Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting

Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by blunte on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:19AM (#17154520)

One thing you have to pay attention to while aiming for a 12+ hour gap is that you don't accidentally consume calories in drinks, especially from sugar... so no milk, honey, or sugar in your tea or coffee. A little sugar calories will prevent the switch flip, leaving you in a starvation state where you feel awful and eat your own muscles.

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by not_a_moth on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:53AM (#17154898)

Fyi, I've heard health professionals, like Rhonda Patrick mentioned here, say that coffee and tea will still cause your digestive system to secrete enzymes that can undo IF effects, that you should only drink water during the no-eat window. I've given up my morning caffeine to do it.

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by mnort on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:22AM (#17154549)

Folks in the keto/fasting space seem to present salted water as a good option here

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by sameAsYou on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:33AM (#17154664)

Also, bone broth, chicken broth and vegetable broth.

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by mikeklaas on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:49AM (#17154837)

How does that work? Doesn't broth generally have calories?

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by raarts on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:50PM (#17157267)

No it doesn't and I suspect the broth is just to make the salted water taste better.

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by pbourke on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:56PM (#17155573)

I’d say that getting adapted to black coffee (I previously took it “light and sweet”) was the hardest part of starting IF for me. Took about 2 weeks, but now I’m enjoying it.

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by mustuhfa on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#17154969)

Do you mean during the fasting period or when you are out of the fasting period? Can you consume sugar when you are out of the fasting period?

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