Intermittent Fasting Increases Mortality?
November 24th, 2022Warning: Nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be considered medical advice.
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I’d be curious to know what anyone out there thinks about this. I’ve been doing the eight hour window for the last couple of years and I’ve lost 7KG and feel fine.
And now…
Via: Daily Mail:
A study of 24,000 Americans over 40 found those who ate one meal per day were 30 per cent more likely to die from any cause in 15 years than those who ate three.
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The team caution it is still too early to say definitively that fasting played a role in the early deaths as they can’t rule out other lifestyle and genetic factors.
Looks like another attack on health. They want us dining on insects, lab-grown meat and GM cabbage soup in between mRNA-altering clot-shots. I believe intermittent fasting is a great way to keep weight off and to improve liver health and general wellbeing. The only people I know of succumbing to heart disease and strokes are those with the standard 3 meals a day with loads of carbs fried in lethal vegetable seed oils and sugar in everything.
I have fasted a lot through the years. And I define it as water only (coffee and tea okay). One routine I do is Monday fast; last food Sunday night, break fast Tuesday (sometimes at breakfast, sometimes at dinner). Logest fast was 4 days. At three days hunger subsides. Nothing, ever, but good results.
Monday fast once a week is powerful. The effects of thoughtful eating last about a week. Autolysis, from memory, has the power to consume tumors. If I were diagnosed with any serious ailment, I would hide and fast.
On the note: Happy Thanksgiving Kevin, to you and yours.
Also –
I read recently, and made a mental note, that fasting is useful in countering some effects of the vax. Coincidence?
I/F works well for me and I don’t think this study is representative of people who do (intentional) intermittent fasting, and are motivated by the health benefits of the practice and put effort into eating quality, nutrient dense foods:
“compared with participants with three meals per day, participants eating fewer than three meals per day were more likely to be younger, men, non-Hispanic Black, with less education and lower family income, current smokers, heavy alcohol drinkers, higher physical activity levels, lower total energy intake and lower diet quality, food insecure, and higher frequency of snacks.”
Thanks for the responses. I’ve asked Dr. Jack Wolfson what he thinks about this paper. His advocacy of intermittent fasting is why I got into it.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Dale.
I’m 57 years old and have been intermittently fasting for the past 10 years, and I think it’s helped my overall health immensely. IMO, cleaning the toxins out of my body is very important.
The norm for the passed 20+ years is that a low calorie intake extends life. He’
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2164602-calorie-restriction-may-extend-lifespan-by-changing-your-sleep/
“Calorie Restriction
“Studies in animals show reduced metabolic rate after caloric restriction increases longevity — that is what we know,” says Spyros Mezitis, MD, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
“The new findings need to be confirmed in larger studies with similar methods,” he says.
But “if you eat less than 1,500 calories a day, you have less energy expenditure so you have a lower metabolic rate, and, in animals, this results in an increased life span,” he says.
“You have a higher energy metabolism if you have a lot of body fat,” says endocrinologist Loren Wissner Greene, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City. “Obesity increases risk of early death and the mechanism might have something to do with increased metabolic rate and free radical production.””