Intermittent Fasting May Be Linked to Binge-Eating Behavior_ New Article

What is going on I have warriors so today we have another article talking about intermittent fasting may be linked to binge eating behavior. Here's the study. Now these studies are or not study here's the article and they reference studies and all the studies that they reference I've already gone through them and some I've done videos on here but I want to talk about this because this is a pet peeve of mine. For example this is a data set that they took and this article came out three days ago. This is a data set that they looked into. They're saying all of this proponents of intermittent fasting in which people limit their hours they eat limit the hours they eat claiming can help with everything weight loss to brain health and longevity while intermittent fasting may have some health benefits though the science is still being teased apart. Some experts are sounding the alarm about potential risks associated with the practice. Others have called into question whether purported benefits of intermittent fasting are markedly different from the benefits of other kinds of diets. Inverse spoke to researchers about potential risks of intermittent fasting and who should definitely avoid the practice. Now they look at intermittent fasting and the risk of disorder eating. Intermittent fasting usually falls under one of these four practices. Alternate day fasting, modified alternate day fasting, periodic fasting, time restricted eating. Also one meal a day falls into that as well and 20 hours of fasting, four hours of eating. But in a recent study in the Journal of Appetite it looked at more than 300 college students this is important and their eating behaviors 23.5% of the study participants were currently practicing intermittent fasting 16% had tried it in the past and 61% had never done intermittent fasting at all. The research so look at this less people have never way more people more than half had never tried doing intermittent fasting at all so of course the researchers found that the participants who had previously done intermittent fasting were most likely to have an episode of binge eating compared to those who had never done fasting before. Of course because in a group of people you might have like if somebody has a binge eating disorder they're going to do things to lose weight right or whatever their eating disorder is some people have an overeating disorder some people have a under eating disorder so they're going to do things to lose weight they are the ones that are likely to be at a caloric deficit to just do a caloric deficit diet they're the ones that are likely to do weight watchers they're the ones that are likely to do an intervention like intermittent fasting to lose weight someone who had never done it they is a bigger pool of people that are more likely not to even care about weight loss because they didn't even do intermittent fasting and this doesn't check to see if those 61% did other types of diets they're going to probably have people who who've done other diets and people who haven't but the collective is if they've never done intermittent fasting that means that they probably don't care about weight loss that much they probably don't even pay attention when they eat their foods right some people they eat a certain amount and they don't really gain weight so they're never going to think about doing a diet regardless of what the diet is this is not comparing intermittent fasting people with people who are doing strict caloric restriction diets this is simply comparing intermittent fasting people with other intermittent fasting people and with no when with people who don't do intermittent fasting that's it of course you're going to have people within groups of weight loss that are that have a disordered eating that are disordered eating people because that's what they do they look for stuff to lose weight but that doesn't mean that intermittent fasting is the activator of eating disorders eating person who has an eating disorder is going to do every diet under the Sun whenever they feel they need to do it because they want to lose weight if you're eating disorder is to under eat candidate department brought brain brain science at Texas A&M they told them that said both past pastors and current pastors were more likely to have an episode of binge eating than those who never had never fasted who I never fasted past intermittent fasted average 3.2 episodes and current I have first average 2.8 episodes and they also say here the participants currently practicing intermittent fasting tended to give themselves less unconditional permission to eat during their non fasting windows of course because they're trying to stick to the diet even if you're not somebody who has a eating disorder you're trying to stick to your diet because the best way to break a rhythm and flow in a habit is to just have all these moments where you break what you're doing you're going to get to your it's going to take way longer for you to get to your goal you're going to create moments of going in the opposite direction where you lose that rhythm you lose that flow so yeah people are going to want to stick to their diets doesn't necessarily mean that they are having a they they're binge eating right so of course and both figures were statistically significant compared to those of people who had never practiced intermittent fasting who average 1.8 binge eating episodes so look Pete from the 61% of people who did not do intermittent fasting of the 300 college students 1.8 still had binge eating episodes and this is from a group groups of people that more than likely a large group of them don't even care about well exercise or weight loss or anything like that to begin with and still there were 1.8 binge eating episodes so if you don't look into the if you don't break it down even further if you just focus on intermittent