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Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by neaden »

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #10
kgin wrote: post #2

Fwiw there was a very recent study seeking to compare the longevity increases (in mice) from time-restricted eating vs calorie restriction. In this study, 100% of the benefit was due to time-restricted eating, none from calorie restriction. https://twitter.com/LammingLab/status/1450120927195406342?s=...

You've clearly indicated this, but I think it's worth highlighting because it's so crucial a caveat: In Mice.

Even moreso in this studies than many others, as the tweets point out the mice were doing the human equivalent of fasting for a week.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by djyaz1200 »

Anecdotally, I've been skipping breakfast and lunch M-F with first food at 4pm and I've been losing a little bit of weight (.5%/month) and have a lot more energy. I probably eat about the same caloric volume of food, maybe slightly less. Been at it for about 6mo. Not saying this is right for others but I've been encouraged by the results thus far. I started after reading (some of) the book "The Energy Paradox" by SR Gundry. It's too long but the point is eating requires energy and can make you feel tired. I imagine I'll stick with this program.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by taylodl »

My doctor recommended I begin intermittent fasting - no breakfast, light lunch, normal dinner; 8 hour "eating window" per day. I've been at it for about 18 months now. About 8 months ago I started really watching how much sugar and highly processed carbs I eat (not a keto diet, just not going crazy with pasta and sweets). I've lost 50 pounds and no longer have to take my hypertension medication. If this were the olden days before you could take medication to treat hypertension then sure, an argument could be made that skipping meals can make you live longer. Today things are slightly different but even so, "skipping meals can reduce your medications" is still pretty significant.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by [deleted] »

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #10
kgin wrote: post #2

Fwiw there was a very recent study seeking to compare the longevity increases (in mice) from time-restricted eating vs calorie restriction. In this study, 100% of the benefit was due to time-restricted eating, none from calorie restriction. https://twitter.com/LammingLab/status/1450120927195406342?s=...

You've clearly indicated this, but I think it's worth highlighting because it's so crucial a caveat: In Mice.

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Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by maskedinvader »

I switched to eating light lunches and skipping breakfast a couple of years ago, lost 12 pounds, feel fitter and able to keep up with the demands of being a dad of a 11 month old baby along with a full time job. I would highly recommend this diet for folks finding it tough to restrict calories, restrict eating window and don't try to restrict calories as much.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by vikingerik »

djyaz1200 wrote: post #12

Anecdotally, I've been skipping breakfast and lunch M-F with first food at 4pm and I've been losing a little bit of weight (.5%/month) and have a lot more energy. I probably eat about the same caloric volume of food, maybe slightly less. Been at it for about 6mo. Not saying this is right for others but I've been encouraged by the results thus far. I started after reading (some of) the book "The Energy Paradox" by SR…

I know exactly what you mean on "eating requires energy and can make you feel tired". I get this too, and what avoids it is to eat as cleanly and naturally as possible - whole plants, no processed carbs, no salt and oil and sugar.

I believe the "eating makes you tired" is a hibernation reflex. Mammalian bodies are designed to pack on calories when food is plentiful in order to survive an upcoming winter. The tiredness is for the body to process the calories into stored fat. Of course, with modern technology, there is no such thing as that food winter, and we never deplete what we had the instinct to store.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by rednerrus »

taylodl wrote: post #13

My doctor recommended I begin intermittent fasting - no breakfast, light lunch, normal dinner; 8 hour "eating window" per day. I've been at it for about 18 months now. About 8 months ago I started really watching how much sugar and highly processed carbs I eat (not a keto diet, just not going crazy with pasta and sweets). I've lost 50 pounds and no longer have to take my hypertension medication. If this were the olde…

Eating less calorie will give you the same benefit.

Re: Does “skipping meals make you live longer”?

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Post by stnmtn »

bobobob420 wrote: post #5
DiabloD3 wrote: post #4

Dear content creators: I don't know why people keep typing actual thoughts on Twitter: PLEASE STOP AND GET A BLOG . Nobody will read this, and this is actually important information that can save lives. Also, stop using clickbait headlines when presenting information; the correct headline for this example would be "Managing insulin levels naturally leads to longer lives with higher quality of life and less health pro…

Thank you for your first paragraph. I don’t know why even respected people like John Carmack will make huge Twitter threads, like are they not self aware it’s unreadable and looks like an unorganized mess

It's different context when you're writing a thread a thread in twitter vs doing a blog post or something else like that.

If John Carmack just wants to get a couple thoughts out there, not worry about paragraph structure, and just kinda type and send as he thinks of it, then twitter is perfect for that.

There's probably many ideas that people like Carmack have that they don't think is 'good enough' for a whole blog post, but fits right in on a casual twitter thread.

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