Reposted from @daily.nutrition.facts - Do you skip breakfast? 🤔 There’s actually many benefits of fasting in the morning! @plantifulfacts explains them below 👇🏼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here’s what happens with your hormones around 7 AM. Your cortisol levels elevate naturally through the night, eventually peaking. Of course, the common misperception is that cortisol is catabolic, and without food, your body will start to eat its own muscle. This is incorrect. When something is catabolic, this only describes the process of material being broken down for energy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When cortisol acts without elevated insulin levels—without being constantly elevated the way it is during chronic stress—it triggers the breakdown of triglycerides into free-fatty acids for metabolization, and triggers lipolysis. In the morning, cortisol actually accelerates fat burning ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your body’s main hunger control hormone is ghrelin. It’s released in a pulsatile manner throughout the night, and it peaks when you wake. This incites hunger, but ghrelin also potently stimulates the release of growth hormone. As this happens, and growth hormone levels increase, your body releases more fat to be burned as fuel and decreases the destruction of protein for use as fuel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When you don’t eat breakfast (or more specifically, don’t spike insulin levels), your growth hormone levels peak approximately two hours after you wake up ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your body starts each day as a fat-burning machine, and the key to simultaneous fat loss and muscle gain is to avoid screwing that up. Even when you’re exercising, your body will burn far higher levels of fat than normal on an empty stomach. This also causes the upregulation of enzymes crucial for burning fat, allowing fat to be metabolized faster. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In other words, by eating breakfast, you’re essentially wreaking havoc on all the positive things that happen when you wake up. You spike insulin, you deactivate autophagy, you lower your levels of ghrelin and growth hormone, and you make your body use most of it's energy for digesting food. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #plantbasednutrition #nutritiontips #vegannutrition #nutritionfacts #nutritioncoach #digestivehealth #nutriti https://www.instagram.com/p/ByBPdzaD5LX/?igshid=wbci7izgj7g7
