Summary of Cynthia Thurlow's Intermittent Fasting Transformation

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#1 As you pass through your thirties and forties, you begin to notice changes in your body. You’re gaining weight and experiencing cravings. You’re feeling old before your time, and just plain off.

#2 There are many bad dogmas in the intermittent fasting community. Don’t waste your time or energy on them. Focus on what’s important: healthy food, when you eat it, and how much.

#3 The idea that eating many small meals throughout the day will increase your metabolism and keep you from getting hungry is completely false. Some proof: investigators at the University of Ottawa found that on a restricted-calorie diet, there was no weight-loss benefit to splitting calories among six meals rather than three.

#4 Intermittent fasting is eating less frequently, and within a specific period of time designated for meals. It is a choice that can improve your health, well-being, and hormones.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822519909

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#1

As you pass through your thirties and forties, you begin to notice changes in your body. You’re gaining weight and experiencing cravings. You’re feeling old before your time, and just plain off.

#2

There are many bad dogmas in the intermittent fasting community. Don’t waste your time or energy on them. Focus on what’s important: healthy food, when you eat it, and how much.

#3

The idea that eating many small meals throughout the day will increase your metabolism and keep you from getting hungry is completely false. Some proof: investigators at the University of Ottawa found that on a restricted-calorie diet, there was no weight-loss benefit to splitting calories among six meals rather than three.

#4

intermittent fasting is eating less frequently, and within a specific period of time designated for meals. It is a choice that can improve your health, well-being, and hormones.

#5

Intermittent fasting helps you lose weight by increasing your metabolic rate, which allows you to maintain a healthy weight. It also helps turn your white fat into brown fat, which burns energy and reduces obesity.

#6

There are two main classes of weight-control bacteria in the gut: Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes. In many studies, some as recent as 2020, people with obesity had more Firmicutes and fewer Bacteroidetes than moderate-weight people. However, other studies have failed to establish this connection.

#7

Metabolic flexibility is the ability of your cells to switch between using carbohydrates and fat as a fuel source. It is important to be metabolically flexible, as it provides numerous health benefits, such as sustained energy, balanced hormones, fewer blood-sugar roller coasters, and improved fat burning.

#8

The cells in your body contain several thousand organelles called mitochondria. They are cellular power plants that process oxygen and convert nutrients from food into energy. If the mitochondria fail to generate enough energy, this can lead to mitochondrial disease.

#9

Fasting is the most effective way to trigger a process of cellular renewal called autophagy. Autophagy was discovered accidentally in the 1970s by a Belgian scientist, Christian de Duve, who was studying insulin at the time. It is a process by which your body cleanses cells by clearing out damaged, dysfunctional, or aging cells.

#10

Intermittent fasting helps elevate brain-driven neurotrophic factor, which in turn protects the brain and prevents brain cells from dying off. It also helps clear out beta-amyloid plaques from the brain, which is thought to be responsible for dementia.

#11

One way to strengthen your immunity is by intermittent fasting. This helps the body flush out the digestive system and eliminate potentially harmful microorganisms from the gut, which can compromise immunity.

#12

Inflammation is another side effect of eating too much food. Fasting helps prevent the release of free radicals, which are highly destructive molecules that attack the cells of our bodies.

#13

Intermittent fasting can also help you gain more time, which