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RE: How intermittent fasting almost killed me.
Ha ha this sounds funny! However, any doctor who advises someone to skip breakfast is definitely a con man, or maybe even better - a doc looking for more patients :D
Wellllll... I'm a health professional. (Not a doctor). Been watching health related things for years and I'm now a skeptic when it comes to 'traditional' knowledge. I've gone gluten free for 6 months. My blood panel was never better. Every parameter was spot on perfect. The idea behind gluten free diets is that gluten is a modern neurological toxin. But ultimately gluten is in everything and very difficult to avoid. I gave it up, but not without believing there is some truth to it.
Intermittent fasting checks all my boxes.
Insulin and fat storage was a survival mechanism for our ancestors. We ate during fall and stored fat for the winter. The survival mechanism is now corrupted since we live in eternal fall and eat and store too much fat continuously. If I could blunt the insulin response to fat storage, it might be worth a try. I'm giving it 6 months to see how my body responds. I did a baseline blood panel and I will compare before and after.
One thing I have already noticed. My taste for salt is way amped up. After four days of fasting, everything tastes too salty. I've had to dump fast food because it's actually bitter with salt. Amazing. After four days of being off sugar, my appetite is actually in the background now. I'm hungry (almost always) but in the background. I can function, I can work, I'm actually more alert too. It sounds very strange. Maybe I'm imagining it, but I don't feel bad at all. Little hungry right now. But not off the wall ravenous. I can wait.
:) wait until you start tasting real homegrown food, if you can find any, you'd starve before you eat fast food again and you are right almost everything has both salt and sugar inside, for some extra taste :)
Ok. Guess you are in command then. But do watch that feel-good factor. It might very well be your primal instincts kicking on when you live in bare essentials. Good luck
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You are wrong, please learn more about how good is not having breakfast, but it has to be done the right way:
https://steemit.com/health/@freedomvigilante/does-not-having-breakfast-damage-your-brain