fasting you're not going to get much information why is it 1.8 people within a group of people that are not doing intermittent fasting who have never done it so you're binge eating but you've never done intermittent fasting so that right there is a indicator that intermittent fasting is not a activator for this stuff you are probably already binge eating or you have the potential to binge eat if you've done any type of diet and here's the kicker you gotta do an intervention if you haven't been losing weight if you don't lose weight and you if you don't just normally innately just lose weight or stay at a certain weight that you feel comfortable with if you gain weight you have to lose it how do you lose the weight you have to provide an intervention what's an intervention a diet so there's literally no it's almost like they're telling you you can't even diet don't even diet because then you have an eating disorder which I think is ridiculous because you do have to provide an intervention intuitive eating doesn't work unfortunately intuitive eating does not work does you do you feel good does it make you stop thinking about dieting and all this stuff because you're focusing on something completely different than weight loss and all that stuff yeah does it actually work on a physical physiological perspective in terms of actually reducing body fat no it doesn't it is the worst intervention of all the interventions and they put this through data to see like the results of all of the diets it was like 400 diets and intuitive eating was for four hundredth which is last out of all the other every other diet under the Sun it was able to be way more effective and weight loss and body fat loss then intuitive eating and then of course they they double speak right so they'll say half of metal that well this one that specifically half of the men and women engaging I have reported engaging in at least one objective and subjective binge eating episodes over the past month alarmingly around 25% of men engaging an IF endorsed self-induced vomiting which you should definitely not do and that is definitely signs of binge eating disorder but here's the thing people who binge eat choose to do different diets I have included they're gonna be but there's gonna be people who that do caloric research it's like if you look at people that do caloric restriction you're gonna find people that binge eat and people that do self-induced vomiting all that stuff because it's part like that's part of the disorder they want to lose weight so they're gonna do different diets it's not just exclusive to IF it's just it's not it's just weight loss it's exclusive to weight loss it's whatever gives them weight loss if IF is something a tool they want to use they'll use IF but that doesn't necessarily mean that IF creates in a disorder every single thing can activate or or or increase the chances of your eating disorder even normal caloric restrictions even if they did Weight Watchers even if they did dash diet even if they did Mediterranean diet it isn't exclusive to intermittent fasting but for some reason because the word fasting is in the title they want to demonize it they want to demonize it so they say who should avoid it they talk about no they'll say stuff here right where it's like oh see where where they talk about intermittent fasting oh here we go inverse intermittent fasting can result in fatigue low energy lack of focus and obviously hunger but it can also lead to loss of muscle mass and delayed recovery if you are participating in any sort of activity exercise or sports intermittent fasting is also associated with decreased endurance so anyone engaging in anaerobic exercise probably shouldn't be fasting that is not true that is literally like one or two studies that looked at people doing intermittent fasting and they had the people that were doing intermittent fasting eat ad libitum which means they could eat whatever they want and do whatever they want while they controlled for the caloric restriction group and sometimes even controlled their physical activity so they're like oh this is to show the free living how it really is when it's free living versus a rigid system but the rigid system where the person is doing resistance training while the other groups is all over the place and they're they've given they've been given no hard and fast rule to do anything of course they're gonna be people there's gonna be large groups of people that don't do resistance training that don't eat an adequate amount of protein meanwhile you've created an adequate amount of protein for the caloric restriction group and then you compare those two and you see that there's bigger there's a larger muscle loss in the intermittent fasting group of course it's gonna be they didn't do resistance training they're not eating an adequate amount of protein and the group that you're comparing them to you have them doing resistance training and you have them eating an adequate amount of protein it's like it's not a it's a no-brainer guys it's simply there's a discrepancy in the things that they're actually doing that's providing a that's that's causing a larger muscle loss for that group but when protein is equated and if protein is slightly elevated in the intermittent fasting group as we've seen they hold on to more lean mass and they build more lean mass than the caloric restriction group showing that the intermittent fasting system itself isn't the thing that's making them lose the the muscle versus the caloric restriction group is simply the fact that they are eating less protein than the caloric restriction group or they're doing less resistance training or both but they'll like they love to manipulate the data to say this and then the thing that finds I find it funny is that they'll say something like that and then you go down here and they'll talk about the study that was posted in the New England Journal of Medicine that tracked