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Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
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Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#92Has anyone tried fasting from sunset to dawn? I believe that will be easier to do as we are less active during that period.
By coincidence, I am doing it now. I always drink water first thing in the morning in order to restore fluids after sleep. I am also drinking coffee with milk, but no sugar. Lastly, I am drinking some psyllium husk powder that I blend into a couple of mugs of water.
I take the psyllium husk at about 10am. Then I have another coffee or two, but no meals until dinner time, about 6pm.
I started doing this just this week because my father had an angiogram which lead to the discovery that some of his coronary arteries where quite block with plaque. This is disturbing for me as he has looked after himself pretty well for his whole life. He's not a smoker or heavy drinker, eats well, doesn't snack, isn't a sweet tooth. And he has exercised consistently for his whole life. And yet, his arteries are in shit state.
So I have to wonder if it's genetic. So I figure I'll try to increase the soluble and insoluble fibre intake as it is said to inhibit the absorption of cholesterol. I also want to drop a couple of kilos I've put on during lockdown.
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#93Also recommended, stretching your low back five times a day.
And possibly giving charity each year
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm with you there, milk alone is almost too sweet for me because I rarely add sugar to anything. But I think I need it for the creaminess (fat?) to cut the bitterness (and adding oil/butter is probably worse).
the fat is very useful in the palatability of coffee. a little coconut butter does the trick, and is also aligned with a low calorie intake
Y’all need to be learning to make better coffee.
Your coffee should taste great without any milk much less sugar.
Are you using freshly roasted beans, with a burr grinder, and grinding just before brewing?
Use a $15 gram scale from Amazon and a $5 melita pour over paper filter holder and paper filter.
1 part of coffee to 15 to 18 parts water. So for a cup: 23 grams of coffee to 380 grams of water
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll have to account for increased rates of smoking in both Muslim-majority countries and Muslim populations in non-Muslim-majority countries. From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360407/ > A fifth of the world's population is Muslim, and most Muslims live in areas where the prevalence of smoking is high and often increasing. But even among the many Muslims living in Europe, smoking prevalence (partic…
That's interesting. I believe smoking is discouraged in Islam, so I wonder why the uptake is higher. Guessing it's a general education issue?
Smoking, like alcohol and other vices are prohibited.
It is in fact an unfortunate reality that is a matter of miseducation for those who are not victim to the statistical conflation of nationality as an indicator of belief.
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#96I've been doing a 16-20 hour fast since the lockdown and WFH, and to be honest I saw a significant decrease in my overall anxiety as a result. Anxiety I often offset with significant amounts of CBD (a $100/month expense).
And while there are drawbacks, I can't bench press 215lbs anymore, the overall benefits have been pretty significant that I will keep doing it.
My weight was pretty erratic, given the high stress load and super active lifestyle I could fluctuate 8lbs in a day. Now my weight has stabilized and my head is clearer.
I studied biology with an understanding of autophagy and I only ate once a day for nearly a decade now (2011), but I used to eat 3000+ calories in one sitting, but now I've decided to limit my overall caloric intake (1500-2000) and reduced it to a 8-4 hour window and saw even better results.
Also, as a former chef, I now savor my food way more and take the time to enjoy it more than when I tasted and ate all day and suffered from a sort of palate fatigue and made my gravitate to salty, greasy food late at night when I actually had an appetite.
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#97Has anyone tried fasting from sunset to dawn? I believe that will be easier to do as we are less active during that period.
I do every summer, but that isn't very interesting...
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Would really like to see this compared to another group with a similar level of calorie restriction but without the intermittent fasting." I think the answer to your question is total time inflamed (for lack of a better term). Eating and digesting appear to be an interrupt for many other processes, for obvious reasons. You divert a lot of resources and produce a lot of inflammation and depress a lot of immunity. Do…
> depress a lot of immunity That seems odd, in a non-city context wouldn't eating and drinking be one of the riskiest things in terms of getting sick? Edit: After thinking about it maybe it's related to not overreacting to everything we eat and causing allergies?
Compared to not-eating and drinking? No.
Re: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
#99Anecdata: I have followed IF with a 1100 calorie deficit per day by only eating 1200 calories at dinner for 3 months. This translated to more than 1kg weight loss per week, pretty reliably. Overall I lost 17kg. I adjusted the TDEE and calorie values as needed to maintain the weight loss speed. The weight loss was extremely fast, but so was the rate at which I lost lean mass. This makes sense, as I didn't exercise muc…
Yeah, fasting is one of those ""health fads"" that really does seem to work miraculously... for some people. For some, it's just nothing; for some, it's miserable. Kind of bizarre how different our metabolisms can be.
I would argue it's definitely not a fad (at least in the sense it's something that's been happening only very recently); people have been fasting for literally thousands of years, though mostly for religious reasons.
It has an aura of being a fad nowadays since some modern research has indicated it actually does have health benefits, which I think some people have been a bit too quick to pounce on.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who absolutely needed sugar in coffee before I considered it drinkable, I can tell you that you can wean yourself off it. It took me several months before I stopped noticing its absence but nowadays I don’t miss it. I still use milk though!
I'm with you there, milk alone is almost too sweet for me because I rarely add sugar to anything. But I think I need it for the creaminess (fat?) to cut the bitterness (and adding oil/butter is probably worse).
I have read that cold brew coffee is less bitter.