Aerobic Exercise | Resistance Exercise | Length of Fast | Takeaways
Studies show that exercising while you are fasting helps your muscle cells take in glucose and help you burn fat. These are great things if your goal is to lose weight. But what is happening to your muscles?
Are muscles breaking down to fuel your exercise session? The answer to this question is not black and white. But in this post, I will share what research has uncovered about exercising in a fasted state.
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Video | Health | Weight Loss | Frequency of Fasting | Timing
Intermittent fasting is all about timing. By consciously dividing the day between times to eat and times to fast, many people claim to have lost weight and gained health. Is there science to support these claims? Are the benefits enough to make intermittent fasting worthwhile?
In this post, I’ll share what happened when ordinary people fasted for science. I will also provide some insights that may help you get the most out of fasting.
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Video | How We Eat | Shorter Eating Window
Studies show that splitting your day into periods of eating and fasting promotes health and weight loss, but is that how we eat? An innovative study published in 2015 revealed that many of us are all-day grazers, eating for 15 hours or more each day.
That, by itself, is an interesting finding, but what’s truly remarkable is what happened to the study participant’s weight, energy level, and sleep satisfaction when they did nothing more than shortened their daily eating window by just a few hours.
In this post, we’ll take a look at how shortening your eating hours might result in a health and weight loss boost for you.
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