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Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an increasingly popular dietary practice, and its implementation is found throughout human civilisation in various cultural, spiritual and religious traditions. Emerging evidence has shown that the health benefits of IF stretch beyond calorie restriction and weight loss....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35070352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001206 |
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author | Mandal, Sumona Simmons, Niall Awan, Sidra Chamari, Karim Ahmed, Irfan |
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description | Intermittent fasting (IF) is an increasingly popular dietary practice, and its implementation is found throughout human civilisation in various cultural, spiritual and religious traditions. Emerging evidence has shown that the health benefits of IF stretch beyond calorie restriction and weight loss. These benefits include metabolic shifts in energy production, the optimisation of peripheral circadian clocks, and overall improvement in physiological markers of metabolic health. IF has been proposed to reduce systemic inflammation and have a role in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. For the athlete, IF protocols offer a potential new frontier for maintaining performance in the fasted state. They may allow athletes to optimise training adaptions, while respecting individual cultural, religious, and/or spiritual preferences to fast and exercise. Below, we discuss the physiological impact of fasted exercise while highlighting areas for future work to improve our understanding and implementation of the practice for the benefit of both the active general community and sporting populations. |
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spelling | pubmed-87441032022-01-20 Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance Mandal, Sumona Simmons, Niall Awan, Sidra Chamari, Karim Ahmed, Irfan BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Viewpoint Intermittent fasting (IF) is an increasingly popular dietary practice, and its implementation is found throughout human civilisation in various cultural, spiritual and religious traditions. Emerging evidence has shown that the health benefits of IF stretch beyond calorie restriction and weight loss. These benefits include metabolic shifts in energy production, the optimisation of peripheral circadian clocks, and overall improvement in physiological markers of metabolic health. IF has been proposed to reduce systemic inflammation and have a role in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. For the athlete, IF protocols offer a potential new frontier for maintaining performance in the fasted state. They may allow athletes to optimise training adaptions, while respecting individual cultural, religious, and/or spiritual preferences to fast and exercise. Below, we discuss the physiological impact of fasted exercise while highlighting areas for future work to improve our understanding and implementation of the practice for the benefit of both the active general community and sporting populations. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8744103/ /pubmed/35070352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001206 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Mandal, Sumona Simmons, Niall Awan, Sidra Chamari, Karim Ahmed, Irfan Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title | Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title_full | Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title_fullStr | Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title_short | Intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
title_sort | intermittent fasting: eating by the clock for health and exercise performance |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35070352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001206 |
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