intermitent fasting no thanks
This is my opinions on Intermittent Fasting, thought Iād write it down because I was told to consider it, which I did.
Intermittent fasting, I used to do it a long time ago. Back when I was doing it, it wasnāt very popular. Now it seems like the popularity has shot up in recent years.
I personally donāt believe in āfastingā or having one meal a day.
If you have one meal a day, then the likelihood that you are able to get everything you need nutrition-wise is very unlikely. You want abundance of high level nutrition.
I believe that whoever gets the most amount of optimal nutrition in nature, wins.
Having multiple meals in the day of extremely nutritional dense foods that replenish, boost and support your body, supports anabolism way more than periodically starving oneās self does. Lmao.
Our hunter-gatherers never had that privilege.
In some animal species, the āAlphasā have priority access to food resources. They even exhibit dominant behaviors that allow them to obtain the best or largest share of available food.
In wolves for example, the alpha or dominant ones often eat first or have access to the most abundant food sources.
Thatās just nature. The top percentile gets the most nutrition and are the healthiest. They have the best genetics and the highest level of vitality. The strongest and most anabolic.
If you took a hunter-gatherer and gave them all the nutrition that they wanted throughout the day, they would be far more healthy in comparison to everyone else. They would be in the top percentile of vitality and health.
Abundance of nutrition > settling for what you can get > straight up malnutrition.
Hunter-gatherers āfastedā because they didnāt have a choice (not including religious reasons). Food availability was not guaranteed. They didnāt have the abundance of food that we have in this era. For them, fasting or periods of food scarcity were a natural and unavoidable part of their lives.
The reason why āfastingā is relevant today is because although we have abundance of food, people donāt get abundance of nutrition. They eat tons of shit and damage their body. āFastingā allows them to reduce that input of toxicity and sluggishness. It ameliorates the damaged metabolism.
Our people are so nutritionally out of shape, that we now voluntarily choose to do what our ancestors had no choice to do. Funny how that works.
Consistent and regular high quality nutrition obliterates āfastingā. Not even a discussion.
When you have low quality nutrition, then āfastingā becomes beneficial. Itās a coping mechanism.
Most people are not eating enriching foods so obviously when they eat junk, it does more harm than good. Theyāre also unhealthy to begin with so their systems, gut health, digestion, etc is all unoptimized.
I naturally have low body fat and I eat like a monster, while always having energy.
Fasting isnāt anabolicā¦ itās catabolic. Ew. (lmao)
Improve your health from the inside out through nutrition, optimization, exercise, etc and you will naturally become more anabolic. You donāt have to rely on self-induced periodic starvation (lmao).
Hormonal balance, organ health, cardiovascular health, etc.
You want to naturally optimize your body in a way that promotes the utilization of fat as a fuel source. That is tied to a lot of general health things in your body. For example, a strong cardiovascular system supports that (improved blood flow, improved oxygen supply, more efficient mitochondria, higher fat metabolism, better insulin sensitivity). Everything is from inside outā¦ there are no quick fixes.
Everything I do and consume must enhance anabolisms.
