Category: Intermittent Fasting

Hunting Inspired Vitality and ending “Refeeding Syndrome” through Paleo 5:2 : cognitive upregulation during fasting and keeping the mood up after breaking the fast

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, anthropology, celebrating success, chills, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, Fasting, fitness, Health, health & fitness, hunter gatherers, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, ketogenic diet, life hack, Mood Boost, Paleo, reward system, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music

The !Kung hunter gatherers of the Kalahari say that when they dance they are "hunting /nom", where /nom is "inspired vitality". Eland antelope contain a lot of /nom in their fat, they say, but in the dance you cut out the middle man. You go straight to the eland /nom that resides in your own … Continue reading Hunting Inspired Vitality and ending “Refeeding Syndrome” through Paleo 5:2 : cognitive upregulation during fasting and keeping the mood up after breaking the fast

AUDIO: Poems on Fasting-Enhanced Perceptions of Music and Nature

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, cannabinoids, celebrating success, chills, classical culture, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, dub, Endorphin Rush, Fasting, fitness, frisson, gratitude, Health, health & fitness, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, Mood Boost, poetry, psychology, reward system, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary

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Does the need to Just Stop Oil make it OK to throw tomato soup over a Van Gough? Here’s why it’s actually self-defeating. (And why fasting and rewilding are not fads)

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, anthropology, back to nature, classical culture, ecology, ecosystem, Emotional Healing, Endorphins, environment, Fasting, fitness, gratitude, Health, hunter gatherers, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, mindfulness, Mood Boost, permaculture, psychology, sustainability, visionary

There are some recent enthusiasms which could be viewed as fashions or fads, but which deserve to be much more than that. Hyyge, Rewilding, Fasting – these are some that spring straight to mind. Sometimes fasting approaches such as regular reduced calorie days (e.g. 5:2) get labelled as fad diets. I don’t agree with this … Continue reading Does the need to Just Stop Oil make it OK to throw tomato soup over a Van Gough? Here’s why it’s actually self-defeating. (And why fasting and rewilding are not fads)

Seemly Celebration: Joytarian Corridors to the Future Peace

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, celebrating success, Coffee, creating success, Dance, Fasting, fitness, gratitude, Health, health & fitness, healthy aging, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, metaphysics, Mood Boost, rejuvenation, reward system, Runner’s High, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary

When is it unseemly to celebrate? I‘ve got this formula for elevated celebratory states which I know works well: fasting (restricting to around 500 cals of healthy plant-based foods) for a day and night, waking after a good sleep, having a double espresso (plus high B-vits and Vit C) and then dancing to Uplifting Trance … Continue reading Seemly Celebration: Joytarian Corridors to the Future Peace

Various Genres of Electronic Dance Music and their Connections to Our Happy Chemicals

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, aging, cannabinoids, celebrating success, chills, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, dopamine, dub, Emotional Healing, Endorphin Rush, Endorphins, Fasting, fitness, frisson, Health, health & fitness, healthy aging, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, mindfulness, Mood Boost, musicology, psychology, rejuvenation, Runner’s High, serotonin, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary

Latest YouTube offering - me chatting away about various genres of EDM and their connection to our Happy Chemicals... https://youtu.be/rDweLG_AUdk

YAM PHASE: oxytocin and hyyge

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, Fasting, hunter gatherers, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, Mood Boost, rejuvenation

On this blog I written much about the benefits of restoring the old fast/feast cycle of our hunter gather ancestors, with most of the focus being on how when we’re fasting we can enter into that mode where we go more easily into high-motivation, high-performance flow states where we are robust in the face of … Continue reading YAM PHASE: oxytocin and hyyge

Persephone’s Pomegranate: the Best of Both Worlds (Feel-good fasting with polyphenols)

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, aging, cannabinoids, classical culture, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, Endorphins, Fasting, fitness, Health, health & fitness, healthy aging, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, ketogenic, life hack, Mood Boost, Music, rejuvenation, reward system, Runner’s High, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary

Fascinatingly, a 2012 study - Potentiation of dietary restriction-induced lifespan extension by polyphenols – found that (as its title suggests) polyphenols can help with fasting. I came across this while researching to try to find out why I have been feeling so good recently while eating plenty of blueberries and pomegranate seeds on my reduced … Continue reading Persephone’s Pomegranate: the Best of Both Worlds (Feel-good fasting with polyphenols)

Why phenol fasting could take you to the next level

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, aging, chills, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, dopamine, Endorphin Rush, Endorphins, Fasting, fasting mimicking diet, fitness, frisson, Health, health & fitness, inspirational, Intermittent Fasting, keto, ketogenic, ketogenic diet, life hack, mindfulness, Mood Boost, Music, rejuvenation, reward system, Runner’s High, serotonin, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary, yoga

Fish have to keep swimming to move water through their gills so they can get oxygen. Life’s a little like that. You might find a good formula that works well, but if you’re not interested in finding ways to make it even better, then something is lost. We have to keep moving forward, even if … Continue reading Why phenol fasting could take you to the next level

A Weekly Cycle to Mend the Biggest Mismatch between the Hunter Gather Within and the Modern Self Without

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, autophagy, celebrating success, Clubbercising, Coffee, Dance, dancing, dopamine, Emotional Healing, Emotional Trance, Endorphins, Exercise Recovery, Fasting, fitness, gratitude, Health, health & fitness, hunter gatherers, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, Paleo, rejuvenation, reward system, Runner’s High, Shamanism, Trance Music, Uplifting Trance Music, visionary

The music says “Jump!” And your fasting-upregulated stress response says “How high?” And if it’s Uplifting Trance the music comes back with ‘Very high indeed.’ And your up-regulated stress response and reward system say “No problem!” If you were to ask me what the most significant gaps are between the Hunter Gatherer Within and the … Continue reading A Weekly Cycle to Mend the Biggest Mismatch between the Hunter Gather Within and the Modern Self Without

Mending the mismatch between hardwiring and lifestyle: Acknowledging the Hunter Gatherer Within

by dawnraver, posted in 5 : 2 diet, anthropology, back to nature, celebrating success, Dance, dancing, ecology, ecosystem, environment, Fasting, fasting mimicking diet, fitness, Health, health & fitness, hunter gatherers, Intermittent Fasting, life hack, Mood Boost, Paleo, permaculture, psychology, rejuvenation, S.A.D., Shamanism, Trance Music, visionary

Our ancestors started evolving towards becoming bipedal a long time ago – a date of around five million years ago is often given - and by around two million years ago (based on what I just Googled) they were fully bipedal. We had long since come down from the trees and were evolving for a … Continue reading Mending the mismatch between hardwiring and lifestyle: Acknowledging the Hunter Gatherer Within