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• brodouevencode 4y ago
  *wants
• terminal_d 4y ago
  "The best nootropic is getting up in the morning and getting sunlight. Then you sleep at a reasonable hour and wake up fully rested."
• arcticbull 4y ago
  Diet and exercise do not produce sustained long term weight loss for basically anyone. They fail anywhere from 80-99% of the time. That part is unfortunately bad advice. The only thing that’s been shown to do that is fasting, surgery or GLP-1 drugs.
  • jagraff 4y ago
    Is fasting not a type of diet?
    • arcticbull 4y ago
      Diet generally implies caloric restriction whereas fasting is complete abstention. There are significant biological differences - for instance, when you restrict calories your metabolism slows down as much as 15-25% over the first three weeks (hence the plateau many dieters experience). Fasting on the other hand raises your metabolic rate up to ~15% for the first 5 days of a water fast. Further, production of HGH is inhibited by consuming any food and while fasting it can increase 3-12X. Autophagy is inhibited by the consumption of any protein (via mTOR). If you want to treat fasting as the special case diet where input=0, I certainly understand that. However, the physiological processes of caloric restriction are quite different than total abstention.