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Honey

What are the implications of having organic honey during eating time ? I am wondering as I read that honey is healthy. Previously, I used to add organic buckwheat honey to my green time but I stopped after starting IF. Moreover, monthly once (5 days) - I take some herbs for liver cleaning that includes honey which clearly breaks my fast. However I need your input on honey (organic - unpasteurized, unprocessed (buckwheat) honey)

Answer

There are some relatively minor health benefits to consuming honey on a regular basis; however, if your goal is weight loss, it should be avoided because it’s still calorie-dense sugar.

You have to decide whether the supposed health benefits around anti-oxidants, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory qualities surpass the benefits of reducing sugar intake.

Answer

if you were on keto, it’d be shooting yourself in the foot. If you’re doing IF (which implies an IF carb diet, usually), then it changes absolutely nothing in your eating window, they’re still CI but it doesn’t affect your metabolism if you’re already loading on carbs anyways.

I personally mix a good teaspoon of honey-mustard to go with my keto chicken sometimes, I never felt it cause hunger pangs/bring me out of ketosis, although that is from my qualitative feeling of my metabolism, not from any measurements. If you’re not doing keto again, it doesn’t stand out relative to any other of your calories in.