Intermittent fasting is lindy, but regularity and predictability with regards to meal timing and quantity is not.

After doing IF/OMAD for years I suspect there needs it be a stochastic element to it as well. Our bodies are good at adapting to consistency.

I wonder if we inadvertently decrease health benefits when we eat at the same time or even do IF every day.

Possibly the actual feeling of hunger activates additional benefits otherwise not present when our bodies get used to IF so much we don’t even feel hunger anymore.

The light shock to our system from meal timing unpredictability or random IF intervals seems like a more lindy dynamic.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some future study will confirm that.

Quite possibly, for maximum health benefits, intermittent fasting needs to be done either periodically, with varying fasting time lengths, or integrated into a fast-feast system.