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What You Don’t Know … Can HELP You! A Great Plan Wows Again.:
Some of the weirdest and most interesting things happening in the diet and weight-loss space are the odd benefits people are seeing from meds like Ozempic.
Heart-disease reduction, lower rates of substance abuse, fewer kidney problems; many unexpected but great things.
Contrast that with fad diets, which are usually based on a silly-yet-plausible premise that is supposed to lead to results.
But there’s one new diet plan that is based on studies, does work, and if a KCL team is right, just might brighten your day…
The Short Answer:
- New research is showing strange benefits from some meds.
- Ozempic is just one of them.
- Intermittent-Fasting is a diet plan that has strange benefits, too.
- It works so well that it’s almost as good as calorie-counting.
- KCL recently did a study on it spanning about 38,000 subjects, from 2-16 weeks.
- The eating window was 10 hours on, 14 hours off.
- This is also the healthiest one for people who might have cardiovascular issues.
- The group in this test showed benefits in 1)Mood, 2)Energy, and 3)Hunger.
- These were completely unexpected, especially since hunger-pangs are normal.
- They also occurred in as little as 2 weeks.
- The only subjects who reported these improvements were the ones who kept to regular start and end times each day.
- Subjects who varied theirs did not find the same.
- There is a possibility that the plan regulates many hormones related to appetite and metabolism.
- Intermittent-Fasting also has many other benefits.
- This study is also the largest set of human trials on I-F, so it’s worth paying attention to.
Read on to find out the details…
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The Fad Diet That Isn’t A Fad. Calorie-Counting’s Match:
So Intermittent-Fasting is a non-fad diet we’ve been singing the praises of here for awhile.
It’s been studied a fair bit, and seems to have near magical abilities to do great stuff on the same food and calories.
-Just delivered in a very specific window of time.
And it’s one of the few plans that can get you some health benefits in a very simple way.
In-fact, it’s so good, it’s almost as effective as calorie-counting.
But wait. It gets even better.
Change Your Eating Schedule, Change Your Life:
In a study of almost 38,000 subjects, researchers at KCL asked people on a normal schedule to try Intermittent-Fasting.
The work involved a 10 hours-on/14 hours-off window for two weeks.
Despite that, it had high-engagement and many subjects asked to continue the plan a lot longer.
In an odd set of results, they didn’t just report weight-loss. Some unexpected benefits were what was most interesting.
The group that kept to a regular time-schedule found the following fringe-benefits:
1) Improved Energy
2) Improved Mood
3) Even Reduced Hunger!
-All of which were completely unexpected. Especially the third.
I’ve done I-F for awhile and have battled morning hunger-pangs quite often, and right from the start as well.
What’s more, it’s surprising that the first two benefits occurred for the subjects in just a two-week time-frame!
The Stealth Hack That Makes All The Benefits Possible:
There might be another key in the results. -Especially the unexpected reduction in hunger.
The scientists reported that for all the subjects, those 3 previous benefits really only happened if one condition was met.
The individual reported very consistent eating-window start and finish times.
Without them, the three benefits disappeared.
And just like the list of wacky benefits from Ozempic, like reduced alcohol cravings,
It seems the regular start & finish results suggest that the schedule might be balancing or regulating the hormones of fullness and hunger themselves!
-BOOM!
Pretty amazing outlook for the largest human study on Intermittent-Fasting so far! They even called it The Big IF.
If That Doesn’t Convince You, Here Are Some Other I-F Benefits:
So here are a few more of this wonder-plan’s other benefits, just to entice you some more:
1) Reduces insulin-resistance
2) Seems to lower body-fat [personal experience]
3) Extends lifespan
3a) Especially if you have a calorie-deficit
4) Cleans up “Zombie Cells”
5) Reduces inflammation
6) Improves immune-function
7) Improves blood-sugar
-And that’s just an abbreviated list. There are many more.
This Is The Biggest Study On I-F Yet, So We Should Pay Attention To It!:
So even though subjects self-reported only a small reduction in weight for as much as 16 weeks,
The other benefits they got from the program were quite unexpected.
Even if they are as “out there” as the meditation/gut-microbe connection.
And since as we said, this is the largest study on I-F so far,
We can be even more sure of the rest of the amazing plusses,
And anticipate even more awesomeness from the future of I-F research coming our way next!
References & Links:
• Source: KCL
• Source Study:
Proceedings – Ten Hour Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) Is Associated with Improvements in Energy, Mood, Hunger and Weight in Free-Living Settings: The ZOE BIG IF Study
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