PLUS: A 12 Minute Intermittent Fasting Exercise Protocol Specifically Designed To “Optimize” Declining Hormones & Quickly Lose Belly Fat : http://gl12.net/yt5biggestmistakes if you're interested in looking and feeling younger while quickly losing belly fat, and you're over 35 years old in your 40s, 50s, or 60s, pay close attention. Because inside this video, I'm going to talk about one of the world's biggest diet trends right now. So if you don't understand what intermittent fasting is, let me quickly discuss that first, and then we'll talk about these 11 studies. And I'm not going to go into detail on all these studies, just 11 benefits that you'll get. So if you're a female, intermittent fasting should be about 12 to 14 hours a day, about five days of the week. So it's as simple as stop eating at 8:00 PM, and then the very next day, you'd break your fast between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM. Now, men can push this window out 16 hours, even 18 hours some people can handle. But because of the hormonal differences, I recommend women don't go over 14 hours. So if you're a man, and you stop eating at 8:00 PM, you go ahead and push your breakfast all the way to noon. Remember, this isn't really breakfast. It's break the fast. So four or five days of the week, this is what I do. And one study shows that when your body starts burning fat during this fasted window, it actually uses more belly fat. The second study shows that it can naturally increase growth hormone levels. The third study shows it will boost your metabolic rate. In fact, people who fasted for 48 hours increased their metabolic rate 11%. So more human studies are needed there, but I firmly believe that when they do the human studies, it's going to show that intermittent fasting does increase lifespan. Because, think about it. It goes all the way back to the Bible. Now there are five big mistakes that people make when intermittent fasting. If you're going to lose belly fat, and you have fat to lose, skip the amino acids. Because leucine-- the primary amino acid that has all the research behind it-- has actually been shown to spike insulin. And when insulin is elevated, it takes the body out of a fat-burning environment, and you're more likely to store fat with chronically elevated insulin levels. So skip the amino acids. The next thing that people do, that make a mistake when intermittent fasting, is they think they can throw some creamer in their coffee. I recommend black coffee with stevia. Also artificial sweeteners-- I would stay away from them. Like Splenda has been shown to potentially impact insulin and kill the healthy bacteria in your gut. So stay away from artificial sweeteners and creamers when you fast. The other one is not drinking enough water. See, one of the biggest side effects when you first start fasting, obviously, is hunger, because you're not eating. Now keep in mind this will go away after a week or two. And you just need to push through it. When you hear your stomach growl, and you're hungry, that's a sign that the body is releasing ghrelin. The fourth thing that people do is they don't stay busy enough. If you're sitting around thinking about food, and you're not doing anything, it's going to be awful hard to be in a fasted state. What I find is that skipping breakfast saves me time. I don't like the thought of having to eat five or six small meals every single day. Well, when you're fasting, guess what? You're not eating, right? So insulin levels are really low. Well, studies show that when you use Metabolic Zone Training, it helps stabilize insulin as well. So they're mimicking each other in those two aspects. Two is glucagon. Glucagon is often referred to as a blood sugar hormone. And what happens is glucagon is responsible for releasing triglycerol from your fat cells into the bloodstream. That's where that triglycerol is converted into free fatty acids and delivered to working muscles to be burned up. So you don't burn fat cells, you shrink them. And this is how you shrink them is by elevating glucagon levels naturally through Metabolic Zone Training and intermittent fasting. So thanks again for taking time out of your busy day to check this out. And keep going strong.