I have been an advocate for intermittent fasting for over 4 years. I practice it myself to avoid the seemingly inevitable weight gain associated with age and sedentary lifestyle. Forcing one’s body to burn fat produces ketones. This breaks the cycle of perpetually depending on the carbs we store in our liver. Fasting is a learned behavior. Once it becomes part of one’s routine, it is not that difficult. Obstacles are abundant, including social eating and emotional eating. I recommend it to many of my patients, unless they have some medical contraindication. Weight loss is the key to dealing with most of the maladies of modern life, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and worn out hips and knees. People often want a drug , rather than cultivating a discipline. If Americans practiced intermittent fasting and a bit of regular exercise, they would not be complaining about how hard it is to find and afford Ozempic and other new weight loss wonder drugs.
I think you might be right, doc. As I get older I’m less interested in food and occasionally don’t eat at all - not fast, just don’t think or care about it. Kinda think it’s because I don’t get as much exercise as I should. Usually wake up feeling great the next day. I’ve always thought it was because my body would expend so much energy just digesting when I was a pig! :)
Another great job, Tim. I always thought the older we got most of things that caused us stress would go away. Boy I got that wrong. Sometimes I wonder since we lived this long dealing with stress our entire lives that a part of us needs it. Wants it. As you somewhat pointed out, we know how to deal with better. Though I could still deal with less of it. :)
Sadly, junk science is the new normal. When pharmaceutical companies pay supposedly independent researchers with fat research grants, no surprise, we get research that validates the drug company allegation that they have come up with a miracle cure to some problem. Then they get it published in a once reputable journal like JAMA or the NEJM, who are funded by pharma advertising.
The Medical Profession took a huge credibility hit when the vast majority went along with the CCP-virus mandates. And even now, when the truth about the vax is being revealed, and the new Disease X Bird Flu is being ramped up, those same players are getting ready to do it again.
I have been an advocate for intermittent fasting for over 4 years. I practice it myself to avoid the seemingly inevitable weight gain associated with age and sedentary lifestyle. Forcing one’s body to burn fat produces ketones. This breaks the cycle of perpetually depending on the carbs we store in our liver. Fasting is a learned behavior. Once it becomes part of one’s routine, it is not that difficult. Obstacles are abundant, including social eating and emotional eating. I recommend it to many of my patients, unless they have some medical contraindication. Weight loss is the key to dealing with most of the maladies of modern life, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and worn out hips and knees. People often want a drug , rather than cultivating a discipline. If Americans practiced intermittent fasting and a bit of regular exercise, they would not be complaining about how hard it is to find and afford Ozempic and other new weight loss wonder drugs.
I think you might be right, doc. As I get older I’m less interested in food and occasionally don’t eat at all - not fast, just don’t think or care about it. Kinda think it’s because I don’t get as much exercise as I should. Usually wake up feeling great the next day. I’ve always thought it was because my body would expend so much energy just digesting when I was a pig! :)
Another great job, Tim. I always thought the older we got most of things that caused us stress would go away. Boy I got that wrong. Sometimes I wonder since we lived this long dealing with stress our entire lives that a part of us needs it. Wants it. As you somewhat pointed out, we know how to deal with better. Though I could still deal with less of it. :)
Sadly, junk science is the new normal. When pharmaceutical companies pay supposedly independent researchers with fat research grants, no surprise, we get research that validates the drug company allegation that they have come up with a miracle cure to some problem. Then they get it published in a once reputable journal like JAMA or the NEJM, who are funded by pharma advertising.
He who pays the piper picks the tune.
The Covid virus creation and the vax, mask, lockdown fiasco has shaken a lot of previously held beliefs
The Medical Profession took a huge credibility hit when the vast majority went along with the CCP-virus mandates. And even now, when the truth about the vax is being revealed, and the new Disease X Bird Flu is being ramped up, those same players are getting ready to do it again.