The Food Experiment: Overview

We have technically already performed one very important Food Experiment when we did the Sugar Experiment. Now, we will do two more interventions to round out your lifestyle program. The focus for the food experiment is to adopt a healthy diet and as a way to complete the journey from insulin resistance to a healthy metabolism. You will know that you have made that transition by how you feel, your body composition and your internal metabolic parameters. In this last experiment, we also want you to pay special attention to levels of inflammation. Inflammation can occur as a result of insulin resistance, body fat or simply because of your diet. Some foods, such as red meat and concentrated sugars are known to cause inflammation. Inflammation in turn, interferes with the actions of insulin and causes insulin resistance. We have made inflammation (c-reactive protein) a primary outcome in this experiment for this reason.

1. Intervention 1: Intermittent Fasting
   

   In the first intervention, we will be focused on timing of food and we will adopt some form of intermittent fasting. We will learn about the use of urine ketone measurements to ensure that we have converted our bodies over to fat burning mode. Once we have settled into our timing and fasting strategy for 1 week, we will start the second intervention so the experiment will be testing the global impact of a combined food intervention.
   

2. Intervention 2: Food Content The second intervention can start immediately upon starting your intermittent fasting plan. In fact, the foods in our anti-inflammatory diet are all low in carbohydrate, so you may even be able to prolong your ketosis-time by eating them. The Lifestyle Experiment Anti-Inflammatory Diet is described in detail under the intervention section of this last experiment.

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