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 what he said was when he was in Israeli special forces, they rarely ate more than once per day. And sometimes once every second or third day. And this is a guy who maintains incredible physical stature, he's very lean, very strong and very vital at, I wouldn't say an advanced age, but he's getting up there and he just seems to be getting better and better.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Ori Hofmekler was the person who essentially founded, if you will, although our ancestors founded, to be completely fair, the so-called intermittent fasting diet. He called it the warrior diet and this book didn't get much attention.
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.