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Fasting can improve overall health

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Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by Markoff »

i am usually doing 36 hours starting after dinner until next day after breakfast and it's way too easy, even 48 hours would not be problem. the issue for me it's i am cooking for family and children sometimes don't finish their stuff so it's difficult to combine it with my fasting, if i would be single i would be doing 48 hours regularly

little bit crisis it's around 24 hours, then even next day morning around 36 hours it's fine bit i guess around 45-48 hours would come another crisis

Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by gumbi_nz »

ArrayList wrote: post #64
stantham wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly my experience with the diet. I've been doing intermittent fasting for about 3 months now. I fast for 16 hours, and have 2 meals a day (lunch at 12PM and dinner at 8PM), I eat 0 to low carbs, since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs, and I have protein powder from beef and egg which I occasionally take as well). I really don't feel hungry at all, never. It's insane. I go to the gym…

Good job on the fasting, but: > since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs Bad news. I'd recommend a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) diet if you'd like to improve your health.

Lol - yeah good luck with that

Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by masonic »

tdburn wrote: post #18
stuzenz wrote: post #15

This might interest some of you - it is a documentary on the same topic - where a doctor goes ahead and explores intermittent fasting for longevity / reducing aging issues. He ends up trying it and becoming a convert. https://vimeo.com/170735109 This doctor (Dr Berg) also has a channel on the same - and provides some interesting easy to understand scientific explanations on different intermittent fasting related item…

A little more info on Dr Berg: he's a chiropractor doctor not a medically trained doctor. He has a lot of good information, but it's also wise to verify any of his info from other sources.

https://www.casewatch.net/board/chiro/berg.shtml

Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by ArrayList »

nonbel wrote: post #67
ArrayList wrote: post #64

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Good job on the fasting, but: > since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs Bad news. I'd recommend a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) diet if you'd like to improve your health.

How are you going to do this without consuming a lot of carbs?

https://nutritionstudies.org/recipes/

Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by ArrayList »

gumbi_nz wrote: post #72
ArrayList wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good job on the fasting, but: > since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs Bad news. I'd recommend a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) diet if you'd like to improve your health.

Lol - yeah good luck with that

https://nutritionstudies.org/recipes/

Re: Fasting can improve overall health

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Post by spacedog11 »

cuban-frisbee wrote: post #41
spacedog11 wrote: post #34

>> "The research was conducted using mice, which were subjected to 24-hour periods of fasting." Nobody fasts for 24 hours. This study lacks to mention if say same affects were observed based on shorter amount of fasting time.

When I tried fasting I did 36 hours every other day for two months.

Interesting... I take my initial comment back.I wasn't aware that people actually abstain from eating for long periods of time (+24 hours).
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