The Origo Blog
Science-backed articles on fasting, insulin resistance, nutrition, and understanding your metabolism.
# Fasting Should Make the Workday Simpler For a busy professional, fasting only works if it makes the day easier to run. That sounds obvious, but it is where most people get it wrong. They turn intermittent fasting into
# A Better Overnight Fast Starts Before Bed Most people think fasting begins in the morning, usually when they skip breakfast and start negotiating with themselves over coffee. In practice, the most important part of the
# Fasting Does Not Flip a Fat Burning Switch Most people ask the fasting question the wrong way. They want to know the exact hour when fat burning starts, as if the body is sitting there with a little red button waiting
# Mental Clarity During Fasting Comes From Steadier Fuel, Not Willpower Fasting gets described like some kind of monk-level productivity hack. Skip breakfast, transcend hunger, unlock your inner spreadsheet wizard. Cute
# Fasting for Women Should Follow Stress Load, Not Willpower A woman hits a plateau. The usual advice appears almost immediately, like a badly trained dog. Fast longer. Eat less. Add more cardio. Cut carbs harder. Be mor
# Fasting Feels Bad When Water Moves Faster Than Sodium A lot of people start fasting, feel terrible by hour 14, and assume they have discovered a deep biological truth about themselves. “I guess fasting just doesn’t wor
# Fasting Changes the Signal, Not Just the Portion Most people think fasting and calorie restriction are the same thing wearing different outfits. Eat less food, lose more weight. Simple. Except the body is not a spreads
# Autophagy Is Cellular Maintenance, Not a Fasting Trophy Autophagy has been kidnapped by the longevity crowd. Which is unfortunate, because the actual mechanism is useful enough without dressing it up like a monk-level
# A Fasting Plateau Means the Signal Became Predictable The scale drops fast in the first week of fasting, and everyone gets excited. Then week three arrives, the scale stops moving, and suddenly fasting has “stopped wor
# Breaking a Fast Is a Glucose Control Problem, Not a Willpower Test The easiest way to ruin a fast is not by eating the “wrong” food. It is by treating the first meal like a victory lap. You fasted for 18 hours, 24 hour
# Cortisol and Belly Fat: Why Chronic Stress Targets Your Midsection Most people look at belly fat and immediately blame the usual suspects. Bread. Sugar. Calories. Laziness. The tragic crime of not doing enough burpees.
# Insulin Resistance Isn’t a Life Sentence, It’s a State “I’m insulin resistant” sounds very final. Like saying, “I’m 182cm tall,” or “I have brown eyes,” or “I become irrationally angry when a restaurant puts one sad ch
# Overnight Weight Swings Are Water, Not Fat I used to have mornings where my mood was ruined before the day even started. Not because of work. Not because of some dramatic life event. Because of a number on a scale. I w
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