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This is why I lean toward that interpretation. It hasn’t been directly tested but there are a few lines of evidence which support it. [Patron link] Unsolicited shade (jk): intermittent fasting doesn’t “work” in the absence of weight loss. But … Continue reading →

wait, WUT? lol OK, the chocolate thing came from a study in rats (albeit a pretty interesting study). [Patron link] First, the human study: Eating breakfast and avoiding late-evening snacking sustains lipid oxidation (Kelly et al., 2020) They called it … Continue reading →

SMH Time-restricted feeding plus resistance training in active females: a randomized trial (Tinsley et al., 2019) [Patron link] Hate to be a buzzkill because this was actually a well-designed and well-conducted study. I’m not a huge fan of intermittent fasting … Continue reading →

I say “breakfast” to indicate the first meal of the day, shortly after waking up. Not “breaking the fast.” [Patron link] Other definitions of breakfast from this awesome paper: socio-anthropologists: breakfast is the first post-nocturnal meal of the day biochemists … Continue reading →

This review by Longo & Panda was ‘fair,’ and by now you know my take on intermittent fasting (IF) vs. caloric restriction (CR). [Patron link] If you don’t, Tl;dr: since forever, all the studies on IF showed no benefits over … Continue reading →

Endogenous circadian system and circadian misalignment impact glucose tolerance via separate mechanisms in humans (Morris et al., 2015) [Patron link] “Glucose tolerance is lower in the evening and at night than in the morning.” THE FIRST FRIGGIN’ LINE! Come on … Continue reading →