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Old Fri, Aug-02-19, 09:42
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Wall Street Journal Essay:


The Fasting Cure Is No Fad
New research is showing the profound benefits—for weight, longevity and fighting disease—of eating only during limited hours

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fa...SOitd gU_4TdZo
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Thanks, Janet. This appears to be an encouraging article. Unfortunately, I no longer subscribe to the WSJ digital edition, so they show me the first paragraph and ask me to subscribe to read it in total.
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Here's a link that gave me the full article:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fa...fad-11564676512

Excellent summary of the benefits along with citations for Mark Mattson and Valter Longo. Here's an excerpt:

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Fasting also can contribute to brain health and happiness. The neurobiologist Mark Mattson, who retired this year from the National Institutes of Health, has demonstrated in experiments for two decades that nerve growth factors contribute significantly to brain health and positive mood. He also found that fasting, restricting calories and exercising spur distinct increases in the best-known nerve growth factor, BDNF.

Hope Mattson, despite retirement, stays involved, he's an excellent researcher and promotes IF and timed eating for health.

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Sorry, Rob. I copied someone's else's link thinking it was an open one, so here is the Essay:

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The Fasting Cure Is No Fad
New research is showing the profound benefits—for weight, longevity and fighting disease—of eating only during limited hours


By Andreas Michalsen
Aug. 1, 2019 12:21 pm ET

Fasting is one of the biggest weight-loss trends to arise in recent years. Endorsed by A-list celebrities and the subject of a spate of best-selling books, it was the eighth most-Googled diet in America in 2018.

But fasting shouldn’t be dismissed as just another fad. At the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, I’ve employed what’s called intermittent fasting, or time-restricted eating, to help patients with an array of chronic conditions. These include diabetes, high blood pressure, rheumatism and bowel diseases, as well as pain syndromes such as migraines and osteoarthritis.

There are different ways to go about it, but I advise patients to omit either dinner or breakfast, so that they don’t ingest any food for at least 14 hours at a stretch. That makes lunch the most important meal of the day. It also reduces the time spent each day processing food and lengthens the period devoted to cleansing and restoring the body’s cells, both of which have positive health effects.

Adopting this technique is not as difficult as it may seem. If you sleep from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., you’ve already fasted for eight hours. Now you only need another six. It’s healthy to avoid eating late in the evening to let your body burn energy from food rather than store it, so if you eat dinner by 7 p.m., that’s another four hours. For breakfast, you can limit yourself to coffee or tea (maybe with a small piece of fruit) and make lunch your first proper meal. By that time, you’re clearly beyond the 14 hours and don’t need to restrain yourself: You can eat until you are full.

Scientific evidence for the glory of breakfast is scarce. Instead, we should skip it and eat lunch like kings.

The biologist Satchidananda Panda at California’s Salk Institute showed the possibilities of this approach in a 2012 report in the journal Cell Metabolism. He fed a group of mice a high-fat diet around the clock for 18 weeks; they developed fatty livers, pancreatic disease and diabetes. Another group was fed the exact same number of calories a day, but all during an eight-hour span. Surprisingly, the second group stayed slimmer and healthier for much longer.

There is a logic to it. When we eat, our body releases insulin. That disrupts the process of autophagy (from the Greek, meaning “self-devouring”), by which cells deconstruct old, damaged components in order to release energy and build new molecules. Autophagy helps to counteract the aging of cells and builds immunity. Fasts stimulate autophagy and allow the full molecular process to take place, as a team led by Frank Madeo at the University of Graz in Austria found in 2017.

Fasting also can contribute to brain health and happiness. The neurobiologist Mark Mattson, who retired this year from the National Institutes of Health, has demonstrated in experiments for two decades that nerve growth factors contribute significantly to brain health and positive mood. He also found that fasting, restricting calories and exercising spur distinct increases in the best-known nerve growth factor, BDNF.

Test animals in Dr. Mattson’s laboratory that fasted intermittently even showed a significantly lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s, though those results would have to be clearly confirmed in large human studies to reach any firm conclusion.

All of this presents a question: If we should generally eat only two meals a day, which meal is it best to skip? Many of us have heard the saying: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and supper like a pauper.” Scientific evidence for the glory of breakfast is scarce, however, and realistically, it’s easier to sustain skipping breakfast than skipping dinner.

