My 22-hour fasting window is a highly effective mechanism for driving insulin resistance to zero and maximizing cellular autophagy. However, the moment I decide to break that fast, my digestive system is essentially offline. If you view the refeed simply as an opportunity to consume your daily caloric allowance as quickly as possible, you will (speaking from experience) aggressively shock a dormant gastrointestinal tract. Hitting a sleeping gallbladder with a massive payload of dietary fat leads directly to acute gastrointestinal distress, while the wrong macronutrient sequence triggers an immediate, disproportionate insulin spike. Here is an order of operations for reintroducing food, ensuring you maintain metabolic stability and mechanical digestive efficiency. The Physiology of a Dormant Gut After my 22 hour fast without caloric input, my gastrointestinal architecture scales down its operations to conserve energy. Stomach acid production drops. The pancreas reduces its output of dig...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.