Mecanismos do jejum e sua aplicabilidade no exercício físico: uma revisão de literatura

• Autor(a) principal: Moro, Yuri Matheus [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/203785; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2020-02-27/000927292.pdf
• topic: Jejum; Exercícios físicos; Saúde; Pesquisa bibliografica; Educação fisica; Fisiologia

Fasting is a natural human body phenomenon of a voluntary or involuntary character. Classified as an abstention in food and / or fluid intake after a certain period of time of the last meal, this practice has been used for centuries throughout human history for a wide range of purposes. Today, fasting is perceived by some professionals as a powerful tool and an effective means of controlling and maintaining body weight, which in then shed light on it's concept. In addition to serving as a kind of natural treatment for people with metabolic adversities its theory points out that when tied to an program of physical exercise and balanced diet, fasting can serve as a supplement in order to maximize gains in both health and wellness. This work aims to elucidate this issue and to point out possible benefits of physical exercise linked to fasting, using as a method a review of non - systematic literature carried out in internationally recognized databases. Several studies indicate that there are no significant differences in weight reduction when exercise is performed under fasting state or when done after a pre-workout meal, however fasting training protocols show that its accomplishment causes several metabolic adaptations at the cellular level, which when brought to a scope of greater magnitude can be interpreted as beneficial precursors to the organism providing better levels of health