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Well, because when we eat the clearance of that food from our gut and the processes in our cells and organs that are related to digestion, and the utilization of that food takes about five to six hours, so if you eat a meal and that meal lasts 10 minutes, 20 minutes or 30 minutes, or even an hour, and then you stop eating, you've stopped eating, but you are not fasting at that point.
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It takes about ~5 hours to fully digest food and get into the "fasted state" And after that, the body's repair processes tend to occur
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.