Don’t all humans fast overnight pretty much always?
Yes, and you "break" the "fast" every morning.
Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy lifespan [pdf]
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Re: Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy lifespan [pdf]
#22Don’t all humans fast overnight pretty much always?
This article discusses 20-hour long fasting periods that include a night, say from 2 PM till 10 AM the following day.
Also note that it did 20 hour fasts for a fruit fly. Fruit flies metabolism acts a bit quicker than humans, that would probably correspond to a multi day fast for a human.
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#23Even 16h-8h fast-feed periods are great for long-term health. Skipping breakfast with plain coffee for me have worked perfectly. Now I'll transition to a 8am-4pm feed period schedule, I've heard that it may improve sleep quality going with empty stomach to bed.
Not trying to be snarky here but is 16pm supposed to be 6pm? 14 hour fast?
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#24It doesn’t mention that autophagy in humans takes several days. Overnight fasting might help us but not for the reasons implied here.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely that is an eating disorder or beginning of one?
I am not sure. I have a sister who used to do that and she wasn't overweight neither had any obvious eating disorder. Maybe it was because she was an athlete? I know other people with obvious weight problems that wake up in the middle of the night to eat and maybe for those it might be considered a disorder.
These people that want to live in their 80s or beyond boggle me. Who wants to stick around that long when you have so many contemporaneous failures of the body all crashing down on you? Better to just die catastrophically in your early to mid 70s and save yourself a drab decade or two.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
8 hours between meals isn't fasting by any definition. That is the average you get when you eat the normal 3 times a day.
> 8 hours between meals isn't fasting by any definition. Funny what we call eating in the morning then, isn't it? (also, not everyone eats only at designated meal times. People snack.)
> Funny what we call eating in the morning then,
Sure, but ostensibly we're not eating right before bed.
If dinner is at 7 or 8 and breakfast is at 7 or 8 that's 50% more time than an equal meal distribution throughout the day.
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#27Even 16h-8h fast-feed periods are great for long-term health. Skipping breakfast with plain coffee for me have worked perfectly. Now I'll transition to a 8am-4pm feed period schedule, I've heard that it may improve sleep quality going with empty stomach to bed.
Not trying to be snarky here but is 16pm supposed to be 6pm? 14 hour fast?
I’m guessing it’s actually 4pm — 24h number incorrectly written with a pm.
Re: Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy lifespan [pdf]
#28Even 16h-8h fast-feed periods are great for long-term health. Skipping breakfast with plain coffee for me have worked perfectly. Now I'll transition to a 8am-4pm feed period schedule, I've heard that it may improve sleep quality going with empty stomach to bed.
Not trying to be snarky here but is 16pm supposed to be 6pm? 14 hour fast?
Usually the feed window is 8 hours so they probably meant 8am-4pm (and probably messed up converting 0800-1600)
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#29I've tried a few variations of fasting over the last ~3 years and here's what works best for me. Because I tend to snack, I have time-boxed my eating windows inline with a fasting schedule, so:
- No breakfast, just black coffee - First eating window (~11am - 2pm) - Second eating window (~5pm - 8pm) - No eating after 8pm
I've played with three eating windows and it also works quite well. I cheat on weekends, Fridays and sometimes in social situations. Most important thing to note: build a routine that works for you, nothing is sustainable if it isn't built around your specific lifestyle. If it doesn't work for your lifestyle, it will never sustain.. think about it as product market fit for your body + health.