 Should you try intermittent fasting? Is it even healthy? In this video I go over the pros and the cons of intermittent fasting and I kind of go over if you should try it or not Let's go ahead and get to it What's up everybody? It's your boy the millennial health coach where I help you conquer your mind Master your health and grow to your highest potential if you haven't already make sure you hit that subscribe button So the topic of the day is intermittent fasting It's been a very popular topic and a question I get asked all the time. Should I try it out? Do you think it's healthy? So in this video I wanted to go over what it is like what is intermittent fasting the pros and cons and then my suggestions if you should try it or not So starting off what is intermittent fasting intermittent fasting is basically cycling between Fasting which is not eating and then also eating you're cycling between the two now There are two main types that you've probably heard about there is the 16 8 fasting protocol And then there's also the 24-hour protocol now the 16 by 8 That's basically where you go 16 hours without eating Then you have an 8-hour window where you can eat then the other option is 24 hours of just not eating at all And you do this twice a week. So fasting isn't new people have done it in many religions And it also actually our ancestors did it a long long time ago So the first humans were hunter-gatherers and they basically hunt for their food in it They didn't have supermarkets, you know, they didn't have food super available to them So what they had to do is they had to go long periods without eating So they were practicing fasting before it's even called fasting now. There are pros and cons to intermittent fasting Let's go ahead and go over the pros. So the pros are that it does help with weight loss at the end of the day You're gonna be restricting your calories a lot more than sure just to be eating all day So you will lose weight the second benefit intermittent fasting is it actually helps you lower your insulin levels Which is hugely important and then third it just makes health kind of simple You know if you're like I'm only gonna eat between these times kind of plan around that time pretty easy And now for the cons the first con is honestly, you're just gonna be hungry, you know, if you're not eating for 16 hours I don't know if you've never eaten for 16 hours, but you're gonna be hungry So that's one of the biggest things you're gonna be hungry throughout the day And that's gonna be one of your biggest weakness point You're gonna have less energy because you're not feeling your body So it's something to consider another con is gonna be skipping out breakfast one of the most important meals of the day You know when you wake up in the morning you eat you kick your metabolism up So it's really important to think about like, okay I'm gonna be skipping a whole meal and then three you can actually lose muscle while doing intermittent fasting now There's a way to combat this of course if you're weightlifting and you're you know working out correctly You can actually preserve some of that muscle mass, but on average if you're just doing intermittent fasting alone You're actually you lose muscle as well. So what is my suggestion when it comes to intermittent fasting now? I don't actually practice intermittent fasting myself. I actually like eating throughout the day I'm with the type of guy who gets like hangry. That's me I just get pissed off if I don't eat but keep this in mind the best diet eating style that you could do It's the one that you can stick to the most the one that's the most sustaining So this is the thing if you do it for two or three weeks and you find yourself being inconsistent You can't stick with it. It doesn't work for you drop it. Don't do it if it does work for you Hey, try it out I'm not gonna knock on it because it does help with weight loss But you just want to make sure you're following the right guidelines make sure you do your research before even trying anything out So hope this video was super helpful for you If it was feel free to like the video and then put in the comment box if you have any questions about intermittent fasting I'd love to answer them and help you out. So I'll catch you at the next video. You already know embrace the Hold on one second. Did you check out this video? How about this video and I already know if you haven't already You need to make sure you subscribe. All right. I'll catch y'all next time. See you later