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E165 - Dr Hazel Wallace: Your health is in your hands
The High Performance Podcast
Is There Any Evidence That Water Fasts Are Good for Human Health?
I think intermittent fasting especially beyond 12 hours or beyond 15 hours can be actually quite detrimental for people. I definitely don't recommend water fasts and I know that some people do them up to 5 days which can be really dangerous. It does increase based on the research your risk of disorder eating and a poor relationship with food. Even when it comes to fasted training in the morning there's no benefits to say it's going to enhance performance and actually it can be detrimental to performance. We need enough energy available to do all of the processes in our body not just breathing and our heart pumping but also our hormones and reproducing. Most of the studies are done on mice we know that some
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