Tetrogen_Hormones & Metabolism

Hormone Optimizing Diet #2 – Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting is simple – you eat during a 6-8 hour window and fast for the other 16-18 hours.
For example: You might skip breakfast and only eat between the hours of 1pm and 7pm. So you eat lunch
and dinner plus a snack in the afternoon if you’re hungry.
I love intermittent fasting for 1 big reason:
I’m never hungry.
The meals you eat can be big and you can snack – the reduction in calories comes from missing a meal.
If you’re used to eating breakfast (or dinner if you choose to skip it instead), the first week is the toughest.
After that you don’t even find yourself getting hungry until lunch.
Hormone benefits of intermittent fasting include positive effects on your insulin sensitivity, leptin, and
ghrelin.
The main insulin sensitivity benefits occur if you are fairly overweight or obese – or have a high risk of
diabetes in the family.
Foods that would make you bloated or sluggish normally will affect you less than on a normal eating
plan. Especially with your first meal when you break the fast. This is when your insulin sensitivity will be
most elevated.
The other advantage is with fighting leptin resistance. During fasting periods your leptin levels will be
much lower than normal – this will allow your body to re-sensitize to leptin. The magic happens during
your meals – higher than normal levels of leptin will be released, boosting your metabolism and making
you feel fuller for longer.
On most diets, ghrelin levels will increase, causing you to get hungry – but intermittent fasting doesn’t
cause any change in ghrelin levels.
That means, long term, you’ll experience LESS hunger fasting than you would with normal diet plans.
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