Prolonged fasting health effects
What is your opinion about doing a no food fasting for 5 days? Do you see benefits of long fasting on overall health and do you have any guidance for doing the fasting properly?
Hi, intermittent fasting has quite a lot of data in terms of improving insulin resistance, losing body weight and improving inflammatory markers. However, the most of the data is on intermittent time fasting like eating eight hours and fasting for 16 or eating for five days and restricted eating for two days. There are a few papers on the five day fasting as well, but there’s no long-term studies because it is also very hard to maintain. So I would suggest if you want to do intermittent fasting start with two days a week and eat five days but eat healthier food every day