@S-Holmes said in BIOHACKING by Nathan Hatch, "F*** Portion Control":
@zawisza I don't know the answer to that question. I'm testing it out now, but am only about 2 months in so far.
I have always been thin. Then, pufas, stress, and illness caught up with me and I started to gradually gain weight. (I'm still thinner than most women over 50, but I would feel better carrying around less.) If stress hormones are the primary cause of weight gain, then it makes sense to do everything possible to reduce them. When you haven't eaten in a while, your body compensates by releasing those hormones. That's why Nathan says eating something (organic and no pufas) every 2 to 3 hours is imperative. He also says if you wait until you're hungry, it's too late. The stress of hunger has already triggered their release.
The experiment continues.
Nathan treats his experience in his context as applicable to all, and in his advice to graze (is eat every 2-3 hours) does not apply at all to me. As well to a lot of people who have stable blood sugar maintained at optimal levels by the body. I eat only 3x a day, as tradition has determined long ago. And when I fast, I don't get stressed either. Normal and stable blood sugar is a key to that. But this state is the result of a body in balance.
Of course, to a certain extent I will be stressed when I fast beyond what my body can bear. At which point, I stop my fast. The body knows. We have to obey the body. When you are hungry, you can eat. But eating every 2 to 3 hours without any reason just because Nathan says so? No. He is just assuming everyone is like him, who gets stressed because likely his blood sugar is not stable and yoyos. If that is the case with you, you can do what he does as a temporary solution but you don't want to be in that state. You have to find out why your blood sugar is not stable and fix it.
I've been through that. And it has made a whole world of a difference. It isn't rocket science, as you will find out. It may be in some ways though, as sifting thru the piles of commercially-driven garbage research littering the landscape to find the truly helpful solutions can be mind-blowing. You hear one expert say this, and another say something totally contradictory, and you experience this day in and day out in a media barrage of YouTube videos from experts and social media posts,as well as books, newspapers, magazines - you can't go into a zen mode of seeking truth anymore.