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Intermittent fasting can mean different things
When people speak of intermittent fasthing, they can mean many different things.
Intermittent fasting refers to loosely defined regimes.
- Time-restricted eating: It includes the 16:8 diet - eat during 8 hours, and fast the other 16.
- Alternate-day fasting: Eating every other day.
- Extended fasts: Fasting for a day every week or month.
- Fasting mimicking diets: Diets that recreate the conditions of a fast.
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Why studying intermittent fasting is hard
It's easy to research the diets of mice when they are in a controlled environment. However, human studies are more complicated as they need to be in a controlled environment with controlled diets.
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What human studies show on intermittent fasting
Studies in humans have shown promising health benefits with some intermittent fasting regimes.
- People can't stick to eating every other day. If you do alternate-day fasting or skip breakfast every day, it's associated with negatives and very hard to do. Instead, people...
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Animal studies on intermittent fasting
- An early study on intermittent fasting showed that rats put on alternate-day fasting increased their lifespan by around 80 percent.
- Feeding mice every alternate day led to better glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. It reduced the incidence of lymphoma.
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Popular types of fasting
- Intermittent fasts: eating no food or massively cutting back on calorie intake only intermittently;
- Time-restricted feeding: involves consuming calories only for a 4- to 6-hour window each day.
- Periodic fasts, the most ext...
Different Fasting Schedules
- Daily Intermittent Fasting: 16–hour fast followed by an 8–hour eating period.
- Weekly Intermittent Fasting: One of the best ways to get started with it - do it once per week.
- Alternate Day Intermittent Fasting: incorporates longer fasting periods on alte...
Intermittent fasting
Fasting means abstinence of some or all food for a period of time.
Intermittent fasting ranges from eating a few calories all day every other day or several times a week to fasting for 16 hours or more every day.
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