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How are you so confident with your diagnosis? Are you a qualified medical researcher? Not snarky, genuinely curious. A sample size of one does not a clinical tr

How are you so confident with your diagnosis? Are you a qualified medical researcher? Not snarky, genuinely curious. A sample size of one does not a clinical trial make.

lm28469 5y ago
It's not a sample size of one, we're millions doing intermittent fasting and it's been studied a lot. After a while you basically don't have cravings anymore, especially for sweet things. Most people have no idea and no desire to know about how their body work but once you got the basics you can tweak things to your advantage instead of being a slave to food From the studies I looked at this is due to how your body handles hunger, hunger seems to mostly be caused by an hormone called ghrelin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin) Ghrelin seems to be secreted by your body, not only when it _needs_ food but also when it anticipates food (that's why you start craving food after seeing a tasty food video/ad), now for the funny part, it also is influenced by meal timing, meaning that if you eat every day at regular interval your level of ghrelin will go up and peak slightly before the actual meal. And this is why most people "trained" to eat three times a day every single day of their life can't skip one meal without feeling bad, even if they have 0 physical activity they'll still crave food. As the wiki points out it's also part of the dopamine reward system https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/147/1/23/2499980 https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/147/1/23/2499980 > Consistent with previous data from other species including humans, there is a learned, preprandial increase of plasma ghrelin when individuals have been trained to anticipate their food at a fixed time. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033008/ > The constant abundance of palatable foods together to the excessive stress levels that we suffer in modern societies places the ghrelin/GHSR‐1A system in a new role in which it likely cause adverse consequences, including overeating beyond metabolic need and body weight gain. Therefore, the action of ghrelin on the mesolimbic system may have been a ‘great spice’ from an evolutionary perspective, although it no longer represents an advantage for modern human beings https://medium.com/personal-growth/does-fasting-cause-or-cure-hunger-a84ae47a05d3 https://medium.com/personal-growth/does-fasting-cause-or-cur...
- mangamadaiyan 5y ago
  Thank you for the links, will take a look at them at length. Based on your mention of sugary stuff, just wanted to mention that I hardly ever consume (processed) sugar, least of all at breakfast.

How are you so confident with your diagnosis? Are you a qualified medical researcher? Not snarky, genuinely curious. A sample size of one does not a clinical trial make.

lm28469 5y ago

It's not a sample size of one, we're millions doing intermittent fasting and it's been studied a lot. After a while you basically don't have cravings anymore, especially for sweet things. Most people have no idea and no desire to know about how their body work but once you got the basics you can tweak things to your advantage instead of being a slave to food From the studies I looked at this is due to how your body handles hunger, hunger seems to mostly be caused by an hormone called ghrelin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin) Ghrelin seems to be secreted by your body, not only when it _needs_ food but also when it anticipates food (that's why you start craving food after seeing a tasty food video/ad), now for the funny part, it also is influenced by meal timing, meaning that if you eat every day at regular interval your level of ghrelin will go up and peak slightly before the actual meal. And this is why most people "trained" to eat three times a day every single day of their life can't skip one meal without feeling bad, even if they have 0 physical activity they'll still crave food. As the wiki points out it's also part of the dopamine reward system https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/147/1/23/2499980 https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/147/1/23/2499980 > Consistent with previous data from other species including humans, there is a learned, preprandial increase of plasma ghrelin when individuals have been trained to anticipate their food at a fixed time. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033008/ > The constant abundance of palatable foods together to the excessive stress levels that we suffer in modern societies places the ghrelin/GHSR‐1A system in a new role in which it likely cause adverse consequences, including overeating beyond metabolic need and body weight gain. Therefore, the action of ghrelin on the mesolimbic system may have been a ‘great spice’ from an evolutionary perspective, although it no longer represents an advantage for modern human beings https://medium.com/personal-growth/does-fasting-cause-or-cure-hunger-a84ae47a05d3 https://medium.com/personal-growth/does-fasting-cause-or-cur...

mangamadaiyan 5y ago
Thank you for the links, will take a look at them at length. Based on your mention of sugary stuff, just wanted to mention that I hardly ever consume (processed) sugar, least of all at breakfast.