If "fitness" and "health" are not empty words for you, chances are you are serious about breakfast. Perhaps your morning starts with oatmeal with nuts and fresh fruit, a protein shake, etc. After that, you have a sense of pride that you are on the right track and, thanks to these efforts, training is not wasted. In fact, you can improve your fitness and health by skipping breakfast.
Intermittent fasting is a fairly well-known practice. The main point is a break from eating for 16 hours. But in the daytime 8 hours you can afford a lot of healthy food. If you practice intermittent fasting and skip breakfast, you can only become healthier: muscles will build up and cholesterol will fall.
Benefits for the brain
Contrary to the controversial opinion, hunger increases the brain's response and increases mental acuity. There is a logical reason for this: in order to catch or find food for yourself in ancient times of gathering and hunting, a person needed to be more dexterous and attentive.
Different diets are based on the idea that the brain reacts better to what is happening around. An interesting fact: of all the existing dietary restrictions in terms of positive effects on the brain, it is intermittent fasting that is in the lead. In fact, refusing from the next portion of oatmeal in the morning, you do not doom yourself to lethargy. In reality, by skipping breakfast, the brain will concentrate and start working faster, responding more efficiently to stimuli.
Lower cholesterol levels
Cholesterol is the most dangerous, serious and widespread health problem in the world. High-calorie, fatty foods are known to significantly increase blood lipids. This entails serious consequences: an increased risk of extensive heart attack, microinfarction, heart attack.
Intermittent fasting reprograms the way the body uses fat. This approach naturally increases the consumption of fat cells for energy. Thus, fat becomes the main source of energy, replacing glucose in this post.
By practicing intermittent fasting and skipping breakfast, you only become healthier: without medical intervention and extreme diets, blood lipid levels return to normal.
Stimulating muscle growth
Growth hormone plays an important role in the process of muscle growth and anabolism. It must be remembered that the natural level of growth hormone in the body helps to trigger the adaptive mechanisms due to which the processes of growth and restoration of muscle tissue take place. Intermittent fasting (skipping breakfast) on an ongoing basis - effectively increases the secretion of growth hormone.
