Advocates of extreme fasting falsely claim the practice can treat health issues like diabetes and could cure or prevent cancer.

Real-world data suggest 5:2 intermittent fasting may offer modest cardiovascular benefits over calorie restriction in adults ...

Bamberg and Moreau also note that prior fasting experience may matter, too. Initial evidence suggests that people who have just started fasting experience more negative psychological states than ...

Here’s a question from one of our Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation colleagues: One of my friends recently told me they had been fasting for four days, water only, and had read about the many ...

Intermittent fasting — which involves restricting when you eat, most commonly consuming food within an eight-hour window and fasting for the other 16 hours — is all the rage these days, with celeb ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nutrients, researchers examined the dynamics of fasting-induced ketosis. Long-term fasting is a potent non-pharmacologic intervention for chronic disease ...

Is fasting the best thing for your brain, or should it be avoided at all costs? Recent years have witnessed a tremendous uptick in people talking about the life-changing value of fasting for weight ...

In a popular 2023 Instagram reel, Dana White, the president of the UFC, said he’d recently done an 86-hour fast, and he ‘[felt] like a superhero.” Let’s note that 86 hours is more than three and a ...