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All the other studies I’ve heard about said that the benefits of fasting kick in pretty quickly, with 24hrs being plenty to get quite a few benefits. Edit: per

All the other studies I’ve heard about said that the benefits of fasting kick in pretty quickly, with 24hrs being plenty to get quite a few benefits. Edit: personal experience and some scant scientific evidence seems to point to there being a significant difference between men and women on this one. Men seem to accrue more benefits with longer fasts (diminishing returns though), women seem to get metabolically stressed earlier on. More studies are needed though.

reasonattlm 8y ago
Not all of the benefits. There are some significant benefits to the immune system that require at least 72 hours of fasting in humans. https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2014/06/fasting-can-be-used-to-restore-some-loss-of-immune-system-function/ https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2014/06/fasting-can-be-u...