Hello, my name is Eber. Welcome to my blog! At the time I’m writing this I have graduated high school and on my way to experiment with what life has to offer. What exactly do I mean by this? Well, I’ve always been passionate about self improvement and ways to upgrade one’s self being by taking part in various activities that would be considered to be outside of common comfort zones. For example, intermittent fasting.
Most people would not consider taking long periods of time without food. It is just completely counter intuitive, in their minds at least. However, reality tells us, and by that I mean papers and hundreds of hours of research that has been invested on the topic, that there is much more to nutrition. In fact, our body’s functions are controlled by hormones, chemical messengers that are programmed by our very own DNA. If we manage to find a way and keep our hormones in check, we are therefore in control of our own bodies.
We could harvest this ability to achieve great things, like losing weight. We have been told through most of our lives that we have to eat three times a day and that depriving the body of food will be useless in the weight losing aspect. The main piece of evidence behind this statement is that the body’s metabolism decreases and the body loses the ability to burn fat as effectively. This is true, but there is a way to keep the amazing benefits of intermittent fasting and not go through malnutrition. This is done when the calories eaten throughout the day remain the same, so that you are not eating less. You just eat at restricted times. I’ve seen many clips on YouTube, read the papers, and even tried it myself.
Anyway, I am writing this for many reasons. I want to share my research and experiences, which are full of trial and error. I hope that not only can I help others with my blog but I can also improve on many things myself. I consider myself proficient at English, though it is not my mother language. I find myself learning things everyday and I hope to improve grammar and vocabulary. In this way, the blog serves as a journal. It is a personal project of mine, to practice the art of journaling and be able to look back at my findings and work on my weaknesses. With this blog I am taking a skeptic approach, judging and questioning everything, debunking whether the media is telling the truth. I am going to be very heavy on the research, making sure every argument is backed up and whether these methods are actually doable. I want to find out new ways of improving ourselves and be able to share it with others without any assumptions or weak research that is present in many articles and YouTube videos. For now, my focus is nutrition, but I am very open to any topic and I am willing to research just about anything. Since middle school, I have been attached to biology. It is a topic that I always understood and felt interested in. I am not studying a biology major or pursue to be a nutritionist. I am simply a young man on the internet with a passion and the means to open a conversation and provide resourceful information and willingness to improve by implementing lifestyle changes and suggesting others to do so. I want to inspire others to also improve themselves and take action in their own experiments. With this said, I really hope you enjoy the blog and be a part of this journey with me.
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