Intermittent Fasting has become widely known thanks to the internet. IF is eating during a window of time (in my case, the 16:8 method) and fasting the rest of the day. Some of the best known practices are the 20:4, 16:8, and 5:2 protocols, which essentially are just ratios of fasting hours versus eating hours.
There are many fasting benefits, such as increased testosterone (180%) and growth hormone, weight loss, muscle gain, autophagy, and others.
The idea behind Intermittent Fasting, let's say if you take the 16:8 method, is fat storage and fat burning. That's a 67% fat burning fast period (16 hours) and 33% fat storage (8 hours). If you compare this to regular eating, which is the reverse (eating throughout the day for 16 hours and sleeping for 8 hours), you get more insulin (fat storing) due to the increased window of eating, and it becomes 67% fat storage versus 33% fat burning. So by fasting for longer periods you burn more fat for fuel.
I practiced fasting for most of 2022 but went off track in 2023, eating after my window due to hunger. I have to eat in the morning because I go to bed in early afternoon hours, and sleep is varied lately (from 6 hours to 13 hours), which means I either wake up at 9:00-10:00 pm, or 3:00am.
It's not going to be easy and I might have to adjust my eating window from either 5:00 am to 1:00 pm or 6:00 am to 2:00pm. Since I get hungry later, the second option might make more sense. All I need to do is waylay my appetite for an extra hour. In the past I ate starting from lunch to 8:00 pm, but I no longer operate with that routine.
Here's a link to a Dr. Sten Ekberg video that clearly explains Intermittent Fasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUw-QOqLfA
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