intermittant fasting, and aging from "loss of complexity"

[Connie Brown]

Article today, more research about irregular meal schedules and intermittent fasting.

One of the researchers says something very RMAX-ish:

"Blowout Diet" from Times Online

Professor Mario Kyriazis, medical adviser to the British Longevity Society, explains: “If you want to live a long and healthy life, quite the worst thing you can do is to avoid stress to either mind or body. Ageing is due to the loss of complexity in our system, and the way to boost complexity is to challenge the system. If you want to live long and healthily, don’t settle into routines.”

Compare with Coach Sonnon in one of the nutrition threads:

In the research I've done into other cultures, and in the experiences I've personally had, the meal skipping is a episodic, not constant one. For the hunter/gatherer (and for the operator and athlete), there are episodes where meal skipping is required (i.e. hunting/gathering, travel, mission, or competition). These episodes are broken up with long periods of scheduling constancy, especially in our culture (so-called "civilization" ). Even in other cultures this was/is true, for instance 40% of the daily time of !Kung bushmen is devoted to "visiting" (hanging out with friends and family). Not a lot of time out there hunting and gathering at all!!

Now, compare that to the meager 5% of time Americans have ("free" time). That's why Americans get confused about their blood sugar. They're so damn busy that they create sugar dependency because their schedule never changes... except on "vacation" when they overeat themselves into coma.

The point is how enslaved is your schedule to sugar?! Your nutrition should be built from the ground up so that you have the biochemical agility to suddenly alter your schedule for episodes of need whether occupational, recreational, vocational or mortal. Your nutrition should give you a springboard to change your schedule at any moment, without some tulmutuous insulin crash due to sugar dependency.

http://www.rmaxinternational.com/for...constant+sugar

[James Boelter]

Article today, more research about irregular meal schedules and intermittent fasting.

One of the researchers says something very RMAX-ish:

"Blowout Diet" from Times Online



Compare with Coach Sonnon in one of the nutrition threads:
"...Now, compare that to the meager 5% of time Americans have ("free" time). That's why Americans get confused about their blood sugar. They're so damn busy that they create sugar dependency because their schedule never changes... except on "vacation" when they overeat themselves into coma."

Coach Sonnon's remark about blood sugar levels related to "free time" really makes sense to me.

I typically spend Monday through Thursday doing on call and out call work as a body worker, and there are entire days where there ARE no calls, so I have plenty of down time; however it's very irregular and intermittent. I have found that typically on such a day, I'll eat breakfast, but then forget to eat, or not feel like eating, until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, or even later, depending on the day. Hunger related to blood sugar levels doesn't seem to be a factor.

Furthermore, if I take a nap sometime in the afternoon (when the "post lunch slump" typically occurs for an office worker), I may not need to eat again until 9 or 10 at night, and often I do it then just because I want some flavor for my taste buds.Or if I go for an extended walk (an hour or longer) around that time, the idea of eating often becomes a seemingly ludicrous proposition.


So in my experience (which is somewhat outside the typical working class/middle class American experience at this point),
there is definite merit to the idea.

[Simon Aslanian]

the body loves rhythm....it loves the feeling of flow....in my experience in treating thousands of patients it has always been the lack of consistency that led to a sick body and mind that led to a broken spirit...the more the body is given consistent, rhythmic support...the more it is given regularly what it needs the more it will have a chance to thrive,and then and only then can it perform on demand and be able to meet challenges.

It's all perfect

Simon














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