0 (1s): Hello, and welcome to the get lean and eat clean podcast. My name is Brian grin. I'm a certified health coach, trainer and author. This podcast is for middle-aged men and women looking to optimize their health and get their bodies back to what it once was 10 to 15 years ago. I will give you simple, actionable items to get long-term sustainable results. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. All right, welcome to the get lean eat clean podcast. My name is Brian grin. Hope you had a great weekend. Happy Tuesday if you're listening to this on Tuesday, and hopefully you listened to my last interview with Dr. 0 (45s): Bill Campbell, tons of great information around fat loss, optimal protein requirements, preserving and gaining muscle, which you all know how important that is. As we age and check out his Instagram handle. Bill Campbell PhD. I put a link in the show notes and that's episode 1 67. So definitely check that one out. And today I wanted to touch on the comparison between fasting and doing some type of intermittent fasting protocol, along with the differences between calorie restriction. And if you're listening to some minor interviews, you know, they both can be effective for weight loss, but the question is what are some of the other benefits that intermittent fasting can maybe provide that, you know, calorie restriction does it? 0 (1m 33s): And I was prompted by the study that I'm going to pull up right here was recently done actually, yeah, August of August of 2022. So this was done and it was done on 28 Norwegian adults. And it comparing what's called an intermittent energy restriction, what they called versus a continuous energy restriction, which is sort of an interesting way to turn that continuous one, meaning you can eat all day. You're just eating in a restricted state and an intermittent one, obviously where you have almost only like a small, a small window to eat your food and comparing appearing the differences between the two. 0 (2m 17s): So they completed a 12 week diet induced weight loss. And not what I loved about this study was not only did it compare weight loss in both groups, but it also took inflammatory markers, mainly cytokines and chemical kines, and compared the differences because, you know, one of the reasons I'm a big proponent of fasting is yeah, it can help with weight loss and getting that body set weight down. But the hormonal differences between that and just restricting calories and some of the hormonal differences is obviously getting insulin down growth, hormone up. 0 (3m 2s): There's been studies on that and nor adrenaline up and noradrenaline, if you think of it ancestrally, we went periods of time without food, right? Well, we needed to find our next hunt. If, if we just sort of, you know, people are thinking if they start fasting that they're going to have no energy, but eventually that's not true if you, if you sort of train the body to get used to being in a facet state, not all the time, obviously, but sometimes you will find that you'll have more energy in the long-term, but either way so that, you know, you think of calorie restriction. Yeah. That can be a tool that could be used for weight loss, but what are the, what about the hormonal adaptations regarding fasting and getting into ketosis as well? 0 (3m 48s): Okay. I don't think you need to be in long-term ketosis if you listened to my interview with Dr. Ben Azadi and he has a book called keto flex, where he talks about coming in and out of ketosis. But I do think it's important to, if you've never done it, it try to get into ketosis because that'll stimulate my palaces, which is breaking down fat for energy. So either way, those are some of the reasons why I do love fasting versus just doing a calorie restrictive diet. And this study proved me, well, I guess proved, proved me, right. I guess, to some degree in the fact that when it compared, when it did a 12 week study on these 28 individuals and measured these, the plasma levels of 13 inflammatory markers found that there was a pronounced reduction in these inflammatory markers from fasting versus just doing calorie restriction about gosh, three times as many. 0 (4m 49s): So that's huge. That's a, that's a huge win for, for inter intermittent fasting. And as they call it intermittent energy restriction as compared to continuous energy strategy, sorta like those two names, and it says it could be advantageous to reduce influence inflammation associated with obesity and consequently improve insulin resistance, regardless of the amount of weight loss, comparing, saying intermittent energy restriction had a leg up on that. And so this, this study, which I'll put a link in the show notes, sort of hammer that home from this 12 week study. And so they did, I believe their fasting protocol was an alternate day, but you know, you know, alternate day, some people like to do, you know, a 16, eight or a 20 slash four, but this one did alternate day and versus, you know, just calorie restricting every day and seeing how, how beneficial it was to lowering these, these sort of inflammatory markers that are obviously can lead to a lot of bad health results. 0 (5m 57s): And that was, that was the conclusion of this study. And yeah, I mean, I think the bottom line is, you know, you have to take a look at what works for you, but also, you know, these studies are great, but I think there is a self, a little bit of a self self-experimentation that needs to be done as well. Some people do better on fasting than others, but either way you want to ease your way into it. And I talk about that in the journal. I have a book coming out, which is going to touch on that as well. So I just wanted to touch on this study and how, you know, there is yes. Can you lose weight by restricting calories per se? 0 (6m 39s): Yes. But what, what, what are some of the positive effects of the hormonal effects and this showing that you can reduce inflammation better off doing some type of intermittent energy restriction as opposed to a continuous energy restriction as, as they state in the study. So hopefully I sort of just clarify that made it, made it easy to understand if you have any questions, you can email me brian@briangreen.com and yeah, hopefully you enjoyed this micro podcast and I will talk to you on Friday with another great interview. Thanks for listening to the get lean, eat clean podcast. 0 (7m 19s): I understand there are millions of other podcasts out there and you've chosen to listen to mine. And I appreciate that. Check out the show notes@briangrin.com for everything that was mentioned in this episode, feel free to subscribe to the podcast and share it with a friend or family member that's looking to get their body back to what it once was. Thanks again, and have a great day.
