Hi, Sarah In Maryland – Thanks so much for the links to Dr Peter Attia. How fascinating that, for some people, like Peter himself, even a small amount of sugar is so damaging whereas for others, like his wife, unlimited sugar appears to cause no problems.
From reading various proponents of Functional Medicine [**], it seems that just simply reducing overall calories will not be an effective weight-loss strategy for many people, if their metabolism and hormones are out of kilter. An appropriate balance of nutrients, the right type of food and even the time of day one eats seems to be critical.
From what I can see, most conventional medical practitioners only react to the increasing number of people on the spectrum of high bood-sugar levels – from hyperglycaemia, through to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, right up to diabetes – by prescribing drugs after the event, rather than understanding and providing guidance on dietary means for controlling and reducing the problem, before further damage is done. And, as Peter says, the link between insulin issues and obesity is probably being looked at the wrong way round, with fat-storage being an appropriate ‘safety measure’ in an attempt to protect the body against excess insulin, rather than, as is generally believed, weight-gain causing the insulin problem.
Of course, when our hunter-gatherer ancestors feasted in times of plenty there wasn’t a huge Supermarket or endless chains of fast-food outlets just down the road, pressing food on us 24/7 – that’s the big difference today.
You seem to be thriving on your Intermittent Fasting regime. I wish you continuing success in reaching your goals and great good health.
[**e.g. Dr Mark Hyman and Ritamarie Loscalzo]

wow! i have read his blogs and almost everything stayed up late

i must admit many of his stuff made my eyes glaze over & caused short waves in brain! dr michael would probably luv the science.

what he eats i still don’t understand why he eats that much. i know it is a complex formula. trying 2 figure it out

i wish he would simplify on an other link 4 laymen or keep it simple and sweet as if he were talking to his cute little girl

i’m still always, going to do fastdays

i’m thankful that i came across dr michael

i really think the body needs to rest and let it have some time to operate on other problems and 2 be able 2 fine tune our body mentally & physically & not just making it a slavemachine 2 our eating & eating & eating.

i’m just trying 2 find out how to combine all these nonfastdays & fastdays

in a healthy satisfying way while losing the much needed pounds

i just looked @ videos and Chris Powell’s site of carb cycling

http://chrispowell.com/

found videos of his philosophy and found an e book “Choose More, Lose More for Life” in the library

http://www.doctoroz.com/search?q1=Chris+Powell#!?q1=Chris+Powell&sort=A

what i love about the fastday lifestyle is you can incorporate & experiment

paleo, mediterranean, south beach, atkins, vegetarian, Dr. Peter Attia, Chris Powell’s carb cycling

& any other healthy lifestyles

as long as u give your body 2 or 3 alternative days off of rest

we should fast4life ur body deserves it