I am referring to eating a nutrient-optimal normocaloric diet but doing periods of total fasting (water only), for 3 consecutive days or more throughout the year, to mimic the benefits of CR while avoiding the risks associated with CR. In addition, in this way, deeper autophagy would be achieved in all tissues. This idea is striking to me because it has nothing to do with the type of diet...
This would be done in the following way: For example, you eat normally for 3 weeks (without being in deficit or surplus) and the last week of the month, you stop eating for 3 days or more, and the following month the process is repeated. similar to Longo's FMD but without eating anything, just water. (There are many ways to incorporate it and I think it is a very interesting strategy and I think in some ways it could be superior to CR.
I would like to know what you think :)