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.
there was some rationale in my mind I suppose extrap ating from what we knew in mice which is that you know this many hours of fasting in a mouse does indeed produce cellular changes that are incredibly beneficial to disease prevention and therefore given what we know about the relationship between mice fasting and human fasting it should be that by about 5 days I'm going to be experiencing some of those benefits
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there was some rationale in my mind I suppose extrapolating from what we knew in mice which is that you know this many hours of fasting in a mouse does indeed produce cellular changes that are incredibly beneficial to disease prevention and therefore given what we know about the relationship between mice fasting and human fasting it should be that by about 5 days I'm going to be experiencing some of those benefits
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.