Intermittent Fasting Doubles Your Risk of Dying from a Heart Attack
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 31 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re going to talk about some of the recent news headlines claiming that fasting can wreak havoc on your cardiovascular system. This information was taken from an abstract (short summary) of an observational study sponsored by the American Heart Association.
The study was based on a 24-hour dietary recall, where participants had to recall everything they ate over a period of time. The author has also conducted observational studies that directly opposed red meat, eggs, and cholesterol.
Credible, peer-reviewed studies have shown numerous benefits of intermittent fasting and show that intermittent fasting actually supports cardiovascular health.
1. A single-blind randomized study examined the long-term effects of time-restricted eating with resistance training over 12 months. Participants saw a significant decrease in body mass, fat mass, and inflammation.
They experienced increased insulin sensitivity and a more balanced lipid profile without adverse effects. Intermittent fasting was deemed safe and effective for improving cardiovascular function.
2. A non-randomized controlled clinical trial for time-restricted feeding and its effect on body composition and cardiovascular risk found that 18 hours of fasting significantly decreased waist circumference and cardiovascular risk.
3. A systematic review of intermittent fasting with cardiometabolic risk factors looked at four randomized controlled trials. The results demonstrated that intermittent fasting significantly reduced body weight, waist circumference, body mass, fat mass, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, and fasting insulin levels.
4. One study evaluated a 16-hour fasting eating pattern with an 8-hour eating window on breast cancer survivors for 8 weeks. Results demonstrated a significant decrease in cardiovascular risk.
DATA:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
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| 0:00.0 | I have some more bad news for you guys. |
| 0:04.6 | It's just been reported on the news. |
| 0:08.2 | New research finding intermittent fasting may pose risks to your heart, |
| 0:12.1 | the practice where people eat within an eight-hour window or less. |
| 0:15.0 | Researchers finding it poses a significant risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. |
| 0:20.0 | This sucks because I have to now change 442 of my videos. Now this |
| 0:25.0 | weekend. So I got my work cut out for me this weekend. |
| 0:29.0 | So just to be safe, I think what you should start doing is you should start eating at night |
| 0:33.4 | snacking between your dinner and right before you go to bed and then as soon as you |
| 0:38.4 | wake up start eating because we have to save your heart. Now apparently the study is mainly focused on |
| 0:45.7 | cardiovascular mortality but they did find that if you do fast for longer than 16 hours it does lower your risk for cancer. |
| 0:56.0 | So you need to choose do you want to lower your risk for heart attack or cancer? |
| 1:00.0 | Now of course I'm being super sarcastic again. This was an abstract. |
| 1:04.5 | Okay that means a short summary of an observational study. It was based on a 24-hour |
| 1:10.3 | dietary recall. It's based on having that person remember what they ate, |
| 1:16.5 | which I don't even know what I ate two days ago. And they mainly looked at this pattern |
| 1:20.6 | of 16 hour fasting with an 8-hour eating window. Now this was sponsored |
| 1:26.2 | by the American Heart Association so we know it's legitimate because they're very unbiased. |
| 1:32.0 | The findings set to be presented at an American Heart Association conference. |
| 1:35.0 | But this is just another one of the studies where all you have to do is put a little doubt in the consumer's mind. |
| 1:42.0 | And that's enough to get people to question |
| 1:44.4 | you know should I do it should I not is going to be dangerous and we're going to have a heart attack |
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