What is Intermittent Fasting?

Intermittent fasting is a diet that revolves around eating during a specific time frame and fasting(not eating) during the other time frame. While there are several fasting options to choose from, including regular meals five days a week with two fasting days, alternating fasting, I chose the time restricting fasting(16:8). My time frame was 9:30am-5:30pm, this was an eight hour window that allowed me to eat three meals a day, and occasional snacks. When you fast your human growth hormones(HGH) increase while your insulin levels go down. When HGH is increased this allows your body to break down more fat and grow your muscles! In addition, when your insulin levels go down, this make it easier to get to our fat storage. Fasting also has impacts on our gene expressions as well as cellular repair. Cell repair is initiated and gene functions are susceptible to change. During the fasting period no food or calorie containing liquids are allowed. Calorie free liquids such as water are okay! Similar to keto, intermittent fasting can also cause the body to go into ketosis(body uses fats as sources of energy when the body is deprived of glucose).