The modern Western high carb diet ensures that our insulin levels are kept continuously high. But there is another factor, which ensures that they stay even higher. Human beings eat almost continuously. Rather than eat three meals a day, we snack in between several times. Three solid meals a day should be enough to give us our daily nutritional needs. However, a sugar rich diet keeps you hungry, and often feeling the need to snack between meals.
The fact is the most of us graze just like cattle all through the day. In fact, we might have breakfast elevenses. lunch, mid afternoon snack, and evening meal, a treat while watching TV, and maybe a little supper before sleeping. Every time you eat, there is a spike in insulin production. Which means for most people, it's constantly high. So not only is insulin high because of our high carb Western diet, it keeps higher because of the way that we eat.
Because we graze throughout the day. Intermittent fasting just means that we don't eat between meals. It's as simple as that. However, this is a lot harder than it sounds. Because a high carb rich diet with lots of sugar makes us want to eat more and more. It keeps us wanting to keep keto diet is based on high fat consumption and was used to the craving for carbs.
The cells are quite happy burning fat, and insulin is created in just enough quantities to deal with the sugar resulting from the carbs contained in our three meals a day. This is a very healthy situation. Even if we reduce the carbs a little bit and remove sugar from our diet, intermittent fasting would give us a huge benefit in our overall condition of health. Eating the keto way, is a great way to reduce those insulin spikes, particularly if we don't eat between meals. Insulin also has the effect of inhibiting ketone production. So it's directly acting against ketosis.
Intermittent fasting isn't just about fasting between regular meals He can be extended so that a meal can be skipped all together. The longer the fast, the greater the benefits it brings. For example, if your evening meal was at 7pm, and you sleep until 7am, then you have already fasted for 12 hours. Normally, we would eat breakfast, and break the fast, the overnight fast. However, if we sleep until 7am, we've already fasted for 12 hours. The 12 hours fasting mogh interesting things begin to happen in your body.
If you could wait until 1pm to eat your next meal, lunchtime then your body would experience or toffee g which is the subject of our next video.