“Unfortunately, according to the studies, it doesn’t work for the majority.”
Actually, if it DOES work for me, then it means it is NOT the problem the other people are encountering.
If X is THE CAUSE of Y, then someone doing X - or in this case, millions doing X - and having Y not happen means X does NOT cause Y.
There are now MILLIONS of people who deliberately skip breakfast every day and are not seeing anything bad. In fact, we’re seeing many good things.
Skipping breakfast because you are too weak to get out of bed means a bad thing is happening, but the bad thing is being too weak (or too poor) to be able to eat breakfast. What the studies you linked really show is “Wet sidewalks cause rain”.
No one bothers to study the many people doing “Time Restricted Eating” - a form of Intermittent Fasting - to see if it is “skipping breakfast” that causes the problem. Maybe because there are no breakfast cereal companies willing to pay for it.
Sorry. I should have reworded what I said.
You list the benefits you’ve experienced from your diet and from intermittent fasting, and I didn’t mean that you, and others, haven’t experienced those benefits.
I just meant that a lot of studies show that for the majority of people who skip breakfast, there are significant downsides, some of which take time to develop. So it seems best to do intermittent fasting in a way that doesn’t involve skipping breakfast.