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Intermittent fasting: Is it the calories or carbs that count? (The Carbs)
Medical Xpress / The Conversation / European Journal of Nutrition ^ | May 6, 2025 | Adam Collins et al

Posted on 05/23/2025 6:41:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

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To: Secret Agent Man

Aside from weight and cholesterol management, how else has your fasting affected you?


21 posted on 05/24/2025 6:45:12 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

You do know that total cholesterol means nothing...and you can have too low cholesterol? It is ApoB, Certain LDL measures, and ratios...IMHO


22 posted on 05/24/2025 7:15:42 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: C210N

What is your record? Just curious.

We tried a 7 day and my wife got to 5 1/2 and I told her to stop as she works and was getting to tired. I got to about 6 1/2 and stopped because my mood was becoming depressed.

I see these people who do 20, 30 even more. I always heard the “3” death rule is —
3 min no O2
3 days no H2O
30 days no food

So I think 7 days fast is my max I want.

I find your spread sheet idea fascinating and helpful.


23 posted on 05/24/2025 9:52:12 AM PDT by Phoenix8 (8 hour days etc fir moths.)
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To: Phoenix8

I love spreadsheets, but I use Cronometer to track macros and nutrients (free version).


24 posted on 05/24/2025 1:03:24 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, I have had genetically high cholesterol all my adult life.
However, my LDL has always been proportionly high too
Up until I started fasting the total number increased and my LDL went up too with my weight gain.
My point is that fasting brought it down with no side effects like I experienced with the five different stations that I tried and eventually stopped taking.

There only seems to be good benefits of losing weight. Like fitting into pants that I had not worn in years.


25 posted on 05/24/2025 2:50:04 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ConservativeMind

It is neither ... It is about how the fasting period affects insulin resistance.


26 posted on 05/24/2025 2:52:10 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Phoenix8
What is your record? Just curious.

Not sure which category you refer to... my highest ketone score was 3.9, but a handful of times I've been over 3.5.

As for IF, I don't religiously track that like other numbers.

Yellow I enter daily, the 2-col blues %protein and %fat, last 3 are total calorie, %protein, %fat.

27 posted on 05/24/2025 3:52:03 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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