Asklemmy

53670 readers

530 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

Any Lemmings that have been regular fasters for at least a couple years? What's your first hand experience and opinion on fasting for health benefits? (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I don't meant for weight loss, I mean health benefits as in autophagy, clearing out toxins, giving your organs a break type stuff

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015610.pub2/full

Meta-analysis on ca. 2000 people - intermittent fasting no better than weight loss diets.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Personally I just find it much easier to skip a meal completely than to start eating and stop before I'm full. Restricting calories could work just as well, it's just a lot harder for me to execute with continuity.