Dr Jason Fung's "The Complete Guide to Fasting"

You can get most of the same information from his online output, for free. I found this video especially interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk

The Complete guide to fasting is by far the best book I've read on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...

The resource I've heard recommended most often is "The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting" by Fung and Moore. I just checked-out a copy from my library and will be reading it soon.

>Highly recommend the book "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Dr. Jason Fung.

Such books and doctors, promoting this or that diet, heavily cherry-pick from research papers, they don't reflect the scientific consensus on the matter.

Dr. Jason Fung's books: Obesity Code and Complete Guide to Fasting. The first book makes the case for it. The second book was better for the "how-to". Both refer to a lot of research.

I just finished reading 'The Obesity Code', 'The Diabetes Code' and 'A Complete Guide to Fasting' by Dr. Jason Fung. I'm on my third week of intermittent-fasting + keto and those books have been full of insights.

Yes, I went a couple years doing a very easy 14:10 fast, which was easy to maintain and is what I credit for stabilizing my blood sugar, which used to crash all the time (especially bonking during bike rides). My body now is fine exercising without having eaten, no problem. That alone is worth it.

Due to other health issues and related sensitivities and metabolic problems I have gotten more serious about it and learning about the science, and thus moved to an 18:6 fasting schedule. I have continued to be very happy with the results and the lifestyle.

The book I'd absolutely recommend is The Complete Guide to Fasting by Dr. Jason Fung (see an article by him on IF 101 here: https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent-fasting). I'd also recommend the Intensive Dietary Management program's various blog posts such as https://idmprogram.com/the-failure-of-the-calorie-theory-of-...

Interesting that this is "news" when the medical understanding of fasting and ketosis is pretty far along.

Highly recommend the book "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Dr. Jason Fung.

When you think about it, while the "naturalness" argument is always suspect, it's very odd that humans eat as often as we do in the US, and unsurprising that negative health consequences follow (and positive health consequences follow fasting).

The following sources provide some compelling arguments for switching to intermittent fasting for many major systemic health benefits.

These videos by the channel "What I've Learned" are great:

- Fasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? [1]

- Longevity & Why I now eat One Meal a Day [2]

The channel [3] also has many other videos on the topic of nutrition, with similar emphasis.

Also see the excellent and readable book "The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting" by Dr Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore [4].

[1] https://youtu.be/APZCfmgzoS0

[2] https://youtu.be/PKfR6bAXr-c

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqYPhGiB9tkShZorfgcL2lA/vid...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628600012

I've been trying out fasting over the past 6 months or so. I watched the BBC documentary (Eat, Fast & Live Longer) and read Jason Fung's book (Complete Guide to Fasting) and decided I'd see if I could do it; mostly to lose weight but the health improvements often cited seemed great as well.

For me it turned out it to be easier to do than I thought. I had a mental barrier in my head that going without a meal or two would put me in some sort of dangerous state where my body couldn't function. Once I realized that wasn't the case I was able to plow through increasingly long periods of time without eating. Things I've noticed:

* being h-angry is a real thing. ;-) Make sure you have a low-stress time window to do the fasting in
* drink a lot of water
* hunger comes in waves, you'll get to a point where you feel super hungry, it'll usually pass after some time.
* maybe it's placebo but I recognize a stronger ability to focus when I'm in the midst of a fasting period
* if you get super hungry, just eat. don't beat yourself up over it
* i've generally learned to NOT tell people you're fasting, they think you're crazy (immediately they associate it with anorexia, etc)
* again, don't forget to drink water

He did write The Complete Guide to Fasting, which is excellent and covers all the science behind it.
There is also Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle by Gin Stephens which is basically One Meal a Day, however she includes links to all the reports to everything she talks about in the book and yes, she actually read them and encourages others to do the same, not just believe what she says.
There's always the fasting subreddit's wiki that has links to other info: https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/wiki/fasting_in_a_nutshell

>>Only 5 to 7% of people that lose a large amount weight are able to keep it off successfully in the medium and long term. Hope there is more research into this mechanism.

> Are there any studies in this area I can read that discuss the figures you've mentioned?

One example may be found in Dr. Jason Fung's book, "The Complete Guide to Fasting." Chapter 5 describes a case regarding the American TV show, "Biggest Loser", where overweight contestants lost loads of weight during the show with a low calorie diets and exercise. All except one contestant gain the weight back.

Below is the reference to the study cited in Fung's book.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.21538

For me, the primary reason to try fasting was to lose weight, or to say it it another way, to lose excess body fat. I was sold on trying fasting after I read Dr. Jason Fung's book called, "The Complete Guide to Fasting".

Over the years, I had my successes and failures trying to maintain a proper body weight with different diets. For me, I found that fasting was the easiest and simplest way to lose and now maintain my weight.