Intermittent Fasting For Beginners | 5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD IMPLEMENT IT
Channel: Progress in Life
Date: 2017-11-19

Hi, welcome at my video about Intermittent Fasting for beginners. Intermittent Fasting is a great tool to use if you want to lose weight. However, there are a lot of other benefits as well. I will give you 5 reasons why you should implement intermittent fasting and how to do this.

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The first reason is that Intermittent Fasting improves your brain function and has positive effects for your brain health. Research studies have shown that intermittent fasting enhances performance on memory tests, leads to the growth of new neurons and may improve cognitive functions in some cases. 

In real life, this could mean that IF improves learning and memory and it helps you to be more focused. This is one of the main benefits for me, because I notice that I’m more focused and have a better concentration at work, while i’m fasting. I’m doing most of the work while i’m fasting and this improves my work rate a lot.

The second reason why you should use intermittent fasting is that it can help you improve your low mood. This is because Intermittent fasting seems to regulate your blood sugar and insulin levels. And there is a strong relation between low mood and high blood sugar and insulin. Using IF can help to clear your mind and will definitely improve your mood. There are also some studies suggesting that Intermittent Fasting can prevent depression.

The third reason for using Intermittent fasting is that it can increase your lifespan and help you feel & look younger. Intermittent fasting boosts your stress resistance, which increases longevity and it helps to protect your body from disease, which can also delay the aging process. A recent study also found out that Intermittent Fasting reduces oxidative stress and fibrosis, which are 2 very important factors for the aging process. So thanks to Intermittent Fasting you will live longer and healthier and look younger!

Another reason why you should use Intermittent Fasting is that it reduces inflammation. Research found that Intermittent Fasting has a significant anti-inflammatory effect on the body, which leads to a improved nervous system and immune function. The anti-inflammatory effect seems to come from the hormone ghrelin, which will be produced while you’re in a fasted state. Inflammation is one of the biggest reasons for almost every chronic disease. The prevention of inflammation is therefore very important for a healthy and longer life.

And now it’s time for the fifth and last reason why you should use Intermittent Fasting: Weight loss. This is one of the biggest reasons why people use intermittent fasting. Thanks to Intermittent fasting, your body becomes more sensitive to insulin, which means that sugars are taken better and more efficiently from your blood. Also, your body enhances growth hormone, which benefits the production of muscle tissue and your fat burning.

Some studies do not agree on this. What is true and what not is still not completely sure. However, in my personal opinion Intermittent Fasting can really help if you want to lose weight. Simply because of the fact that you only have 8 hours to eat every day. Within 8 hours it’s very difficult to overeat yourself, so you automatically put yourself in a caloric deficit, which is the leading factor for weight loss. In the 16 hours you’re fasting you will be more focussed and you can work hard. You won’t be thinking about food in these hours, which also helps during your diet.

So, these are the 5 reasons why you should implement Intermittent Fasting into your life. But how should you implement it? As said before, I’m in favor for the 16 to 8 ratio. Still, my advice is not to start with the 16 to 8 ratio. Start by fasting 12 hours a day and work your way up from there until you fast for 16 hours. Take your time to get your body used to it, as long as 2 to 3 weeks for example. After these weeks you are used to it and the 16 hour fasting period will definitely improve your life, in a lot of ways.

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