Benefits of Fasting | Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman

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Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.

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[Lance]

There is absolutely nothing like fasting energy. Mental clarity, in a great mood, I feel ready to tackle anything. I never felt anything similar before I started fasting.

[CarlosBeo]

I'm fasting too, but not because I choose to. I'm just broke.

[bdbd]

Been intermittent fasting 16/8 since dec 29th 2023. As long f today. With cardio and weights. Down 43 lbs as of march 7th 2024

[taylorhibbert]

I can’t eat breakfast or lunch when I’m working I get wayyyy to tired and unfocused I’ve been doing Omad fasts for years except the weekends and it really helps maintain/ lose weight without much effort

[yokobyeol]

When i was fasting at the first quarantine of 2020, i was generally calm, even though i have anxiety and deptession, i exercised 1 hour with bike and another half hour with weights, i studied hours for my classes and was drawing almost every day. My skin had 0 pimples, even though i have acne ( not sever) and i also lost 5 kilos

[michaelsmith]

Watching this for the last 10 mins of my 1st 72 hour fast.

[attentionlabel]

I've been fasting for 72 years. No food, I only eat crack rocks and Coco Pops. Feels amazing.

[Mike-nfnf]

What about the benefits of eating a huge spoonful of peanut butter straight from the jar?

[michaeljobs]

I've been doing 10-11 hours fasting during the week while I'm at work and it's helped me a lot. It's reduced my bloating, mid day energy crash, and I feel sharp while I'm at work

[chiefhardy]

I've been intermittent fasting for a month now. I have a large dinner full of proteins, fats, sugars at 7pm and that's it. I've never felt so productive during the work day. That 3pm "crash" no longer exists. Absolute game changer for my mental clarity & wellbeing.

[dblockbass]

Fasting has many dietary and cognitive benefits we dont completely understand yet. Its something that I inadvertently adopted when I was a dog runner in NYC out of necessity. I literally could not afford to eat 3 meals a day. But I discovered when I was eating once a day my productivity went through the roof. My physical prowess and my focus and concentration was better than at any other point in my life. (I wrote the manuscript for two books during this time) Keep in mind this was in conjunctuon with a moderate amount of exercise (running at least 5 miles/day). It is a practice in will power/discipline, instincual hardwiring rewiring, and dietary/physiological metamorphosis. He is dead on. It varies from person to person. I still practice it. I can not eat 3 meals a day. That is way excessive for me. The ketone diet my friend is remarkable.

[healthfitness]

I've done probably 15 to 20 5-day fasts in the past 5 years. Also have done 2 or 3 7-day fasts and two 10-day fasts. The energy and clarity happens for me as well. My most recent 10-day fast was maybe 5 months or so ago. Initially I planned on doing only a 5-day, but I felt quite good on that day so figured one more day. Then the next day felt great, so pushed to 7 days. Each day I was feeling great. I really didn't understand it but recall telling my wife and mother how energized and how much clarity I had even up until day 10. No lethargy or energy drain, it was quite the opposite. Have never gone beyond day 10.

[ZedP]

Yep, I do not eat before 2 PM, I work (mostly physical work) whole morning and feel great, lively, focused.

[Onepanchan]

It's not a problem if that one meal is in the evening when you want to become tired. I did one meal per 24 hour window for ages and well before it was a 'thing'. Let me tell you. It's a great option and it's sustainable.

[eustaciosolisii]

I’m 33 now even as a teenager I’ve always felt better performance wise limiting my foot intake such as fasting. Boxing and wrestling and currently training jits. I live by this!

[Buddyrtc]

I fasted for 7 days (only drank water, had non-sweetened green tea once) and had some mental clarity but ultimately around day 6-7 I was just extremely lethargic. Every movement felt like it took a great deal of effort and energy, so I’m really interested in that Navy SEAL’s experience. Perhaps it was the soup he had, or perhaps it was how he chose to expend his energy during that time and how his body learned to compensate.

[EsotericMindsets]

Got my 6 pack back in under 2 months since I switched to intermittent fasting and I feel so much more clear headed and my energy levels are through the roof

[joshuadude]

I have done a 93 and 114 hour fast and I have to say that once you have reached the 72 hours you feel like Superman at that point. I’m also taking in water and minerals during these longer fasts.

[eonryan]

3:49 - increasing alertness; less carbs or fasting

3:58 - foods that makes your sleepy

4:15 - if you have a lot of food in the gut, you're increasing sleepiness

[audreyk-l]

As a follow-up to Dr. Huberman's point about how time-restricted feeding impacts weight loss, Dr. Liu, Deying, et al. recently (April 2022) published “Calorie Restriction with or without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss” in the New England journal of medicine. They showed that among obese patients, calorie restriction & 8 hr time restriction eating regiment did not yield additional weight loss as compared with identical daily calorie restriction alone. Happy reading everyone :)