Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
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Originally Posted by MaxPen View Post
I do think eating all meals within a 4-8 hour window is definitely worthwhile with a day of no food every now and then.
That is essentially intermittent fasting. I will definitely look more into the healthy microbiome stuff.
Big difference between eating all meals within a 4 hour window and eating all meal within 8 hour window. If you eat breakfast at 9am, lunch at noon-1pm and dinner at 5, a schedule many folks are on or close to, you are already within that 8 hour window (assuming you don't snack it up in the evening. )

After my second heart surgery, I developed bad acid reflux. It has since been diagnosed as LPR reflux which is a little different than normal reflux. There is no reason why heart surgery would lead to or result in a new acid reflux problem, but it did. And I have since heard others that have had that happen.

Bouts with this LPR reflux come and go and can last for weeks. Mucus, constant couching, my throat swells, sometimes trouble swallowing and even breathing, especially at night. This is because the acid that refluxes all the way to the throat as opposed to the esophagus (normal reflux) damages the sensitive throat tissue. Medication (acid reducing) helps, some, but not always. there is a surgery, but I am not ready for that yet.

So my primary Doc sent me to an acid reflex doctor and his very first advise was to eat all my meals within a 4 hour window and fast for 20 hours a day. I didn't care for this advice. That is a little too extreme for me. It is like you go to a doctor and say it hurts when I raise my hand and he responds well then don't raise your hand. That is what I felt the 4 hour window was.

Additionally, anyone who has diabetes (my partner did) is told to eat 4 or 5 meals throughout the day to help level blood sugar spikes. I don't have diabetes or anything but it just seems like the "eat all meals in a 4 hour window" contradicts other sound medical advice like spreading meals out to minimize blood sugar spike (even non diabetics have blood sugar spikes after eating).

So many situations like this. One remedy or medicaal advice is good for one thing but bad for other things.
You're not supposed to be eating foods that cause dramatic insulin spikes. If I eat 3 meals it's about 8 hours. The usual 2 late breakfast then early dinner is around 4 hours. If you don't have cravings you don't even think about snacking. My gallbladder problem maybe caused acid reflux or it was a separate problem I had for awhile. All that went away about 3 months into the Viome program.