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agoodwinsmithWell, learn something new everyday, yes/no?
So I keep stumbling across reports like this:
https://the-scientist.com/news-opinion/limited-meal-times-prevent-obesity-in-mice-prone-to-gaining-weight-64734
TRF, or Time Restricted Feeding, leads to health benefits all over the shop. Bredesen, in the Alzheimer book I reviewed a while ago, recommends at least 12 hours at a time each day where you do not eat any food, with at least three of those hours before bed. This would allow a 12 hour window for eating. Other researchers allow less time for eating: 10 hours, 8 hours - even 6 or 4. The idea is that the body needs to do repair tasks that it can't do if it is digesting food.
Other people call this approach intermittent fasting, and it appears to have the same benefits as the extreme calorie-restriction research, where animals live longer if they eat less. TRF doesn't appear to need to reduce overall calories to be effective - just the window of time each day during which a person can eat.
So I suspected that something like coffee would qualify as eating, because there are a few whiffs of nutrients in coffee that the body needs to process, but I wondered whether or not drinking water would interfer with the non-eating time. I found this:
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Can-You-Drink-Coffee-During-Intermittent-Fasting-44511539
which says, yes, that coffee interferes slightly, but that water does not - so hot water should be okay, too.
The final sentence gave me pause, "The final caveat is that some fasting is better than none. So if having a regular or even bulletproof coffee is the only way that you can stick with the practice of intermittent fasting, then it's probably worth it."
And I thought Bulletproof Coffee? Wazzat?
And, yes, it is a thing:
https://blog.bulletproof.com/bulletproof-coffee-recipe/
I'd like to say ew.
I mean: it is definitely going to screw with your no-eating window, but just ew.
So I keep stumbling across reports like this:
https://the-scientist.com/news-opinion/limited-meal-times-prevent-obesity-in-mice-prone-to-gaining-weight-64734
TRF, or Time Restricted Feeding, leads to health benefits all over the shop. Bredesen, in the Alzheimer book I reviewed a while ago, recommends at least 12 hours at a time each day where you do not eat any food, with at least three of those hours before bed. This would allow a 12 hour window for eating. Other researchers allow less time for eating: 10 hours, 8 hours - even 6 or 4. The idea is that the body needs to do repair tasks that it can't do if it is digesting food.
Other people call this approach intermittent fasting, and it appears to have the same benefits as the extreme calorie-restriction research, where animals live longer if they eat less. TRF doesn't appear to need to reduce overall calories to be effective - just the window of time each day during which a person can eat.
So I suspected that something like coffee would qualify as eating, because there are a few whiffs of nutrients in coffee that the body needs to process, but I wondered whether or not drinking water would interfer with the non-eating time. I found this:
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Can-You-Drink-Coffee-During-Intermittent-Fasting-44511539
which says, yes, that coffee interferes slightly, but that water does not - so hot water should be okay, too.
The final sentence gave me pause, "The final caveat is that some fasting is better than none. So if having a regular or even bulletproof coffee is the only way that you can stick with the practice of intermittent fasting, then it's probably worth it."
And I thought Bulletproof Coffee? Wazzat?
And, yes, it is a thing:
https://blog.bulletproof.com/bulletproof-coffee-recipe/
I'd like to say ew.
I mean: it is definitely going to screw with your no-eating window, but just ew.
