If you’re in the habit of eating breakfast before exercising in the morning, you may want to reconsider the order in which you start your day as there are significant benefits to exercising in a fasted state.

A common belief is that you need to eat breakfast to optimize exercise performance. While there’s evidence to support this stance,¹ other evidence suggests you can reap important health benefits by exercising in a fasted state, as previously noted. Here Virgilio Marin, NaturalNews.com, reflects on study of working out before eating breakfast:

“While it’s well-known that exercise is important to maintain good health, specifics like the best time to work out remain nebulous and confusing. Now, a team led by British researchers suggests that one optimal time to work out is before eating breakfast.

In their study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the researchers report that pre-

breakfast exercise helps burn more fat and improve blood sugar levels than working out after a meal.

“The biggest takeaways from this study are that the timing of meals in relation to exercise can have a profound impact on the responses to exercise,” said co-author Javier Gonzalez, a senior lecturer in human physiology at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.

Pre-breakfast exercise confers more health benefits

The researchers recruited dozens of obese or overweight men from the region around the city of Bath in England, asking them either to take up cycling or maintain their sedentary lifestyles. Those asked to exercise were required to eat their meals before 8 p.m. and either had to cycle first before breakfast or take a morning meal first.

After six weeks, the researchers found that the participants who worked out before breakfast burned twice the amount of fat and had lower insulin levels during exercise than those who ate a morning meal first.

Though an exercise-first routine didn’t lead to any weight loss differences, the researchers said that the participants responded better to insulin. This effect could keep their blood sugar levels in check and reduce their risk of conditions like cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. In addition, the researchers said that lower insulin levels are further beneficial for burning fats, as people who exercise first before breakfast end up using more of the fat from their fat tissues as fuel.”

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