Making the most of my food (+ exercise) today (Sunday) because tomorrow I will start pilot testing our new prolonged fasting study by doing baseline tests before ingesting 0 kcal through to Friday. Not feeling confident but will log the experience here for anyone interested. 🤞 ...I want to add that food restriction can obviously be a very sensitive subject (which is partly why we need to understand it better) and not something to be taken lightly. We have strict eligibility criteria for a study like this and will closely supervise our volunteers.

(1/n) Our #IntermittentFasting paper stimulated some healthy discourse but it seems many are sold on IF and wanted different results. Sorry if the findings are hard to hear; I expected IF to come out better but we must follow the evidence where it leads...
stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/598… (2/n) ...this research was a labour of love but is complex and imperfect - there is plenty we could or should have done differently. Sadly, some who advocate or sell IF want to ignore what can be learnt from this study by discrediting the work and even those who conducted it...