My friend, who recommended I try intermittent fasting, sent me a study linking intermittent fasting to early death.
Don’t worry it’s one study, but “People who followed a pattern of eating all of their food across less than 8 hours per day had a 91% higher risk of death due to cardiovascular disease.”
Yikes.
I’ve lost weight while intermittent fasting.
I’ve recommended it as a way to restrict boredom eating and lose weight.
Tech guru Bryan Johnson, who spends $2 million a year to de-age himself, practices intermittent fasting. His dietary team gets paid a lot more than I do, so now I don’t feel so dumb.
I used the best information I had at the time. There were no studies predicting 91% higher cardiovascular mortality rates. I checked.
On Youtube.
When does that backfire, right?
Lesson learned.
Wait a second. What lesson?
That New studies show that people will believe whatever you say as long as you start your sentence with ‘a new study shows’... No wait. Not that.
When it comes to fitness You should only trust what’s been around for a long time.
OLDER = BETTER
A list of things that have been around for ages.
- Yoga (5,000 years)
- Strength training (6,500 years)
- Running (since Man could walk)
- Tai chi (3,000 years)
You can trust things that have stood the test of time. If yoga were bad for you, like intermittent fasting may be, the body count would have deterred us by now. No more vinyasa, no more ashtanga, no more Bikram (no big loss on that one).
What about diet? What’s been around for a minute?
- The mediterranean diet (5,000 years)
- Vegetarianism (8,000 years)
In summary- I feel stupid. I did some due diligence, but If there’s one thing I’ve learned and relearned over the ages it’s this:
When it comes to fitness old and boring advice always come out on top.