Weight loss
Fasting day: what it provides and what it doesn't
A fasting day is a 24-hour period with sharply reduced calorie intake, usually consisting of a single food item.
Fasting
What happens in the body without food, and where the promises part ways with the trials.
Nutrition
Lenten diet: what changes in your nutrition and where protein is lost
From a nutritional perspective, fasting means the simultaneous removal of meat, fish, dairy, and eggs from the diet—essentially all common sources of protein.
Biohacking
Autophagy: why the Nobel Prize was awarded and what is being sold based on it
Autophagy is a mechanism by which a cell breaks down its own damaged parts and recycles the material.
Weight loss
16/8 intermittent fasting: what happens during the fasting window
People usually say the same thing about 16/8: at some point, the body "switches to fat," and then "autophagy kicks in.
Nutrition
Detox and "toxins": what the liver and kidneys actually do
The feeling of heaviness, bloating, and being "clogged up" is familiar to almost everyone, and the word "toxins" explains it faster than any other.
Weight loss
Types of diets
When comparing diets in studies, an inconvenient result emerges: the difference between them is smaller than the difference between the people who follow them and those who do not.
From reading to doing. All of it starts in one place — knowing what is on the plate. Photograph it and the calories and macros appear on their own.
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