two groups of people for 12 months one group with caloric calorie-restricted diet and the other was practicing intermittent fasting the researchers found no significant difference between the groups and gains of body lean mass over 12 month period adding there were no difference between the two groups blood pressure and both groups had comparable improvements in glucose lipid levels and insulin resistance so which one is it which one is it it's like on one breath they'll say Oh intermittent fasting you lose more muscle you'll it won't be better than caloric restriction you'll be tired you'll be and then in another breath they're like well you don't have to do intermittent fasting because it's the same as caloric restriction you don't lose the muscle you keep the say you lose the same amount of body fat it's the same thing for your glucose and lipid levels and insulin resistance there's no difference so why do intermittent fasting when you could just do caloric restriction make this your tool for binge eating don't make this your tool for binge eating you see what I'm talking about how like they don't even notice that they are being biased in their own when they're communicating this stuff to you they don't even notice that they they're literally saying oh you'll lose more muscle with intermittent fasting plus you shouldn't do it because it's the same thing as caloric restriction because you won't lose the say you'll have the same amount of muscle what are you saying what are you saying you just want to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks to hopefully just be counterculture with intermittent fasting because it's always cool would it be counterculture it was cool for intermittent fasting to come into the fray but now it's cool to be counterculture because whenever you get to a point where something is popular if you go the in the unpopular direction you're you're you're this uh you you come off as a person who was like oh I'm thinking for myself or I'm doing this like I'm edgy because I'm picking a guess I'm going against the the popular thing don't go against the popular thing don't go with the popular thing go with science go with the studies that we currently have the meta-analysis because those things will actually really tell you what's going on but of course intermittent fasting has the tag name fasting on it because it does we will continue to get these articles but I will continue to make videos against this because I want people to know of course there will be people that do intermittent fasting that have a binge eating disorder because they want to lose weight if their disorder is to constantly lose weight they're going to do all the stuff under the Sun they're not just going to do intermittent fasting intermittent fasting has also not been shown to be an activator of inner eating disorder meaning that people who didn't have a history of eating disorder did intermittent fasting and came out with an eating disorder that has not been found in any study what has been found is that people who have eating disorders have are likely to have tried or done intermittent fasting but also what they don't tell you is that those people have also tried the Atkins diet is that those people have also tried Mediterranean diet is that those people have also tried just doing a caloric restriction because they try everything under the Sun but they want to take the ice they want to isolate the intermittent fasting group and and just oh let's just talk about this to show how bad intermittent fasting is now but tell us all the other diets they've done in the past the people who used to do intermittent fasting who have a high eating disorder percentage whatever they do what are they doing now because they have a high eating disorder percentage why are they not just still doing intermittent fasting you don't want to talk about that you because that starts to muddy the waters of what you're trying to do the truth is guys of course we're going to have people that have eating disorders do intermittent fasting of course we are because every diet is going to have that because they're they want to lose weight but to pretend that intermittent fasting is something that accentuates that more than any other diet or is an activator of that is simply misleading and disingenuous all right so I'm going to go ahead and end it there by the way we've already talked about this study here the intermittent fasting group actually lost three pounds more of full-blown body fat as as compared to the group but because that wasn't numerically significant they they made it seem like it wasn't a big deal but if you look at what five pounds of body fat looks like and on the internet just google what five pounds body fat looks like it's like this much mass so three pounds body fat is like this much so if you think about that that's a lot even if yes you won't it won't be like directly just from your stomach but that is a lot to come out of your face your arms that's a lot of fat visually but of course it's all about the technical things to try to get you to think that intermittent fasting doesn't that doesn't do doesn't have a significant impact in your body fat loss as compared to caloric restriction because body fat reducing at a higher rate is not a calories in versus calories out thing calories in versus calories out still matter but your body does a lot of things internally to pull from different sources of energy and intermittent fasting helps your body focus a lot of its calorie partitioning of what it pulls from your body fat specifically so just wanted to add that that's just an added caveat anyways go ahead and end the video here hopefully this video was helpful for you guys of course you know that i'm constantly going to be my crusade is to make sure that you guys know exactly what is going on even when articles like this come out that try to get you to doubt yourself until the next one guys peace out