Intermittent Fasting Made Easy: Next-level Hacks to Supercharge Fat Loss, Boost Energy, and Build Muscle

What is Intermittent Fasting?

Simply, intermittent fasting is not eating for a set period of time, the fasting window, then consuming all of your daily calories during another set period of time, the eating window. For example, fasting (not eating) for sixteen hours of the day, then eating your daily meals during that remaining eight-hour window. It’s about when you eat, not what you eat. Intermittent fasting meshes with any eating approach: keto, low-carb, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, whatever.

Top Brain Effects

Ketones have been shown to lower stress and anxiety levels by helping facilitate the conversion of glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter that fires neurons into action, to GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter that produces a calming effect by blocking certain signals. A study published in the journal Trends in Neurosciences showed that ketones directly inhibited the ability of neurons in the hippocampus section of the brain to “load up” on glutamate while increasing the amount of GABA.21

Exercise Regularly

Chronic exercise, repeated bouts of exercise over the long term, will give you the anti-inflammatory effect. Yes, acute exercise, or a single routine, will increase anti-inflammatory markers, but chances are, the corresponding inflammatory response within the body will be too high for the body to fully cope with it.