Randomly decided to start eating one meal a day (for autistic reasons, not losing weight) and couldn’t find any guides that don’t devolve into “it cures cancer”.

I’m doing mostly fine, but I don’t want to learn that I accidentally screwed my health by doing something very wrong way after the fact.

  • 201dberg
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    9 months ago

    This is terrible reasoning and even worse understanding of human evolution. Humans evolved to not only be able to live without food for extended periods of time but to utilize fasted time to clean out metabolic junk. People have fasted for all sorts of reasons for longer than the “3 meals a day” diets existed. Imagine thinking humans would have evolved with such a massive defect that if they got without 3 square meals a day they just lay down and die.

    Studies have shown that the body increases metabolism when in a fasted state. It’s the bodies way of supplying you with energy so you can be motivated to go hunt and find food. It also increases focus and mental clarity. Similarly aiding in ones ability to locate food sources. The only reason people feel bad when going a few hours past their mealtime nowadays is due primarily to their bodies not knowing how to deal with it and be sure so much of people’s diet has high amounts of processed carbs and sugars which causes massive fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin levels.

    Additionally it is amazing diabetes prevention. Causing your insulin levels to drop to baseline between meals and increasing insulin sensitivity. I was pre-diabetic before I started OMAD many years ago. Within 3 months my levels were back to perfectly normal even when not practicing OMAD. My Doctor took me off meds and I haven’t needed them since.

    Here is a good video about some of the data behind therapeutic intermittent fasting.
    https://youtu.be/7nJgHBbEgsE?si=wh8gN_YPkWA_4VdF