
> > "sweet spot" of fasted fat loss is within the first 3 days. No one I know is
> > going to go 3 days without food anyway so muscle loss is nothing to worry
> > about. I've also read that your body fat can be turned into muscle during
> > fasting if you lift weights but I don't care to talk about that because it's
> > extremely hard to believe and don't care to debate and on top of it I'll
> > probably never do it anyway. Fast-5 is awesome. Even skipping a day here or
> > there would be awesome too, if I feel like it.
> >
> >
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