Aoki is an expert in endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes. He used to work in a big hospital, and later opened his own clinic to treat many people with lifestyle diseases. Many patients asked Aoki in doubt, "Why are you sleepy and tired immediately after eating?" "Why do you feel bad recently and get angry easily?"
Aoki said that people with this situation, excluding other diseases, are likely to eat too much. Even if it is only three meals a day, it is possible to overeat. Three meals a day has been accepted by most people as common sense, but there is no reliable basis in fact.
Aoki Hou believes that the diet of three meals a day has brought various negative effects on human body and health, the most significant of which is that "the internal organs can't rest."
Eating does not mean that food will pass through the throat, and then various organs in the human body will try their best to digest these foods. Before being digested, food usually stays in the stomach for 2-3 hours, and if it is fatty food, it takes 4-5 hours. Then, food enters the small intestine from the stomach, and it takes 5 8 hours for the small intestine to decompose, digest and absorb 80% water and nutrition. Finally, it takes 15 20 hours for the large intestine to absorb the remaining water in the digest.
In addition, there is the liver, which also participates in digestion and converts the nutrition brought by food into the necessary ability of the human body. At the same time, the liver is also responsible for storing more energy, decomposing toxins such as alcohol and ammonia in food, and making bile needed for digesting fat.
Knowing the time it takes for the human body to digest food, let's learn about our daily meal time. If it is three meals a day, the interval between breakfast and lunch is 4 5 hours, and the interval between lunch and dinner is 6 7 hours. It is not difficult to see that when we eat the next meal, the food from the last meal remains in the stomach and small intestine. The stomach is very flexible, and it can hold many foods that exceed human needs. Even if the food of the last meal has not been digested, it can still be eaten. In this case, the gastrointestinal tract and liver have to work all the time to digest the food that keeps entering the body.
Aoki believes that three meals a day will make human organs "have no time to rest" and easily "overeat". If the organ is not fully rested, its function will be weakened, resulting in problems such as inability to absorb nutrients, inability to excrete metabolites, and low immunity. Specifically, overeating will lead to the following problems:
-Increasing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and liver;
-Increased reactive oxygen species in the body;
-Overnutrition in the blood, and the state of blood and blood vessels becomes worse;
-excess fat will lead to an increase in the secretion of bad hormones;
-people will become easily tired;
-may cause diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cancer and other diseases;
-Too much sugar intake will lead to obesity and fatty liver, and the blood sugar level will rise rapidly, resulting in symptoms such as lethargy, weakness and irritability.
So, how should we avoid the above problems? Maybe many people think that we should reduce calories and sugar in our diet. But Aoki believes that "fasting time" should be created for the human body. If you can fast for more than 16 hours, the effect is the best.
Aoki said, "There is absolutely no need to formulate careful life precepts and calculate the calories contained in food in a complicated way. As long as you leave enough time on an empty stomach, you can eat anything other than an empty stomach. If you are too hungry on an empty stomach, nuts can be eaten casually. "
Aoki Hiroyuki advocates "fasting 16 hours", in which 16 hours need to be continuous. If you don't eat before and after going to bed at night, it is not difficult to ensure that you don't eat for 16 hours, including sleep time.
He explained that after enough fasting time, organs such as the stomach and intestines can work better, and a period of fasting will reduce reactive oxygen species. When the fasting time exceeds 10 hour, the body fat begins to decompose, and the longer the fasting time, the more fat is decomposed. If you are on an empty stomach12 for 24 hours, the sugar in your blood can be reduced by 20%. The biggest advantage of fasting is that it can promote autophagy, that is, the renewal of old proteins in human cells. When the fasting time exceeds 16 hours, autophagy begins to appear in the human body.