Monday, June 27, 2011

You'll wreck your metabolism! (NOT!)

One of the things I hear a lot when I talk about how I am fasting intermittently is "You will wreck your metabolism doing that!".  The truth is the research does NOT support this theory!!

This study followed 16 non-obese people who fasted on alternate days for 22 days.  There was absolutely no statistically significant difference between beginning and ending metabolic rates.  From what I have read when you fast, there is initially an INCREASE in metabolism, and metabolism does not begin to drop until about 36 hours into a fast (you do not even fast that long with intermittent fasting).

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