The OPTIMAL Intermittent Fasting Protocol | Michael Greger, MD

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I remember looking into fasting because it's been a common interest for years just in the last few years has been an explosion of research into intermittent fasting water only fasting five two twenty five five time restricted feeding all these tremendous literature and what's interesting about the intermittent fasting literature some studies so it's great for you other studies so it's terrible for you has all these negative metabolic consequences and it turns out it's timing early versus late so when do you break the fast so your window so if your window is late you get the negative biological consequence of eating at night and shifting your calories towards later in the day and so people that skip breakfast I had these negative metabolic effects of time restricted feeding whereas people that did early time restrictive feeding not only got the chronobiological benefits of shifting their calories towards the beginning of the day they also got the time restricted feeding benefits if you miss any meal it should be supper not breakfast right breakfast is called Break fast for a reason