The Downsides of Intermittent Fasting

What is going on I have orders. So today we're going to look at the downsides of intermittent fasting this video here. We're going to look at this video and then we're going to I haven't watched it. I should probably start watching these beforehand just in case but I haven't watched the video. We're going to go ahead and look at it. We're going to see what they say and we're going to I'm going to talk about the the actual true downsides unless they they mention it in this video, which rarely they do their they're always up in the clouds. They rarely talk about the the true issues. They talk about things that aren't really issues that are just things that people say and they just regurgitate what people say based on what they think it is or what they feel that it will be or whatever. But anyways, let's go ahead take a look at this video and let's go from there. Hiding trends is something called intermittent fasting and here to talk with us about some of the benefits and drawbacks dietitian. Amy piling with why do they bring in dietitians and nutritionists for these things? Why can't they bring in researchers? Why can't they bring in, you know, people that are in that field because being a dietitian is not is not intermittent fasting is not doesn't mean you know about intermittent fast on you or you care dietitian about the foods do a dietitian and nutrition is about the food that you're eating. It's not about intermittent fasting, right? And some of these people don't even care. Some of these people don't even care to learn about intermittent fasting. They just don't like it flat out because of their preconceived notions of fasting. But anyways, let's continue Alina health. Thank you for being here today. Great to see you again. What is this intermittent fasting? So really it just alternates periods of eating and non-eating right? And so we're just trying to make them the fasting really is a little bit longer of a segment of non-eating. I mean, this is a religious, you know, fasting has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. So it's not really anything new. It's just maybe about about balancing feasting and fasting. What's the common way and time period? Yeah, there's a couple of different popular methods. One is more I would say done like on a daily basis. So you're going to fast for a period of hours. The best way so far that is gaining popularity is 16 and 8. So you're fasting for 16 hours during the day and you're eating for an 8 hour period. Okay, so that would be like starting to eat at noon and being done at 8 p.m. That's your eating time. And then the rest of the time you're not eating anything or drinking anything except for water. What is your concern as a dietician? What should you not be doing when you do this? Well, you should not be, you know, having just like a total party when you're eating, right? Because I think that that mentality goes, well, look, I mean, I don't know anybody. I mean people could I guess people are like that, but it's you should understand that your calories matter. So if you overeat, it doesn't matter. If you do intermittent fasting, there won't be any fat to burn. If at the end of the day, you're net positive in your energy balance, which means you've had more energy come in or you have more energy overall from based on the energy release versus the energy that came in that your body will just eventually store. Even if it burned a little bit of fat throughout the day, you've replenished that when the day is done because you overate. So obviously, does it matter? This is not a thing that hacks life in terms of you'll burn fat and then nothing gets stored even though you're overeating. That's not how it works. I did it. I made it this really long fast and now I can eat whatever I want. So I'm just going to go out and binge on anything because this one little fasting thing that I'm doing is going to work and help me lose weight and take care of what's the drawbacks. You still have to eat a healthy diet while you're doing it. Talk about the healthy diet. What does that encompass? So, you know, again, it's just the same stuff that we hear all over. It's just that tons of produce, lots of fruits, vegetables, balanced protein, healthy carbohydrates, those types of things. So, you know, less refined grains, less sugar, that type of thing. Still having to do that during an intermittent fast. When we're talking about men and women with this, is it true men sometimes when they do adopt these things have quicker results than women? Darn you. I'm not one of them, obviously. I don't know. It just is, you know, I think men have more muscle, right? So inherently. So it's muscle is a metabolically active tissue. And so they just have an easier time losing weight than women. So you're feeling generally is that this is an effective way to manage if you adopt this as your lifestyle. So I think it's really cool as a tool. There's all kinds of tools that we can try, right? To help us. Okay. So this person is surprising me. This dietitian or nutritionist is surprising me because she appears to be, although this is three years ago, she appears to be in favor of the usage of intermittent fasting. But this may be before the consensus or the switch over when people started to think, oh, well, no, let's not do intermittent fasting because this is cool. It's cool now to say don't do intermittent fasting because society just goes in waves when eating six meals a day was cool. Intermittent