Flavio Briatore lost weight on TV: “I do intermittent fasting, lost 20 kilograms in a year”

This Flavio Briatore much slimmer than usual the one that appeared on Rete 4 last September 5 on Rete 4, the guest of Bianca Berlinguer’s new TV program “It’s always Cartabianca“. The change is so drastic that it prompted a journalist to anxiously ask him, “Are you all right?” However, the entrepreneur immediately dispelled all doubts, saying that he “simply” applied the practice of intermittent fasting: “16 hours a day without food,” he explained. “I have been following this line for a year now, I lost 18 kilograms in a year. I’m fine? I’m here…”.

Social media post

After the broadcast, Briatore received numerous messages on social media from concerned followers, prompting the entrepreneur to share video on Instagram in which he reassures everyone and claims that he has lost 20 kilograms in a year: “Everything is in order with me, I am healthy and in good shape! Thanks to all my followers, then I will tell you about my diet.”

What is intermittent fasting

This diet consists of fasting for several hours, from 12 to 16, in which we limit ourselves to drinking water. “During fasting hours hydration recommended or plain water, or unsweetened or sweetened teas or herbal teas,” explains Dr. Laura Agape, nutritionist at the Humanitas Medical Care Murat clinic in Milan, on the Humanitas website.

Diet with many variations

However, among the options for intermittent fasting is not only the type chosen by Flavio Briatore with 16 hours on an empty stomach out of 24: “There are several ways to intermittent fasting. they are all based on the choice of food or fasting for certain periods of time. Most of them focus on limiting meals and snacks to a certain time interval, fasting for 16 hours and eating for the remaining 8 hours (16/8 pattern) or (12/12 pattern) fasting for 12 hours and eating for another 12 hours ( this scheme is less risky and everyone should follow it),” Agape emphasizes. There are other types of fasting – there is such on any other daywhere you eat regularly one day and don’t exceed 600 calories the next, up to a 5:2 scheme that has five days a week where you can eat everything and two days of near fasting or a very low calorie diet , with a maximum intake of 500-600 kilocalories.

Finally, there is the so-calledfasting mimicking diet”, which includes five days with an ideal balance between macronutrients (sugars, fats, proteins and fiber) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) at about 750 kcal per day. The latter “isn’t really fasting, but it tricks our body into thinking it can be repeated once a month,” says nutritionist Laura Agape.

Research

There are several scientific studies that have shed light on various aspects of intermittent fasting over time. “In 2016, a Japanese scientist Yoshinori Osumi received the Nobel Prize for the discoveryautophagy, a mechanism that leads to the elimination and recycling of many cellular components, when, in the absence of other nutrition, cells provide themselves with fuel in the form of energy and raw materials for building new structures, as from cellular waste that would otherwise accumulate dangerously, ”explains the Humanitas specialist . Unfortunately, over the years, the natural process of autophagy slows down, so excess waste creates “aging damage.” “Another study was then conducted by a German scientist Guido Kremerwho found that reduced calorie intake induces cellular autophagy, which is therefore a fundamental longevity mechanism precisely because it helps to reduce the damage caused by aging,” concludes Agape.

Celebrities who practice intermittent fasting

Briatore joins the (already very long) list of stars around the world who practice daily fasting, called in English intermittent fasting(often abbreviated as IF). Jennifer Aniston he revealed that he follows this regimen in an interview with a British magazine. Radio Timesreleased to promote their television series morning show. The American actress chooses the 16:8 option: an eight-hour meal followed by a 16-hour fast.

Brazilian model Gisele Bunchenin his book “Lessons» she reported that she sticks to the 5:2 version, eating normally five days a week, and then sticking to the 500-600 calorie maximum rule on the remaining two days. spanish diva Elsa Pataky she is another supporter of intermittent fasting, to which her husband introduced her. Chris Hemsworth. They are on the list too. Kourtney Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon and Vanessa Hudgens. Mashed potatoes Scarlett Johansson joined the trend: ahead of its role in Avengers: EndgameThe diva was fasting for about 12 hours a day, her personal trainer Eric Johnson told the American publication. Harpers Bazaar in April 2019.