Instead of breakfast, we should eat lunch like kings. A rich lunch beats a robust dinner. A U.K.-led study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2016 showed that among 69 women, those who consumed most of their calories at lunch shed 3.3 pounds more in 12 weeks than those who ate a bigger dinner. After all, it’s around lunchtime that the body requires the greatest amount of energy for keeping its body temperature up. Less energy thus passes into our fat reserves.


Fasting overcomes an instinctive need in a way that gives us physical and mental strength.
Researchers are increasingly probing the optimal timing of meals, duration of fasting and the various potential health effects. Scientists at the University of Padua have found, for instance, that young, healthy athletes fasting for 16 hours benefited from metabolic changes over eight weeks compared with their peers. The regimen lowered the levels of inflammatory factors in their blood and factors accelerating the aging process, including insulin.

Share your thoughts:

Have you tried intermittent fasting? How was your experience? Share your tips below.

Fasting might even be effective in preventing the recurrence of cancer, as suggested by initial results of an epidemiological study conducted by researchers at the University of California at San Diego, published in 2016 in the journal JAMA Oncology. Among 2,400 women with early-stage breast cancer who provided information on their eating rhythm, roughly 400 suffered from new tumors within seven years. But women who fasted for 13 hours nightly had 26% less risk of recurrence than the control group. One possible reason was suggested in data summarized last year from a decade of animal experiments by Valter Longo and a team at the University of Southern California: Cancer cells are less able than normal cells to survive a lack of sugar.

As a practice, fasting is more than simply restricting calories or nutrients. For many people, it is also a spiritual experience. Over the course of our lives, we encounter many kinds of deficiency, whether of money, success or affection. Fasting is a conscious renunciation, a controlled exercise in deprivation. That’s why successful fasting increases self-efficacy—we overcome an instinctive need in a way that gives us physical and mental strength. In his novel “Siddhartha,” Hermann Hesse describes this wonderfully: “Nothing is performed by demons; there are no demons. Anyone can perform magic. Anyone can reach his goals if he can think, if he can wait, if he can fast.”


Dr. Michalsen is a professor at Berlin’s Charité University Medical Center. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Nature Cure: A Doctor’s Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine,” which Viking will publish on Aug. 6.
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Good article. But if skipping breakfast for my fast, I wouldn't advise that small piece of fruit. Up goes the insulin with the fruit. Not fasting.
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Good article. But if skipping breakfast for my fast, I wouldn't advise that small piece of fruit. Up goes the insulin with the fruit. Not fasting.


Agree! if not going to truly fast, a nice dollop of HWC or a bit of butter in one's morning coffee would be a better choice.

Or, if you HAVE to have food in the a.m. and want something quick and easy, keep hard boiled eggs on hand in the fridge. In depth nutritional comparison of eggs versus apples.
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One of the things I love is that if I eat a big meal once a day it’s taking so much less time!
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How many times have we heard, “Oh no, you can’t skip breakfast, it revvs up your metabolism!”
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Skip breakfast? Skip dinner? Depends on if you are a night owl or a morning lark. I'm the later - so dinner is a rarity, but it does happen. Six in one half a dozen in the other - until they gold standard study it. If you read Dr. Mathew Walker's excellent 2017 book Why We Sleep, he acknowledges these the two different sleep patterns (owl / lark) and says as we age, we tend to sleep earlier - and it's a good idea to skip the sunglasses as the sunlight keeps the sleepiness away - especially if you need / want to sleep later rather than early.

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I'm a morning person, but I don't feel like eating when I wake up at 6 or 7 am. A cup of coffee with 1 tsp butter holds me over until my first meal at 11am or noon, with dinner at 5 or 6 pm.
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I wish I could do IF but I quickly get nauseous if I don't eat after the first pangs of hunger.
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The fruit for breakfast statement is certainly not correct. How did that slip in??

I do best skipping breakfast and then keep moving that first meal later and later. Two pm is my best time to eat, ESPECIALLY when doing OMAD. Otherwise, a second meal still keeps to a 16/8 TRE window.

Not clear that healing really happens much in that 16 hours. Seems dr fung recommends 36 hours for a reason.
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There are a few statements like that fruit Dr. Fung would not agree with in this piece, but it was notable because this was a long essay, in the WSJ weekend edition, review section, with a big bold print headline, a large sketch of plate/clock/utentsils, and that sub-title "with profound benefits"...hard to miss. Since 2014, fasting has gone from dangerous and fringe, to healthy and fabulous.
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If I skip a snack for breakfast my blood sugar continues to rise due to "Dawn Phenomenon" so I have cheese and almonds, peanut butter or something similar. Today I was in a hurry and had some cherries.
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