Ben Greenfield discusses how stress undermines fat burning and metabolic health. He explains respiratory quotient and why the anxiety around restrictive diets often causes more damage than the eating patterns themselves.
The stress response that you get if you get super fixed, sated on don't touch receipts and don't drink out of a plastic water bottle if it becomes where it's more stressful than it's worth. And I think you're what you're saying, your approach is so logical because like, okay, maybe you like having a charred piece of meat and you don't want to feel stressed out about it. So maybe having the rosemary and having these other things, knowledge is power. They take that 8020 rule and also remembering that stress is also something that's very damaging to the body.
The technical term for this from a physiological standpoint would be your respiratory quotient, your rq. The lower your RQ the greater amount of fat and the less sugars that you're burning at rest. So by lowering your RQ you're going to increase fat burning by restricting carbohydrates for example, until the evening. You'd have a lower RQ during the day.
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