Dr. Michael Greger

But unfortunately, that doesn't translate into humans.

Really?

We really only get this boosting in autophagy.

After two days.

Really, yeah, two days.

And then we're concerned about that being done outside of kind of medical supervision.

Interesting.

Is there benefit to doing the intermittent fasting, would you say?

Okay, so, but there is some, certainly, there's so many different types.

I'm talking about the pros and cons of each.

So there's alternate day fasting and 5-2 fasting, 25-5 fasting, mimicking diet.

Mimic fasting, yeah, yeah.

Right, all that.

There's all sorts of it.

And there's pros and cons of each.

I think the best, kind of the bottom line, the best evidence is around early time-restrictive feeding, meaning...

collapsing one's daily feeding window to at least 12 hours or less, but critically important, that window is early rather than late.

So if anything, we're skipping supper, not breakfast.

And in fact, we're trying to cram as many calories earlier in the day as possible.

The exact same food eaten in the morning is less fattening than the exact same food, same number of calories eaten in the evening.