The Protein Review

After my series of posts about fasting and weight loss you should have worked out the secret truth by now. There’s only ONE rule to dropping body fat:

As you can see from this series on fasting, fasting has been an often overlooked answer to the dieting needs of many people. For the vast majority of us, the answer to the question, “Should we be fasting?” is a resounding YES!

Even more impressive is that the people who used fasting as a method of weight control maintained most of their weight loss over the course of an entire year. This is very different from the people who were on low calorie and very low calorie diets, who tended to regain all of theirweight loss one year after their initial diet.

Growth hormone is getting a lot of press these days. Rumour mills are buzzing that many top-level Hollywood celebrities are taking growth hormone because it helps burn fat, build muscle, and supposedly has ‘anti-aging’ effects.

Epinephrine and norepinephrine are both fight or flight hormones, often called adrenalin and noradrenalin.

If we consider fed and fasted to be the yin and yang of metabolism, then the hormonal equivalent to fed and fasted could be thought of as insulin and glucagon.

There are a few very important steps in the process of burning fat. First, your fat has to be ‘released’ from your fat stores (fancy name for your body fat).

Insulin is one of the most important hormones in your body. Every nutrition, medicine and physiology textbook has at least one chapter devoted entirely to the effects that insulin has on your body.

When you look at all the research on fasting, it’s astonishing to note all the health benefits that fasting offers. You may remember in the late 1990’s that the Mediterranean diet became the latest fad diet?