I don’t know if the name Ellie Pear means anything to you, but it is the name of a journalist and Instagram influencer who was brought to my attention the other day.
Like so many social media influencers, she does a lot of food and lifestyle related posts.
I don’t know much about her other than what I want to share with you today, which is…
She is the author of a bestselling book about fasting.
Fasting is all the rage at the moment, and with good reason.
All of the scientific studies show that fasting is good for most people.
I would say that it is good for all humans as it basically mimics the conditions early hunter-gatherer humans had to endure – long periods without food – but I do know that it isn’t good for people with eating disorders, pregnant women, and a few other conditions.
Fasting for long periods of time allows the body to go into periods of ketosis – a state where the body begins to use fat as fuel, and autophagy – a state where the body clears out old and decaying cells and replaces them with healthier new cells.
Basically, fasting helps people to ‘repair’.
Modern humans have become so used to having constant access to food, they eat far more than they need and with a lot of people regularly eating throughout the day, they are not giving their body time to rest and repair itself.
Their bodies are constantly working on the food they are consuming and so sugar and carbohydrates are not being fully burnt off and is being converted into fat and put into storage ready for those periods where food is not available.
The more they eat, the more fat is produced because they are not allowing the body to burn up that excess stored fuel.
Society and human intelligence may have evolved a lot over the last couple of thousand years, but our bodies haven’t. They still work the same way as they did for our hunter-gathering ancestors.
The human body took tens of thousands of years to develop into the machine that it is, it would take tens of thousands more for it to adapt to the way people live today.
Contrary to popular belief, the human body does not work in the same thermodynamics as a motor.
When you put fuel in your car it burns the fuel and moves. Once the fuel is gone the car comes to a stop and will not move until more fuel is put into the system.
The human body does not work in the same way. It processes fuel differently.
It uses up some of the fuel (food) that is added, and the rest is converted into fat and put into storage. This stored fat is designed to allow animals and hunter-gatherers to be able to carry on during periods without food.
Humans do not suddenly ‘conk-out’ when they don’t eat, their bodies start to use the fuel stored in their bodies.
It would be a terrible design if we humans came to a crashing halt when the food was all burnt up. Humans and animals need an ‘extra’ tank of stored fuel as a failsafe to allow them to go out and find more food when they need it.
This is why the calorie in and calorie out method of dieting doesn’t work. Calorie counting is a flawed science.
Not only that, a calorie is a measurement of energy and so if you burn a piece of wood, you will realise that it too has calories.
Would you eat wood?
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No, of course not.
Why?
Because wood will give the body nothing that it needs, whereas eating a piece of broccoli will.
It’s not the amount of calories that is the issue; it is the property of the material that matters. In the same way that 1 metre of rubber is different to 1 metre of steel
200 calories of broccoli would be better for your body than 200 calories of sugar.
What you eat is far more important than how much you eat.
Yes, eating 4,000 calories of broccoli each day is far too much and will do you no good in a similar way to drinking too much water.
We need water, but drink too much and you wash away important salts and nutrients and that can lead to a whole host of problems including death.
Anyway… I am digressing a little here.
Going back to Ellie Pear, what I wanted to talk about in this article is that she wrote a book about her experience on the 5:2 diet made popular by television presenter and science journalist, Michael Mosley.
This is a diet where you feast for 5 days, and then you fast for 2 days.
It’s not strictly fasting as you are reducing your daily food amount to just 800 calories, but by eating a smaller amount of food in a shorter time frame, it allows the body to start using some of the stored fat as fuel.
It also allows the body time to rest and repair itself.
What I want you to think about is that Ellie Pear’s book, and Michael Mosley’s book, are about the exact same thing.
I don’t know how much science and research she incorporates in her book, but she approaches the same topic using her own personal experience.
She gave the book a different name and gave it a different angle. But for all intents and purposes… they both cover the same topic; the 5:2 diet.
And this is something that anyone can do.
Sharing your own personal story along with information that is readily available, like much of what has been shared in this article, is a great way of creating your own product.
No one can take away your own story, and if the additional information is in the public domain and factual, that too cannot be taken away from you.
All you need to do is write it in your own words and present it in your own way.
Several television shows, Call The Midwife being one of them, were commissioned from books that written by people who shared their real life experiences.
So the question is… what is your story?
What can you share with the world?
Your true life stories and experiences could become a profitable income stream for you.
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
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