For anyone who heard about the fad diet of "intermittent faating", you may be interested in the science highlighting the risks:

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-time-restricted-eating-linked-to-a-91-higher-risk-of-cardiovascular-death

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OMG I’m so sad to see this because intermittent fasting has cured my insomnia. Any time I stop I go straight back to being unable to sleep (even with meds) 😭

Yeah, it sounds like there was some evidence that intermittent fasting has some short term benefits, so it's a bummer to see that the long term effects are a significant increase in something so severe.

Maybe future research will uncover some other correlation like most intermittant fasters were eating a keto diet, or a high carb diet, or not exercising or something else corralated with fasting that explains the outcomes.

Doesn't everyone fart intermittently?

But 8 hours is sleeping, intermittent fasting is at least 12hrs more like 18 hrs. Trust the science.