I've been interested in intermittent fasting, but I'm only interested in the health benefits, not the weight loss aspect. Anyone know the best method of fasting (5/2, eat stop eat, etc) with this in mind?

1 meal a day.

just eat at 9pm

dinner.

Just create a window where you can eat in.

8 hours for beginners, 6 hours after that

12-8pm

12-6pm

Etc

16/8 as 16hrs is around the time when autophagy gets triggered

idk but i lost so much weight when i did it for like 3 months was kinda wild

it's not worth it tho felt like dying everyday

altho i was eating like 800 - 1000 cal a day max so that was prob the bigger issue

Definitely was the issue

eat at your maintenance calories

Can you still build muscle while doing intermittent fasting?

For sure if you eat enough protein. What intermittent fasting does is help with burning fat. After 12 hours of not eating your body starts running on fat.

looks like 16/8 is the move ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064803

@backflippin

yeah; eat a bunch of small meals from like noon to 8 and hit maintenance on all your macros

dont do this anymore but it’s not that hard