How Intermittent Fasting Lowers Inflammation (16 Hour Fast Example Infographic)

While most nutritionists recommend eating 4 to 7 small meals per day, we recommend compressing your “eating windows.”

This allows you to eat bigger meals with less food prep, and less worry. 

Here’s how it works:

You may have heard of Intermittent Fasting (or I.F.). 
It’s a type of eating that restricts food intake to a small time period each day.
Usually a 4 to 8 hour window. 

While some IF diets recommend going an entire day without eating every week, we don’t see the need to be that restrictive. 

Besides, you can get all the benefits of fasting without really fasting at all.

Studies show that you only need about 16 hours of being in a fasted state to reap the largest benefit of intermittent fasting: autophagy.

Autophagy  is your body’s natural “cell-cleaning” process. Basically, it removes dead and damaged tissue, and replaces it with new healthy tissue.¹⁷

<sup>For pain and inflammation, this is a powerful weapon. By activating your body’s natural autophagy process, you suppress inflammation. You also slow down the aging process and boost natural energy hormones.

…So what does 16 hours of fasting look like?</sup>

^{If you have dinner at 7pm, then don’t eat again until 11am the following day… that’s a 16 hour fast.
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You could also eat your last meal (or snack) at 9pm, then fast until 1pm the following day (a popular setup with our clients).}