[BobL]

Agree - I didn’t even want to start on the health BENEFITS of water fasting, because that’s probably too much to handle at once for the ‘nutritionists’ who might be here.

But yes, early humans didn’t take down mastodons 3 times a day, at the same hours, as part of a healthy cave-man existence. They ate whenever the hell they could, and that was often many days between meals...and they lived long enough to keep having kids.

[PA Engineer]

Agree - I didn’t even want to start on the health BENEFITS of water fasting, because that’s probably too much to handle at once for the ‘nutritionists’ who might be here.

Agreed. I don't even bother anymore. Had a change in my professional course approximately three years ago. Was studying just one very rare childhood disease for my wife (MD). Once you begin to study metabolic pathways, you go where they take you. Cancer, neurodegeneration, T2D, liver disease, heart disease come back to metabolic dysregulation. You chase systems and not symptoms. Further, you follow evidence and not eminence.

There are a few truisms our self-appointed nutrition experts ignore. The first is essential dietary requirements. There are essential amino acids, fats and minerals. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. The second is "normal" meal times. There is not one iota of science that supports the requirements of three meals a day. Finally, a lifetime of three meals a day will get you three hots and a cot in the local nursing home. Prematurely.

I know you understand that, however this is for those who follow "eminence" over evidence.