Tateki Matsuda
Professional Mixed Martial Arts Fighter General Manager of Sports Gain USA Boston Branch
Besides an active professional martial artist, he is based in Boston as a personal trainer, health consultant, and business coordinator. He is currently developing businesses in the health and wellness field (BtoB/BtoC), product sales, and importing and exporting content between Japan and overseas.
After signing a partnership agreement with Biohacker Center (Finland), Biohacker Center Japan was established. As a representative, I am currently working to spread biohacking (general actions to improve QOL) in Japan to obtain health and well-being.
Former UFC Fighter/Master's Degree in Applied Nutrition Northeastern University/Bachelor of Sports Science Salem State University/Functional Movement Systems Certified Trainer/StrongFirst Certified SFG1 Kettlebell Instructor/Biohacker Center Japan Representative (Headquarters Finnish Official Partner)/Red Box Japan Ambassador
It goes without saying that a regular lifestyle, moderate exercise, and an ideal nutritional balance are the keys to maintaining good health. However, for busy business people, it is difficult to keep a regular cycle and to secure time for exercise.
At the very least, I would like to pay attention to my daily meals. Rather than just actively eating what you want to eat, there are many people who want to devise nutritional aspects and lead a healthy diet as much as possible. That's where the knowledge of sports science that I've been researching as an athlete is useful.
Research in the fields surrounding food and nutrition is progressing day by day. Based on the latest information, the first thing I want everyone to be aware of is that "how you eat" is more important than "what you eat".
If you just want to find highly nutritious ingredients, anyone can easily get the knowledge by searching with your smartphone. However, no matter how good the food is, if you eat it in an unhealthy way, it will work negatively.
The best example of this is eating while eating. A new study shows that eating while watching your phone or watching TV, for example, is more likely to lead to excessive calorie intake than if you just focus on eating. In other words, you eat too much without realizing it.
Recently, the term "mindful eating" has become popular, but there are actually many positive effects to be had by concentrating on each and every bite of your meal. Chewing food well increases the number of good bacteria in the intestines, activates the reward system in the brain and increases satisfaction, and many other effects are scientifically recognized.
No matter how busy people are, they only eat meals, so just by holding down this knowledge, you will be able to get a high diet effect. If you are a person who eats three meals a day, you will accumulate 21 times a week and 80 times a month.
If you want to go on a more serious diet, you need to improve your diet based on solid knowledge. For example, many people start to worry about their stomach circumference, so they take measures such as eating salad chicken at a convenience store or stopping carbohydrate intake. These are not meaningless, but they are unlikely to be a fundamental solution, so be careful.
It's important to keep your insulin under control. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that promotes sugar metabolism and plays a role in maintaining a constant blood sugar level.
When a person ingests sugar in a meal, the blood sugar level rises temporarily. Therefore, insulin is secreted to lower blood sugar levels, but the problem is that this hormone has the function of trying to store sugar in fat cells.
Therefore, if the blood sugar level rises rapidly, the amount of insulin secreted will also increase, and as a result, it will become easier to store fat. This is one of the major causes of obesity. Eating too fast or too much can cause your blood sugar to spike, so you should avoid it.
The key to preventing obesity is to keep a good relationship with insulin, but many modern people are in a state where insulin does not function properly due to daily satiety. Even if insulin is secreted into the blood, it is ineffective and does not work to lower blood sugar sufficiently. This is called insulin resistance.
Insulin is like a doorman. When the blood sugar level rises, it opens the door and plays the role of letting the sugar escape. However, in this age of satiety, insulin often neglects its role as a doorman.
The so-called diabetes is when the doorman won't open the door and the blood sugar rises steadily. Although Japanese people are less obese than Europeans and Americans, they are characterized by a large number of diabetic patients. This is also due to insulin resistance.
Then, what should we do to normalize the action of such insulin and control the blood sugar cost ideally?
One of the answers is to consciously set a fasting time. When you don't eat and feel hungry, you don't produce insulin. If this time continues for a long time, protein is broken down into amino acids, and growth hormone is secreted using those amino acids as a source of nutrition, and as a result, anti-aging effects such as improved skin gloss are also produced.
In recent years, a method called "Time Restricted Feeding" has been attracting attention. This is a diet method that restricts time rather than calories. For example, you limit the time you can eat in a day to 8 to 12 hours (10-12 hours for women), and eat all meals within that time. It's a way to put it in and keep it only for non-calorie things such as water for the rest of the time.
You can think of this as the same thing as the "mini fasting" that was popular for a while. These methods not only have a diet effect, but also lead to a fundamental improvement in physical constitution.
However, it is true that such a time limit is a high hurdle. Therefore, it is possible to activate the function of insulin as a doorman by nutrients such as herbs. Specifically, vinegar in general, seaweed, Ceylon cinnamon, bitter melon, etc. are representative.
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