Intermittent fasting is more or less the same just with a few more things to consider.
More energy while fasting.
Higher energy levels and less required sleep has been my repeatable direct experience in many many fasts i ve also guided n 10 other indiv.
You asked why does fasting give some people high energy levels and less required sleep.
During gluconeogenesis your liver converts non carbohydrate materials like lactate amino acids and fats into glucose.
Registered dietician christopher shuff says there are three considerations when making your workout more effective while fasting.
While you re fasting your body needs to produce sugar for energy so it begins a process called gluconeogenesis.
Whether you should exercise before during or after the fueling.
With intermittent fasting the window of eating is decreased and the window of fasting increased.
Within as little as 12 hours of going without food the body begins to make changes to conserve energy and operate more efficiently explains benjamin horne phd a clinical associate professor in.
Typically the bigger the stress you experience the bigger the adrenal response is.
Although you can fast for as long or as short as you like certain regimens are more common than others due to their effectiveness and feasibility.
This is because the body has trouble converting fat into energy fast enough to keep up with the energetic demands of more intense exercise.
For example if a lion were chasing you or you were being held.
The body responds to stress via the release of adrenaline a person s natural fight or flight hormone.
Exercise is a natural energy booster because whenever you do it oxygen rich blood surges through your body to your heart muscles and brain regularly squeezing a.
Fasting actually works to increase your energy in a similar way that exercise does.
Light to moderate exercise is generally ok during the fasting period yoga etc but y ou may notice lower energy during an intense work out if it s done in your fasted period.
In general modern society is quite sedentary.
