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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by scottLobster on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:38AM (#17154726)
I've done HIIT in a fasted state just fine, and intellectually I actually feel sharper when fasting, which makes some sense. If we couldn't focus our senses while running on stored fat, the human race would have died out a long time ago. There's some data corroborating this, albeit small studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18779282 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7473300
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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by scaryclam on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:45AM (#17154793)
Anecdotally, if I have something important to do and it's before lunch, I'll delay eating as it seems to slow down my thinking. Not exactly evidence, but thinking on an empty stomach seems to work for me.
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