What is your favorite IF schedule for best results?
Some of the most exciting fasting research in recent years has shown that eating each day in an early window of about 6 hours, starting an hour or two after waking up, yields more health benefits than later or longer eating windows. So that might mean, for example, eating between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily. I know it sounds nuts not to eat at the normal dinnertime–most people, me included, do time-restricted eating by skipping breakfast. But people who have tried early windows have found it really easy to do and report that they feel great, with more energy than they had before. That’s certainly the way I’ve experienced it over the last 2 years of early time-restricted eating.
Some of the best work on this has been done by Professor Courtney Peterson at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. You might check out this article: https://medium.com/lifeomic/late-dinners-make-you-sicker-a-case-for-breakfast-and-early-time-restricted-feeding-8e2e0955fa44.
I also cover this in a little more detail in a FAQ here: https://www.stevehendricks.org/fasting-faq.