I’m convinced there are some health benefits to fasting occasionally.
But you’ll never convince me there’s any benefit to not eating enough food for months on end.
Your body needs a certain number of calories each day and that’s just it. Limiting yourself to 800 or 1,000 calories a day for months on end is just slowly starving yourself to death.
Based on...what? Humans lived on much lower calories for thousands of years. Only in the past two centuries have Westerners been told they need "2,860 calories per day" or what have you, by the USDA or other incompetent authorities who were likely lobbied to do so. And obestity rates EXPLODED. It's all a lie. We do not need this many calories at all, and intermittent fasting is critical to good health as well.