Dr. Aravind Padmaraju explains intermittent fasting as time-restricted eating, not a special diet. Weight loss comes from eating fewer calories in a shorter window, not from fasting itself having unique metabolic powers.
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What is intermittent fasting? Whether is it intermittent fasting is a diet? Intermittent fasting is not a diet. Intermittent fasting is just a pattern of time-restrictive eating. What does it mean? You're going to eat all your meals in a certain period of time and you're going to fast certain kind of a time in a day. So there are different ways of intermittent fasting. First of all, intermittent fasting is not a diet. So if someone is saying intermittent fasting is a diet, it's not a diet. It is just a time-restrictive window or methodology where you can significantly decrease the overconsumption of calories, right? At the end of the day, why people are getting a result through intermittent fasting is one single science principle: because they are into calorie deficit. Because of this restrictive eating, uh, they are able to consume less calories than what they were normally able to consume.