Could be confirmation bias, but I keep getting the sense that cancer/immune failure in general is connected to our modern 24/7 eating cycle, without any down time for your body to not be inflamed and work on clearing out bad stuff. Thus life extension from intermittent fasting.
IF (or IMF as some people call it) is amazing.
(I like it a lot. Just saying.)
With that regime I have constant energy without ups and lulls. It's great.
When I do go too long without eating, I feel fine and I don't feel particularly hungry. But people around me say that I become uncommunicative, quarelsome, and that I tend to just kind of sit there and stare in front of me unmovingly.
People particularly notice this at group dinners/brunches. Before food, I reply with 1-word answers and mostly don't engage in conversation. After food I'm the life of the party.
So yeah, fasting does not work for me. But I do tend to have very small breakfast. At 10am regardless of when i wake up.
Still, don't need to fast all day to fix the problem.
Except on half marathon days. I can't digest enough food to recover from a 2000 calorie run without carbs
I've tried going below 30% carbs but it makes me unstoppably crave chocolate.
https://www.ghirardelli.com/chocolate-and-gifts/flavors/dark...
There are similar European varieties of course.
The only thing I have noticed is that it seems not work well for females (my wife is annoyed about that).
Also strangely my blood sugar has been above normal lately which is strange because I don't eat a carb heavy diet and I have never had blood sugar problems. Last time it was checked it was ~105 mg/dl or so (and I was fasted of course).
I have had some theories about this but curious if anyone else seen this.
I have the same issue. Hovers around 100 when not eating. What's weird is it drops to 85 within 20 minutes after eating a meal. I'm not sure what that could mean.
A quick googling shows mixed "feelings" (I stress feelings because I haven't seen/found an adequate reference yet).
Maybe later I will investigate it.
Same experience for me. I wake up late in the morning and it's common for me to fast all day until the evening. I find that if I have breakfast or lunch, then I'm hungry throughout the day, and require several more meals to feel satiated. If I wake up and have only coffee, then I feel OK until the evening meal.
Strange how the body works.
Ever try bulletproof coffee? I had a pretty good experience with it. Especially because I don't like coffee black, and with bulletproof I was able to have coffee and still not add any sugars.
The former means I'm ravenous the latter is a trade off I don't like for bonding reasons.
I like IF a lot too, but when I'm in a heavily active phase of my life--say lifting 3x week, climbing 1x, jiujitsu 3x, and full on dance rehearsals 3x a week--I find I start to crumble unless I eat more to keep fueled.
I should get back to lifting (I'm just lazy), and it's possible that some of the other purported IF effects would kick in if I did so --- but the literature isn't encouraging, at least what I've read (I may be reading the wrong stuff!).
I should add: I'm in pretty terrible shape! I joked on Twitter about how, in the post-AHCA US, my wife Erin will have trouble getting insurance despite her constant exercise and diet regime, while I, subsisting on pork fat, nicotine, and whiskey, will have no trouble. I mean, I eat a green bean here and there, but for the most part I'm not joking. :)
I don't have a lot of health objectives with IF; it's just mostly painless and imposes some structure over what I eat and when I have to take time out of my day to eat.
For major events, I'll eat differently. But for general training, I am fine fasting until lunch.
If anyone is experimenting with calorie restriction or intermittent fasting near Berkeley, send me a message via my profile. I'm working on some self-tracking experiments with a group of people.