Many people are crediting successful weight loss to intermittent fasting, but exactly how does it work and could it work for you?
Intermittent fasting has been shown to have a positive impact on your weight, health, insulin levels and even how well you age.
But you dont need to starve yourself to get the benefits
Intermittent fasting has no hard and fast rules, its up to you to make it work for you, says naturopath and nutritionist Emma Sutherland.
It could look like this: You could skip breakfast and eat between 12 noon and eight pm 600 calories. It could look like having two fasting days a week and eating normally five days a week.
How fasting slows down ageing
Sutherland explains that, when we eat, the food goes into the digestive system and will be used for energy. If theres no food in there, the body will search for glycogen in the liver, which the body will turn into energy.
We have about six hours of glycogen stores in our liver. Now if weve been fasting, and dont have any glycogen then, and only then, do we hit the fat stores to get our energy fuel, explains Sutherland.
Sutherland says that intermittent fasting could work well for people who are trying to lose weight but have hit a plateau.
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