Wow. I rarely check this forum these days but happen to today. I have to say I haven't kept up with this area of fasting very well. I developed gastroparesis so severe that I've pretty much been on liquids for the last three years. However, what I do remember is that some people seemed to be transitioning from trying longer fasts to intermediate fasts of a day or so, and a milder version, promoted by Dr Wahls where you don't eat for 12 to 20 some hours of the day. IOW, you fast from supper until say the next supper. Or for the milder version of that, a12 hour fast where you eat supper and then nothing until lunch the next day. you do this every day. I think there's some good thinking behind this and there are still a bunch of people on the fasting bandwagon. I really want to do this, but my stomach doesn't empty properly so even if I don't eat for a day, some food could still be in there negating the fasting part. I'm also pretty limited in what I can have so I don't have the luxury of a high fat low carb diet right now.

Interestingly, though, I've tried this successfully with my dogs. One dog has some itching/allergy problems. I tried not feeding him for a day or so and it actually did help the itching go away. More than once. It was actually pretty striking. Dogs are built not to need to eat everyday so it's not the same as us, but it does kind of support the low fuel clean up of autoimmune cells we don't need theory.

I left that Walh's MS group but I hear bits and pieces enough to know the fasting thing is still going strong. I'd love to hear if anybody else has tried this.