I was looking into IF for myself recently and the most common working theory seemed to be that fasting can throw hormones out of whack and the menstrual cycle makes people more sensitive to that. So some women have a horrible time with their cycle becoming unpredictable or more difficult to deal with in some way. I can't seem to rustle sources out of my browser history anymore, possibly I was reading up on that longer ago than I think I was, but you might not need to worry about issues with intermittent fasting if menopause is in the mix for you.
Having said that, solid medical research on intermittent fasting seemed pretty thin on the ground in general. I do remember reading something about women probably doing better on less severe restriction because it was less likely to accidentally disrupt other things, so 12-16 hour fasts instead of all day or skipping a single meal everyday instead of something like 5:2 or a multi-day fast. Whether that reduced or negated some of the claimed benefits seemed unclear. But then pretty much everything I read was constantly emphasising that there's little proper research yet, and what has been done is mostly skewed to only one form of fasting when people are practising lots of different forms. So lots of we don't know what we don't know and etc.
If you happen to delve more into fasting and turn up any research that looks solid, I'd be super interested!
I didn't think to say before because it's a lot more specific than just general will carrying some extra weight increase my Type 2 risk type research. But I was specifically looking at IF because I have insulin resistance and endocrine disorders among other issues so I've been researching and tweaking my diet in that vein for a long time now. So if stuff along that line might be helpful, feel free to hit me up and I can probably rustle up some sources.
I also see this linked around occasionally so you might have seen it before, but Can We Say What Diet Is Best For Health? always strikes me as a decent summary of what we do and don't know about some of the more common diets and it comes with bonus citations and also being somewhat relatively recently published.
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Having said that, solid medical research on intermittent fasting seemed pretty thin on the ground in general. I do remember reading something about women probably doing better on less severe restriction because it was less likely to accidentally disrupt other things, so 12-16 hour fasts instead of all day or skipping a single meal everyday instead of something like 5:2 or a multi-day fast. Whether that reduced or negated some of the claimed benefits seemed unclear. But then pretty much everything I read was constantly emphasising that there's little proper research yet, and what has been done is mostly skewed to only one form of fasting when people are practising lots of different forms. So lots of we don't know what we don't know and etc.
If you happen to delve more into fasting and turn up any research that looks solid, I'd be super interested!
I didn't think to say before because it's a lot more specific than just general will carrying some extra weight increase my Type 2 risk type research. But I was specifically looking at IF because I have insulin resistance and endocrine disorders among other issues so I've been researching and tweaking my diet in that vein for a long time now. So if stuff along that line might be helpful, feel free to hit me up and I can probably rustle up some sources.
I also see this linked around occasionally so you might have seen it before, but Can We Say What Diet Is Best For Health? always strikes me as a decent summary of what we do and don't know about some of the more common diets and it comes with bonus citations and also being somewhat relatively recently published.