fasting was cool for a good amount of time. Then intermittent fasting became cool because it's like it's the opposite of that. It's like, oh, this is a new shiny toy. As soon as this new shiny toy became cool saying, oh, don't do that is the cool thing to say, but maybe we're turning the corner again and people are saying, wait a second, we're just saying don't do it, but there's not really there's so much evidence of why we should do. I guess maybe we just spin it back around to doing it and then who knows in two more years people will be like, why you should have do intermittent fasting because it's going to be the cool thing to do in two more years. The one thing with weight loss is intermittent fasting is showing some good results there, but there's a lot of promising research on it, you know effects of general health like preventing disease, maybe even certain types of cancer. Yes, you could. She's clearly pro. There's also good for memory and diseases like Alzheimer's. So there the research is still up and coming but there's you know, it's very promising. So a lot of efficacy with a lot of this right, but I wouldn't do it. Like if I had an eat a severe eating disorder like a binge eating disorder because again, you're going to go back to that sort of like binge and fast and for sure if you're on a medication like insulin. Well, thank you for enlightening. Well, she if you have a binge eating disorder intermittent fasting is not going to be helpful. But also caloric restriction is not going to be helpful because at a certain point your willpower is going to wane and you're going to binge eat when you do caloric restriction and here's the problem when you're trying to lose weight you have to be at a caloric deficit. It just you just have to so it's always a tricky thing. There's always things that you have to focus on it and think about when you you know, have like a binge eating disorder anything of that nature, but she also talked about if you're taking insulin, you shouldn't do intermittent fasting taking insulin and doing intermittent fasting. It's does appear to be a little bit counterintuitive because of the of the fact that you're putting insulin in your system with intermittent fasting. You're trying to keep your insulin low. So it's one of those weirdness weird things, but I would also say anyone with type 1 diabetes should also probably shouldn't do intermittent fasting because you have a specific meal frequency and meal timing that you need to to to kind of stick to right now because of the studies because of the studies because all I all I would ever do to you guys is make sure that I give you what we have in the current studies. What what's the what's the data? What's the meta-analysis? What's the consensus of data that we have and within the studies itself children have not been studied for to do intermittent fasting. So we simply do not know there's an there's an unknown there. So I would recommend if you're a child not to do intermittent fasting and then also because they haven't tested this on pregnant women. I would also recommend those who are pregnant to not do intermittent fasting, but that is my recommendation based on the studies itself. And then one downside I would probably say considering those being downsized is maybe the social life could kind of shift a little bit if you're consistently always hanging out with your friends and consistently always going out to eat intermittent fasting might throw a little bit of a wrench in that but then you have to choose like do you want to just have this consistent lifestyle where you're always going out with friends or do you want to be able to finally reach your weight loss goals? So that's one thing that that's a downside that I would say to intermittent fasting and once again intermittent fasting is not the be-all end-all if it does not work for you if it's uncomfortable for you if it's something that you do not like to do no matter how many times you try it then don't do intermittent fasting choose something that works for you intermittent fasting did work for me. It does work for other people but could just doing caloric restriction works for other people doing the Mediterranean diet doing the dash diet, you know, all these different things work for others and I and if those things work for you pick the thing that you can do for the rest of your life because that's what's going to matter at the end of the day the problem that we have in the United States specifically is not even a weight loss problem or weight gain problem is really really only a weight regain problem. All right. Anyways, let me see what they how they ended yesterday. Amy Kleinling always good to see you too. We have more information for you can find it out about intermittent fasting and a line of health on the Carol Levin app on the as seen on TV section. All right. So there we go. There it is. Let me know what you guys think down in the comment section below. Of course hit that like button hit that subscribe button. Have you seen any downsides to intermittent fasting? Have you seen them when doing intermittent fasting even for people that sorry about that even for people that tried it and it didn't work for them. Let me know in the comment section below for those who have tried it and have seen a lot of success, but notice that there's some downsides. Let me know what your downsides are and we will see you in the in the next video, which will be tomorrow. See you guys and thank you so much. Peace.