How many hours a day should you fast when intermittent fasting?

Yes this is a great question and the answer can be somewhat complex however best to use the “K.I.S (Keep it simple) principle here. During fasting to achieve any kind of results the minimum fast would be for at least 13 hours which is quite easy to accomplish this is where your body will start to initiate certain programs that will help rid your body of nasties like heavy metals, diseased cells, initiate growth hormones, autophagy, stem cell product to name just a small group of items it will also help reduce weight due to the fact that now you’re not having any sugar or insulin spikes and of course it can help reduce high blood sugar issues and sometimes even cure it. As to how many hours you fast for as I said above the minimum required to really gain any benefits would be 13 hours when your new to fasting this is the best time frame to start with try this for a week then move up to 14 hour fasting again do this for about a week then try 15 hour fasts and so on and so on until you get to around 23 - 24 hour fasts or even longer but intermittent usually only involves up to 23 hour fasts some people even go 36 , 48, and 72 hours but this should only be done maybe at most once a month or every 1/4. So most of us not in the know also fast it’s just that we don’t call it that, as we’ve never really sat down and thought about the topic very much, a fast is just the time between two meals. So if you last ate at 7 pm and didn’t eat again till 6 am the following morning that’s an 11 hour fast. So now all we really need to do is just reduce the eating times so to go to a 12 hour fast we maybe stop eating around 6 pm - 6 am then the following week maybe go forward one hour till 7 am now you’ve got a 13 hour fast this will work out well as your body adjusts to not eating during these longer periods. Then once you’ve allowed your body to adjust you can vary your fast up during the week maybe a couple of 14 hour fasts then a couple of 16 hour fast maybe one 18 hour fast, one 20 hour fast then finish with a 23 or 24 hour fast at the end of the week this variation is great for programming your body to activate certain processes which will be of benefit to your body. See how you go with that future health champion.