Intermittent fasting tied to higher risk of cardiovascular death, research shows

Are pharmaceutical companies starting to see a decline in sales? Recently, the process of autophagy was praised, and its discoverer even received a Nobel Prize. Starting today, I'm beginning fasting because if they want to convince me that it kills, I'm now certain that this is another lie.

They want to sell you the pros of autophagy in a pill form without you doing fasting.

Came here to say this, happy to not be the first.

I've been doing intermittent, multi day water and dry fasts, as have millions of people over thousands of years and most report health benefits.

"Trust the Science" is over.

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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749647

Thanks. The other submission was flagged.

It's an observational study. It could as well be that persons with conditions that are tied to higher cardiovascular mortality more often do intermittent fasting.

Yep. Correlation does not imply causation.

And according to the Heart Association press release (linked in the article) this study didn't even try to avoid confounders: "Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis."