The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
but none of basically if you look at the literature you know the yes there are some is showing the fastest extends the lifespan but those groups the original ones that did the research kind of followed up on that and said uh well actually it's not just it's not the fasting itself it's because we're consuming a fewer amount of food you're consuming less of these inflammatory amino acids and also less food means less endotoxin you know from the bacteria that's in the gut
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the benefits of fasting that I've seen for people actually to benefit from the fasting are people who really had very high endotoxin response kind of mimicking what the older studies showed that most of the benefits to fasting come from the reduction of of endotoxin.
Time-restricted eating produces fat loss independent of total calories.
A 72-hour fast measurably improves autophagy markers in healthy adults.
One-meal-a-day (OMAD) eating patterns increase all-cause mortality in long-running cohort data.
Eating the largest meal before 3pm improves 24-hour glucose vs. an evening-heavy schedule, calorie-matched.