Question about aesthetics
I have a question in regards to the Hibernation diet and Aesthetic appearance.
I am trying to get very lean and cut like a bodybuilder at performance level, I have achieved these results before by cutting my carbs in the evening and only having a protein shake before bed. Since starting the hibernation diet and having a spoonful or two of honey before sleeping these results have eluded me and I cannot seem to drop my body fat to as low a level as I have achieved before without hibernating.
Would you possibly have an explanation as to why I cannot get to the low levels I once could on the same diet and weight training regime whilst hibernating.
Overall though I have felt much better whilst hibernating, But I find it annoying to always have honey within a few minutes of going to sleep as I am not sure how much to take exactly a correct portion size would be nice?
More recently though I have opted to have a banana within 2 hours of setting off to bed is this adequate?
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 10:14 AM
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If and when the liver is overloaded with sugars, as it is when people eat a diet with high glycaemic carbs, and/or take large quantities of refined sucrose or high fructose corn syrup, the liver will be overloaded and switch to fat synthesis using these sugars, this is the basis of much western obesity - know as syndrome X, hyperinsulinism.
This is a very different form of biology compared to providing the liver with a good glycogen store prior to the night fast.
The liver capacity is only around 75 grams and the body requires 10 grams every hour during the night fast - 6.5 to the brain, 3.5 to the kidneys and red blood cells.
If you go to bed with a depleted liver, as millions do the brain is placed in danger from hypoglycaemia during the night, it cannot allow this to happen and activates the adrenal glands.
You will then be in stress biology, not recovery biology and you will degrade muscle during the night fast and will be inflicting long term damage, via cortisol and adrenaline.
This is exactly why those cultures who eat late (Mediterranean) including liver fuelling fruits and vegetables suffer less from the adrenal driven diseases than do we, hypertension and heart disease (adrenaline), osteoporosis, diabetes 2, obesity, depression, memory loss, gastric ulcers, infertility and poor immune function - cortisol.
All this nonsense about not eating at night is just that - nonsense and dangerous nonsense at that.
I have no means of knowing just why your are not defining the way you expect to, this is exactly the opposite of the feedback we get from athletes.
For instance the European and Commonwealth Boxing Champion Alex Arthur uses the principles of the Hibernation Diet when he is training for a fight and has to come down in weight.
Alex claims he can detect the difference overnight.
This is amazing but clearly he will know.
I think you need to experiment with differing quantities, relative to your training, when you last trained, when you last ate, what you ate, and so on.
Remember that the liver depletes at 10 grams per hour during resting metabolism.
A banana contains about 25 grams of carbs and assuming that the liver takes all of this it is enough for around 2.5 hours, again this depends on all the other factors.
The greatest problem of human biology is fuelling the energy hungry brain, because the brain has no store, and the 8 hours of the night fast is critical for brain metabolism, if the liver is not fuelled.
There are other fuels the liver can use during the night fast, lactate, pyruvate and glycerol, all 3 carbon fragments of glucose, which can be doubled up in the liver to make glucose, but they do not provide sufficient to maintain the brain in the absence of a fuelled liver.
The brain must therefore activate the adrenals and this results in muscle degradation to create new glucose.
Recovery is halted and although the adrenaline will release more fat from stores it will be recycled and restored and not used because recovery biology is halted.
The beauty of honey is not only does it activate recovery it also activates sleep via insulin, serotonin and melatonin.
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