How often do you drink kava?

[kavalover]

Same here. But it is interesting if you monitor your levels after a week of drinking kava, and then after a week of not drinking kava, there doesn't seem to be any damage done. I'm not sure how far one would have to push it to cause any major damage, but let's not find out lol. I think everyone should get a full panel check a few times a year just for their own amusement and peace of mind.



I don't worry about it too much, I've been drinking kava for a while now and I have a very healthy liver.

Thanks for the link by the way.

(smiley: smokin)

 

[Nihilist]

I was reading this today and remembered people talking about feast/famine factor that may protect the native people's liver more.

It seems this may have some merit to it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517131703.htm

"In a paper published May 17 in Cell Metabolism, scientists from
Salk's Regulatory Biology Laboratory
reported that mice limited to
eating during an 8-hour period are healthier than mice that eat freely
throughout
the day, regardless of the quality and content of their diet.
The study sought to determine whether obesity
and metabolic diseases
result from a high-fat diet or from disruption of metabolic cycles."

"The Salk study found the body stores fat while eating and starts to burn
fat and breakdown cholesterol into
beneficial bile acids only after a
few hours of fasting. When eating frequently, the body continues to make
 and store fat, ballooning fat cells and liver cells, which can result
in liver damage. Under such conditions
the liver also continues to make
glucose, which raises blood sugar levels. Time-restricted feeding, on
the other
hand, reduces production of free fat, glucose and cholesterol
and makes better use of them. It cuts down
fat storage and turns on fat
burning mechanisms when the animals undergo daily fasting, thereby
keeping
 the liver cells healthy and reducing overall body fat."

"The daily feeding-fasting cycle activates liver enzymes that breakdown
cholesterol into bile acids, spurring the
metabolism of brown fat -- a
type of "good fat" in our body that converts extra calories to heat.
Thus the body literally
 burns fat during fasting. The liver also shuts
down glucose production for several hours, which helps lower blood
 glucose. The extra glucose that would have ended up in the blood -- high
blood sugar is a hallmark of diabetes -- is
instead used to build
molecules that repair damaged cells and make new DNA. This helps prevent
chronic inflammation,
 which has been implicated in the development of a
number of diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and
Alzheimer's."

 

[Ed!]

That's really interesting. I routinely skip meals during the day, and eat large at night. People are always telling me "Oh that's SO unhealthy for you, your body is going to cling to everything you eat".... now I can say "Yeaaaah, not so much, if anyone's body is clinging to their food it's not mine."

 

[kl.KarmaG]

Definitely interesting. I'm not sure if I could go 8 hrs without eating at least a small snack (except when sleeping, of course, but when I wake I'm so hungry I feel nauseous). I have the opposite problem in that I have very low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). The only way for me to keep from passing out during the day is to eat small meals regularly. I've got it fairly well-regulated now so I wonder if I could stretch out the amount of time I go without food. Since I've started drinking kava regularly, I have tried to limit my snacking because I try to drink it on an empty stomach.

 

[Nihilist]

I don't think it's saying you need to skip meals. Just try to fit them all between 8 hours like 7am-2pm or 12pm-7pm.

You'd actually be going around 16 hours a day without eating.

It's probably not a good idea with hypoglycemia.



I usually end up not eating to 3pm or later anyway because I don't have the time for breakfast and lunch.

I do chew a lot of gum though.



I drink my kava around 3pm then eat after. Lately I've been drinking a coffee cup full everyday.

 

[kl.Gray Owl]

I told my wife that if I drank kava more consistently I'd probably lose weight.

 

[kl.KarmaG]

I don't think it's saying you need to skip meals. Just try to fit them all between 8 hours like 7am-2pm or 12pm-7pm.

Gotcha! Thanks for clearing that up for me. I do have to get out the habit of eating right before bed which is probably not a good idea for anyone.

 

[Prince Philip]

At first I was seeing more SPAM, but then I realized it was from Nihilist, a well-respected contributor to the Kava Lounge, and I decided that my goal of emulating the diet of my distant Neanderthal ancestors would be better served by adding the Fast-5 method. I've mapped out what it would take to push back my break-fast by a half-hour every-other day, and if I start tomorrow morning and give myself a three-day "you made it half way" break when I push it all the way back to Lunch time and thus have completely eliminated a meal, I will be at a five-hour window on the American independence day.



I should have started earlier so I could have it done by Vanuatu's independence day, but either way you look at it, the Empire sure ain't what it used to be.

 

[Nihilist]

Thanks Prince Philip I'm still new and easily get off topic haha. I enjoy reading science news articles. I usually end up reading a bunch of stuff I end up forgetting but the experience was fun.

It seems like so many advances are being made but take decades to be implemented.

I'm not recommending that as eating advice. After all it's only been tested on mice.

 

[Prince Philip]

I'm not recommending that as eating advice. After all it's only been tested on mice.

You forgot you're talking to Prince Philip, the very Duke of Edinborogu.

I used my influence to have a study on how extended fasting effects obesity done at Temple University.

His Royal Krunkness rests...