Your Brain on Intermittent Fasting: More Cognitive Benefits From Eating Less Often?

Have you ever tried intermittent fasting for cognitive benefits? If so, what was your experience?

I work nights and once a month fast for three to four days. Along with a 20/4 intermittent fasting schedule.

Ummm this is awkward but maim you look so young, energetic and bright , what’s the recipe

Should I fast before a test?

Chocolate and Cheetos? That killed my appetite. should be an easy day.

I was ready to fast for a day, until you mentioned Chocolate and Cheetos... I ended up at a gas station... Thanks 😒

How about people who have an BMI UNDER 17,5? Do they also need to do intermittent fasting?

I like how she promotes a Cheeto ad while talking about fasting 😂

Fasting + Herbal/Ayurvedic Nootropics (i.e. medicinal mushrooms, unsweetened green tea, ginkgo, etc) are the “natural/organic Limitless NZT brain hack”! 👁💡🧠🚀✨

I wonder if studies have been done in cultures which eat dinner late, like in Spain?.... because my version of intermittent fasting is just to be old-fashioned and eat dinner at 5pm! Then, if you're done eating by 6pm, and don't have breakfast until 8am, that's 14 hours! Voila! The key is to avoid dessert and snacking before bedtime... a daily struggle ;)

You don't need to talk to your doctor at all for anything under 72 hrs and mor realistically less than a week. If it was dangerous humans that were holed up in a cave or their home in a blizzard would have died.

I don’t know about that. I’ve been intermittent fasting for about 20 years. I didn’t know there was a name for it, it’s just how my metabolism works. I generally fast 20h/day seven days a week. I still had to play back the video 3x because I wasn’t paying attention. And it’s a 5 minutes video. Ok, I have ADHD, but I don’t see any improvement in focus after all this time.

In Islam there are optional fasting or we called it sunnah fasting, such as fasting on every monday and thursday, also there's Dawud fasting which are doing intermitten by one day fasting one day break, MashaAllah, the benefits of fasting 👍

Intermittent Fasting & Low Carbohydrate is the proper human diet since our caveman ancestors. It was forgotten when pharmaceutical & modern medicine was introduced. Both also is part of our survival evolution mechanism with optimization of brain & body hormones.
People nowadays start to aware of the benefits of Intermittent Fasting & Low Carbohydrate when modern medical fail to treat our metabolic syndrome illness which is cause by Food industries & sedentary lifestyle.
Scientific research & human trial are important for mainstream but human experience is best proof.
Please do more news on these.
I being on intermittent Fasting & Low Carbohydrate for more than 4 year, my mind body is at the best at age 52. Greetings from Malaysia.

For all the dumb dumbs saying “it didn’t work for me, I felt terrible” well no shit. All those years of abuse and now your body is trying to heal, you are going to feel terrible at first.

NYTimes recently published an article “Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating” of results of a new study but I still believe in IF

wrong

Caloric restriction is one of the few things we know can extend human lifespan.

There are no side effects to intermittent fasting.

Just admit islam was correct on fasting

This is what we Hindus have been following for many centuries by fasting on the 11th day of a fortnight. You western people called used savages and uncivilized, only to reinvent the wheel many years later with this dumb research. Now go sell this back to Indians , that’s what you have been doing with yoga, meditation etc

how tasteful. @ BABAY FORMULA shortage

Well it works with people have brains.

I've tried it and disagree, but everyone is different and the affects also depends on what your health and diet ate at the tme of fasting. You can do clean keto with same affects, never be hungry after adapted, energy, low inflammation, but social aspect can be challenging when friends want to go to a carb restuarant like italian. Good luck on your health journey

Been doing it off and on for several years. It does wonders for me both mentally and physically. But I think like all things in health, every person is different and it might have the opposite effect for some people.

Fasting feels like taking adderall but without the zombie feeling and without the crash

Not really sometimes. When I am sometimes hungry my brain stops working and I lose all my productivity because of the low blood sugar condition I guess. This research might not be totally true.

Jason Fung has been saying this for years

I can agree, I’ve been intermittent fasting for months and I find myself far more productive in the mornings and not weighted down by a heavy breakfast.