Intermittent Fasting for Neurotic Athletes

Athletes are a persnickety, dogmatic bunch; we’re open to change in so long as it fits the narrowly constructed worldview that we perceive has brought us success. Be it training, diet, or mental preparation, we tend to bend ideas to fit into “our”... (read full article)

Eat Stop Eat Review – Fad Diet or Real Success Stories?

As part of my series on the Physiology of Fasting, I read Brad Pilon’s ebook Eat Stop Eat. It is an incredibly well-written and in-depth book. Scientific, yet easy to read. All-encompassing, yet short enough to get through in several hours. The... (read full article)

Part 6: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Q&A

Recapping The Goodness First, I’d like to give a quick bullet-point run-down of some of the effects of fasting that I reported on in the last five posts. Liver glycogen levels are depleted within 8-10 hours. Muscle glycogen falls by 50% over... (read full article)

Part 5: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Exercising and The Rest

Here we are nearing the end of our journey through the physiology of fasting. It’s been an interesting, enlightening ride and provides further justification for incorporating Intermittent Fasting of some sort into one’s dietary regimen.... (read full article)

Intermittent Fasting Roundtable: Eat Stop Eat and LeanGains Experts Talk

When I personally stumbled across the research and lifestyle of Intermittent Fasting (IF for short) many years ago, it just all made sense to me. In my past years I had been sold on needing protein every 3 hours or you would waste away. I was told everywhere... (read full article)

Part 4: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Healing and Longevity

Here we are at the fourth installment of our look at the physiology of fasting. Thus far, we’ve looked at energy production, hormonal effects, the anti-inflammatory nature of fasting, and changes in blood markers. Today, let’s look at healing,... (read full article)

Part 3: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Inflammation and Blood

Get it? Blood sugar! In our previous two posts, we took a high-level look at the hormonal effects of fasting, along with some of the benefits of these hormonal changes. Today, we’ll take a quick look at the effects on inflammation and blood. Inflammation Inflammation... (read full article)

Part 2: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Playing With Hormones

Last time, we started looking at the physiological effects of fasting. I first looked at it from the perspective of energy production. As we saw, fasting has several effects on hormones, such as glucagon, epinephrine, and adrenocorticotropic hormone... (read full article)

Joe’s Lean and Ripped Transformation

Above is a photo of Joe before (230lbs, 20%+ Bodyfat in 2007) and after (170lbs, 7% Bodyfat in 2008). That’s about 35lbs of bodyfat lost! Note that this is not saying he got all those great results in losing weight and muscle definition on just... (read full article)

Part 1: What Happens To Your Body When You Fast? – Energy Production

Today, we Skribit. The question of the day, with 184 votes, is a very interesting one. It is: Physiological processes during fasting As you know, I’m a big fan of intermittent fasting, but this is an area of it that I’ve never really looked... (read full article)

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