Intermittent fasting is a practice of alternating periods of eating and fasting.
This practice can take various forms, including:
daily time-restricted eating, for example, 16/8 (16 hours of fasting and 8 hours for eating), 20/4, 23/1;
less frequent but longer fasting periods, such as 48-72 hours of fasting once a week or month.
Often, both of these methods are combined. For example, a person eats only for 4 hours a day, and additionally does not eat at all for one day once a week, and does not eat for 2 days once a month.
How Intermittent Fasting Works on a Keto Diet
Intermittent fasting enhances the process of ketosis, as the body, depleting glycogen stores during fasting, starts converting fats into ketones more actively for energy.
Advantages of intermittent fasting on a keto diet:
Accelerates the onset of ketosis.
Improves appetite control.
Increases weight loss efficiency.
Improves health indicators, including reducing insulin levels and enhancing fat metabolism.
Another advantage of intermittent fasting occurs only if the eating period happens in the evening. In this case, throughout the day, until you start eating, growth hormone will be active in your body, which was produced during the sleep period.
This is because eating raises insulin levels, which, in turn, suppresses the action of growth hormone.
