Episode #84: 2019 St. Louis Q/A Part II
Barbell Medicine Podcast
Barbell Medicine
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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I like that. that. It was stated that intermittent fasting has little to no long-term health benefits. |
| 0:30.0 | That's not what I said. |
| 0:32.0 | I thought that it has been confirmed to improve |
| 0:34.1 | insulin, improve sensitivity to insulin and the problem of insulin |
| 0:37.4 | resistance is a big topic, so I was surprised to hear that Interment |
| 0:40.7 | Fasting wasn't more accepted this weekend. |
| 0:43.2 | So what I said was that there are no unique benefits to intermittent fasting |
| 0:47.2 | over any other type of diet that's matched for calories. |
| 0:50.4 | For weight loss purposes. |
| 0:51.4 | For weight loss purposes for which extends to things like |
| 0:56.0 | insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, etc. There are no unique health |
| 1:00.7 | benefits associated with intermittent fasting over the same type of diet, |
| 1:05.1 | or a different type of diet with the same amount of calories, suggesting that there's nothing |
| 1:09.6 | uniquely beneficial to intermittent fasting. |
| 1:12.4 | Now the people on the internet will say but you |
| 1:14.3 | are telomeres or your growth hormone or your this or you're that and it's like |
| 1:19.2 | that's great idea okay I'm glad that you read a physiology textbook. That's great. Where the citation suggesting |
| 1:26.0 | that this actually moves the needle forward with respect to human health because we don't have those |
| 1:29.8 | studies right now. The latest two meta analyses, one came out in 2019, one came out in |
| 1:34.7 | 2018 suggests that there's no benefit for weight loss and no objective health |
| 1:39.6 | benefit that's unique to intermittent fasting. It doesn't mean that |
| 1:41.8 | intermittent fasting is bad. If that's your jam, if you're like, |
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