Intermittent fasting can lead to diabetes???

[Eric Jones]

Nice job, Sarena! You've earned the right to toot your own horn.

Truth

[Jane Michel]

Dr Eades' response:

Hi Alicia–

The studies under discussion involve different groups of people, different meal schedules, different caloric intakes and different foods. It is certainly not comparing apples to apples in comparing the outcomes of these studies. Questions abound. Do intermittent fasting regimens work the same way in young, lean healthy people as they do in older, obese people. Do they work the same in people with underlying disease, i.e., asthma?

When the first studies came out about intermittent fasting, the results seemed to be uniformly good. Now that more labs have gotten into the act, and humans are being used as subjects, we’re seeing some results that aren’t as uniformly positive. It will take require many more studies before it’s all sorted out.

Best–

MRE

[Allen Yeh]

Interesting.

[Robb Wolf]

I THINK I posted on those studies a few blog posts back...ahh yes, right here.
I'm not sure if i tackled everything in that but most of it.

[Steven Low]

Originally Posted by Garrett Smith

My simple opinion is becoming this:

IF (or "skipping meals") on a crappy diet = bad

IF on a Paleo-style diet = good

That's why the progression that I (and I believe Robb Wolf as well) recommend is to go Paleo first, then worry about meal timing.

Putting crappy fuel in will make the engine run crappy, no matter whether it's put in when the tank is half full or nearly empty. Simple.

Until these studies are done with Paleo parameters and/or are watched *long-term* (to get past the initial re-balancing of the body's glucose/insulin mechanisms), I'm going to go with Black Box results.

I think you nailed it. Like all of it, lol.

[Jane Michel]

Originally Posted by Robb Wolf

I THINK I posted on those studies a few blog posts back...ahh yes, right here.
I'm not sure if i tackled everything in that but most of it.

Thanks for pointing me to that post Robb!