McCall McPherson argues that intermittent fasting doesn't harm people with hypothyroidism or adrenal dysfunction. While skipping breakfast causes brief stress, chronic inflammation and poor blood-sugar control are bigger problems. Fasting reduces inflammation and reverses insulin resistance.
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Okay, let's talk about intermittent fasting when you have a thyroid or an adrenal problem. Because what happens is in functional medicine, people, clinicians, will hear something, and they'll just continue to propagate it as facts. And I don't believe in that stuff. So can intermittent fasting stress your body? If you have hypothyroidism, really more an adrenal problem? It can, sure. Skipping breakfast can maybe stress your body a little bit. Maybe. Let's, like, talk about it for what it is. It's literally eating in a more narrow window. So it's eating breakfast late, eating dinner early, Not a whole lot more than that. But theoretically, could it stress your body? Sure. You know what else stresses your body all day, every day instead of just maybe a couple hours in the morning if you eat breakfast late? Inflammation. Inflammation chronically activates your adrenal glands all day, every day, all night, every night, often too. And you know what? Intermittent fasting helps more than anything. Inflammation also helps to prevent and reverse insulin resistance. Poor blood sugar metabolism, also that stresses your body. So let's talk about it for what it is, and let's compare risk versus benefit. If I had to risk delaying breakfast and theoretically maybe stressing my body a very slight amount in the morning compared to chronically letting my body deal with inflammation and being stressed all day, every day, which one am I gonna pick? I think you could probably guess.
