![]() ![]() The fat consumption may provide energy, help you feel fuller, and prevent a subsequent blood glucose (sugar) drop brought on by the caffeine-driven insulin release. MCT oil may have some metabolic health benefits, including supporting weight management 16. A keto diet encourages the production of ketone bodies, which may also encourage autophagy 15. But MCT oil is 100% fat, with no carbohydrates or protein, meaning that it's ketogenic-diet-friendly. With more than 100 calories per tablespoon, medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs, will technically break your fast. It's worth noting that coffee consumption in general may also have some metabolic health benefits (noted below), so those are also worth considering when weighing your decision to caffeinate or not. It depends on how much of a purist you are about fasting and how much you value that morning cup of coffee. This means that ultimately, the decision about whether to drink coffee (and how to take it) while fasting is largely a personal one. These nutrients activate our internal clocks and essentially 'break' our time-restricted eating window." "This goes for carbs, fats, proteins, and alcohol. "Anything that contains a calorie can impact fasting," Seeman echoes. "What breaks any fast," he says, "is when you cause an insulin spike, which would be caused by eating carbohydrates or taking sugar in your coffee, for example." The caveat is that coffee can trigger insulin release 9 even without sugar or carbohydrates, he adds. One thing we do know, notes Pedre, is that many popular coffee additives will further break your fast. But to what extent morning caffeine also fires up our metabolism and pulls us out of our body's fasting-and-repair mode is, so far as I know, still uncertain." What we know with certainty is that even a modest amount of caffeine, particularly in the morning, resets our circadian clocks 8. "Caffeinated drinks, even noncaloric ones," Hendricks explains, "almost certainly disturb a fast, but scientists don't yet know precisely in what ways or to what extent. The caffeine in coffee, however, will technically affect your fast, though it's not entirely clear how much it gets in the way of fasting benefits. A cup of black coffee contains very few calories, only about two, so the caloric impact on the fast is likely minimal. Now for the questions you're here for: Does coffee break a fast? And can you have your java without disrupting the benefits of time-restricted eating? "Among the repairs the body accelerates during time-restricted eating," Hendricks adds, "are patching up damaged or miscopied DNA, producing more antioxidants to fight off the daily assault from free radicals, and increasing autophagy 7, which is the recycling of worn-out cellular parts." ![]() You can think of the fasting period as a time for your body to go into " cellular housekeeping 6 " mode. "Eating in a narrower window each day, particularly if most of the calories are taken in the morning and early afternoon, has been shown to increase the amount of time the body spends making vital repairs that can save us from diseases 5 we don't yet have and might halt or even reverse some diseases we do have," says journalist Steve Hendricks, author of The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting. "įasting also has benefits that go beyond metabolic health to potentially aid longevity 4. "Independent of weight loss, people who use time-restricted eating have improved insulin 2 and glucose levels 3 as well as improvements in blood pressure 2. ![]() "Food or absence of food can help regulate our internal clocks 1, turning our genes off and on and regulating metabolism," adds Jaime Seeman, M.D., board-certified OB-GYN, and the host of the Fit and Fabulous podcast. On a basic level, " helps people rewire their relationship with food, eating, and fullness signals," says Vincent Pedre, M.D., medical director of Pedre Integrative Health. Whichever method of intermittent fasting you engage in, fasting periods have metabolic health benefits. ![]()
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