Intermittent fasting focuses on "when" you eat, rather than "what" or "how much." It involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, with a common schedule being 18 hours of fasting and a ...

Over the previous few years, I have written several columns about intermittent fasting. When I wrote the first column in 2018, I stumbled across intermittent fasting and found it interesting enough to ...

TUESDAY, Aug. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As a bariatric surgeon, I talk with patients every day about weight loss and improving their overall health. One topic that comes up more and more is ...

For years, we've been told it's important to eat breakfast within an hour of waking up, to rev up our metabolism and get our day started right. But a more recent trend, intermittent fasting, throws ...

Like me, if you too have been curious to know more about intermittent fasting (IF) and how it might transform your approach to health and weight loss? Well this popular trend isn't just about what you ...

Elon Musk does it. His predecessor, Jack Dorsey, former CEO and cofounder of Twitter, now X, reportedly does too. Evernote’s Phil Libin and Y Combinator’s Daniel Gross have also been said to have ...

Here I go again, touting the benefits of intermittent fasting, and this time it’s about the microbiome in your gastrointestinal tract. The microbiome encompasses all microbes, including bacteria, ...

Intermittent fasting is under attack, again, as a practice that is ineffective and dangerous. Loyal readers of this column will know I am a big supporter of intermittent fasting. Recently, I refuted a ...

Crash diets are out, eating intentionally via intermittent fasting, is in. But what’s intermittent fasting? Intermittent fasting is a diet that combines eating and fasting periods, which usually ...

In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, a group of researchers evaluated how various intermittent fasting (IF) regimens impact the composition of the human gut microbiome.

Recently I wrote a column about the benefits of “good” stress and the negative effects of “bad” stress, and I mentioned intermittent fasting along with exercise as examples of “good” stress. When I ...