3 months ago, I stumbled across a fascinating article on something crazy called Intermittent Fasting(IF). I couldnt believe what I read about this unusual practice. Consisting of regular 16+ hour fasts (no food, only non-caloric drinks), Intermittent Fastinghas been shown scientifically to help achieve fast weight loss, better health, and increased fitness levels.
As a student of Optimal Living, I knew I had to dig in and learn more. And thus began an incredible journey down the path of intermittent fasting, towards my craziest challenge so far.
The Evolutionary Perspective
Before I begin this story, lets take quick walk up our family tree, all the way back to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, to understand this whole Intermittent Fasting concept.
Now these guys, the hunter-gathered, they didnt eat 3 meals at day at regular intervals like most do now. No, instead they went hunting & gathering, sometimes for days, before finding something good.
As leading neuroscience & ageing expert Mark P. Mattsontells us, our ancestors consumed food much less frequently and often had to subsist on one large meal per day, and thus from an evolutionary perspective, human beings were adapted to intermittent feeding rather than to grazing.
Hmm interesting. Could it be that modern society has put the human specie zoo-like environment, and our eating patterns have become progressively less optimal?
And more importantly, what happens if we start eating the way were evolutionary programmed to?
The answer, it turns out, is amazing things.
See more here:
On Becoming Superhuman: Fasting for Fast Weight Loss ...
