Hello everyone! My name is Basia, and I'm a ... I'm a ... I'm a healthoholic.

There, I said it. :)

It is a kind of addiction. I admit. I cannot help but research and test out new health info.

I plan to use this platform to share all the absolutely awesome health information I consistently tend to find. You see, the problem is that after I find it, it stays inside of me, gnawing at me. I feel that it could do so much out there in the world. This is stuff people need to know about!

And so, my hope is that Steemit will help liberate me from the gnawing. Less gnawing, more sharing!

Hmmm, I wonder how many out there are using Steemit as a form of therapy.... Anyway, I also really liked the idea of Steemit because I have a growing passion for the types of technology that cryptocurrencies bring. More freedom, the way I see it.

My health experiments

So, what types of health experiments am I into?

All sorts. One that I found truly astounding is intermittent fasting. Some time ago I researched it. For the detail oriented, here is just a little of what I found (yes, I made the picture myself):

And one of the interesting things I found is that due to the hormonal changes, and in particular the increase in growth hormone, one will have a tendency to burn fat and grow muscle.

I just had to test it!

So, I started my experiment with 16 hour long fasts each day. And, I stopped exercising! Yes, you read it right.
I figured that if I would gain muscle mass, while reducing my exercise, I would truly be able to attribute it to my fasting.

Luckily I was able to weigh myself daily, and check both my fat and muscle content each day.

The result, you ask? After three months I had lost 3.7 kg of fat and gained 1.2 kg of muscle!
It was awesome! And a bit surreal. How can I gain muscle while stopping exercise? There was a bunch of other benefits. If any of you are interested I could write about all of this at some point.

What is to come?

Lately a couple of friends of mine are going vegan, and they keep asking me about all sorts of nutrients and how you can get them on a vegan diet. Since, they ask, I think that I will start with a short series on vegan nutrition. I will write about protein, calcium, B12, K2, and if there is interest also about iron, sulfur, iodine, omega 3, B2, etc...

If you guys have any suggestions, any particular health interests, let me know, and given my addiction, I will probably have something to say about it.