4 Reasons to Skip Breakfast

Slowing Down Your Metabolism

Insulin directly affects metabolism by slowing it down, which also slows down fat burning. You’ve probably noticed that when you eat a lot, you don’t feel like moving, especially if you’ve overeaten. Skipping breakfast is a good option for obese individuals as well as for people with diabetes, provided they adjust their diet. This way, insulin sensitivity improves.

Breaking the Fast

You are probably confused when you see the title. The point is that at night, while you sleep, you are actually fasting. How? Well, you aren’t eating anything. In the morning, when you wake up and take your first bite, you break the fast your body was in while you slept the whole night. With a meal, as we mentioned earlier, you activate insulin, which stops the secretion of growth hormone. Growth hormone provides many benefits, and you can read an article about that below.

Autophagy and Neurogenesis

You may have heard something about this, or maybe you haven’t. Autophagy is the recycling process of our cells and our entire body. All damaged and nonfunctional proteins, as well as other useless and unnecessary compounds, are expelled or recycled, especially from brain cells. It is a type of repair for your body that stops when you start eating, because digestion begins at that point. This repair is especially important for your stomach, intestines, gallbladder, pancreas, and gut flora, because all these organs are under constant work if you don’t fast regularly. Also, when you eat, you interrupt the anti-inflammatory effect.

Neurogenesis is another extremely useful and important biological process that occurs during fasting. This process involves the creation of new brain cells, and until relatively recently it was believed that this process was active only during embryonic development and immediately after birth.

Bad Food

The biggest problem is bad (unhealthy) food, especially food full of sugar. A lot of sugar, especially from white bread, combined with too little fiber-rich food leads to a sudden insulin spike, which will make you hungry again very quickly or give you a strong craving for something sweet (as soon as insulin levels drop, usually after about 90 minutes). All those sudden spikes and drops during the day will lead to you being hungry at night. If you are hungry at night, it means you ate too many carbohydrates that morning or the previous day.