Intermittent fasting is kinda engrained into our DNA, so to speak . Historically, humans only ate if they successfully hunted or gathered food. I doubt they had food readily available every 8-10 hours. They probably didn’t eat for days at a time
Having said that. . … the human body is VERY resilient with proper training. My wife does I. F. and she’s gone as long as 50 hours on a couple occasions. “Brain fog” is real when getting into it, but as stated with proper training your body can acclimate.
I hate that Herschel got into politics because everyone hates him now. I found out about this a few years before all of that, and at the time he was the only other person I knew who who only ate once a day. He’s a hall of fame football player who fought MMA later in his life, so he’s a pretty good example. There’s another video where he talks about how he only ate Snickers bars for a month straight. He has also never lifted weights.
@Shadey that’s very true about the citrates. I’ve sometimes got to day 2 and had very cloudy urine and wondered if it was some sort of calcium dumping or a small stone breaking down and passing.
If you eat lot of plant foods then you may be getting a lot of oxalate intake, if your body cant flush them out as you digest them, they will get stored in the body where there is inflammation, making the inflammation worse, they mimic a lot of auto immune problems and can damage your organs but especially the kidneys fine filtering system.
They become nano sized razor blades when they crystallize and when the body gets an opportunity to flush them out, like when you fast, they can shut down your kidneys. I found this out as my kidney function deteriorated a while go and I made the mistake of fasting thinking it would give my kidneys a rest, but it nearly shut them down. If you are eating and storing a lot of oxalates it’s better to cut those foods down slowly to avoid a big dump. I haven’t been able to long fast for 5 months now, just waiting to find out from my kidney specialist in a couple of weeks, how much they have improved since I changed my diet and removed most of the high oxalate foods before I can start again.
Apple cider vinegar and lemon juice are good kidney stone and oxalate dissolvers as well. Also eating calcium rich foods helps with oxalates as oxalates bind to the calcium and go through the gut instead of being absorbed into the blood stream.
@Shadey Agree 100%. I’ve experienced oxalate dumping from my eyes, not pleasant. I’m mostly carnivore now but was keto for a long time with lots of spinach and kale which are high in oxalates. I hope your kidney function picks up, I’ve heard baking soda can be good for the kidneys.
@Dope_Heffalump gallstones generally start when someone avoids eating any fat. The bile that would be released to help digest the fat gets retained by the gallbladder, and becomes more and more concentrated until it starts to chrystalise and form stones.
I don’t really fast, but i just don’t eat too much, certainly not stuff that is processed which i basically avoid as a whole. I begin my mornings with a breakfast consisting of whole grain bread with Dutch cheese, coffee and a bong with herbs.
When I started a keto diet and switched to a higher fat content to increase my calories, as I am vegetarian, my gall bladder and liver struggled for about 4 or 5 months before they started to function well again.
I started trying an 18/6 this week. My eating hours are noon to 6. The first two days I got a little hungry but it was not very difficult overall. I feel like there’s a bit of an energy boost after a few hours in the morning.
I had to switch to black coffee but that’s all fine. That and I don’t get my bran flakes anymore, which is a shame. I’m trying to see if I get better sleep or get rid of some nerve pain in my legs.
Probably a good thing, cereals are not particularly good for our gut, they cause a lot of auto immune problems like arthritis especially if they are not organic.
Apart from the occasional bit of gluten free organic bread the only other cereal I eat is organic oats as it lowers insulin resistance when eaten regularly.
Low Vit B1, B12 and B6 can cause nerve problems, if you eat carbs your liver uses a lot of B1 to process the sugar. Most people are B1 difficient, Benfotiamine is the best type of B1 to use it goes straight to damaged nerve sheaths. Also low Vit D will cause nerve and auto immune problems.
. Historically, humans only ate if they successfully hunted or gathered food. I doubt they had food readily available every 8-10 hours. They probably didn’t eat for days at a time