24-hour fasting

I have developed a hypothesis about one reason for weight gain.

During the day, our body metabolizes food into blood sugars. With a healthy diet and sufficient natural exercise balance exists and only a small amount of excess sugars convert to fat.
However, when we are asleep, only a small amount of energy is consumed by organ function, respiration and heartbeat. The remainder is only required to maintain our homeothermic body temperature. The rest deposits as fat.

At around 22 degrees Celsius still air room temperature vital body activity maintains our temperature without clothing while we sleep.
Therefore at cooler temperatures our body burns additional sugar to produce heat. Simply turning the heating off at night therefore prevents excess blood sugars converting into fats. Additionally the cooler air temperature reduces the concentration of airborne bacteria that is looking for a host.

In the past, homes were never heated at night, I am amazed by the number of people who run their heating 24/7 these days.

I feel that the current overweight problems suffered in Europe and the US, have a number of contributory causes that need to be addressed in balance with each other.

 

I haven't seriously fasted since around 16. I often don't eat breakfast or even lunch dependin' on my workload. I need to start fastin', my body gets nauseous and sick if I don't eat a full day. Gotta retrain before diabetes kicks in. If I were to do it purposefully I'd need a spiritual motivation.

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Ah the good ol' snakeoil. What doesn't cure you might kill you