Thank you Afser for reading the piece. Respectfully, I have some disagreements:

1. I would love to see high-level evidence, as I believe there is none. There are so many co-variables, ranging from obesity to poor diet to being sedentary to well, you get the point.

2. We also start out with some fallacies: The lowest age-adjusted cancer rates are in Israel, French Polynesia, Lebanon, Bulgaria, French Guiana, Barbados, Austria, Japan, Singapore, and Malta. It is important to adjust for age, as some regions (e.g. the Middle East) have much younger populations; cancer increases with age.

I do suspect fasting is valuable in cancer risk-reduction (and cancer treatment enhancement — a recent reader reminded me of some evidence), but I look forward to more data.

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Thank you for reading the piece, and if you have high-level evidence to support your assertions, I would love it if you would share.

Warm regards,

Michael