We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
the literature around fasting and around sort of autophagy is is not as clear as I once thought it was it's it's kind of murky and I'm just not convinced number one that you need to fast to have autophagy if you look at markers of autophagy our body is always kind of doing this our body is always using ubiquitination of proteins and recycling them and there's some evidence that you're doing just as much aagy when you're eating is when when you're not
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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.