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Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur...

Labels: body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, paleo diet

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Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...

Labels: comfortable furniture, Daniel Suelo, depression, fasting, interesting people, intermittent fasting, simple living

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In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, weight loss

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When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, starvation, weight loss

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In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak...

Labels: body fat, fasting, fat loss, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, protein

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One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

Labels: compensatory adaptation, cortisol, diabetes, glucose, glycation, glycogen depletion, growth hormone, HbA1c, insulin, intermittent fasting, research

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Compensatory adaptation (CA)  is an idea that is useful in the understanding of how the body reacts to inputs like dietary intake of macronu...

Labels: body fat, compensatory adaptation, gluconeogenesis, glucose, glycogen depletion, intermittent fasting, ketones, ketosis, muscle gain, muscle loss, research, resistance exercise, strength training

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Engineered foods are designed by smart people, and the goal is not usually to make you healthy; the goal is to sell as many units as possibl...

Labels: evolution, ghrelin, intermittent fasting, leptin, obesity, research

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Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...

Labels: adiponectin, body fat, fasting, glycogen depletion, inflammation, intermittent fasting, leptin, obesity, research, resistin

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This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other day with a friend abo...

Labels: fasting, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, research

Posted by Admin | 10:57 AM

A recent post  on the Primal Wisdom blog led me to do go back to some of the research on an approach to dieting that I tried myself, with so...

Labels: fasting, inflammation, intermittent fasting, Ramadan, research