Hello and welcome to Plate, Not Protocol. I am Mariam El-Sayed, a dietitian in Cairo, and this is the show where we take one piece of nutrition advice everyone is repeating and check whether it is true. Today it is intermittent fasting. Sixteen hours off, eight hours on. I have patients who swear by it and patients it made ill, and I want to show you what the research says when you read past the headlines. We will go through the biggest trials, we will talk about why people lose weight on it and why that reason might surprise you, and I will be honest about who should never try it. Then we will end with a plate, because that is what we always do here. Grab a cup of tea. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.