I really really wanted to get into this one but there were just too many story threads going on at once and I had fomo analysis paralysis about all of them
The actual data is pretty lousy... The 8 hr group has almost 30% smokers and mean 1 pt higher in BMI than the 12-16 hr group, and the forest plots cross one for all cause mortality because they only had 414 subjects in the fasting group. The fact they chose to report on this using the relative risk is also super shady
I agree that the first 5 hours are kind of meh but it gets amazing once the world opens up