Metabolic Response to Daytime Dry Fasting in Baha'i Volunteers-Results of a Preliminary Study.

ABSTRACT: Each year in March, adherents of the Bahá'í faith abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset for 19 days. Thus, Bahá'í fasting (BF) can be considered as a form of daytime dry fasting. We investigated whether BF decreased energy expenditure after a meal and whether it improved anthropometric measures and systemic and tissue-level metabolic parameters. This was a self-controlled cohort study with 11 healthy men. We measured anthropometric parameters, metabolic markers in venous blood and pre- and postprandial energy metabolism at systemic (indirect calorimetry) and tissue (adipose tissue and skeletal muscle microdialysis) level, both before and during BF. During BF, we found reduced body weight, body mass index, body fat and blood glucose. Postprandial increase in energy expendi

SUBMITTER: Mahler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8746620 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature