HOW FASTING RESTRICTION BOOST YOUR BRAIN POWER

Experts say that by doing fasting regularly will have extra power to impact your brain in a good way. One of the good things might be totally you get during intermittent fasting time rather than you deal with three meals in a day, is that your energy metabolism shifts, so that your body will start burning the fats. By that time, your body will produce what we are called ketone bodies which is critically important for your brain.

Let's figure it out in detail! 

There's a book called "THE 8 HOUR DIET" that presents evidence that if you restrict the time window that you can eat each day to eight hours or less it means it's enough to shift your energy metabolism for sure to burning your fats. 

Let's consider this!

FASTING means you eat less or no food for extended periods. There are 2 types you might consider doing this.

1. Long period, water-only fasts; for example, one 2-day each month, or one 2-week fast twice each year

2. Shorter intermittent fast ; 

• Alternate day fasting, eating no food or less than 600 calories every other day
• 5:2 diet: by eating normally for 5 days and eating less than 600 calories the other 2 days
• Daily time-restricted eating: food consumed only during 4-8 hours period each day

Honestly, If I had to choose as well as I was a beginner, I prefer to take the last option by eating daily time-restricted eating. It might be disciplined by the time management and sure you do not need to count at all how much calories intake otherwise you will gain weight. Your body will be shifting it, so you don't need to worry. By doing it regularly for 3 months in the beginning, your body cells probably adapt to even glucose spikes and on the other hand, you will be able to increase your level to manage the window time for eating to 12 hours in a day. 

Then, back to the topic how it could impact related to your brain? 

Fasting is a challenge to your brain and your brain will respond to that challenge of not having food by activating adaptive stress response pathways that help your brain cope with the stress and resist disease. Well, if you're hungry and haven't found food, you figure it how to find food. At the same time, you don't want your brain to shut down and in fact, that's what experts find in the animals. 

Some of the changes in the brain that occur with intermittent fasting also occur with vigorous exercises. Both exercises and intermittent fasting increase the production of proteins in the brain that are called neurotrophic factors. Experts found that these neurotropic factors such as FGF and BDNF, brain-derived neurotropic factors, promote the growth of hormones, promote the connections of neurons, and strengthen the synapses. 

Recently, some experts discovered that fasting by increasing BDNF levels in the brain, this neurotrophic factor can increase the number of mitochondria in your nerve cells. Experts mentioned that ketone that shows and comes from burning fat and that happens during fasting also ketones are good for neurons, one reason is they provide an alternative fuel for the neuron that boosts the energy level in the neuron. 

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